Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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F lr T5 Father Baumhart Answers Student Questions Have you enjoyed your job as Presi- dent of Loyola University! It is a lot of satisfaction. You've got to get satisfaction out of solving problems, and seeing how the de- cisions you make have a favorable impact or favorable influence on the lives of students, faculty, commu- nity and that you think what you are doing is worthwhile. Some days are not like that. It's not unrelieved sat- isfaction: it's a very complex job. It's more complex than l'd thought it would be. ln some of these things, it's impossible to please everybody, so you either make enemies or at least disenchant people. Have you had very much personal contact with students! l presume that if they really dis- liked what I was doing I'd have heard about it in letters or editorials or things of this sort. l've met quite a few students in the length of time l've been in office. l'm used to meet- ing in small groups and that's the best way to talk about things, to get something accomplished. But. . .al- most of necessity most of my com- munication with people is by paper or by telephone. However, I would like very much to talk with them more if I could also get other jobs done that I think are more impor- tant. The reason I don't talk to them more is not because l find it diffi- cult, boring or unpleasant, but sim- ply because there are so many things that I have to do, that, it seems to me, nobody else can do. I don't have the time. My job has been divided recently. We've got Father Maguire. He had to devote less time to things. I am able, because of this division of work, to spend a little more time, at least, with students and with faculty and with other groups than Father Maguire was able to do. He had to spend so much time outside the university, working with or doing fund-raising activities. I have to spend relatively little time

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lpn-1 ,'f--sas--. doing um. Do you like being president of a large university or would you like to be president of a small college! This is where I am. l like Chicago. Chicago is my kind of town. I think it's very important that the Presi- dent of a university know the city and state he's in and more particu- larly, the people and the flavor of the place. You can go pretty far wrong in your first year if you don't. Do you have plans for any new buildings for Loyola! The only thing that is really on the books is completing the ninth and tenth floors of Damen Hall. If we can, and I'm sure we can, get the planning and construction done, it will be ready for the next academic year. If the PLUS campaign is going to be successful, and there aren't any major changes in student attendance at Loyola: that is, if we continue to fill the Lake Shore Campus and so on and the need for parking space continues, what I can see in. . .no longer than three years is a high- level or six story, seven story, or eight story parking facility on the Lake Shore Campus. What about do wnto wn ! I can't see it. We can't afford it here. The ground is too expensive. I'Il give you a couple of parameters of a decision like that. Elevators for cars are out. They have not worked. Nobody is putting up a parking fa- cility with elevators. About the high- est you can go is about eight sto- ries. Given the cost of land and the cost of construction, especially in this neighborhood, if you put up an eight story parking facility, you have to get about S4.00 per space a day to break even. 5