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MCHUGH EMPHASIZES change, GROWTH At the Mass of the Holy Spirit Fr McHugh brings to light many of his ideas concerning Christian community Ignatian: Before the school year began, what goals did you set for yourself as Associate Principal? Fr. McHugh: I really didn't set any goals for myself because I'm really not very much at home with talking about goals. Let me first explain what I consider to be the purpose of goals, and then let me explain my uneasiness with that. In many ways I think we set goals so that we have a method of evaluating. Evaluation, it seems to me, deals most precisely with concrete accomplishments or productiveness. Now, my feeling is that in the kind of work I'm involved in, such evaluation is not a helpful way for me to think. Therefore, I decided not to set any definite goals. Ignatian: What do you consider the specific purpose of your office to be? Fr. McHugh: I think the person in my office, whether it's me or body else, has to be most sj ically concerned about how that the Ignatius commur which is a group, protects tl kinds of relationships among members of this community I are based upon what make: community alive. Let me try to j that another way. This office I two functions. The first is to € courage and to help students grow in the kinds of attitude habits, and virtues, which are di signed for and lead toward unit and community. The second is t protect the community from peoph who fail to do that, and to help people reflect occasionally on the kinds of behavior which may be disruptive or destructive to the community. So I guess what I'm saying is that there must be someone around who attempts to help people reflect on either the constructive contribution they make to the life of the Ignatius community or on the destruction they cause to the life of the community, which occasionally all of us exhibit in our life. And both of these are inevitabilities. I think we would be completely unrealistic if, as we looked at ourselves, we didn't see that there was both construction and destruction. Ignatian: Why did you change the title of your office from Assistant Principal of Discipline to Associate Principal? Fr. McHugh: I guess I had some fairly definite ideas and reasons in the back of my mind about why the change was made. First of all. Father Von Tobel, Mr. Wilhelms, and I are interested in working as a team. Secondly, I don't like the word discipline. I'm not exactly comfortable with what that means. Thirdly, I didn't want to be that narrowly defined in terms of what I did. Yes, I am in charge of and responsible for some student discipline or student life, but I also have been involved and am involved now with many things that aren't directly concerned with that, including things in terms of cur-
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riculum. Also, 1 wanted to give the impression that student curriculum, student discipline, and student growth should be brought together into a whole. It seems to me that the same questions you ask about curriculum also can be applied in terms of student discipline, which involves a sort of hidden curriculum. I think it's important to bring the whole thing into the center of the school and to ask very serious educational questions about that. In other words, the way we teach and the way we encourage people to learn should be consistent with what I'm doing in this office. And so, I gues it's for these reasons that I thought it would be important to change the title. Ignatian: Mow do you feel about the relationship between you and the students? Fr. McHugh: I feel pretty good about my relationship with most of the students. Maybe I am fooling myself, but I don't think I am. I don't feel or experience any huge conflict or block between the students and myself. Also, I would like to consider it an open relationship; whether it is or not. I'm not sure. And if it isn't, either the students or I have some work to do. Ignatian: Do you feel that the students themselves should play a role in the disciplinary system? Fr. McHugh: Yes, I do. I would really very much like to see students take some responsibility for their own actions. In fact, one of the things in the back of my mind, which would be something in the next couple of years, is some kind of student judiciary, which could work with me. I have a model for this in my mind, but it's going to take some time before I can dump that one out. If not for the entire student body, there should be some kind of student judiciary at least for Seniors. I think Seniors can handle that, and I'd like to see Through small group discussions Fr. McHugh tries to probe inside the minds ol his sometimes confused students. them be more responsible to each other for what they do. Also, I like to work fairly closely with the Student Council and its Discipline Committee. So in answer to the question, yes, I definitely want to see students play a role in the disciplinary system. Ignatian: Do you feel that there are any changes necessary in the present disciplinary system? Fr. McHugh: I'm not sure I can speak specifically to that question, but 1 guess if I answered it generally, I'd say yes. There are always changes necessary in any system because if there aren't changes that means the system is dead. In the disciplinary system I'm working in. I'm dealing basically with human relationships, which change because people change, and therefore, the system changes. Today, we're living in a kind of work in which change of a system is almost a truism; we're beyond the days in which stability is characteristic of society. Change is both acceptable and necessary. So 1 think we have to admit that the discipline system has to change and grow. If it doesn't, then it is out of touch with experience. The question is then in terms of “is all change good? The answer is no, which means we have to find some way of evaluating reasons for change. Ignatian: Do you agree with all the rules and regulations for the students now, and do you feel any should be changed or eliminated? Fr. McHugh: If you put the ques- tion in terms of now, my answer would be yes. There are rules in the system now which, if it were just my decision, I probably would not like, and there are probably a lot of things I would like to add. But I'm not sure I'm in a position to say specifically which rules I agree with and with which I don't. I basically think what we have here is reasonable, and I don't think there is anything outlandish. Also, there are certainly going to be changes in the rules because the people and the system inevitably change. Ignatian: What have been your most rewarding experiences as Associate Principal during your first year? Fr. McHugh: The most rewarding experiences, I guess, have been being with students occasionally, to see them grow, to see them take on responsibility, and to witness them change, and to realize that in some way I've played some part in that. It's the same kind of experience, I think, a teacher feels. To see a student's eyes light up because he sees something he never knew before or never thought of before is pretty exciting, especially if the teacher had some kind of participation in it. Similarly, I feel I am involved in a different kind of teaching in my office, and it's the same basic, rewarding experience: seeing someone see something or understand something or experience something new to him, and helping him integrate that into his life.
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