University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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The men on ihe right need littlr introduction to most Americans. In amazing time , they are men who are an inspiration to many, a nemesis to some. Why they deserve such an integral place in the dedication to the 1972 Don, along with six professors and a dean, is perhaps not clear to you. We see the effort to support life and the effort to end destruction as one and the same. A university exists to find the truth and spread it. The other men we have dedicated this book to have achieved this, in their roles as those who further education. But the education required for 1972 cannot be for college students only. And that is exactly where these three men have been of service—they have added to the education of an entire nation. Frs. Daniel and Phillip Berrigan. through their lives of writing, nonviolent direct action, and imprisonment, have told the American people what is happening to our society. Their efforts to affirm life in the face of history's most powerful agent of death is an affirmation of our basic rights, supported by natural law, civil constitutions, and the USF Credo—man’s right to self-determination, and the forming of a world built upon peace and justice. Daniel Ellsbcrg has been living testimony to the hardship one encounters trying to spread the truth. His exposition of the Pentagon Papers was the act of a man who finally came to terms with the lies America was spreading. And so he risks imprisonment for delivering the truth to the American people. The persons at USF to whom we dedicate this book are trying, albeit in different Styles and different fields, to deliver this same truth. They are planting and tending the life forces, the hope of the future, the replacement for the present forces of death. They are examples of the new men of the new society, about which Dan Berrigan wrote: The consciousness of the radical man is integrated ... what he is finally looking for is not a solution. He is really looking for a creation: a new man in a new society. So, you see. they attempt the same tasks. It is inevitably the most noble task of education—right the wrongs. We acknowledge the efforts of all these persons to spread tlie truth, an effort we all must participate in. The times are bad. Redeem the times.

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We had to decide what a yearbook is before we could make one. That meant we had to figure out what a university is. Which lead us to discover what went into education, and what came out. We ended up with three elements: innovation, insight, and involvement. Together they form what can be considered meaningful learning. Innovation is the password to the future of education. Newness, experimentation, change. We have sought not to praise the achievements of the past, and prepare USF for a happy burial, hut to describe the steps being taken to greet the future, to save higher education. We have tried to find what makes a university worth maintaining, what makes the struggle worth continuing. Come along. You be the judge. innovation dedication physics mathematics chemistry computer science biology communication arts language english philosophy theology educational alternatives prison reform study group myth, ritual, and reality new programs alan heineman

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