University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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increase in scholarship includes Santa Clara, a balance of a number of joint faculty- teaching excellence and student research projects, a scholarly research identifies distinguishing characteristic of the fine teachers. By these learning excellence in close endeavors, teachers share their student-teacher relationships. academic life with their Teaching always has been students and together they and will continue to be the create, out of what could be primary purpose of education mediocre, a university of at Santa Clara: from the excellence. founding of Mission Santa By educating young women Clara, to the beginning of Santa and men to live intellectually, Clara College, to the present- practically, morally and day University. religiously in tomorrow's world, Effective teaching depends to be simultaneously upon scholarship. Thus, at contemplative and active, Santa Clara fulfills its Jesuit goal of service to the people of God through education. Further, this commitment to service includes a commitment to the magis -the Jesuit ideal of excellence. People educated in the Christian and Jesuit context of Santa Clara's tradition seek to serve others and strive, guided by reason, to use their God-given talents to the fullest and always for the greatest human good. - Paul Locatelli, SJ. Academic Vice-President l ptid from ' A Teac her for All Seasons' Santa QI M gazme, December l982. pp l 3 I5 i ik

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,, I l FROM SECOND FLOOR Benson not only is the east side of campus easily seen, but on clear days, even the mountains look close enough to touch. FLAGS FLY OUTSIDE Walsh Ad- ministration Building every day. Across Alviso, in St. Joseph's, a stained glass rosette filters sunlight. photo by John Strubbe Commit- ment to teaching excellence ,WML - EXCELLENT LINIVERSITIES VALUE teaching and research as mutually beneficial and related activities. Twice within the last decade, in the 1975 Statement of Purpose and in the 1979 Goals and Guidelines the academic community has developed and the Board of Trustees has adopted certain educational goals for the University. ln addition to Santa Clara's central goal, the education of the human person in the con- text of its Catholic and .Jesuit i44 9 2nd FLOOR WALSH R.A. ar-iff I ,nol- ogy major Annette Parent amin- ished Godspell audiences with her voice, charm, and stamina, SENIOR DAN CROWLEY was cap- tain of the cross country team. One of the top runners on the team. he is not only gifted, but dedicated. Q - ph bySa hwood photo by Chris van Hasselt photo by Matt Keowen HAWAIIAN BEN FUATA sports a rugby shirt complete with the SCLITS new seal. Ben sits in the bleachers to watch a basketball game on the courts below. tradition, these declarations also included a commitment and dedication to teaching excellence and scholarly research. l think that, although these were statements of ideals, they signal one of the most significant educational advances at Santa Clara. Both the quantity and, more importantly, the quality, of research and scholarship have increased. At the same time, the quality of teaching has significantly improved. The P l

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ART OF THE 60's, a huge show exhibited at the de8aisset Museum, opened in October. Many viewers dressed in the styles of the sixties, as Bernarda Goni did, to see the dramatic, colorful, abstract, and even lewd pieces. THE MEDA'8 MURAL was the work of a giant cumulative effort. The men's dorm, down the street from campus, has its own pool and now its own mural. Q1 VM, x if who H- j ,,,.,.vf Opening ,rf rf it 1 r ,Q lx ia KY i -fl' photo by Chris van Hasselt TO TAKE THE pulse of a P f e S S university, one needs to un- cover its vital signs - beneath the daily routines, the books, 'ta k e S and the buildings. A university is ultimately a human endeavor. And yet, as the th e death of my friend and col- league, Mark Lynch, has all too clearly demonstrated, a univer- I It I . . - nlversl Y 5 Z'Hdr2Zff,ZZpTlf2ifTtZn,2'm. munity members are transient. p S e Students linger for four years Miwwirc before they move on, faculty members, for one reason or another, come and go. The heart of a university lies in ideas and in a vision of its future. This year we have had a large number of independent perspectives that somehow in- terconnected our long-standing concerns with recent innova- tions. A tentative core cur- riculum emerged. We con- templated the future direction of the world in the War and Conscience Institute. And we continued to grapple with on- goingissues such as faculty tenure and course evaluations.