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April 6, 1988
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and library acquisitions, among
other projects.
Current tuition rates cover 60
percent of the operating budget.
For six years. UD has been able to
balance the budget with help pro-
vided through the UD Fund.
To meet the challenge from the
Constantin Foundation, UD is
seeking support from alumni, par-
ents. friends, faculty and staff, cor-
porations and foundations.
The UD Fund total as of March
14 was $455,538. “Basically, ” said
By Robyn Dennis
Ten to fifteen UD students will
form the Secretariat of the Model
United Nations of Dallas Organiza-
tion (MUNDO) at their second an-
nual conference this Spring.
MUNDO was added to the Gen-
eral Studies program last year and
has continued to gain interest
among UD students who partici-
pated in the program in high
school.
‘Ten to Fifteen students from UD
form the Secretariatthis year. This
means that we basically run the
show,” said Beth deRocher. who
was recently named Secretary Gen-
eral of the Model United Nations
Conference for the area.
deRocher has been an active par-
ticipant in Model UN for several
years. This year she said her job
consisted mostly of planning and
organizing.
T spent most of my time making
sure everything was running
smoothly. I worked with the Secre-
tariat making sure they knew what
their job was and that they had con-
fidence in what they were doing. All
nau a very large conierence. Kids
came from all the surrounding
states. I was still interested in it
when I came to UD so I started
helping Anna. I started as chair of
the economic committee and I met
all the organizers of the steering
committee. Then, when I got from
Rome my Sophomore year. I con-
tacted the committee and they
asked me to organize a Secretariat
and later decided to name me Secre-
tary General,” she continued.
A Model UN conference is held
like an actual United Nations con-
ference. There are opening
ceremonies, a banquet, committee
meetings and arguments, the con-
ference is open to the public and
will be held April 22—23 at the
Hughes—Triggs Student Center at
SMU.
Model UN gives the studnets a
better opportunity to see how inter-
national affairs are managed and
how much compromise is actually
involved deRocher explained.
“We would like to have more peo-
ple join. No experience is necessa-
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benightedness and prejudice to
gaze upon the light of beauty and
truth. Like a shaman, the teacher
must first of all diagnose the condi-
tion-intellectual, psychological,
and even spiritual—of the students.
As one who has spent time both
in the classroom and in the chapel I
can happily report that UD students
are a special breed, that most of
them do not fit the portrait that
Allan Bloom draws, quite savagely,
of contemporary college students in
the first part of his book. In this re-
spect we are truly blessed and
should be truly grateful to those
who. in the beginning of the history
of our institution, spent themselves
against all odds to create and main-
tain a liberal arts education to at-
tract that kind of student.
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The physics department recently
presented a lecture entitled “Super-
—collider” by Dr. Chris Quigg.
Deputy Director for the su-
perconducting super—collider proj-
ect at Lawrence Berkley Laboratory.
“The lecture was very informa-
tive, although I was hoping for a*
more technical view. ” said Vince
Higgins, a junior physics major.
Higgins had been enrolled in a sem-
inar course on elementary particle
physics, and said that “the lecture
tied in very well with my knowledge
of particle physics.”
Foundation will provide a one-to-
one match for donations to the UD
Fund from new donors or previous
donors who have not given in three
years; the limit on the grant is
$50,000.
The match will apply to all new
and renewed gifts received from
June 1, 1987 to July 1. 1988.
The challenge grant campaign is
part of the overall effort to raise
$650,000 for the UD Fund, which
supports financial aid. scholarships,
faculty salaries and development
Regarding the operation of the
superconductor, Higgins said. “It’s a
particle accelerator built approxi-
mately 20 meters underground with
a circumference of 53 miles. It accel-
emitted. These are then caught by
different detectors and analyzed.
The purpose is to study the origin
and composition of matter."
technology involves what is called
warm superconductors. Cold
superconductors (those at 4 degrees
Kelvin) allow a better vacuum and a
higher magnetic field which would
result in a smaller circle and a great-
er ---------on the circle itself.”
are the officials . My job has been
pretty much organizational. I’ve
been meeting with the steering com-
mittee all year and keeping in touch
with the other people, holding
workshops, and chairing mock
committees to get everyone used to
what they will be doing during the
actual conference in ApriLThere is
so much planning involved. We
have to decide what schools we are
going to invite and once we get all
the agreements back, we must de-
cide what countries would be the
best choice. I also organize the
workshops, find speakers and
screen all the resolutions that come
in," deRocher explained.
deRocher said Anna Lee. last
year’s Secretary General, was very
instrumental in starting the prog-
ram at UD. Last Spring was the first
Model UN conference held in Dal-
las. Since then, there has been an
increasing numer of students par-
ticipating in the program.
DeRocher said she was suprised to
find that a program such as this one
did not already exist.
Higgins also said that it is neces-
sary to use what are termed as
“cold” superconductors.“Modem
Diane Panasci, Director of the UD
Fund, “we’ve already collected
about $38,000 of the allotted
$50,000.”
“We still have a lot of work to do
to raise the remaining funds." said
Sam Wing, 1987-88 UD Fund
Chairman. “The Development
Office staff and UD volunteers will
be working diligently to meet the
goal by May 31."
Dr. Chris Quig and Dr. Richard Olenick at the super-coilider lecture
esting.’’ said Higgins. “He talked
about the delay of the Challenger
explosion.”
Quigg lectures on super-collider
In addition to me lecture on the
super—collider. Dr. George
Carruthers of the Naval Research
Laboratory conducted a lecture en-
titled Space Astronomy and the Near
Future Projects.
The event was sponsored by Dr.
Richard Olenick, chairman of the
physics department, and the Ameri-
can Institute of Physics with the
support of the North Texan Com-
mission.
ry. We just need students interested
enough to make the
committment.”she concluded
1'he program consists of high
schools that have agreed to
particpate. They have a certain
number of countries assigned to
them with a delegation of about five
high school students. Each student
will then organize a committee.
This year the committees will focus
on the legal, political, social hu-
manitarian and economic views of
each selected country.
“Each committees' person will
prepare for the delegation by figur-
ing out their country's position on
the issues under each topic," said
deRocher. “The studnets then pre-
pare a resolution which is similar to
a policy statement. They say this is
the way things are now, here is what
is wrong with them and then they
propose a way to change it."
The UD Secretariat serves as
chairmen of the committees, they
keep the minutes of the meetings
and act as parliamentarians to help
settle disputes that might arise. “We
Constantin Foundation challenges UD donors
For the second consecutive year
the Constantin Foundation has
awarded a $50,000 challenge grant
to the University of Dallas.
Eugene Constantin helped to
found UD in 1956. Since
Constantin’s death, the Foundation
has helped to fund many projects,
including the Haggar University
Center, the Haggerty Science Center
and student scholarships. The
Foundation is an annual contribu-
tor to the UD Fund.
Through the challenge grant the
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