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8 THE GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12,1968
Consolidation Is Key
To Future Of Catholic Schools
DAYTON, Ohio A
priest-educator observed here
that the parish-based Catholic
school, facing a crisis more of
quality than of finances, must be
replaced by a system of
consolidated schools.
Father James F. Schuster,
superintendent of the
Altoona-Johnstown, Pa., diocese
schools, spoke at the University
of Dayton. A proposal to
consolidate schools is being
evaluated by a task force in this
community.
Father Schuster conceded that
consolidation “is a fighting
word,” but said the “parochial
structure was a necessity in the
past and will be a physical luxury
in the future that few parishes
will be able to afford.”
A community and diocesan
vision must replace parochialism,
he said. Even in “fortunate
parishes,” able to finance their
own schools in the future, it
would be “spiritually unhealthy”
to view the parish from its “old
perspective,” he added.
declared, citing the history of
public school consolidation and
the operation of Catholic high
schools mutually supported by
parishes as patterns now widely
accepted.
“Consolidation must not be
considered a panacea for all the
ills that beset formal Catholic
schooling today. Rather it is a
modified administrative structure
to preserve and conserve pockets
of quality value-oriented
instruction which the present
parish school structure can no
longer insure or in the very near
future will be unable to
guarantee,” he asserted.
Consolidation is more
expensive the first two years than
separate operations, mainly
because of the cost of
coordinating textbooks, then the
costs begin to level off, Father
Schuster declared.
He said only Catholic
schooling can provide Christian
attitudes and values and these
“cannot be provided in a CCD
More Protestants and Jews are
turning to denominational
schools because they realize
public school atmosphere “is
neutralizing or counteracting the
once a week or twice a week”
schedule of religion classes, he
said.
There were 2,000 Protestant
schools in 1937, but 5,700 today,-
and they are being built at the
rate of 225 schools a year, Father
Schuster asserted.
He described the growth of
Jewish day schools as
“phenomenal.” He said 135
Jewish schools will be opened
during the next 10 years.
Student Conference
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solicitude “for all the churches,”
in the less fortunate areas, he
added.
Consolidation is
‘‘evolutionary, not
revolutionary,” Father Schuster
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NOTRE DAME,
Ind.-Students meeting at the
University of Notre Dame made
plans to combat institutional
racism within American colleges
and universities.
Among the tactics proposed at
the conference, which was
sponsored by the National
Student Association, were legal
challenges to the universities, the
federal government and the four
accrediting associations that set
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president Robert Powell said he
expected continuing pressure for
changes in admissions policies,
support for union activities
among nonacademic employes,
and curriculum innovations to
provide black history and black
culture courses as well as courses
to sensitize whites to the racism
they have grown up with.
The meeting included
discussions among the students of
their personal racism and ways to
tackle the problem. Some
students felt that racism is so
much a part of the nation’s life
style that an entirely new way of
living must be found.
The students met with Notre
Dame president Father Theodore
M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., a member
of the United States Civil Rights
Commission since its founding 11
years ago. Father Hesburgh spoke
to the students on the
accomplishments of the Civil
Rights Commission and agreed
that these achievements were not
enough. He said that persistent
hard work is needed to move
forward in black-white relations.
Father Hesburgh urged the
students: “You’re not going to
solve it by emotion or by
simplistic answers. It’s a hard
grinding job. If you really want
to help, for the love of Mike, get
competent about the problem.”
Father Hesburgh received
numerous questions about the
low number of Negro students at
Notre Dame and about
connections between university
trustees and business concerns
that the students feel are racists.
When asked about continued
training of military officers on
the campus, Father Hesburgh
replied that he can see no
connection between Reserve
Officer Training Corps classes and
racism. NSA staff members said
that this point was important
because it illustrates “the
distance between us.”
O. J. SIMPSON °f Southern California, the most celebrated
collegiate football player of 1968, looms over the Heisman
memorial trophy, which he received (Dec. 5) in New York,
the day after his wife had presented him with their first
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“He’s done good work on some
things like the Civil Rights
Commission, but if he doesn’t see
the totality of his position as the
head of a key institution in the
society, then he doesn’t see the
totality of the changes which
have to come.”
Some students feel that the
Vietnam war is racist and that the
ROTC at Notre Dame is in
support of the war.
meeting, explained that “if every
American was to awaken with all
racial feeling wiped from his
heart and mind, racism would
continue almost unchanged in
America.” He said that it is not
the occasional and explicit acts of
individuals that threaten to split
the nation on the question of
race, but the anonymous,
unintentional forms of behavior
which insure continued white
supremacy.
David Steinberg, -n NSA staff
member who spoke at the
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