At 05:27 PM 10/28/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Jim Devine wrote:
>
>>it's a nice image, but not always true. I know for a fact that a 
>>university run by Jesuit sensibilities is not like a business enterprise 
>>in many ways.
>
>So is it like the Catholic Church? The ivory tower of legend? What?

it's more feudal, paternalistic, putting all sorts of spiritual stuff into 
places it doesn't belong. The focus seems to be on giving kids an education 
almost as good as that of the University of Southern California, without 
being in as  "bad" a neighborhood, though the emphasis on such things as 
research and multiculturalism is on the rise.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine

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