Yes, that is how I remember him to. He was quite young, very disciplined
and very extreme. Their were a whole bunch of retired Jesuits who were easy
going and lived like Friar Tuck on the largesse of the University. I was
taken over to their quarter for lunch one day. Open bar!! They SF Diocese
actually had an investigation about the huge USF budget for alcohol. Oh
well, if can't have sex.... The liberal arts dean who screwed me out of my
job and generally betrayed me along the way was a guy who had some glimmer
of talent. He was an upper class Boston Brahmin who was independently
wealthy. The catch is, I'm 99% sure, is that he was gay but being Catholic
and with a mediocre academic record, the only place to land a job in SF was
USF. Then he had to deal with the contradictions. He actually did me a big
favor, getting me out of there. The place should be investigated by AAUP
etc. for its wholesale and ongoing violation of due process in promotion and
tenure. They have a phoney/baloney private sector union and in return anyone
who hasn't yet gone up for tenure (and this itself is decided by the
administration) can be summarily fired at any time for no reason. At least
this is the way it was in the 1980s.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 5:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:9933] Fwd: Re: question
An anonymous source says the following about the Ignatius Institute at the
University of San Francisco:
>Yes, I'm familiar with this Institute and one of its original founders,
>Joe Fessio SJ. Fessio would have slipped nicely into the role of
>Inquisitor in earlier days.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
