Villanova Blocks ACLU

LIFENEWS.COM, Nov. 8 — Villanova University has blocked a student chapter of the pro-abor tion American Civil Liber ties Union in what the pro-life Internet news site believes may be an effor t to ensure that the Augustinian university “is not linked with pro-abor tion activists and groups.”

While a speaking appearance on campus by pro-abortion Jesuit Father Rober t Drinan in September seems to send an opposite signal, Law School Dean Mark Sargent has argued, a Villanova program “obviously cannot be associated with advocacy for abor tion rights.”

Sargent made his comment last year as he announced that students competing for research fellowships and summer internships would not be permitted to work on pro-abortion issues or for groups supporting abortion.

Ivy League Vocations

ST. THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CHAPEL, Nov. 10 — In perhaps the first event of its kind on an Ivy League campus, the Catholic ministr y at Yale University has sponsored a vocation night.

The event drew more than 50 students for a dinner and a panel discussion. Speakers included representatives from the Legionaries of Christ, the Sisters of Life, the Dominicans, Mar yknoll Missionaries and the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculata.

In a separate development, the St. Thomas facilities will be getting a $50 million 30,000-square-foot addition to better accommodate the university's 1,250 Catholic students and the numerous activities sponsored by the ministry.

True Dedication

BENEDICTINE COLLEGE, Nov. 8 — Larr y Wilcox, who has not missed a single Benedictine football game since he first wore Raven red as a student athlete in the late 1960s, is working this year without pay as the head football coach and athletic director at the Atchinson, Kansas, college.

The funds are being used to help expand the Amino Center, a classroom building.

“I couldn't have had a more enjoyable life or career,” said Wilcox, who hopes the gesture will inspire other alumni to go beyond the typical financial gift. “I'm happy and I have faith that this is right.”

Mental Health

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 6 — A sur vey of 3,680 college juniors on 46 varied campuses shows that those with active religious involvement are less likely to experience the psychological problems of the sor t researchers say have risen to epidemic propor tions on college campuses.

The report from UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute found that religiously inactive students were more than twice as likely — 13% to religious students' 6% — to say they frequently felt depressed.

Religious activity was also associated with lower alcohol abuse, another serious campus problem.

Leadership Gene

SUN-SENTINEL, Nov. 13 — As the newly installed president of Barr y University, Dominican Sister Linda Bevilacqua can “look to her own family for examples of religious commitment,” according to the Miami daily.

Sister Linda is the niece of Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, Philadelphia's retired archbishop.

The new president, 63, graduated from Barr y in 1962 and was inspired to enter the Adrian Dominicans, who founded the university in 1940.