Cardinal on Board

AVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW, Aug 27 — Ave Maria School of Law announced that New York's Cardinal Edward Egan has joined the school's board of governors.

Cardinal Egan, a former judge of the Sacred Roman Rota, was named in June by Pope John Paul II to the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, the Church's highest court.

He has also taught canon law at several universities in Rome.

Race Matters

THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Sept. 13 — Denys Blell has filed a federal discrimination suit against Loyola College of Baltimore, alleging the Jesuit college did not consider him black enough to lead campus diversity efforts.

Blell claims that, during the search process last year, David Haddad, Loyola's vice president for academic affairs, told Blell that his light skin might not pass muster with black faculty members who had been pressuring for the hire of “someone black.”

“I have felt that the reason I didn't get jobs at other universities is that they wanted a person of color in the senior staff,” said Blell, the son of a Lebanese father and a mother who is part African. “But none of them were ever as open about it as Loyola.”

Stopping the Insanity

THE BOSTON GLOBE, Sept. 6 — Boston University Chancellor John Silber has ordered a secondary school that the university operates to disband a support group for homosexual students.

Kevin Carleton, a university spokesman, said the academy was designed to provide a nurturing environment for bright students. “If we are successful ... there should be no reason for an isolated safe haven” for homosexuals, he said.

Carleton said the group could also provide “endorsement and encouragement of the exploration of sexuality in a way that we feel is inappropriate in a secondary school that includes children as young as 13.”

The Pope and the Jews

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, Sept. 13 — Rabbi David Dalin, visiting fellow in Princeton University's department of politics, will give a lecture on “Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People” at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, on the university's South Orange, N.J., campus.

A scholar of the history of Christian-Jewish relations, Rabbi Dalin will speak about why Pope John Paul II is venerated by Christians and Jews alike for his leadership. More information is available at (973) 761-9751.

Champion in Life

BAYOU CATHOLIC, Sept. 13 — Nick Saban, head football coach at Louisiana State University, told the newspaper of the Diocese of HoumaThibodaux, La., that he tells his players that the Gospel is the key ingredient to becoming a champion in life.

“Lots of people have potential,” he told the newspaper.

“But they don't have the work ethic and the self-discipline it takes to pull it through. It's about the right thoughts, habits and priorities. Everyone can be a champion,” he said, in athletics and life in general.

When a person has truly embraced the Gospel, their principles cannot be compromised and their values “come from in here,” said Saban, pointing to his heart.