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...board will be balanced with six laymen. At the same time, the Holy Cross Fathers approved another mixed lay-clerical board for the University of Portland, which they also control. Cleveland's John Carroll University is working along the same lines, and New York's Fordham University, which has been experimentally allowing its 36-member lay board of advisers to vote on school matters along with its eight Jesuit trustees, may well make the practice permanent...
Their two-mile relay squad reeled off a time of 7:33. 6 to break the old University record by nearly seven seconds. They lost to Fordham but whipped powerhouse Villanova. The squad has been invited to the Philadelphia Inquirer Games during intersession but they might...
Other new ideas at Fordham include a "33" program to put eighth-grade youngsters into the university's prep school, run them through a B.A. in just six years instead of the normal nine. A new Communication Arts Center hopes to acquire Huntington Hartford's $7,400,000 Gallery of Modern Art on Manhattan's Columbus Circle at the price of assuming Hartford's $3,800,000 mortgage. Fordham recently opened a four-year college for women, the first such coordinate college at an American Catholic university...
Competing with Yale. Fordham's new spirit shows up in its openly ecumenical, postconciliar attitude toward religion in education. This month the university appointed a Lutheran Church historian, the Rev. Robert L. Wilken, as a permanent member of its theology department -the first Protestant clergyman to hold such a full-time post at a Catholic university. The school also employs Rabbi Irwin M. Blank of Temple Sinai in Tenafly, N.J., as a visiting lecturer. Last fall Fordham began to share libraries and lecturers with the interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; currently it is competing with Yale on a proposed affiliation...
...university's era of innovation began under the Rev. Vincent T. O'Keefe, who left the presidency in 1965 to serve as a Jesuit executive in Rome, and is being enthusiastically carried on by his successor, Father Leo McLaughlin, 54. A onetime dean of Fordham College who has a doctorate of letters from the University of Paris, Jesuit McLaughlin wants Fordham to achieve "true greatness in action," even by Ivy League standards. While Fordham will always retain "the distinctive attributes of a Catholic university," he is confident that it can "move into the mainstream" of U.S. education...