Word: mclaughlin
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...administration of many Catholic universities, but also the postconciliar emphasis on their position in the church. For many schools, a contributing factor is a Maryland court decision last year declaring unconstitutional state aid to colleges that are totally religious in spirit and atmosphere. Fordham's President Father Leo McLaughlin admitted as much last week. "In the not too distant future," he said, "the Supreme Court will have to consider the question raised by the Maryland court, and, if that principle is upheld, changes will have to be made within the structure of the Catholic institutions which will make them...
...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...
...Somebody has been out to deliberately destroy the meters," McLaughlin said. "Many have been smashed beyond repair or stripped of money and parts -- last week one was sawed off at the pavement...
...McLaughlin speculated that the meters were damaged by students desiring free parking. Little money has been collected from meters on the two streets in the past ten years...
...McLaughlin said that Cambridge is spending $190,000 for 3000 new "vandal-resistant" parking meters. About 1800 of the meters have been installed...