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The Hawk April 30, 2014
Saint Joseph’s University | Volume XCIII | Est. 1929 | www.hawkhillnews.com
Jack Ramsay The ultimate teacher GARRETT MILEY ’15 Editor-in-Chief
Former Saint Joseph’s University men’s basketball player, coach, and athletic director, Jack Ramsay, Ph.D., ’49, lost his battle with cancer on Monday at the age of 89. Ramsay’s impact on the Saint Joseph’s community, his teammates, his players, and the game of basketball are difficult to quantify and convey in words. He became a Hawk in the late 1940s, attending the university and playing basketball for coach Bill Ferguson. It was in 1955 when the face of St. Joe’s basketball changed forever. Ramsay took over as head coach and worked on Hawk Hill for 11 seasons, amassing a 234- 72 record. Prior to his arrival, St. Joe’s had never qualified for the NCAA Tournament, but Ramsay was able to lead the Hawks to five straight NCAA Tournament appearances, which remains a school record.
The deepest postseason run in St. Joe’s history, and arguably their greatest season ever, Ramsay’s 1961 team reached the NCAA Final Four. However, despite all of his success on the court, Ramsay will always be known as more than just a basketball coach. “He had an aura about him; it’s mythical in a way,” St. Joe’s men’s basketball Head Coach Phil Martelli said of Ramsay. “He walked and you found yourself riveted on where he was going and what he had to say. None of this has anything to do with coaching – it has to do with life. He’s a hall of fame coach, but the person that he is, and the lessons that he left, and the teacher that he is, he left a lot more here than just a record in basketball.” Martelli said that the number one lesson that Ramsay taught to those around him was the ability to listen; some-
The clock is ticking ERIN RAFTERY ’15 News Editor
Budget proposals due by May 2 BOT meeting
As the clock winds down on the academic year, administrators, faculty, and staff at Saint Joseph’s University are on a time crunch to propose budget recommendations to the Board of Trustees at their May 2 meeting. A few key budget issues are still undecided, such as health care, long term care, salary, and employee benefits. Proposals for all of these issues were presented at a Budgetary Advisory Committee meeting on April 14 from the Advisory Board on Faculty Compensation, the Personal Compensation Committee, and Brice Wachterhauser, Ph.D., university provost. Wachterhauser sent out an email on April 15 due to the incomplete state of the budget in which he stated that letters of appointment for faculty members would not be sent out by April 15 this year, but
would be sent out no later than May 5, after the May 2 BOT meeting, However, this is in violation of the Faculty Handbook, which states that letters of appointment must be sent out by April 15. “It just means they don’t have the information. I mean, an appointment letter usually comes with a salary or else it’s not much of a letter, and the salaries haven’t been approved by the board yet, and that’s all that is,” said Joseph Lunardi, associate vice president of marketing communications. The entire budget process for FY15 has been delayed. According to William McDevitt, J.D., associate professor of management and co-chair of ABFC, the budget for the following fiscal year is usually finalized by January.
Continued BUDGET, pg. 3
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thing that he believed our society has lost in general. He was soft spoken in nature, but if you ask athletic director Don DiJulia, ’67, Ramsay was the fiercest competitor. “If you thought practice was hard, if he selected you to play one-on-one after practice, you knew that was going to be the hardest part of your day,” DiJulia said. “He’s had an impact on many people over the years, and many people that played with and for him went on to be coaches.” One of those former players who later went on to become a coach was Jim Lynam, ’63. A three-year starter under Ramsay, Lynam’s career was set in motion after an apprenticeship as a coach under the legendary basketball mind.
Continued RAMSAY, pg. 14
Specialized freshman course caps reduced
Course cap rollbacks relieve faculty and incoming freshmen
CAT COYLE ’16 Managing Editor
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One budget rollout has rolled right back
On April 22, University Provost Brice Wachterhauser, Ph.D., notified faculty members that part of the course-capping plan for the 2014-2015 academic year has been reconsidered and altered. In early March, the university faculty was notified that course caps would be increased due to a restricted budget and increased freshman enrollment. As part of the new plan, the average class size of lecture-based courses in undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and Erivan K. Haub School of Business (HSB) would not be allowed to drop below 30 students per class. Any signature core courses in philos-
ophy and theology would be set at 33 students, and all signature core history courses would be capped at 35. These caps were previously set at 30 students per class. First-year service learning course caps would be set at 25, upper-level service learning courses would be capped at 30, and first year seminar courses would be capped at 25. The first-level English course, Craft of Language, and all writing-intensive caps would be set at 22. In previous years, the caps set for all of these courses was 20 students per section. A collective sigh of relief was heard throughout campus when an announcement came last week stating that parts of these new mandates were to be adjusted.
Continued COURSE CAPS, pg. 3