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Dear Readers,
LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
CELEBRATING 120 YEARS
OF THE FOGHORN
Corrections Box
We are pleased to share with you
our special 120th anniversary edition
of the San Francisco Foghorn. The
Foghorn is one of the oldest institutions
on the Hilltop. According to
USF archivist Annie Reid, the Gleeson
Library Archives have a substantial
gap in their printed materials collection
during the early 1900s, likely
due to their destruction in the 1906
earthquake and fire, and the subsequent
relocations of the University
campus.
The earliest campus newspaper in
the archives goes back to 1926 and
was called “The Ignatian,” a name
which you will notice was borrowed
from USF’s literary magazine. According
to USF Historian Emeritus
Alan Ziajka in his 2004 book, “Legacy
and Promise: 150 Years of Jesuit Education
at the University of San Francisco,”
the paper began publishing as
“The San Francisco Foghorn” in 1928
— 95 years ago.
The San Francisco Foghorn arrived
at a starting year of 1903 based
on the volume and issue numbers
that are printed on each issue’s front
page. In 2003 the Foghorn published
its 100th volume and celebrated 100
years of the Foghorn. Despite the
gaps in the archives, we are keeping
with that tradition and celebrating
120 years of reporting the stories of
life at USF.
In this special anniversary issue,
you’ll be taken back in time to learn
what the culture of USF and of the
Foghorn was like in every decade
since the 1950s.
Since its inception, the Foghorn
has been a channel for understanding
events happening on campus, in San
Francisco, and around the world.
Throughout the history of the paper,
Foghorn reporters have interviewed
members of the Rolling Stones
and the rapper and actor Common,
attended the second March on Selma,
covered the 1960 Winter Olympics,
and even interviewed United States
Presidential candidates.
This anniversary edition features
some of the most well-known figures
who once churned out the paper —
Warren Hinckle, one of the founders
of gonzo journalism; Pierre Salinger,
President John F. Kennedy’s press
secretary, Gordon Bowker, co-founder
of Starbucks, and Carl Nolte, the
author of the San Francisco Chronicle’s
“Native Son” column. Amanda
Andrade-Rhoades, a former Foghorn
photography editor, was part of a
team of Washington Post reporters
and photojournalists who were
awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for
their coverage of the Jan. 6 Insurrection.
On behalf of the entire editorial
team, I want to thank all of the Foghorn
alumni who spoke with us for
this issue. We also extend thanks to
USF archivist Annie Reid along with
her predecessors at Gleeson Library.
This anniversary edition would not
be possible without their meticulous
preservation work.
The authors of the oldest surviving
USF newspaper in the archives
wrote,“this publication, being a student
product, will have to be sustained
by student cultivation; let us
hope that cultivation will be unanimous
and whole-hearted.” Our hope
is that for the next 120 years of the
Foghorn, student journalists will
continue this mission with their
whole hearts.
Sincerely,
Megan Robertson
Editor-in-Chief
There were errors in our Nov. 16 article, “800 USF Community Members Call for
Cease-fire in Gaza.” Professor Saera Khan is a psychology professor and President
Father Fitzgerald, S.J. released an Oct. 9 and Oct. 18 statement. Julia Laverde
was misquoted.
In the headline of our Nov. 16, “Will Barbara Lee’s Palestine Stance put her
ahead?” op-ed, Barbara Lee’s name was misspelled. This is the correct spelling.
Headshots contributed by those
who interviewed. Headlines and
graphics from past editions of the
Foghorn. Courtesy of Gleeson Library
Archives.
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20s
Chase Darden
Staff Writer
2010s
Megan Roberston
Staff Writer
In the 2010s, the
Foghorn honed in on
investigative reporting on
the Hilltop. Miles Herman,
the Foghorn’s layout editor
from 2017 to 2019, recalls
Katie Ward, the editor-inchief
his freshman year, as
“set[ting] the groundwork
for people to start, like,
you know, caring about
what you’re writing in the
Foghorn.” This continued,
Herman noted, under the
tenure of subsequent editorin-chiefs
Ali DeFazio and
Gabriel Greschler. “We had
a really good run of kids
who were really interested in
doing legit journalism at the
school,” Herman said. “We
had a good string of editorin-chiefs
that kind of built
off of each other.”
Gabriel Greschler
worked on the Foghorn’s
staff from 2016 to 2019. He
worked as opinion editor
and news editor before
taking on the role of editorin-chief.
For Greschler, the
SF FOGHORN
Gabriel Greschler
Editor-in-Chief, News &
Opinion Editor 2016 - 2019
Miles Herman
Deputy Photographer,
Layout Editor 2017-2019
Julian Sorapuru ’22,
arrived at USF without
previous journalistic
experience or a clear idea of
what he wanted as a career.
But after writing his first
story for the Foghorn, a
women’s soccer game recap,
Sorapuru said he thought
the Foghorn was the “coolest
thing ever.”
After working as a
general assignment reporter
and news editor, Sorapuru
became editor-in-chief as
a second semester junior,
becoming the first Black
male to hold this position at the Foghorn.
Reflecting on the impact of that title and
his aspirations within that role, Sorapuru said
“I definitely wanted to increase the amount
of ‘Blackness’ in the paper, essentially.”
He continued, “I heard from a lot of
my Black peers on campus, they felt like no
one was representing them, and also that,
whenever there are ‘Black stories’ in the
Foghorn, people [were] getting them wrong,
they weren’t culturally sensitive, etc.”
Sorapuru was tasked with leading
the Foghorn during the unprecedented
time of the COVID-19 pandemic, during
which the newsroom transitioned to a fully
remote workplace, as students, faculty,
Foghorn “was the thing that
made college really worth it
for me,” he said. “I loved the
camaraderie that came with
it. Like it sort of felt like we
were this force, and we had
to, you know, sort of uncover
things.”
One of the most notable
stories from this era was
Herman’s Oct. 2018 article
“USF Bought a Farm,” which
investigated the finances
and campus politics around
the University’s purchasing
of Star Route Farms in
2017. He began the story in
a Journalism I course the
semester prior. “I came back
in the fall, and I was like, ‘oh,
you know, I should check
in on this and then maybe
we put it in the Foghorn,’”
Herman said. The piece
was finalized while Herman
was taking Investigative
Reporting. The response
was powerful for Herman.
“It’s hard, even though
you’re doing real journalism
to be like, feeling like it’s a
Julian Sorapuru
Editor in Chief, News Editor
2020-2021
and staff dispersed across
the country. The Foghorn
continued to release weekly
issues.
Sorapuru said “I felt
like it was really important
to put out the news during
the pandemic because we
weren’t on campus…When
it came to stuff like, things
that the administration
was deciding to do, it
was especially important
because, a lot of people
aren’t gonna check the email
that administration sends
out, or other things that
haven’t had any votes or communication.”
Sorapuru now works as a development
fellow for the Boston Globe. He cites his
experience at the Foghorn as being “vital,
and impactful” to where he is today.
In his reflections on 120 years of the
Foghorn, he believes there is still more
ground to cover.
“I hope it continues to diversify and be
reflective of the student experience, meaning
all identities, not just racial,” he said. “We’re
trying to be as reflective as possible as
every newspaper whose goal is to reflect the
community’s values… I hope [The Foghorn]
never goes away.”
significant thing, or it’s causing any change,”
he said. “With that story, for sure, it did feel
like it changed stuff, which was nice.”
Greschler said, “I hope that the Foghorn
continues to hold the University accountable
and shed light on issues that are important.”
Today Greschler is the San Jose City
Hall reporter at the Mercury News, a San
Jose, Calif. based newspaper, and Herman is
a commerce producer for Dotdash Meredith,
America’s largest digital and print publisher.
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DEC. 7
2023
2000s
Jordan Premmer
Staff Writer
The San Francisco
On Sept. 19, 2002, the Foghorn
released its first post-9/11 cover
story, which detailed students and
faculty joining together at a Mass
of the Holy Spirit to commemorate
the tragedy, many stood as all St.
Ignatius’ seats were filled.
Benice Atufunwa served
as editor-in-chief from 2005-
2007, and opinion editor
for her first two years in the
Foghorn.
Under Atufunwa’s
leadership, the Foghorn was
committed to uncovering the
truth in her favorite story she
worked on at the Foghorn —
reporting on student theft
in the cafeteria. “We kind
of got in trouble from the
administrators because they
said we were encouraging
stealing, which was not true,”
Atufunwa said. “But on the
other hand, a lot of students are like, ‘Oh my
gosh, I didn’t know that was such a problem,’
and found the story to be very informative.”
In 2005, Atufunwa became the first
Black editor-in-chief in Foghorn history, but
she doesn’t view that as something to brag
about. “I don’t like those, you know, first this
or first that because it’s not like, there was
never ever I don’t know, a Black woman who
was capable of being the editor-in-chief until
I got there,” she said. “I actually didn’t know
that until well after the fact… I was like,
‘There’s no way that’s true.’”
Atufunwa noted the internet as the
biggest change in the Foghorn since her
time as editor-in-chief. “We just didn’t even
think about social media at all. Not because
it wasn’t there. But it’s just like Facebook,
MySpace, those are all things you used to
flirt with people, you didn’t
have entities using it like
you do now,” she said.
Post-grad, Atufunwa
went on to New York
University for a graduate
degree in magazine
publishing. Today, she
works at Squarespace as a
content designer. Despite
working in the tech
industry, she keeps writing.
“I’ve written for Essence…
Good Housekeeping,” she
said. “Now I just like to
write stuff for myself.”
Atufunwa reflected
on how being in the Foghorn set her up for
success in her future endeavors. “I was able
to use the time I spent in the Foghorn and
the articles that I’d written to get into grad
schools and get internships,” she said. “It
taught me a level of responsibility that I knew
it was in me, but I didn’t have up until that
point. It just taught me you have a duty to
something that’s bigger than you,” she said.
Benice Atufunwa
Editor-in-Chief 2005-2007
Jordan DelFiugo
Staff Writer
‘80s
The Foghorn saw a period of computers
and commentary in the late 1980s under the
leadership of John Shanley, who served as
editor-in-chief from 1988 to 1989.
According to Shanley, 1988 was the first
year the Foghorn went desktop, using Apple
Macintosh to layout the paper on a computer
as opposed to their previous practice, which
involved using an exacto-knife on boards.
“The first issue, especially, was very crazy
and chaotic, because we had never done
it that way before,” Shanley said. “But I do
believe that’s the year the Foghorn really sort
of came into the modern age.”
A major goal of Shanley’s as editorin-chief
was to introduce more diverse
viewpoints to the paper.
“The first thing I said to my
editorial staff is ‘let there
be no bounds. I want crazy
left wing stuff, I want crazy
right wing stuff. I want crazy
diversity of thought.’”
As 1988 was a
presidential election year,
Shanley described the
Foghorn as being filled
with election coverage
and political commentary.
Shanely even had the
John Shanley
Editor-in-Chief 1988-1989
opportunity of interviewing
Democratic presidential
nominee at the time, Michael
Dukakis, in a preview
leading up to the election.
“We also bashed George Bush a lot,”
Shanley recalled. “On the last day of his
campaign, I remember he toured a hot dog
Rolling Stones
and USF
“We managed to talk the Rolling Stones
into giving us tickets when they toured in
‘89, and we got to interview their keyboard
player, Chuck Leavell,” Shanley explained,
“We got to have lunch with him and it was
just really cool for, you know, a 21-year-old
kid. Before that, [the Foghorn] wasn’t doing
a lot of stuff like that.”
factory, and on the front page of our election
issue I wrote something to
the effect of ‘I feel like [Bush]
would best serve the country
if he had just jumped into
the hot dog vat while at the
factory.’”
Shanely said of the
choice for the cover, “That
wasn’t really something
they would’ve run the year
before.”
After graduating,
Shanley went into politics.
He previously worked under
former San Francisco Mayor
Francis Jordan. Today, he
works as a lawyer. Reflecting
on his time at the Foghorn,
Shanley said “I look back at it all very fondly,
I sure don’t say ‘oh, that was a waste of time’…
it was one of the more rewarding things I
ever did.”
NEWS
‘90s
Jordan DelFiugo & Megan Robertson
Staff Writers
Kent German, who served as the
Foghorn’s editor-in-chief
from 1995-1996 recalled
that the paper’s 1990s
staff rarely went home
before the sunrise on
editing nights. “We’d stay
all night,” he said. “We
were putting something
together, and it really, in
a lot of ways, was a labor
of love.”
German said that he
would drive to Potrero
Hill to pick up the paper
from printers every week,
distributing the papers on
Kent German
Editor-in-Chief, News Editor
1994-1996
campus in the early hours of the morning. “It
was the greatest,” he said, “walking in and
seeing people pick up the paper and go to
class.”
In 1990, the Foghorn reported on
former University President John Lo Schiavo
granting approval for the Institutional
Policy on Freedom of Expression, which
guaranteed “the right of every member of the
University community free expression, free
association, and free exercise of religion”
when, previously, the Associated Students
of the University of San Francisco (ASUSF)
Senate was to object to the activity of any
on campus groups which “actively foment
against the Catholic Church’s conception of
human dignity and justice.”
With this new resolution in place, the
Foghorn chronicled the efforts of student
activist groups, such as Students
for Choice, which petitioned
the University to provide birth
control education and services
at the University Health Center,
among other actions.
In 1995, the Foghorn
introduced the “CounterPoint”
series, in which two op-eds
with opposing arguments
ran alongside each other.
The first in the CounterPoint
series featured two articles on
contraceptives and the catholic
church. The series would go on
to cover topical events of the
1990s, such as the Bill Clinton and Monica
Lewinsky scandal in 1998.
With regard to what German, who is now
news editor for SF Gate, would like to see
from the Foghorn moving forward, he said,
“I hope it continues to be a place for young
journalists to learn and get good experience
that will take them into their careers.”
Headshots contributed by those who interviewed.
Headlines and graphics from past
editions of the Foghorn. Courtesy of Gleeson
Library Archives.
‘ 70s
Megan Robertson
Staff Writer
In 1976, the Alliance for
Gay Awareness applied
to the ASUSF Senate for
official club status.
In 1969, Joe Schieffer’s friend invited
him to a meeting about the school paper.
He didn’t know that this meeting would
influence the rest of his time
at USF. Schieffer worked
as a Foghorn staff writer
for his first four semesters
at USF, and then as the
Entertainment Editor for his
last three semesters.
The most notable story
Schieffer remembers during
his time at USF was the 1972
“Pelosi V. Marks at FOG
office — Propositions 3,8,19
in question.” In the fall of
1972, incumbent Republican
Milton Marx and Democrat
Ron Pelosi were running to
represent California’s 9th
District in the California State Senate. In the
midst of the competitive race, the Foghorn
was “thinking about endorsing someone for
Joe Schieffer
Entertainment Editor,
Staff Writer 1969-1972
that seat,” Schieffer said. Both candidates
sought to secure the Foghorn’s endorsement,
so in October of 1972 they had a debate in
the paper’s office, trying to
sway the six editors. “We
couldn’t agree on who the
endorsement would be for,”
Schieffer said. The Foghorn
refrained from endorsing
either candidate due to their
lack of consensus. Marx
ended up winning the seat.
The Foghorn was a staple
on campus and in the Bay
Area community,” Schieffer
recalled. “There was no
alternative to hardcopy…the
copies would disappear off
the racks where they were
placed.”
Schieffer, 72, is today a retired attorney
who lives in Oakland.
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THURSDAY
The Foghorn
DEC. 7
2023
in the 1960s
SCENE
Warren Hinckle:
Journalism’s
“Pirate” Icon
Inés Ventura
Staff Writer
Warren Hinckle pictured during his time at USF.
Photo courtesy of Pia Hinckle.
“During his time as editor,
Warren Hinckle famously
turned the Foghorn into a
daily publication, the first
of its kind in the U.S.”
Warren Hinckle left a mark on American journalism as a
maverick editor and writer. Being one of the most famous editors
that the Foghorn has ever seen, Hinckle was known for his strong
personality, steadfast determination, love of drinking, fearless
approach to life, and for his eyepatch — which he wore due to
losing his left eye in an accident during his childhood. Throughout
his life, Hinckle accomplished many feats “with all kinds of lunacy
[that] nobody can get away with,” said his daughter Pia Hinckle.
“That’s why my dad was a pirate,” and journalism was his sea.
Born in 1938 in the Sunset District of San Francisco, Warren
Hinckle took an early interest in journalism and displayed a knack
for questioning authority, which he applied to his work at the school
newspaper of Archbishop Riordan High School. In his memoir “If
You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade,” Warren Hinckle recalled
turning the newspaper into his “personal fiefdom to indulge my
insatiable craving for the joys of printing.” His hunger for print
was even deeper by the time he arrived at USF to study psychology,
where he eventually became Editor in Chief of the Foghorn in 1960.
His memoir also detailed his time at the Foghorn, where once
during a dull news week, in an attempt to have something worth
writing about, Warren Hinckle and his friend Brennan Newsom
burned down a wooden guardhouse at the entrance of campus, and
turned the event into a front-page editorial, heavy with calls upon
the Dean of Students, Rev. Francis A. Moore, to expel whoever did
it. Despite his suspicions, Fr. Moore had no evidence to prove that
Warren Hinckle was behind the stunt, marking only the beginning
of the cat-and-mouse dynamic that the two would have during
Hinckle’s time at USF.
During his time as editor, Warren Hinckle famously turned
the Foghorn into a daily publication, the first of its kind in the
U.S.; “which pissed off the [Jesuit] brothers to no end, because, of
course, he did not ask permission,” said his daughter, Pia Hinckle.
Warren Hinckle secretly wrote up a press release — “New Era of
Journalism at USF: Foghorn Becomes First Catholic College Daily
Newspaper in U.S.’’ — and handed it off to Foghorn alumnus Carl
Nolte, USF’s Director of Public Information at the time, to secretly
distribute to the media under Fr. Moore’s nose. Warren Hinckle’s
plan to blindside the institution with headlines from well-known
publications was foiled when Nolte decided to run the plan by Fr.
Moore for approval first, which Fr. Moore immediately shot down.
In retaliation, Warren Hinckle threw a party to celebrate
its relaunch as a daily and invited various judges, city officials,
prominent USF alumni, a high number of San Francisco reporters,
and even congressmen in Washington D.C. to celebrate. He sent
telegrams to every newspaper in the state with the announcement,
many who later ran editorials congratulating USF on their big
journalistic stride. According to Warren Hinckle’s memoir,
Fr. Moore walked into the party looking pale in shock at the
sight of drunk reporters, students, Jesuits, local politicians,
and alumni raising toasts to the Foghorn. In a mix of pride for
what he accomplished and satisfaction of knowing how angry he
made Fr. Moore, Warren Hinckle handed him two telegrams of
congratulations that he had received back from the slew that he
sent out — from then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator
John F. Kennedy.
The Daily Foghorn ran sensational headlines like “Virginia
City Priest Assaults 47-Year-Old Woman Polio Victim” and “ROTC
General Attempts to Strangle Student,” rarely running stories about
the school itself, as detailed in his memoir. He installed an AP wire
to pick up on hotter stories to cover, much to the disapproval of the
University. In 1960, Warren Hinckle assigned himself to cover the
Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, Calif., where he would telegram
stories back to the Hilltop every night and ran the newspaper via
telephone for two weeks.
One Halloween, Warren Hinckle stole the press run of San
Francisco State’s college newspaper, which led Fr. Moore to file
grand theft charges against him. Fed up with Warren Hinckle’
antics, the Administration repeatedly tried to cut off the Foghorn’s
funds to stop him, which he fought with budget diversions.
Near his graduation day, Warren Hinckle received a bill of
$13,000 from the Dean, claiming that it was a Foghorn’s deficit he
needed to pay personally in order to receive his diploma. He never
did.
“USF gave him the platform he needed to be what he became —
a big success,” said Nolte, who later went on to work with Warren
Hinckle as a fellow journalist.
According to his daughter, Warren Hinckle’s time at the
Foghorn was where his legacy of unorthodoxy in journalism really
began. “Why wouldn’t you report on things that were distasteful
to the administration? That’s the job of the press,” she said, when
speaking on the mentality that Warren Hinckle worked with while
at USF, and throughout his career.
Hinckle’s career unfolded against the backdrop of the 1960’s
with its turbulent and counterculture narrative, which coupled with
his radical style of reporting allowed for him to forge his career
as a gonzo journalist. After USF, he became a writer at the San
Francisco Chronicle, then the executive editor of Ramparts, where
he turned the subdued Catholic magazine into an award-winning
publication with illustrated political and literary content, known
for its sophistication and embrace of anti-war rhetoric. Despite
the publication only lasting eight issues, its legacy as a muckraking
magazine has been credited as the precursor to other publications
like Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and Slate.
After transforming Ramparts, Warren Hinckle went on to
create the journal Scanlan’s Monthly alongside journalist Sidney
Zion in 1969. While at Scanlan’s, Warren Hinckle connected the
famous duo Hunter S. Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman for
the first time in an assignment which eventually became the 1970
article “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved,” credited
as the first work of gonzo journalism. This new style of reportage
placed the reporter as a protagonist in the story, and was unique in
its combination of social commentary and self-satire. “[Thompson]
made a lot of money off of it and made a lot of fame out of it, but it
was a Foghorn editor that sent him to Kentucky and came up with
the headline for the article,” said Foghorn 1980s staffer John Shanley
In the 1980’s and 90’s he worked as a columnist at the Chronicle,
the San Francisco Examiner, and the San Francisco Independant,
where he created a reputation for turning stories on their head and
pushing the buttons of local politicians. In 1987 he ran for mayor of
Warren Hinckle displaying his famous rebellious spirit.
Photo courtesy of Pia Hinckle
Hinckle famously made the
Foghorn a daily publication,
the first of its kind in the
U.S. in 1959. Foghorn excerpt
from Gleeson Library
Archives.
San Francisco, not with the intention to win, but to gather insider
information for his reporting about the mayoral election, according
to his daughter Pia Hinckle.
In 1991, Warren Hinckle revived The Argonaut and produced it
out of his own apartment. “He had the publication bug,” said Chris
Carson, a USF alumnus who worked with Warren Hinckle in 2010
while he was still an undergraduate student. “I feel like if he wasn’t
working at the high level that he was at, he would have just been
another old-headed San Franciscan printing off zines, or handing
out one page essays on the street,” said Carson.
Warren Hinckle’s passion for print carried on through his
writing projects until his death in 2016. Through his legacy, he
inspired others with his fearlessness, and never awaited approval
from anyone to do whatever he wanted. “Warren taught me that
you don’t need to wait for that — you can make it yourself. Which
is basically the philosophy of his entire career… he blazed his own
path,” said Carson.
Jordan DelFiugo and Drew Moss contributed to the reporting of
this story.
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THURSDAY
DEC. 7
2023
‘50s
Oct 13, 1959
Foghorn.
Courtesy of Gleeson Library Archives.
Drew Moss
Contributing Writer
Carl Nolte, who worked alongside former
Lieutenant Governor and founder of the
McCarthy center, Leo McCarthy, described
his experience working as
the Foghorn’s Sports Editor
in the 1950s as “a kind of
golden time.”
“We were always up
late, drinking beer and
running down to the print
place and trying to put it
all together. So it was a
perpetual rush,” Nolte said.
“We had typewriters then, of
course, and we [printed] the
Carl Nolte
Sports Editor, Staff
Writer 1953-1955
Foghorn in a hot type shop
downtown.”
Nolte said of his time at
the Foghorn, “I learned how
to write there.”
He noted that sports writing for the 1950s
was particularly exciting, due in large part to
the talent on the Dons Men’s Basketball team
at the time. “It was groundbreaking, with
[Bill] Russel, KC Jones, and Hal Perry, and all
those other ball players. So
working on the Foghorn was
good stuff.”
He continued, “We won
the NCAA Championship
in 1955… It turned out to be
that team and the ‘56 team
were of the best in the history
of college basketball.”
The Foghorn also
covered San Francisco’s
opera scene, with Gordon
Getty writing music reviews
and conducting exclusive
interviews. “Gordon would
go out to the opera and he’d
meet some of the famous
performers like Kirsten Flagstad,” Nolte
said, “we thought ‘wow we’re the only college
paper covering the San Francisco opera,’
where our other students thought the opera
wasn’t so hot.”
When asked what his future hopes for
the Foghorn are, Nolte said “It should go on
for another hundred years, to 220.”
He continued, “College is like a river,
the students keep changing but it has to keep
going. So there are down periods and up
periods, which is natural. We were lucky to
come along at a good time.”
Nolte, 90, has since been with the San
Francisco Chronicle since 1961 and continues
to write for his Sunday column, “Native Son.”
Previously, he worked as an editor, reporter,
and war correspondent. In 1986, he was
awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Jordan DelFiugo contributed to the
reporting of this story.
Oct 20, 1959
Feb 27, 1959
This 1954 Map of USF
shows the Foghorn’s old office,
the now non-existent
Loyola Lodge
Sept 17, 1954
“You never forget your first love”
OPINION
Carl Nolte Reflects on the Foghorn
People remember their college days
for lots of reasons — a favorite professor,
friendships they made, studying all night
once or twice, a sports championship the
school won, the first day in college, the
last day. Good times and bad. The part I
remember best about USF is working on the
Foghorn.
I’m not sure why. Maybe it is because
working on the Foghorn was fun, interesting
and challenging. Maybe because I liked the
name. “Foghorn” is a great name. We always
spelled it in capital letters — FOGHORN —
like the blast of a fog warning in your ear. We
took ourselves seriously. Sometimes.
Maybe it was because after my time at
USF I went into newspapering and spent a
lifetime in the business. I’m still at it, writing
a column in the Sunday San Francisco
Chronicle and online. You never forget your
first love.
It’s hard to imagine how different USF
was in those days. The school was mostly
male and the students were mostly local.
Nearly everybody was a day student. A new
residence hall was in the works, but boarding
students lived in some old military facilities
called “the barracks.’’ San Francisco was a
smaller, tighter city than it is now. Everybody
seemed to know everybody else. It was
another time.
But, we are celebrating 120 years of
student newspapering at USF, so the story
does come with a slice of history. Mine is a
small slice: I came to USF as a transfer student
from City College of San Francisco in the fall
of 1953. I had considered Berkeley and maybe
even Stanford, but I thought USF had style,
class, and Jesuits. The others didn’t.
It was a small school and welcoming,
and I was pleased when I was able to work
on the college paper. At first I covered small
news stories, but got sent to the sports page.
I managed to write about Bill Russell’s first
game—a huge victory over a good Cal team.
Eventually I managed to become the
main sports editor and even wrote a sports
column where I offered comment and free
advice to the basketball team. It worked out
pretty well, too — the first of two NCAA
Championships.
We thought it a golden era: the basketball
team was on top of the world, and the Foghorn
was pretty good, too. We had a lively and
interesting paper and won some big awards
from the college newspaper association of my
time. That was in 1955. Ancient history.
I learned about logic, politics, literature,
and a bit of the classics in the classroom.
But in the battered, messy Foghorn office,
I learned that there were two sides to every
story, that famous athletes had complex sides
to them, that we wrote news stories about real
people, who could be pleased, offended, hurt,
or furious about what we wrote. I learned that
words had power, and that there were shades
to truth.
Journalism seems to be in decline these
social media days, but the ability to think
clearly and to tell the truth as you best
understand it will always be valued. That’s
the kind of thing you learn on a college paper
like the Foghorn.
I still remember walking into the
Foghorn office one afternoon. I said I was
interested in writing for the paper. A scruffy
looking guy was there. He seemed to be in
charge of something. He didn’t ask me who I
was or where I went to school. He just handed
me some kind of form. “Fill this out and come
back later,’’ he said. “We’ll give you a try.’’
That’s what I liked best: USF gave me a
chance.
The Hilltop as seen in a vintage
edition of the Foghorn. Courtesy of
Gleeson Library Archives.
‘40s
AND
BEYOND
MAY 14, 1943
MAY 14, 1943
23 Dons had died in World War II
MARCH 6, 1942
The Foghorn took issue with the way
campus clubs and activities were dying
out at this time. They argued that the
excuse of the war was not valid, especially
for clubs like the International
Relations Club
MARCH 6, 1942
“Italy, Germany and Japan are our
enemies. The Italians, the Germans and
the Japanese form the armies we must
fight, the nations we must defeat. But
lest we forget, not all Italians, Germans
and Japanese are strictly our enemies;
it is not Italian history, German culture,
or Japanese art we are fighting.”
• • •
March 9, 1933
During its Great Depression
coverage,the Foghorn reported
overheard student financial
concerns from around campus.
OPINION

10 11
THURSDAY
DEC. 7
2023
OPINION
Karim Iliya, Foghorn alum, is heading to the moon
as an accomplished photographer with a platform
of over 198,000 followers on Instagram.
Screenshot from https://karimiliya.com/.
Fatima Duran Ramìrez is the executive director of
Acción Latinas’ Mission Media Arts Center. Photo
courtesy of LinkedIn.
Pete Rozelle spent 30 years as commissioner of
the National Football League. Photo courtesy of
Pro Football Hall of Fame.
CHISOM OKORAFOR
Staff Writer
The Foghorn’s history is full of figures that have
gone on to be successful in their careers. Alan
Ziajka, USF historian emeritus and author of four
books on the University of San Francisco, said
that “the members of the Foghorn staff are really
some of our most exceptional students.”
For many, working at the Foghorn acted as
a springboard for a career in journalism and
media. Class of ‘03 alumna and former Foghorn
managing editor, Shadi Rahimi, now serves as
an award-winning documentarian and executive
producer for AJ+, a digital news project from Al
Jazeera. Rob Fischer ‘05, is now a senior editor
of The New Yorker. Fatima Duran Ramírez ‘12,
former Foghorn news editor, is now the executive
director at Acción Latina, the publisher of
bilingual newspaper El Tecolote. Karim Iliya,
‘12, is a photographer, ocean conservationist,
and filmmaker headed to the moon as part of
the SpaceX dearMoon project. Lucas Waldron
‘13, now works as a graphics editor at ProPublica,
and Amanda Andrade-Rhoades ‘14, was awarded
the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for her
photojournalism for the Washington Post during
the Jan. 6 Insurrection.
Outside the realm of journalism, Foghorn
alumnus Pete Rozelle ’50, served as the National
Football League commissioner from 1960 to
1989. According to the Pro Football Hall of
Fame, he “guided the league through a period of
unprecedented growth.” Sunny Angulo ‘04, now
serves as the chief of staff to San Francisco Board
of Supervisor President Aaron Peskin. Class of ‘08
alumna Lulu McAllister Cunningham became a
nationally recognized wine sommelier.
Likely the most well-known Foghorn alumnus
is the late Pierre Salinger, ‘47, who worked as the
managing editor at the Foghorn in the late 1950s.
After working at the Foghorn, Salinger became
President John F. Kennedy’s press secretary,
continuing the job under President Lyndon B.
Johnson before becoming a California senator in
1964. In 1968, Salinger appeared in an episode of
the ABC show “Batman”, starring Adam West,
and served as a features commentator for the
same network.
Gordon Bowker, co-founder of Starbucks Coffee,
worked on the Foghorn’s staff from 1962 to 1965,
as news editor, managing editor, and editor in
chief. In 1965, Bowker famously sent a Foghorn
reporter and photographer to cover the Second
March on Selma. In 1971, the first Starbucks
storefront opened.
Ziajka said, “I would encourage no matter what
your future career may be to spend some time
with the Foghorn.”
Kaleb Martinez contributed to the reporting of
this story.
Editor’s Note: The headline of this article is
based on a 1961 Foghorn story of the same name,
which highlighted the achievements of Salinger,
along with Wilson O’Brien, ’30, Editor of the
San Francisco Examiner, and James K McGee,
‘30, a former sports writer and president of the
San Francisco chapter of the Baseball Writers of
America.
Pierre Salinger was born in 1925 in San Francisco.
Photo from JFK Library.
Lucas Waldron went on to study at UC Berkeley’s
Graduate School of Journalism post-grad. He has
worked at ProPublica, KQED and The New York
Times. Photo from USF Magazine
Amanda Andrade-Rhoades is a Pulitzer Prize
winning photojournalist living in Washington D.C.
Photo courtesy of LinkedIn.
A FOGHORN
EXCLUSIVE LOOK INTO
THE THE SILK FAMILY
HALL OF FAME
JORDAN MARALIT
Staff Writer
The Foghorn got an exclusive look at The Silk Family Hall of
Fame Museum, which is currently under construction and closed to
the public. Located in the War Memorial Gym, the museum features
memorabilia from student athletes, preserving the history of USF’s
sports programs.
The museum displays a timeline of notable sports events in USF
history. Beginning with USF’s history as St. Ignatius College, when
rugby and baseball were the most acclaimed sports teams, to the Men’s
Basketball Team punching a ticket to the NCAA March Madness
tournament.
Assistant Athletics Director Chris Fortney said, “[The museum]
is somewhere that not only we hope people can go and look at during
games, but it’s an event space for us. The goal is to use it as a kind of
multi-purpose area. Not only to use it as a hall of fame, but to have
different alumni or donor events in that space.”
Main Attractions
The main attraction of the museum includes the two notorious
basketball Bills: Bill Russell and Bill Cartwright.
Russell led the Dons to the 1955 and 1956 NCAA championships
and made the Dons an elite team of college basketball in the 1950s with
55 consecutive games. Inside his individualized display is Russell’s
USF jersey replica, his signed black All Star sneaker, his 1996 NBA
Greatest Players Ring replica, and his own Wheaties box.
Fortney said, “The NBA just retired Bill Russell’s number six
across the board because he’s pretty much their Jackie Robinson,
and it’s important for us to be able to honor that.” Celebrating his
contributions, Russell became the face of USF basketball while sharing
the stardom with Cartwright.
Cartwright played center with great shooting ability and strength.
According to Chris Fortney, the museum will have “a social justice piece added to it” which
includes “the quality and things USF has done. Not only on the court and the people we’ve had
on the court, but who they represent off the court.” Photo by Samantha Avila Griffin/SF Foghorn.
Phil Smith, the 9th highest scorer in Don’s men’s basketball history, had his
number 20 jersey retired in 2001. Photo by Samantha Avila Griffin/SF Foghorn.
According to USF athletics, from 1975 to ‘79, he was college basketball’s
“best big man.” His display consists of the 1978 Citizens Athletics
Foundations Award, his number 24 USF jersey and 1980 NBA All-Star
jersey, and the original Wheaties box commemorating the 1991-1993
NBA champions Chicago Bulls.
For Women’s basketball, Mary Nile-Nepfel received an
individualized display, which consists of her 1981 basketball jersey and
an early game photo. In 1986, she became one of the first women to
have her jersey retired at USF. She was the all-time leader in points and
rebounds at USF. Nile-Nepfel was the basketball coach for the Women’s
Basketball team from 1987 to 2006 and currently is the Director of
USF’s Kinesiology Physical Activity Program
Trophies and Relics
The museum showcased discontinued athletic programs, including
USF’s football team, which was founded in 1917. On display are vintage
football programs, a 1950s football schedule, ticket admissions, a St.
Ignatius and USF pennant, and a football signed by the players.
Also featured are various awards — a tennis championship single
and team bowl from 1949, a James W. St. Clair trophy in 1954-55, and
1975 and ‘76 soccer trophies. Also showcased was a photograph of the
1973-74 volleyball team and women’s volleyball uniform from 1976-
1977. Volleyball was one of USF’s five female intercollegiate sports at
the time, with scholarships beginning in 1976
The exhibit included championships with trophies from Women’s
Golf in 2001, Baseball in 2011, Women’s Cross Country in 2013
and 2017. The West Coast Conference Champions trophy
for Women’s basketball in 2016 is stationed with Nepfel’s
individual display.
Student Athletes
The museum highlighted remarkable student athletes,
past and present. Their names were embedded on the wall
with a glass pane chronologically representing the sports
they’ve played, in addition to their historic achievements.
Robert Kleckner — who captained track, football, and
basketball from 1929 to 1932 — was known for being an allaround
athlete.
While USF did not have a figure skating team, Yvonne
Gomez ‘91, represented the Dons with her figure skating
on the collegiate stage at the World University Games in
1985, ‘87, and ‘89. She went on to represent Spain on the
international stage in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary
and the 1988 and 1989 World Championships, before coming
back to work at USF as a mental performance coach.
Jamaree Bouyea ‘22 helped lead men’s basketball to its
first NCAA tournament since 1998.
The museum is expected to be completed in the coming
months. The Foghorn will continue its reporting.
SPORTS

12
THURSDAY
DEC. 7
2023
NIKI SEDAGHAT
Staff Writer
TODAY’S NEWS
CAMPUS DEMONSTRATIONS
CONTINUE:
Since the Foghorn’s Nov. 16
reporting on the Israel-Hamas war,
multiple protests have taken place on
campus. On Nov. 29, demonstrators
congregated in front of Harney Plaza for
the International Day of Solidarity with
Palestinian people. At this action, USF
students and faculty read “The Gaza
Monologues,” monologues from Ashtar
Theatre, the Palestinian theater company.
The company shared a Nov. 14 Instagram
post urging, “due to the horrific war
taking place in Gaza, ASHTAR is
launching an urgent request to all its
friends and theater makers around the
world to publicly read or perform ‘The
Gaza Monologues’ on November 29th,
2023.” “The Gaza Monologues” are a
student-led theater project created in
2010 by Ashtar Theatre, translating the
personal stories of Gaza’s youth. USF
students and faculty members took turns
reading excerpts from the monologues. A
student read, “The hardest thing to feel
is that your moment of death is near.”
Another student read, “I saw all the
buildings around our school destroyed.
Corpses were lying next to each other. I
saw our school but didn’t see myself on
TV and I thanked God. I hope there won’t
be a day I’m on TV, because we don’t get
anything from it except death.” On Nov.
30, a student-led rally took place on
Gleeson Plaza calling to, “End the Siege
on Gaza Now.” The demonstration was
in association with the Muslim Students
Association National, and the National
Students for Justice in Palestine. In an
Instagram post on Nov. 27 promoting the
rally, @usfcastudents4palestine shared
collective demands. “1. An immediate
end to Israel’s siege on Gaza and the U.S.
military funding to Israel” and “2. [that]
Universities fully divest from weapons
corporations that arm Israel’s occupation
and genocide in Gaza.” As the Foghorn
has previously reported, Charlie Cross,
Vice President of Business and Finance
at USF stated, “We don’t own any such
investments.” On Dec. 4, the USF
community gathered for a candlelight
vigil honoring the martyrs in Gaza.
The Foghorn will continue to report
on student demonstrations next semester.
Students gathered around a 168 page long scroll
commemorating the names of the martyrs in Gaza.
Photo via @usfca4palestine on Instagram.
UPDATE ON BASKETBALL LAWSUIT:
NEWS
Head Coach Molly Goodenbour coaches a Nov. 9
game. Photo courtesy of Chris M. Leung/Dons Athletics.
On Nov. 20, the San Francisco Superior
Court entered their final judgment on
the lawsuit against the University of San
Francisco and the Athletics Department by
former women’s basketball players, Marija
and Marta Galic. The sisters initially filed
the lawsuit in June 2021 with allegations
of “archaic and abusive conduct” on behalf
of head coach Molly Goodenbour. On Jul.
20 of this year, a superior court jury ruled
in favor of plaintiff Marija Galic, while her
twin sister was ruled against. Marija Galic
was awarded a total of $250,000 with an
additional $500,000 in punitive damages.
On Sep. 21, Superior Court Judge Garrett
Wong ruled in favor of USF’s motion to
vacate, absolving the university of their
$500,000 in punitive damages. The court
later denied a motion for a new trial for
the Galic sisters, filed by Randolph Gaw,
their legal counsel. In a statement to
the Foghorn, USF Spokesperson Kellie
Samson said, “The University of San
Francisco is pleased the Superior Court
of San Francisco ruled in favor of USF…
We are also pleased that the Court denied
the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.”
The Nov. 20 final judgment reflects that
Marija Galic won her claims, while Marta
Galic lost. On the same day, Gaw filed
with the court of appeals.“We expect to
prevail on that appeal,” Gaw said. “The
final judgment and jury verdict reflects
that abusive conduct by coaches towards
student-athletes should not be tolerated,
and also quantifies the risk to universities
when they turn a blind eye to it. This risk
will become especially acute should the
Court of Appeal reinstate the additional
$500,000 punitive damages award, which
we are confident it will do.” Samson
said, “USF continues to support Coach
Goodenbour, whose team is currently
competing at home and on the road as they
prepare for West Coast Conference play
this winter.”
The Foghorn will continue to report on
developments in this case next semester.