• Look for the Ignatian alumni/ae coming from the Jesuit Schools. They share a same vision and the values that we were taught after Ignatius. We have the same believes and ideals.
• The Jesuit B.S. have to have "soul". There is a lot that have been spoken about the Neo-liberal economy and how it doesn't care about the poor and the needed. You should teach your students that there might be decisions that are not illegal but they are not ethically sound. The decisions in today's business world should not be taken only looking at the numbers and the bottom line of the companies. We have a moral compromise with the needed in our countries.
• Today we have more than a billion people living in the world with less than a dollar a day of income. This is not fair and this situation is not sustainable in the long run. You have to let your students know and identify their social commitments.
• The Jesuit B.S. must educate "Men and Women for others" as Fr. Arrupe once told us. It is O.K. to make money and that is the main duty of a business man, but that doesn't crash with social justice. The more wealth we create the better if we can share it generously with others.
• Our World Union, as our Vision says, hopes to become the lay arm of the Jesuits. You should use our Union to spread your teachings. Use our bulletin, our website (www.jesuitalumni.org) and our chain of associations.
• We would ask, in general, that you work the Ignatian values and thought in your Universities. Not only to make better businessmen but also better human beings.

• Providing for oneself out of anxiety or unbelief - this leads to serving ones - assets rather than, our assets serving our purposes.
• Numbness. This shows up in our relationships to others. Compassion is pushed to the background. The story in Luke 16 of the rich man who does not notice the poor man at his gate. His wealth and comfort numbed him to the need of someone he could have helped. The parable of the Good Samaritan is making this point - I healthy are those capable of being so moved.
• Split consciousness is the third symptom of - Mammon Illness -. You cannot be the slave of God and money. Here piety and avarice co-exist. Our culture promotes this division between the economic sphere and that of religious believing and human valuing. We have to develop a unified way of looking at the world. We need to learn to live in our hearts so we choose and act from there. This change comes from the level of ones loves and desires. That is why we are called to love God with all our heart.
  Let us now look at some attitudes to the economy that contain an element of truth, but are ultimately misleading and undermine our stewardship.
• The first attitude sees Christ as indifferent to the economy. Such an image of Christ leads to a spiritualized faith that does not take the world seriously.
• The second attitude sees Christ as hostile to the economy. Christ is only hostile to using the economy to undermine community and human solidarity.
• The third attitude is Christ uses the economy for his purposes, a bit like the collection at church. Again this fails to take the world seriously.
• The fourth attitude sees Christ as fading into different cultures and economies and expressing himself through them. While there is a truth here it can easily lead to accommodating the Gospel to a culture, rather than leavening it.

ARGENTINA
On May 30th There was the election of the Board of Directors of the Santafecina Alumni/ae Association of the Jesuit School in Santa Fe, Argentina.
Mr. Jorge Parcellier was elected president and Mr. Oscar Di Dioa, the Vice President. Both of them have been working for the Jesuit alumni/ae in their school for more than eight years. Both of them are men of talent, courage and willingness to work for others. As a matter of fact Jorge is the Vice President of the Argentinean Federation and Oscar is the Secretary General of the same.
From July 21 to 31 (San Ignatius Festival), the Jesuit alumni/ae of Santa Fe jointly with the municipality of the city are hosting a photographic exhibition in the museum of the school. The exhibition is called Jesuits 400 years in Cordoba: art and architecture. The exhibition has been a big success in the city of Santa Fe.
The alumni/ae association in Santa Fe has also been sponsoring a photographic context for students and alumni/ae with the auspicious of the Catholic University of Santa Fe.
The V National Congress of the Argentinean Federation of Jesuit alumni/ae will meet at the end of July or beginning of August. The account of this meeting will be given in the next E.T.C.
José María Candiotti
Council Member, WUJA

AUSTRALIA
This year the AJAA has had two dinner/speaker evenings, one on the subject of "Jesuit Lay Partnership" as experienced at Xavier College in Victoria, organized by Jack Bowen, the AJAA Victorian Representative and one in Sydney on `Living your Values', when Mr. Tim Fischer, Member of Parliament and `Old Xaverian' in his speech told of his experiences in East Timor as part of the `All Party Australian Delegation' sent to observe the ballot that would determine the future of East Timor.
Most recently an evening on `Aboriginal Reconciliation', organized by Chris Hogan, the AJAA South Australian Representative, was held. A report follows.
The Australian Jesuit Alumni Association in South Australia was honored to have Dr Lowitja O'Donohue, an outstanding leader of Aboriginal Reconciliation, speak on Reconciliation in Australia on Monday June 26, 2000, at St Ignatius Church, Norwood, SA. Following are extracts from Dr O'Donohue address.
The topic I've been asked to address is: Reconciliation in Australia: The current situation and what needs to be done. The first part is relatively easy. The second part - what needs to be done - I just wish I had the answers.
We can't re-write history. But we can re-visit it and we can understand and acknowledge it. Reflective understanding - and the acknowledgment that comes from it - is a first principle in the reconciliation process.
There are major social problems. They are not exclusive to indigenous people, but on any social indicator, my people are drastically over represented at the wrong end of the scale.
I feel strongly that human dignity and social justice are fundamental to a decent society. And I cannot entirely understand why working towards these ends is so challenging and so resisted.
But I do want to acknowledge that there has been some progress. There have been some key milestones in the twentieth century - some positive steps towards redressing the cycle of damage set in motion many years earlier.
The people of Australia spoke eloquently when over a million signed the Sorry Day books two years ago. The people spoke more recently when hundreds of thousands joined in reconciliation walks across the country. Maybe they were not all speaking in unison. Some wanted a treaty. Some wanted an apology from the Prime Minister. Some walked for land rights. But whatever their differences, they had one thing in common _ their desire to heal the wounds of the past and to move forward to a better future in which we can all live together in harmony.
My own feelings walking with 250,000 others across the Sydney Harbour Bridge are almost indescribable. They were a mix of grief and joy and pride and faith.
For there is still much to be done. Expressions of reconciliation are taking many forms. They grow out of communities themselves. And the most successful of these are the ones which involve collaboration, consultation and communication with Indigenous communities. Which lead to autonomy and self determination. And which seek to break the vicious cycle of welfare dependency.
…This leads me to considering what the Church is for. What is the role of the Church in the reconciliation movement?
Surely, if the teachings of Christ are to have any meaning for us today, they must be applied to contemporary social and political life. The Church must have a social agenda. And the basis of this agenda must surely be social justice.
It is more important than ever that the Church demonstrates in real, tangible ways its relevance to the citizens of today.
It is absolutely vital that we all in our own ways work hard for a reconciled Australia. An Australia that will be seen internationally as having cast off its colonial and racist past.
Let us aspire to be a society that can rejoice in its cultural diversity, rather than weep for its inequities.
Robyn Treseder
WUJA Council Member Australia

BRAZIL
The Brazilian Federation of Alumni/ae (A.S.I.A. - BRAZIL) elected the new officials during their XIV National meeting. Following is the new board:

National secretary:	Mardile Friederich Favre
2nd Secretary:	Francisco Canindé Dias Alves
3rd Secretary:	Antonio Bento Júnior
Treasurer:	Clea Maria Diedrich
National Assistance:	Fr. Joao Cláudiio Rhoden, S.J.

Mrs. Mardile Friederich, the new National Secretary for the alumni/ae in Brazil is being very active with the Federation and have worked out a simple electronic bulletin that is being sent to all the Jesuit Alumni/ae Associations in Brazil. If you want to be included in the e-mails please write to: mardile@centauro.unisinos.tche.br.
The Saint Ignatius School Alumni/ae Association of Rio de Janeiro, sent the following message on the occasion of the "Day of the friend" celebrated on July 20. It was taken from Frei Anizio Freire, OFM (Jerusalem / Israel):
"TO BE A FRIEND
The friendship is a bridge where love goes and come communicating the gift of life. That bridge facilitates the confidence and relationships within friends. From these relations every friendly hearth is a divine gift where love springs with tender, care, comprehension and forgiveness. A lovely friend is a wonder of God. To be a friend is something precious. It is not for everyone. However it could be for you that appreciates life. Today is rare to have a truth friend. To be a friend is to have a capacity to understand the other without trying to change him; is to take mutual responsibilities; is to be ready to overcome the difficulties that might arrive; is to pour love into the hearths of those that are ready to receive it and to be a friend. Without an interior approach it is impossible to be a friend of anyone. Availability, simplicity and understanding are essential in the process to be a friend."