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Loyola philosophy professor the Rev. David Boileau dies

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 05:51 PM PST

Published: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 6:22 PM Updated: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 7:46 PM

The Rev. David A. Boileau, who taught philosophy at Loyola University for 30 years and was known for his generosity, human rights advocacy and larger-than-life persona, died Monday at Ochsner Medical Center. He was 80.

Father Boileau, professor emeritus and former chairman of the philosophy department at Loyola, most recently served at Mater Dolorosa Church while in residence there.

Father Boileau, who held bachelor's degrees from St. John's Seminary and St. Bonaventure University and a doctorate from the University of Louvain in Belgium, joined Loyola's philosophy faculty in 1970, specializing in ethics.

"He was an old-fashioned Democrat," said Mark Gossiaux, current chairman of the philosophy department, adding that Father Boileau supported equality, social justice and fighting discrimination in labor.

Father Boileau, who was at least 6-foot-5, played basketball for St. Bonaventure, said Loyola philosophy professor the Rev. Stephen Rowntree.

"He sort of dominated a room," Rowntree said.

A native of Kalamazoo, Mich., Father Boileau was ordained in 1956 and was a diocesan priest in Stuttgart, Ark., before joining Loyola, where he was director of the Institute of Human Relations.

In 1986 Father Boileau headed a human services department for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In the 1960s he served on the steering committee of the Greater Little Rock Conference on Religion and Race.

Throughout his academic career, he published articles on those topics in the Louvain University Press, as well as three volumes of essays for Louvain's Higher Institute of Philosophy. He also published a book on the life and philosophy of the founder of Louvain's Higher Institute of Philosophy.

Gossiaux said Father Boileau's lectures on ethics and the philosophy of God packed classrooms.

"There were quite a few students who were reluctant to satisfy their philosophy course requirements, so they would take them with Father Boileau," Gossiaux said.

Father Boileau's former students said his classes were always entertaining because of his tendency to say things students might have been unaccustomed to hearing from priests.

Father Boileau sometimes went as far as to help fund students' education after Loyola, Gossiaux said. He said Father Boileau occasionally helped pay for students' graduate tuition or tuition for a second bachelor's degree, and sometimes he didn't even know them personally nor did they always want to study philosophy,

"I don't know how much of this came from his own pocket, and how much came from money that he raised," Gossiaux said. "In any event, he was extremely generous, and loved working with students -- and students loved him."

Danielle Layne, who teaches philosophy at Loyola, was one of Father Boileau's students and credits his generosity and guidance for her career.

"If it weren't for him I wouldn't be who I am today," she said. "When I was in college he urged me on to grad school and helped fund my studies, constantly supporting me in those endeavors. Occasionally, I would come back from Belgium to visit him, and over the years he took on a grandfather role in my life."

Gossiaux said Father Boileau especially encouraged students to study abroad and was a co-founder of Loyola's summer program in Leuven, Belgium. He was also faculty adviser to the Loyola sorority Delta Gamma.

Survivors include a sister, Eleanor Coffman, and eight nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

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Posted: 25 Jan 2011 11:11 PM PST

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Michael Likosky: Obama's Economic Philosophy

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 09:38 PM PST

President Obama reaffirmed his economic philosophy in the State of the Union address -- a government that works, invests, delivers opportunity, and that we can believe in. It is a lean government, not a big government. It is not a problem, but a problem-solver. The approach that Obama laid out for infrastructure and clean energy investment is emblematic. I describe it in my book: Obama's Bank: Financing a Durable New Deal.

Rather than looking to 2012, the State of the Union Address returned to 2008, on the campaign trail in Janesville. In front of an audience of workers at the GM Plant, Obama first set out his economic philosophy. The GM plant would not survive to see his inauguration; however, the approach that Obama set forth in Janesville was the template for the State of the Union address. What Obama said in Janesville in 2008 is far more inspiring and durable than Paul Ryan's rebut tonight.

Importantly, the Janesville speech -- and the State of the Union -- start off by reminding us that our crisis has been decades in the making. In other words, our crisis did not emerge in the subprime mortgage market, and it will note be solved there. Instead, we have divested from our real economy for decades. In the meantime, our new competitors -- China, etc -- have invested in state-of-the art infrastructure. As a result, we risk loosing our competitive edge.

In other words, we do not have the state-of-the-art infrastructure that makes companies like GE see the US as an attractive place to do business. Enlisting Jeffrey Immelt in our recovery effort is valuable for exactly this reason -- he knows what it takes to insource jobs, repatriate the operations of American firms, draw money out of the TARP banks and into our real economy.

And, just as in Janesville, Obama explained how we can co-invest with the private sector to return the country to its prestige place. The State of the Union spoke of the types of co-investments that happened during the Cold War that produced the Internet. Forget about the controversial shovel ready projects, few would deny that Obama's examples tonight of entrepreneurs who benefited from a little federal help -- not a lot -- have excelled in the midst of the crisis. Certainly, this is the story of GE in Schenectady.

When it came to infrastructure investment, Obama too returned to Janesville. We have a long term deficit in the infrastructure field. Our bridges crumble. The American Society of Engineers awarding us a D. Obama once again explained how we have to bring private investment into US infrastructure to solve this problem. Government lends a hand, but only as honey to attract private sector money.

And, it's all about the importance of opportunity -- from the nod to Biden and Boehner and their uniquely American stories to the need to invest in infrastructure not only to make our powerhouse metropolitan regions even more competitive. But instead, to make sure that the off-ramps of the high speed rail and our highways that we build today become the on-ramps of vibrant cities and towns tomorrow. This was the benefit of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Eisenhower national road system, and the Internet. This is the essence of not only the Progressive Movement, but also America Dream

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