Mirror - Vol. 04, No. 07 - October 2, 1980

              $5,000 Loss Incurred For Fairfest Party
by Kathleen O'Gorman
What began as an innocent
campaign promise resulted in a
$5,000 loss for the Student Enter-tainment
Commission. Further-more,
the debut of "Fairfest"
came to an abrupt halt when Dean
William Schimpf closed the Sept-ember
20 festival more than an
hour early due to complaints
about the noise received from
town residents.
An election proposal to have a
September version of May Day
was realized under the direction of
Student Association President An-drew
McGowan, SEC Co-Directors
Danny Allen and Kevin McColgan
and Assistant Director Mike Ben-tivegna.
However, the response,
unlike May Day, was much less
than expected with only 500 to 700
people turning out instead of the
anticipated 2,000.
WVOF kicked the day off at
12:30 with their second annual
"Just How Good You Are — II"
Frisbee Contest, headed by Mi-chael
Delia Fave, the campus sta-tion's
Publicity Director. In-dividuals
competed under the
categories of distance and ac-curacy.
First and second place
trophies were awarded to Mark
"Sax" Anderson and Mike Donnel-ly,
respectively. Third place was
awarded to Bob Kramer. For the
second consecutive year the team
competition was captured by
Loyola 3. This team included: Mike
Donnelly, Glen Hacker, Greg
Jones, Jim Cummings, Mark
"Sax" Anderson, Bernie McNulty,
and Jay Ricci. Loyola 3 was
presented with a check for $30.
The Shaboo All-Stars initiated
the music in the bandshell at 2:00,
an hour and a half behind sched-ule.
The band chose to delay their
starting time because of the small
audience present. This delay con-tributed
to a chain of delays as the
day wore on.
The band originates from The
Shaboo, a ten year old legendary
rock club in Willimantic, CT. The
club, owned by Lefty "Shaboo"
Foster, has presented some of the
best names in Rock 'n Roll.
Foster, the lead vocalist, has per-formed
with the likes of Muddy
Waters and James Cotton.
Charles Calmese, the base gui-tarist,
has played with Steve Mil-ler,
Johnny Winters, and others.
On keyboards the band has Shel-ton
Laster, a former writer and ar-ranger
for The Gloria Gaynor
Band. Another member of the
FUSA Posts
Appointed
In a meeting held September 18,
the Student Legislature approved
two members of the Student Court
and two students chosen by Andy
McGowan to fill positions on the
FUSA Cabinet.
The legislature approved Scott
Wilson, a senior, and Maureen
O'Donnell, a junior, to serve as
Chief Justice of the Student Court
and Justice on the court, respec-tively.
The Student Court is the
judicial branch of FUSA. The new-ly
approved members must be
sworn into their positions at a
later date.
The legislature also approved
Tim Bolton, a junior, for the posi-tion
of Commuter Liaison. Due to
his past experience in working
with the commuters at Fairfield,
McGowan chose Bolton to serve
as intermediary between the com-muters
and FUSA. Jean Cuscione,
a senior, was approved for the po-sition
of Legislature Liaison and
Executive Director of FUSA. Mc-
Gowan chose Cuscione, who
brings legislature experience to
the position, to act as intermedi-ary
between the legislature and
FUSA. Both Bolton and Cuscione
must be sworn in by McGowan in
the near future.
The legislature also approved a
revised version of the Student
Legislature Election Code. Scott
Wilson presented the new code,
which will hopefully clear up the
ambiguities in the former code, for
students who wish to become
members of the legislature.
band, Jack Scarangella, has per-formed
with such names as Blood,
Sweat and Tears, and Sly Stone.
"The Shaboo All-Stars" features
Matt "Guitar" Murphy of the Blues
Brothers Band fame. Cited by Dan-ny
Allen as "a group of first rate
musicians", the band specializes
in Rockin' R&B music with traces
of funk and jazz.
Adding to the delay in schedul-ing
was Robert Gordon, the se-cond
band to entertain Fairfest
participants, taking an unex-pected
seventy-five minutes to set
up for a sixty minute show. The
band, playing "Rockabilly" music,
is composed of two guitarists, a
drummer, a bass fiddle player, and
a vocalist, Robert Gordon. Their
songs included "Rockabilly
Boogie" and "Fire" written by
Bruce Springsteen, made famous
by The Pointer Sisters, and first
performed by Robert Gordon.
And then came the piece de re-sistance
but not before a dis-heartening
announcement made
by Dean Schimpf. Bill Chinnock,
being payed $1,450 for their Fair-fest
engagement, was only al-lowed
to play for fifteen minutes.
Complaints from neighbors of the
University were reportedly
Continued on page 2
Despite smiles on these musicians faces, there was little to be happy about. Fairfest was poorly attended and finan-cial
losses wore big. (Photo by Duane Bailey]
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Liddy Addresses Crowded Oak Room
' by Jean Leeber
G. Gordon Liddy, mastermind of
the Watergate break-in was the
distinguished guest speaker at a
FUSA sponsored event held in the
Oak Room at 8 PM on Wednesday
September twenty-fourh.
After serving over four years in
prison and owing $346,000 in fines
and fees, Mr. Liddy has been refer-red
to as "the Sphinx" because of
his refusal to unveil his knowledge
of the Watergate scandal. How-ever,
since his release in 1977 Mr.
Liddy has "paid his debt to his-tory"
by revealing his part in the
scandal and writing an auto-biography
entitled WILL.
Mr. Liddy's speech was cen-tered
upon the idea that Ameri-cans
live a life of illusion and do
not view our society realistically.
According to Mr. Liddy, this
misapprehension of reality is
causing the United States to "look
more and more like an old lady and
less and less like a man." Ex-amples
of this disillusion have
manifested themselves in the in-ferior
state of our armed forces
and in the fact that the American
people are overtly misinformed on
such matters as nuclear energy.
The second part of the speech
pertained to Liddy's personal ex-periences
and beliefs such as his
prison sentence, his education
and his religious views.
Having been exposed to so
many prisoners throughout his
prison sentence, Liddy claims that
the inmates do not know a risk-free
society and therefore live in
the "real" world. He also stated
that it is not the guards who run
the prisons, because they are the
failed members of society, but
rather the inmates.
Liddy stated that his religious
views have overtly changed since
his days at Fordham. Today he is
an agnostic only because he could
not get past the theory of a first
cause, otherwise he would be an
atheist. He relieves the Jesuits'
from any blame for this by saying
"the Jesuits taught me how to
think, not what to think."
The subject of Watergate was
touched upon at the end of Liddy's
speech. This type of political intel-ligence,
according to Liddy, is
conducted routinely and almost
happened for Carter.
Liddy justified his plot to kill
columnist Jack Anderson by say-ing
that the Bible differentiates
between killing and murder. Ac-cording
to Liddy, the command-ment
from the Bible says "though
shalt not murder." This does not
condemn killing and Liddy felt
that his power and position gave
him the authority to attempt to kill
Anderson.
Above, Nixon advisor and confidant Gordon Liddy addresses university
audience, while below, Professor John Orman exchanges comments
with security personnel. [Photo by Eileen Haggerty]
Callahan Advocates
Pro-Life Position
Dr. Sidney Callahan, nationally
known feminist and author, will be
speaking Tuesday, October 14 at 8
p.m. in the university Nursing Au-ditorium.
She is scheduled to
speak on "A Feminist Pro-Life Po-sition
on the Abortion Issue".
A former teacher at Fairfield
University, Dr. Callahan is an asso-ciate
professor at Mercy College
in Dobbs Ferry, New York. A
mother of six children, she has
been the recipient of several hon-orary
degrees and is the author of
"Beyond Birth Control: Christian
Experience of Sex", "The Working
Mother", and "Parenting: Prin-ciples
and Politics of
Parenthood". She has been a
workshop leader at over 160 col-leges
and is a consultant to the
National Council of Churches and
United Church Women, among
other organizations.
This will be the first of four
public programs on bioethics, ac-cording
to series co-ordinator Dr.
Lisa Newton. The bioethics pro-gram
will deal with abortion, elder-ly
rights, doctor-patient relations
and test tube babies.