Mirror - Vol. 04, No. 23 - March 19, 1981

              Bentivegna Names 12 To FUSA Cabinet
by Philip McGinty
FUSA President-elect Mike Ben-tivegna
has announced the ap-pointment
of twelve members to
the 1981-1982 FUSA Cabinet. Ben-tivegna
has affected some organi-zational
changes in the cabinet to
strengthen the quality of FUSA-sponsored
events which involve
the students.
Junior George Hesse has been
selected Director of the Student
Entertainment Commission (SEC).
He will work with sophomore As-sistant
Director Tim Burke in put-ting
on major concerts, Oakrooms,
plus Harvest and Dogwood week-ends.
Bentivegna informed that he
appointed one director rather than
two co-directors due to on-the-spot
decisions that must be made
in booking bands for events.
Sherry Saba, a junior, and Dae
Magrino, a sophomore, will be co-
Directors of Special Events, a new
FUSA department. Due to the
overwhelming responsibilities of
this year's Arts and Lectures
series, the president-elect has
limited Special Events to the
United Way and Muscular Dystro-phy
fundraisers, plus Career Spec-trum.
Bentivegna sees Special
Events as "good for the public
relations of FUSA and the univer-sity
as a whole."
Junior John Sohigian and soph-omore
Eve McGrath have been
chosen Co-Directors of Arts and
Lectures. They will be in charge of
sponsoring major lectures and
continuing the daytime program-ming
in the Campus Center. Ben-
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tivegna explained that the daytime
events (such as this semester's
Victorian photographer and car-toonist)
are designed as fun
catalysts to "stimulate student in-terest
in other FUSA activities
such as Oakrooms and lectures."
Brian Gilbert, a junior, will serve
as Vice-President of Academics.
Gilbert's duties will include a
restructuring of the teacher
evaluation system. Bentivegna is
supporting an evaluation program
presently used by Georgetown
University in which both the
students and the university's
deans will receive full evaluations
of the' professors. Gilbert will also
be responsible for revamping the
student-advisor program to "make
the professors more available for
career counseling," commented
Bentivegna. Last, the Academic
Vice-President will insure that
students will be represented on
academic committees such as the
Academic Council and the Cur-riculum
Committee.
Junior Kathy O'Brien has been
selected as Vice-President of
Operations. She will serve as
legislature liaison for FUSA and
assistant to Gilbert with aca-demics.
O'Brien will also be
responsible for ordering supplies
for the FUSA office.
Vinnie Ferrante, a junior who
has resigned her position as Presi-dent
of the Legislature, will serve
as Attorney General. Ferrante will
be liaison and monitor of the Stu-dent
Beach Association, which is
now in the process of becoming
The new FUSA Cabinet: Top Row (left to right) Tim Burke, George Hesse III, John Sohigian, Eve McGrath, Maria
Distasio, Mary Sleeper. Bottom Row (left to right) Amy Kruger, Kathy O'Brien, Brian Gilbert, Mike Bentivegna,
Luke Stanton, Beth Kramer, Dae Magrino. Not pictured, Vinnie Ferrante, Sherri Saba. [Photo by Patty Lanza]
an organization apart from FUSA. FUSA.
She will~also work with the
Owner's Association on problems
concerning beach living, while ser-ving
as spokesman for all stu-dents
with problems of their
rights.
Junior Amy Kruger has been se-lected
as Treasurer. Kruger will be
responsible for keeping all ac-counts
for SEC, Arts and Lectures,
and all other departments in
Amy Sleeper and Maria Dista-sio,
both juniors, have been
chosen Co-Directors of Publicity.
Their duties will include publica-tion
of the FUSA newsletter and
the calendar. They will also work
with an entire committee on publi-cizing
all FUSA events. Bentiveg-na
commented that his goal for
publicity is to inform every stu-dent
on campus of upcoming
events.
The president-elect informed
that he chose his cabinet accor-ding
to the invididual member's
experience with the legislature,
FUSA, or others who recommend-ed
him.
Bentivegna concluded that
ultimately he plans to "build up
academic support and interest
without taking anything away from
FUSA social activities."
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'81 Committee Names 35 Chairmen
by Ken Vaughn
Thirty-five subcommittee chair-men
have been named to assist
Karen Hill and Kevin Keegan in
preparation for Orientation 1981,
the co-chairmen announced
Thursday. Another three positions
will be filled in the coming month
by Hill, Keegan and Administra-tion
Director Cynthia Wolf, the
university Judicial Officer.
Named to positions are: Aca-demics,
Mary Kay Wysocki and
Terry Hetzler; Activities, Mary
Conlin and Marguerite Downing;
Committee Housing, Alvara An-draca
and Nancy Ftupp; Com-muters,
Maura McCartan and Sue
Sweetnam; Decorations/Linen,
Cathy Harvey and Sheila Kearney;
Discussion Groups, Eve McGrath
and Jim Battaglia; Drivers, Lori
Bean and Rich Heagan; Food and
Soda, Gayle Smith; Guides, Lynda
Sartorio; ID'S, Vinnie Cuticello;
Mailroom, Mariclare Foster and
BobWichers; Photographer, Linda
Capello; Reception Desk #1, Tim
Reis asnd Kathy Walsh; Reception
Desk #2, John Enerson and Pat
Sullivan; Social, Beth Kramer and
Luke Stanton; Sports, Brian Car-michael
and Penny Wolfe; Traffic,
Gerry O'Brien; Troubleshooters,
Mark Eagen, Kathy Doherty, Mark
Mielczarski and Carol Wilson; and
Unloaders, Bob Brown and John
Hannigan.
Hill and Keegan said that two
subcommittee chairmen in charge
of transfer students and one addi-tional
chairman in charge of
guides would be selected soon, br-inging
the total to 38 assistant
chairmen.
Hill said that the selections
were made early enough to get a
proper start for the fall program.
"The social and academic commit-tees
have to get started right
away," said the sociology co-chairman.
She added that stu-dents
selected as chairmen have
been meeting with Wolf to get
oriented with the responsibilities.
Keegan pointed out that March
30 and 31, and April 1 would be the
dates when students could sign
up to work on the committees.
Names will be taken at a table in
the Campus Center lobby during
lunch and dinner. He said about
175 students will be chosen to
work, with each student drawing
two or three committee assign-ments.
All students are welcome
to sign up for a spot on the com-mittees,
but workers will be
selected primarily from the class
of 1983.
Next to be selected are the
orientation assistants (OA's). Wolf
said applications are being taken
through tomorrow for one of 50
posts. The OA program is different
from the orientation program in
that the emphasis is on working
with the incoming freshmen. Wolf
said that an OA has three respon-sibilities:
first, to contact the
assigned freshmen during the
summer and welcome them via a
letter. Second, they meet with the
assinged freshmen in a group
situation during the Fall Orienta-tion
program. Finally, they must
keep in contact with the freshmen
during the first academic year.
Wolf said that each OA is assign-ed
12 to 15 freshmen to be a "Big
Brother" or "Big Sister" to.
Because of the special respon-sibilities
in advising and guiding
new students, an OA must have a
thorough knowledge of the cam-pus
in all respects. Those chosen
will go through two training ses-sions
in the spring and one the
night before orientation begins.
Hill said things are beginning to
get going. "Right now, we are
working on the summer letters to
freshmen, the Freshmen Record,
and the orientation social calen-dar,"
she said. Keegan added that
the assistant chairmen would be a
great factor in the success of
Orientation 1981. "They are of vital
importance to the success of the
program," he emphasized.
From a director's point of view,
Wolf said, "I think things are going
really well. Karen and Kevin are do-ing
a super job. All the people in-volved
are really excited about do-ing
it."
History Society Sponsors Lecture
A discussion of the role of women was held as part of Women's Day
events. More photos and story on page 2. [Photo by Duane Bailey]
by Mary Anne Blaszczak
History as a liberal arts
discipline is making a valiant
comeback on the campus of Fair-field
University.
Realizing that few students can
be enthused over something that
lies hidden from the public eye,
the Phi Alpha Theta chapter of the
national Psa Theta history
organization, is upbeating its ex-posure.'
Making up for lost time,
the Society is first sponsoring a
lecture by Professor Thomas Bird
on the "Samizdat Literature in
Russia" on March 19 at 3:30, and
on April 4 the second annual
History Day will be hosted in the
Oak Room from 10-4.
The Samizdat or underground
literature authored by Soviet
dissidents is the subject of Prof.
Bird's talk. Besides being an ex-pert
on the Russian Orthodox
Church, Thomas Bird is on the
Bishop's Committee on
Ecumenical Affairs. His involve-ment
on the committee is an asset
in his field, as the church is one of
the more vocal recipients of Soviet
oppression.
He is a graduate of Syracuse
University, and a teacher of twenty
years at New York University,
Queen Branch.
The History Day project is com-mitted
to "instill and deepen the
interest in history as part of an
awareness of man's historical and
cultural heritage," says Dr.
Richard DeAngelis, advisor to Psi
Theta. Psi Theta was chosen to
host the event by the National En-dowment
for the Humanities, the
Connecticut Council Coordinating
Committee.for the Promotion of
History and the Connecticut coun-cil
for the Social Studies, the pro-gram's
promoters. What the day
entails is an exhibition and judg
ment on Fairfield area junior and
senior high school students by the
professors of history at Fairfield
University regarding the topic of
"Work and Leisure" in history.
The local event joining primary
and secondary professors was ar-ranged
by Dr. DeAngelis and Dr.
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