Mirror - Vol. 01, No. 07 - November 10, 1977

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Reverse Discrimination in the
News. A close-up examination ofj
the Allan Bakke case. Pg. 6
• Student legislature: What's the
problem? The weekly editorial
replies to Pat Gizzo's letter
concerning that controversial
body, Pg. 4
• See SLEUTH tonight, and then
DO THE BAR SCENE this
weekend. Details on pgs. 9 and
10.
• Jesuit turned Agnostic: Dr.
Caffery reflects on the difficulties
of leaving the Order and
remaining at Fairfield. Pg. 12
• B-Ball Preview Continues: Tim
Buckley and Doc Dougherty look
at this year's big men. Pg. 17.
• Essex Sweeps Ruggers: a dismal
ending to an otherwise splendid
season. Pg. 20.
MIRROR ^^ Incorporated 1977
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Mishaps Delay Yearbook 7 Months
Deadlines Missed, Accusations Thrown
by lames Endrst
The Manor, Fairfield Univers-ity's
yearbook, will not be
delivered until April at the
earliest according to Ceri Morris-sey,
this year's editor. "Everything
is ready to be sent to the Dorrigan Drops
77-78 Evaluations
by Tony Tarnell
As the University enters the
final half of the semester, the
Teacher Evaluations for last year's
Spring Semester still have not
been published. According to
Mark Dorigan, F.U.S.A. President,
"the evaluations were never
done" and he stated that F.U.S.A.
has no plans to conduct any
teacher evaluations this semester.
Dorigan cites a general lack of
student interest, along with the
extensive amount of work
required to tabulate the results of
such a study, as the basic reasons
for F.U.S.A.'s failure to compile
and distribute the report. He
stated that Toni Marie Cuz-zocreo,
(c'77) who prepared the
evaluations last year, would not
head the operation again, due to
the excessive work required.
F.U.S.A. has neglected to com-mission
other individuals to take
over the task of evaluation.
Dorigan mentioned that
another reason the evaluations
were not published was due to
the cost of publication. It cost
approximately $600 to compile
four sets of evaluation reports.
The articles are then distributed
to the President's and Registrar's
Offices, as well as the Library and
F.U.S.A. files. Dorigan maintains
that the cost of the evaluation
was not valid, in light of the
amount of students interested in
the evaluations.
Asked what has happened to
the $600 evaluation allotment,
Dorigan replied that the money
has been redistributed through-out
his budget, to various clubs
and S.E.C. functions. He did not
state specifically where the
allocation has gone.
Dorigan blamed last year's
F.U.S.A.'s president, Brian Viso-kay
for not continuing the
evaluations, and said that
Viokay's.decision not to continue
the evaluations was passed on to
this year's FUSA administration.
Last year, FUSA was allotted a
budget of $31,200 and it was
Visokay's duty, along with his
Cabinet, to allocate the money to
its designated places. No explana-tion
was given as to ^hy the
knowledge that the evaluations
would not be conducted was not
publicized.
The teacher evaluations were
one of few effective means by
which the individual student
could participate in a critical
assessment of each professor's
proficiency. At present, FUSA has
offered not alternate means by
which students would be able to
voice their opinion.
Tennis Courts To
Rise Near Gym
By William Weisner
The construction of six outdoor
tennis courts, to be located on
the unused tract of land on the
north side of the fieldhouse,
began last week. It was felt that
these courts were deperately
needed since between the men's,
women's and Prep School teams,
there was practically no time left
for the rest of the student body to
play.
The site chosen, however, is
near the center of the campus
and many students were concer-ned
that this would detract from
the beauty of the campus.
Mr. Cook explained that the
location of the courts was
selected from a pragmatic view.
First, they sought to identify an
area which would fit six courts.
This would allow the tennis teams
to hold official matches in the
minimum amount of time.
Secondly, the site should be
low-lying so that the wind factor £ w
would be negligible. Finally, the
courts could be more easily
managed if within close distance
of the Athletic Offices. Taking all
of these factors into account, the
plot of land immediately in front
of the Gym proved most suitable.
Planning for the tennis courts
got underway in May of this year
when the Board of Trustees
approved a motion to obtain cost
figures, architectural designs etc.
In September, the Board ap-proved
the project and allocated
the aecessary funds. The courts
will be finished by January, 1979
at the latest.
publisher except the Special
Events section and one other
which are in the hands of Tom
Quick," she said. Mr. Quick was
last year's editor of the Manor
and has lately been the subject of
speculation concerning his busi-ness
transactions last year.
James Fitzpatrick, Director of
the Campus Center and the
moderator of the book presides
over the proceedings of the
Manor and a number of other
clubs in which he says his role is
not clearly defined. "On my
own," he said, "I try to keep an
overall lookout. It's bad that the
moderator is such an un-defined
role. We want to bring about a
clear cut definition as soon as
possible." Mr. Fitzpatrick pointed
out that his role as moderator was
more in the vein of a financial-caretaker
than anything else
saying, "The content of the boot
stays with the students."
The problems that / have
delayed the production of the
book are threefold and all of
them involve Tom Quick.
The most serious allegation
concerned the business practices
of Quick that resulted in a
number of unaccounted checks.
"The majority are there," said
Fitzpatrick, "But due to the way
that the system was working,
there were a number of checks
without notation in the books.
The truth is that anyone could
have taken off with the money
and we'd never be able to trace it
back to them." The exact amount
unaccounted for is unknown at
this time. The system has since
been ammended by the mod-erator,
the business manager and
the editor to insure safe handling
of funds. Two of the three
officials now have to sign the
check before it is valid.
Mr. Fitzpatrick stated that he
also found put that Tom Quick
was giving himself a commission
on the advertisements in the
book. The total amount of these
commissions are estimated by the
moderator at someplace between
125 and 150 dollars. "Commis-sions
are, of course, not illegal
but I find it difficult to believe
that an alumnus would take
money for selling ads. I would
assume that it had something to
of time he
put in," he said.s
Another set of inquiries were
concerned with alleged "luxur-ious
trips to Washington." These
trips turned out to be two
invitations offered b theprinter,
Herf-Jones to come to Gettysburg
to observe the operations of the
company. The appropriate
amountis to be repayed to The
Manor by Jim Finley, the sales
representative of the Herf-Jones
Company.
In terms of his business tactics,
Mr. Fitzpatrick concluded that
Tom Quick's conduct and been
"horrendous" and that he "could
not understand how a business
major had been so "stupid" about
recording his transactions and
taking care of the records. "The
Manor has been playing catch-up
with its financial situation for the
past six years. Tom wanted to put
in 16 pages of color pictures
which would have been an extra
2,000 dollars. I just couldn't
believe it," said the Campus
Director.
Suggesting that he himself
might be held responsible for
letting the situation deteriorate,
Fitzpatrick added that he was
assured by Tom Quick last fall,
that everything was going well
and was on schedule "I took him
at his word and I didn't forsee any
problems until I saw last May that
nothing was done. Everytime I
asked Tom what the problem was,
he said that somebody else was
holding him up." An absolute
deadline of October 8 was set and
all of the sections appeared with
the exception of the two that are
still missing.
"We're going to get out of this
mess," Fitzpatrick continued,
"But I think that a lot of people
are using these rumors as a
crusade against Tom Quick for
what reason I Don't know. It's
really unfair. There hasn't been
anything which has proven to be
illegal." the moderator did say
later however, that in terms of
leaving himself open to certain
accusations, "Tom was his own
worst enemy."
Wide World of McKay
Jim McKay, prize winning sports commentator for ABC, talked to
a packed crowd in the Oak Room Tuesday night. The crowd list-ened
to his stories of victory and defeat in his many years of
broadcasting.