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FAIRFEST...At What Expense?
by Rich Swietek and
Lauren Pennisi
For the second straight year,
Fairfest, one of the major outdoor
social events at Fairfield, incurred
a substantial loss. Tim Burke and
George Hesse, organizers of the
event, quoted a deficit of approxi-mately
$2300 to $2500.
An estimated 600 students at-tended
in cold and rainy condi-tions.
Burke and Hesse expected
between 1300 to 1400 students
since publicity was increased over
last year, but due to poor weather
conditions a decreased number
participated.
Activities began outside at
12:00 but the rain forced the crowd
to relocate in the Oak Room. Ac-cording
to Hesse, the Student En-tertainment
Commission stage
crew reacted in "record time," al-lowing
the move to proceed with-out
complications. Reassembling
of the band'd equipment took only
one hour to be completed. Hesse
also stated they would have liked
to move to the gym rather than the
Oak Room because of the larger
facilities which are available. But
the basketball schedule pro-hibited
use of the gym.
When asked about the possi-bility
of instituting rain dates,
Hesse responded that "it is im-possible
to book rain dates since
cancelling an appearance still re-quires
the contractors to pay fifty
percent of the band's fee even if
the performance is cancelled."
Burke and Hesse, cooperating
with the University, changed the
format, making it identical to last
year's May Day. The bands were
located behind the football stands
and facing the Campus Center.
This was done in an effort to mini-mize
the amount of sound direct-
Fairfield diehards continue celebration after rain forced them to relocate in a jam packed Oak Room.
[Photo by Patty Lanza]
Tax Cuts Hit Fairfield
by Jennifer Gorham
The rising cost of college tui-tion,
coupled with increasing infla-tion
rates, has made Financial Aid
for many college students neces-sary.
Unfortunately, the cutbacks,
made by the Reagan administra-tion,
have made such aid less
available. Financial Aid and job op-portunities
are, however, available
in some form at Fairfield Univer-sity.
Federal Aid is granted to stu-dents
based on the information
provided by the Financial Aid
Form (FAF). This form provides in-formation
that deals with family
income, student income, family
size and property ownership; from
this information, the government
is able to determine the amount of
support that the family is able to
contribute to the student's educa-tion
and the amount of aid needed.
Aid is available through many
programs which are funded by
either federal, bank or University
programs. Federal programs in-clude
the "Pell Act," formerly the
BEOG, the Supplemental Oppor-tunity
Program, and the National
Direct Student Loan (NDSL).
Banks provide aid through the
Guaranteed Student Loan and the
Auxiliary Loan to Assist Students
(ALAS). Work study jobs are avail-able
to students and are Federally
funded. The University grants
scholarships to students based on
merit, need and athletics.
The economic cutbacks, pre-sented
by the Reagan administra-tion,
directly affect the Financial
Aid available for college students.
Not only will interest rates on
loans increase as of October 1,
these loans will be more difficult
to obtain. Furthermore, the guar-anteed
student loan will no longer
be granted upon application but
will be determined by need, only if
the student's family has an in-come
over $30,000. This, accord-ing
to Larry Wolk of the Financial
Aid office, will have "a large effect
on this campus since the average
student who applies for Financial
Aid has a family income above
$30,000." The number of work
study jobs have also been de-creased
as a result of the govern-ment's
cutting back on funds. This
year they are allocating the same
monies as were provided during
the 1979-1980 school year; 203
work study positions are now of-fered;
this is a cut from the 280
jobs available last year.
As an attempt to compensate
for the diminished Financial Aid,
the University has increased their
contribution toward scholarships
23% over last year and plans to
contribute to do so next year. Fin-ancial
Aid is available, as are jobs
not associated with the Financial
Aid department. The Seller's food
company employs many students
who work a varied number of
hours each week. Job opportunit-ies
are also posted, for part time
work offered in the area, on a bul-letin
board near Student Services
in Loyola. But is this response
enough? See editorial and graph
on page 6.
Jesuits Pleased With New Complex
by Dave D'Amato
The Resident Jesuit Faculty,
most of which has lived in Bellar-mine
Hall since the founding of
Fairfield University in 1942, has
just completed its move to a new
housing complex on the southeast
corner of campus. The new
building, St. Ignatius Residence,
will house 35 priests and have
room for several visitors.
Funding for the living quarters
has come from the Society of
Jesus itself. Originally scheduled
for construction in 1947, building
the complex was postponed until
classrooms and other academic
structures were erected. The "old
wing" of the building was com-pleted
in 1977, and the "second
wing" is in its final stages of work.
Every priest living in St. Ignatius
Residence has a private room,
consisting of a large studio apart-ment
and bathroom. Most of the
quarters in the "new wing" have a
wall dividing the bedroom from a
separate study, which often
doubles as an academic office.
The complex also has several of-fices
and a chapel.
Rev. Martin Shaughnessy, S.J.,
a theology instructor at the Fair-ed
at the residential areas. They
took into consideration the Univer-sity's
hearing with the zoning
board concerning approval for the
new townhouses, and tried to pro-tect
against negative public re-sponse.
Hesse explained that if
there was excess noise during
Fairfest, neighboring citizens
might protest the townhouse con-struction
at Tuesday's meeting.
Questions arose as to the tim-ing
and extent of student support.
Since May Day and Fairfest were
run on the same type of format.
Burke and Hesse speculated that
fall might not be conducive to out-door
events because students
sway towards greater involvement
with classes. Mike Bentivegna,
F.U.S.A. president, felt that a lack
of overall student support could
be the cause of Fairfest's down-fall.
Due to problems encountered
this year, Bentivegna recommend-ed
that "the people who run it next
year should make sure there is
enough student support before
planning another Fairfest."
Honors Program Underway
by Kathy O'Connor.
This year twenty-seven seniors
in the College of Arts and
Sciences will be exploring the
various aspects of the humanities
and sciences through the new
Senior Honors Program.
Combining the traditional
senior in dependent study option
with weekly lectures and discus-sions,
this year long program is
the result of two years of planning
by a committee of faculty
volunteers.
Chaired by Dr. Leo O'Connor,
the Honors Committee consists of
Dr. Dorothea Braginsky, Dr. Morris
Grossman, Mr. Lawrence Kazura,
Dr. John Thiel and Dr. Garry
Weddle.
According to Dr. O'Connor,
"researching and discussing In-dependent
study projects will not
only help these students prepare
for graduate school, but it will also
allow them to better appreciate
subjects outside their major field
of study." One member of the pro-gram,
Mary Pat Carroll feels her
project will be a "special way of
bringing together [my] two in-terests
of psychology and
economics." While Mary Pat will
be researching the Japanese
management 'Theory Z', Kathi Nar-dini
will be making a statistical
survey of Fairfield students,
Daniel Breslford will compose the
music for a Catholic mass and
Mary Adomowicz will make a
cultural analysis of Chinese
literature. Earning three credits for
individual projects, students will
earn another three credits by
writing reaction essays on lec-tures
and accompanying readings.
Lectures will focus on this year's
theme 'Crisis and Creativity'. All
lectures are open to the University
and Interested students and facul-ty
are welcome to attend.
To qualify for the Honors Pro-gram,
these seniors had maintain-ed
at least a 3.25 QPA and receiv-ed
a faculty nomination. Students
participating in this year's pro-gram
are: Mary Adamowicz, Elaine
Audolensky, Cynthia Bartolone,
Christopher Bottino, Donald
Brelsford, Michele Buonocore,
Mary Pat Carroll, Karen Crepeau,
Dennis Cronin, Regina Crowe, Jill
DaPonte, Mario Dell'Oleo, Erin
DeLorenzo, Carl Gustafson,
Michael Hanophy, David Hoyt,
Brian Monahan, David Murphy,
Kathleen Nardini, Lorraine
Newbold, Kathleen O'Connor, Lin-da
Quigley, Christine Rinaldi,
Sussanah Smith, Marie Splees,
Ann Tornillo and Ann Vitullo.
In addition to individual projects
and lectures, honor students will
be attending plays, concerts and
other outside cultural events. As a
student in the program, Dennis
Cronin feels he'll enjoy the inter-disciplinary
aspect of the Honors
Program because students often
become "too secluded in their
major."
The many positive aspects of
the Honors Program, including its
sponsoring lectures will hopefully
benefit the entire University.
field Preparatory School, is com-pletely
satisfied with the accom-modations.
"We are all very pleas-ed
with things here," he asserts,
"especially when we recall places
where we have lived in the past."
Bellarmine Hall, the former
Jesuit residence, is currently
undergoing a $5.1 million renova-tion
project for future use as an
administrative center. Its comple-tion
is expected to reduce over-crowding
in such buildings as
Canisius Hall, from which the Ad-missions
and President's Offices
are among those to be moved.
Jesuit faculty recently made their move to the newly completed housing
complex on the southeast corner of campus.
[Photo by Vinny DeAngelis]