Mirror - Vol. 36, No. 24 -April 19, 2011

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Fairfield Facing $20
Million Lawsuit
On Perlitz Charges
BY AMBER NOWAK
MANAGING EDITOR OF CONTENT
The Reflection of Fairfield
One of Doug Perlitz's accusers
filed federal lawsuits yesterday, April
18 for $20 million on every count
against each defendent involved in
the trial, namely Fairfield University,
the Society of Jesus, and Perlitz. Ac-cording
to an Associated Press (AP)
newsbreak, the lawsuit was filed on
the grounds that the university and
the Jesuit order were "negligent in
hiring and supervising Perlitz in the
work he did in Haiti."
Other defendants were accused
of assisting Perlitz in his efforts to cov-er
up his crime.The Fairfield alumnus
was sentenced to nearly 20 years in
prison for sexually abusing children at
a school he founded in Haiti.
An attorney for the accuser,
Mitchell Garabedian, told the AP
that he represents 20 more children
who will file complaints in the hear
future. He continued to tell the AP that
Perlitz's supervisors, which included
former Fairfield chaplain Paul Carrier
SJ,"were in Haiti and knew or should
have known about the abuse."
Officials at Fairfield University
declined to comment to the AP, on the
basis that they"hadn't yet seen the
lawsuit"
President Jeffery
von Arx earned
$300,000 in
2009-2010 that he
will return to the
Jesuit society.
Former basketball
coach Ed Cooley
earned $345,048 in
2009-2010.
Stephanie Frost,
Vice President
of Advancement
earned $309,251
in 2009-2010.
Senior Vice
President Billy
Weitzer earned
$301,634 in
2009-2010.
Bill Lucas, deceased
Vice President of
Finance received
compensation
of $314,717 in
2009-2010.
Photo Illustration by Amanda Villagra/The Mirror
Top Fairfield Admin.
Get Salary Bump
BY LOAN LE
VINE DIRECTOR
Top faculty and administrators of
Fairfield University find their salaries at
their highest level while students fear that
their college grants and financial aid will be
reduced significantly and tuition increased
this academic year.
The school released its IRS 990 form
in early March, which listed the past year's
budget spending and plans for the coming
year.
Mirror investigation of the issue
began when the University first refused to
release copies of the latest IRS 990 forms,
a release of information that the Univer-sity
is required by law to do.
According to the information gath-ered,
the highest paid administrator is
President Jeffrey von Arx with approxi-mately
$300,000 in annual salary and
compensation worth $74,572, earned
from 2009 to 2010. He will donate his sal-ary
to the Jesuit society.
Bill Lucas '69, the former vice
president of finance who passed away in
November, would have followed von Arx's
earning with a complete total of $314,717.
Following Lucas in highest total sal-ary
is Senior Vice President Billy Weitzer,
who earned $301,634 in total compensa-tion.
Former coach of the men's basketball
team Ed Cooley received a total compensa-tion
of $345,048 this past academic year.
From the 2008-2010, his compensation had
jumped by 22.39 percent.
Stephanie Frost, vice president of Ad-vancement,
has the fifth highest compensa-tion
of $309,251.
The new statistics brings many unan-swered
questions. Many students question the
salaries the faculty members receive and note
the higher the salaries rose, the higher the
tuition increased as well.
As noted at a recent budget meeting,
the tuition for the university will be hiked
by more than 4 percent for the coming
year, a move that worries many students
who are concerned with college payments
for the next academic year.
Gov. Dannel Malloy made a proposal
to cut federal state grants by 50 percent in
an effort to reorganize the state budget to
an equilibrium. A rally occurred on March
1 to protest Malloy's cuts.
The release of the salary numbers
of Fairfield administrators seems to only
reinforce this worried feeling of many
students.
Final Exam Schedule Changes Proposed, Later Defeated
■Academic Council suggests having only two Reading Days instead of three in order to avoid three-a-day finals, but the proposal
was denied in order to avoid extending the length of finals week and due to a long-existing policy preventing its approval.
BY AMBER NOWAK
MANAGING EDITOR OF CONTENT
This year, the Academic Coun-cil
met to discuss dropping the
maximum number of finals allowed
to be given in one test day from
three to two. After much delibera-tion,
the council decided to keep
the present system of allowing
up to three finals to be given on a
single day with three reading days
interspersed throughout the finals
period. This decision has opened
the doors for discussion.
The number of exams scheduled
for each day affects the number of days
required to be scheduled forfinal ex-ams.
The number of days scheduled for
finals, in conjunction with the number
of"Reading Days," influences the overall
length of the semester.
Having a minimum of three read-ing
days and no more than two exams
scheduled per day would lead to a
longer semester.
The Council therefore proposed
to cut the number of Reading Days to
two in order to allow for a maximum of
only two exams to be scheduled per day
without making the semester longer. A
long-standing policy that there be a mini-mum
ofthree Reading Days between
the end ofclasses and the end offinal
exams prevented this potential solution
from going into effectThis policy was
approved in 1970 and amended in 1987,
more than two decades ago.
"Faculty strongly support this
policy since faculty think that students
taking five courses each with a... final
exam or project need time to work
and study, ortotake a break even," said
Professor of Mathematics Irene Mulvey,
who acted as Secretary of the General
Faculty to the Council.
At the most recent Council
meeting, a motion was made to ap-prove
the two exam per day option,
and that motion was defeated. A
motion was then made to approve
the three exam per day option, and
that motion was approved. This is
scheduled to be effective through
the end of the 2012 year.
The Council therefore ap-proved
a three exam per day sched-ule
with three reading days for this
semester, Spring 2011, and both
semesters next year. The policy re-garding
Reading Days and the need
for a final exam period that ends
at a reasonable time (for example,
not on December 23) swayed this
decision. Maintaining all the current
final exam slots, including some
Photo Illustration by Tom McKiver/The Mirror
Students cram in study time in order to prepare for their finals, but that may not adequately prepare them for success on
their exams. Proposed alternative schedule solutions were recently denied,
relatively new group finals such Because there is a regulation
as those required by the Modern that students not be required to take
Languages Department, was also a more than two exams in any final
determining factor. exam day, students with three exams
scheduled in one day are given the
option of having the middle one
FINALS SCHEDULE! Met 5
INDEX
Opinion • Page 9
The Vine • Page 11
Coffee Break-Page 19
Sports • Page 24
OPINION:
WEIGHT ROOM
NOT WEIGHING IN
P. 9
NEWS:
STUDENTS RALLY
IN D.C. FOR
POWERSHIFT PG.5
INTERVIEW WITH
SAM ADAMS p. 12