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Shuttle To Return On Reduced Schedule
by Dave Scott
Staff Writer
After last semester's announce-ment
that the return of the shuttle
was in question due to decreased
demand and financial problems,
the University Council's Co'm-munity
Life Committee on Febru-ary
11 unanimously approved its
return with proposals for major
adjustments.
Under a temporary one year pro-gram
there will be approximately
70 runs per week, over a 40% cut
from this year's schedule. With
the reduction the shuttle will run 3
times per hour from The Campus
Center to the townhouses and
Julie Hall from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. during
the week. It will run once an hour
to town (Grand Union). The runs
that will be cut are those which re-ceive
relatively small numbers of
students.
Regarding subsidization, those
beach residents requesting ser-vice
to the beach area will pay for
the additional costs, including
fuel, wages of the driver, and
maintenance of the vehicle. The
university will be responsible for
the insurance costs, replacements
of equipment costs and all over-head
costs. Although exact fig-ures,
schedule times and route
directions have yet to be decided,
it was suggested that if 300 stu-dents
sign up for the added beach
service the cost would be approxi-mately
25 dollars per semester.
University Council member
Kerry Cunnion, commenting on
the university's partial subsidiza-tion,
remarked, "For now we're
satisfied, it's not everything we
wanted but it's better than having
no shuttle at all. Transportation is
going to suffer due to the in-creased
burden of financial aid."
Mr. William Schimpf, Vice Presi-dent
of Student Services, ex-plained
that, "this is a transitional
program moving towards a self
supporting shuttle." Mr. Schimpf
feels the university does recog-nize
with this program that there
are still people who live at the
beach and heavily rely upon trans-portation.
Mr. Schimpf said that
Students would be given a week to
decide after they sign up whether
they want to pay the presently un-determined
cost. The remaining
shuttle services will be included
as a part of tuition payment.
In response to the new shuttle
proposals, F.U.S.A. president Mike
Bentivegna stated, "I would have
liked to see the university com-pletely
subsidize the curtailed,
schedule, however the proposal
that is now in committee repre-sents
a lot of hard work and nego-tiations
by university council
members Jerry Sargent and Kerry
Cunnion." Bentivegna went on to
say that F.U.S.A. is willing to sup-port
any shuttle program.
Future F.U.S.A. president Sean
McAuliffe, who will be inaugurated
April 1, agreed with the decision
but remarked, "I don't think it's an
absolute victory because most
students who are living at the
beach next year were not fully
aware of the shuttle's curtail-ments."
McAuliffe does feel that
the university council did make,
"some ground in the shuttle's
return and I fully support their
efforts."
The Committee rrtust meet
again this spring to finalize the de-tails
of the schedules and costs.
Teach-ln Offers Views
On El Salvador
by Thomas P. Moore
Staff Writer
El Salvador, a small Central
American Nation experiencing a
power struggle with its govern-ment,
was the subject of two lec-tures
sponsored by the Latin
American Caribbean Studies
Program held last Thursday.
The first of the series was a
"teach-in", organized by Pro-fessor
Petry, which featured
numerous faculty in the Oak
Room. The second was a semin-ar
held in the Faculty Office
Building with Professor Thomas
Anderson of the- Eastern Con-necticut
State College History
Dept.
Anderson has authored "The
War of the Dispossessed —Hon-duras
and El Salvador's Com-munist
Revolution of 1932".
Dr. Albert Abbott, prof, of His-tory
began the teach-in by-ques-tioning
why the U.S. should back
Duarte's rightist government
when it, as he stated, "Is a prob-able
loser". He continued, "Why
should it be thought that the
guerilla forces have a monopoly
on jnorality, any more than the
Military Junta?"
Mr. Thomas Regan, S.J., of the
Philosophy Dept., took the pod-ium
stating, "The U.S. is bolster-ing
a stagnating political regime
whose time is running out." His
presentation outlined the U.S.'
alternatives in that country.
The third speaker was Arthur
Chavez, a native of Costa Rica,
and a sophomore Politics major
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Shuttle service will be continued next year. The University Council's Community Life Committee unanimously
approved the return of the shuttle with proposals for major adjustments. [Photo by Chuck Hacker]
Seniors Evaluate Bidding
Process For Job Interviews
by Delia J. Smith
Staff Writer
With a lagging economy, com-petition
for jobs is fierce, and
seniors are having a harder time
finding jobs.
This past fall, the Counseling
Center instituted a new system for
those students participating in on-campus
recruiting programs; this
system is called the Bidding
System.
According to Fr. W. Laurence
O'Neil, director of the Counseling
Center, "Under the old system of
the first-come, first serve, stu-dents
were getting in line at 3:30
a.m. to be able to sign up for inter-views
with companies with whom
they were interested. This placed
a strain on the physical stability of
students and often interfered not
only with studies, but also with
interviews if the student happened
to have one scheduled for that
day. For these reasons, we decided
Oakroom Lecture Studies
Psychoanalysis And God
to change the system here, and we
decided that the "Bidding
System" was the fairest to all of
the students."
In accordance with the bidding
system, each of the 226 seniors
who participates in the On-Campus
Recruiting Program is allocated
500 points with which he or she
can bid for interviews with compa-nies.
A student may use any num-ber
of points to bid for one of the
available interviews with a com-pany
on the Monday and Tuesday
two weeks prior to the company's
visit.
The bid is submitted, and those
students with the highest bids,
(thirteen if there is one recrujter,
twenty-six if there are two recruit-ers),
are granted interviews. A lot-tery
drawing breaks- ties, while
those students who are not sched-uled
do not have points deducted.
Fr. O'Neil states, "So far, tfiis
program has been effective, and
we have had the largest response
ever this year. This is due primarily
to the difficult economic situation
and the increasing interest of stu-dents
in work immediately after
college."
Students participating in this
program have mixed feelings
about it. Michael Bolton, a market-ing
major, stated, "The bidding
system is a night and day improve-ment
over last year. This year, you
don't have to wake at dawn to try to
secure an interview appointment."
However, one student states,
"This system is terrible. The way
the bidding is going, you can get
at the most two interviews. At
that, there isn't even any. guaran-tee
that you will get an interview
with the company you want. At
least, last .year, you could get up
early if you really wanted to."
Another student stated, "This
system doesn't give you enough
chances for interviews. People
overbid for the good companies,
and you're lucky to get 3 inter-views."
Since job competition is so
fierce, students agree that there is
a necessity for job interviewing on
campus.
by Kathy O'Connor
Staff Writer
"Psychoanalysis and the God
Question," was the topic which
Rev. William J. Richardson, S.J.,
professor of Philosophy at Boston
College, addressed last Wednes-day
before an estimated crowd of
150 in the Oak Room.
After an in'depth explanation of
various theories which have
evolved in the field of psycho-analysis,
Fr. Richardson conclud-ed,
"Psychoanalysis does not
have as its purpose to bring men
and women to God, it does not
have as its purpose to make them
happy...the purpose of psycho-analysis
is to understand those
signifiers in one's life that deter-mine
one's history...."
Fr. Richardson continued, "That
both the patient and therapist re-main
committed by the will to
know seems to me to ..be the
essential. The rest is all in the
waiting; the rest is God's part and
hardly our business."
Although Fr. Richardson men-tioned
several psychoanalysts, he
mainly focused on the work of
Jacques Lacan. As Richardson ex-plained,
Lacan is the French psy-choanalyst
who founded the Freud-ian
School in Paris in 1964 and
who dissolved this school in 1980.
Lacan maintained that adult psy-chic
disorders often stem from the
learning of language. Fr. Richard-son
explained Lacan's belief in
regard to the relationship between
the spoken word and the various
chains of signifiers that each word
sets off in one's unconsciousness.
Fr. Richardson stated, "I think
Lacan is the most important influ-ence,
in psychoanalysis since
Freud.... I think he has to be
addressed. In addressing him
[Lacan] the reason was not that I
could finally come up with some
place for God in psychoanalysis,
but rather to address the major
figure on the contemporary scene
who is here to stay."
Fr. Richardson was invited to
lecture at Fairfield University as
part of the Bellarmine Lecture
Series for distinguished Jesuit
scholars. Before introducing Fr.
Richardson last Wednesday, Fr.
Christopher Mooney, Fairfield's
Academic Vice P>esident, in-formed
the audience of students,
faculty, and guests, about Rich-ardson's
background.
Fr. Richardson was previously a
Senior Staff Therapist and Direc-tor
of Research at the Austen
Riggs Center in Stockbridge,
Mass. In 1979, Fr. Richardson was
the Martin D'Arcy Lecturer at Ox-ford
University. His major articles
include writings on the German
philosopher Martin Heidegger.
Rev. William J. Richardson, S.J., emphasizes point during his Oakroom
lecture on 'Psychoanalysis and the God Question.'
[Photo by Rich Steele]