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THE MIRROR Student newspaper Fairfield adds five trustees By Loan Le Editor-in-Chief Five new members join Fairfield University's Board of Trustees for the 2013-14 school year. The Board of Trustees, consist-ing of 37 current members and four trustees emeriti, decides and approves Fairfield policies and ensures that the educational goals of the university in-cludes a lesuit and Catholic perspec-tive. Stephen Lessing '76 previously served on the board from 2000 to 2012. He is the managing director and head of Senior Relationship Manage-ment at Barclays. Lessing is a member of the President s Leadership Council of Dartmouth College and the Inter-national Tennis Hall of Fame. Lessing graduated from Fairfield with a bach-elor's degree in economics and had varsity tennis. Ceasar N. Anquillare '78 is the chairman and chief executive offi-cer of Winchester Capital, a strategic advisory firm specializing in interna-tional mergers and acquisitions. He was an adviser to the U.S. Agency for International Development during the administrations of former Presi-dents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Anquillare is also a Justice of Peace. Anquillare has a bachelor's de-gree in political science from George-town University and Fairfield. He pursued postgraduate studies in law at the University of London and grad-uated from Harvard Business School. Kevin P. Cannon '80 is chief executive officer of Zweig-DiMenna Associates LLC, a New York-based in-vestment adviser. Cannon is a mem-ber of the Charles F. Dolan School of Business Advisory Council. Since 2003 he has been a director of the DiMenna Foundation, which sup-ports organizations in the arts, educa-tion and child development. Cannon graduated from Fairfield with a bach- READ TRUSTEES ON PAGE 4 Week of October 23,2013 Vol. 39, Iss. 8 www.fairfieldmirror.com ]V[ @fairfieldmirror hf The Fairfield Mirror Negotiations end, maintenance satisfied with job security By Salvatore Trifilio News Editor On Aug. 7,2012, maintenance staff-ers of Fairfield's Department of Facilities Management casted a majority vote to join Local 30 International Union of Op-erating Engineers, making them the first and only group of employees at Fairfield to unionize. It has taken over a year for Fairfield's Administration and their Maintenance staff to come to agreeable terms for the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that the Maintenance staff made official on Sep. 9, 2013 after voting 28 in favor, two against, one abstained and one mem-ber of die 32 staffers who did not show. "The men of the maintenance, local 30, would like to thank the students, the faculty and the staff for all their support all the way till this point," said Tim Craig, a 16-year employee at Fairfield and repre-sentative of the department of carpenters during their negotiations. "'Ihey made this a lot easier," Craig continued. While negotiations are now over, they were unable to come to a close with-out the intervention of a federal mediator who came at the suggestion of Local 30, according to Pat Bike who represented the department of energy within their staff during negotiations. Mark C. Reed, senior vice president of administration and chief of staff, who spoke to The Mirror on behalf ofthe Uni-versity in early September, explained that bringing in a federal mediator is normal practice during union negotiations. However, the federal mediator was not the first attempt at grabbing the ad- READ STAFF ON PAGE 4 Adjuncts fight for their rights By Patrick Kiernan Contributing Writer A task force for adjunct professors at Fairfield was launched last year to examine the treatment of adjunct pro-fessors and other part-time faculty. This semester, it published results indicating that such faculty members have unstable employment and a lack of voice and re-spect due to their roles, compared to full-time faculty. This task force was created follow-ing a motion made in August 2012, ask-ing the Academic Council to look into the status and conditions of part-time faculty. Last month, a final report and recommendations of the findings were presented to the Academic Council. The report which they created for the Academic Council to investigate has resulted in the creation of a faculty and staff handbook and will be meeting again in March 2014 to discuss more policies. An adjunct professor is a part-time, non-salaried, non-tenure faculty mem-ber who is paid for each class he or she teaches. There are about 300 adjunct profes-sors employed at Fairfield. These profes-sors are dedicated to fighting for equita-ble treatment with full-time faculty. "We requested two subcommittees to prepare a proposal on overall policy and to make the case for a handbook committee. Both motions passed and the subcommittees are in formation," said Elizabeth Hohl,, Ph. D, a history profes-sor. "[The handbook program] will cre-ate a permanent vehicle on issues related to part-time faculty employment - that measure has to go before the General Faculty. There are many other recom-mendations but we felt strongly that we needed to encourage an ongoing institu-tional response," she said. Hohl is one of the creators of the motion from August 2012. READ TASK FORCE ON PAGE 3 More acceptance for LGBTQ By Angela Sammarone Contributing Writer In 2007, Fairfield was ranked 19th out of 20 colleges and universi-ties in the U.S. as one of the most LG-BTQ- unfriendly campuses, accord-ing to the Princeton Review. Fairfield is no longer on that list. In those six years, Jesus Nunez '14, vice president of Fairfield's LG-BTQ advocacy club, Alliance, said he believes Fairfield students have become increasingly more accept-ing. In a recent informal survey of 94 Fairfield students conducted by The Mirror, Nunez's belief proves to be true: 72 percent of those students said that they feel Fairfield is a LG-BTQ- friendly community. A Texas native, Nunez attended a rural high school where it was dif-ficult to come out as gay. However, upon coming to Fairfield, he imme-diately joined Alliance. "I wanted to be whoever I want-ed to be," Nunez said. In 2007 when Nunez joined, Alliance was only a small group of 10 students, but only three were regularly committed members. Now, regular attendance is up to 20 to 25 students weekly. Despite the progressive trend in LGBTQ friendliness on campus, the 28 percent of students who an-swered in the survey that Fairfield is an LGBTQ-unfriendly campus indi-cates that Fairfield still has work to do, such as in students' usage of ho-mophobic language. Seventy-three percent said that they have overheard derogatory lan-guage being used on campus. Nunez said the language issue is "just a mat-ter of a bit of knowledge" and could be avoided, but still does not get the sense that Fairfield has an overall ho-mophobic climate. Sophomore Cristina Boyle READ LGBTQ ON PAGE 2 Poll knowledge of LGBTQ at Fairfield: { STATISTICS FROM A MIRROR POLL OF 100 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ) Do you know someone who is a part of the LGBTQ community? c Have you ever witnessed or overheard homophobic language on campus? I ~1 Has your view of LGBTQ changed since coming to Fairfield University? Do you think Fairfield is an LGBTQ-friendly campus? □ Yes I No L 50% I 77 NEWS: OPINION: Page 5 THE VINE: SPORTS: age 15
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Title | Mirror - Vol. 39, No. 08 - October 23, 2013 |
Date | October 23 2013 |
Description | The Mirror (sometimes called the Fairfield Mirror) is the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, and is published weekly during the academic year (September - May). It runs from 1977 - the present; current issues are available online. |
Notes | A timeline for Fairfield University student newspapers is as follows: The Tentative, Nov. 7, 1947 - Dec. 19, 1947; The Fulcrum, Jan. 9, 1948 - May 20, 1949; The Stag, Sept. 23, 1949 - May 6, 1970; The University Voice, Oct. 1, 1970 - May 11, 1977; The Fairfield Free Press & Review, Sept. 10, 1970 - Apr. 24, 1975; The Fairfield Mirror, Sept. 22, 1977 - present. |
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Publisher | Fairfield University |
Place of Publication | Fairfield, Conn. |
Source | Fairfield University Archives and Special Collections |
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SearchData | THE MIRROR Student newspaper Fairfield adds five trustees By Loan Le Editor-in-Chief Five new members join Fairfield University's Board of Trustees for the 2013-14 school year. The Board of Trustees, consist-ing of 37 current members and four trustees emeriti, decides and approves Fairfield policies and ensures that the educational goals of the university in-cludes a lesuit and Catholic perspec-tive. Stephen Lessing '76 previously served on the board from 2000 to 2012. He is the managing director and head of Senior Relationship Manage-ment at Barclays. Lessing is a member of the President s Leadership Council of Dartmouth College and the Inter-national Tennis Hall of Fame. Lessing graduated from Fairfield with a bach-elor's degree in economics and had varsity tennis. Ceasar N. Anquillare '78 is the chairman and chief executive offi-cer of Winchester Capital, a strategic advisory firm specializing in interna-tional mergers and acquisitions. He was an adviser to the U.S. Agency for International Development during the administrations of former Presi-dents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Anquillare is also a Justice of Peace. Anquillare has a bachelor's de-gree in political science from George-town University and Fairfield. He pursued postgraduate studies in law at the University of London and grad-uated from Harvard Business School. Kevin P. Cannon '80 is chief executive officer of Zweig-DiMenna Associates LLC, a New York-based in-vestment adviser. Cannon is a mem-ber of the Charles F. Dolan School of Business Advisory Council. Since 2003 he has been a director of the DiMenna Foundation, which sup-ports organizations in the arts, educa-tion and child development. Cannon graduated from Fairfield with a bach- READ TRUSTEES ON PAGE 4 Week of October 23,2013 Vol. 39, Iss. 8 www.fairfieldmirror.com ]V[ @fairfieldmirror hf The Fairfield Mirror Negotiations end, maintenance satisfied with job security By Salvatore Trifilio News Editor On Aug. 7,2012, maintenance staff-ers of Fairfield's Department of Facilities Management casted a majority vote to join Local 30 International Union of Op-erating Engineers, making them the first and only group of employees at Fairfield to unionize. It has taken over a year for Fairfield's Administration and their Maintenance staff to come to agreeable terms for the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that the Maintenance staff made official on Sep. 9, 2013 after voting 28 in favor, two against, one abstained and one mem-ber of die 32 staffers who did not show. "The men of the maintenance, local 30, would like to thank the students, the faculty and the staff for all their support all the way till this point," said Tim Craig, a 16-year employee at Fairfield and repre-sentative of the department of carpenters during their negotiations. "'Ihey made this a lot easier," Craig continued. While negotiations are now over, they were unable to come to a close with-out the intervention of a federal mediator who came at the suggestion of Local 30, according to Pat Bike who represented the department of energy within their staff during negotiations. Mark C. Reed, senior vice president of administration and chief of staff, who spoke to The Mirror on behalf ofthe Uni-versity in early September, explained that bringing in a federal mediator is normal practice during union negotiations. However, the federal mediator was not the first attempt at grabbing the ad- READ STAFF ON PAGE 4 Adjuncts fight for their rights By Patrick Kiernan Contributing Writer A task force for adjunct professors at Fairfield was launched last year to examine the treatment of adjunct pro-fessors and other part-time faculty. This semester, it published results indicating that such faculty members have unstable employment and a lack of voice and re-spect due to their roles, compared to full-time faculty. This task force was created follow-ing a motion made in August 2012, ask-ing the Academic Council to look into the status and conditions of part-time faculty. Last month, a final report and recommendations of the findings were presented to the Academic Council. The report which they created for the Academic Council to investigate has resulted in the creation of a faculty and staff handbook and will be meeting again in March 2014 to discuss more policies. An adjunct professor is a part-time, non-salaried, non-tenure faculty mem-ber who is paid for each class he or she teaches. There are about 300 adjunct profes-sors employed at Fairfield. These profes-sors are dedicated to fighting for equita-ble treatment with full-time faculty. "We requested two subcommittees to prepare a proposal on overall policy and to make the case for a handbook committee. Both motions passed and the subcommittees are in formation," said Elizabeth Hohl,, Ph. D, a history profes-sor. "[The handbook program] will cre-ate a permanent vehicle on issues related to part-time faculty employment - that measure has to go before the General Faculty. There are many other recom-mendations but we felt strongly that we needed to encourage an ongoing institu-tional response," she said. Hohl is one of the creators of the motion from August 2012. READ TASK FORCE ON PAGE 3 More acceptance for LGBTQ By Angela Sammarone Contributing Writer In 2007, Fairfield was ranked 19th out of 20 colleges and universi-ties in the U.S. as one of the most LG-BTQ- unfriendly campuses, accord-ing to the Princeton Review. Fairfield is no longer on that list. In those six years, Jesus Nunez '14, vice president of Fairfield's LG-BTQ advocacy club, Alliance, said he believes Fairfield students have become increasingly more accept-ing. In a recent informal survey of 94 Fairfield students conducted by The Mirror, Nunez's belief proves to be true: 72 percent of those students said that they feel Fairfield is a LG-BTQ- friendly community. A Texas native, Nunez attended a rural high school where it was dif-ficult to come out as gay. However, upon coming to Fairfield, he imme-diately joined Alliance. "I wanted to be whoever I want-ed to be," Nunez said. In 2007 when Nunez joined, Alliance was only a small group of 10 students, but only three were regularly committed members. Now, regular attendance is up to 20 to 25 students weekly. Despite the progressive trend in LGBTQ friendliness on campus, the 28 percent of students who an-swered in the survey that Fairfield is an LGBTQ-unfriendly campus indi-cates that Fairfield still has work to do, such as in students' usage of ho-mophobic language. Seventy-three percent said that they have overheard derogatory lan-guage being used on campus. Nunez said the language issue is "just a mat-ter of a bit of knowledge" and could be avoided, but still does not get the sense that Fairfield has an overall ho-mophobic climate. Sophomore Cristina Boyle READ LGBTQ ON PAGE 2 Poll knowledge of LGBTQ at Fairfield: { STATISTICS FROM A MIRROR POLL OF 100 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ) Do you know someone who is a part of the LGBTQ community? c Have you ever witnessed or overheard homophobic language on campus? I ~1 Has your view of LGBTQ changed since coming to Fairfield University? Do you think Fairfield is an LGBTQ-friendly campus? □ Yes I No L 50% I 77 NEWS: OPINION: Page 5 THE VINE: SPORTS: age 15 |