Mirror - Vol. 39, No. 08 - October 23, 2013

              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-
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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-
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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.
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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
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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:
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