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Legislature Will
Monitor FUSA Budget
by Matthew Benedict
Staff Writer
At last Wednesday evening's
meeting, the Student Legislature dis-cussed
a proposal which would
specify a more adequate monitoring of
the FUSA budget.
In the form of a bill, the proposal
would entail that the Government
Operations Committee "assume the
responsibility" of scrutinizing the
FUSA budt "one week prior to its
presentation to the Legislature." Cur-rently,
this process is done by an Ad-
Hoc Committee.
This proposal would allow the Legis-lature
to look "more closely" at the
budget as it is presented to the Legis-lature,
opposed to the past system of
a one-day review-vote session. The
Committee, with members of other
committees within the Legislature,
would review the budget beforehand,
and report it to the Legislature a week
later with an in-depth analysis and ex-planation.
In effect, this proposal would guard
against any "mis-handling of appropri-ations."
Under this system, the
spending of the budget would be
more seriously overlooked. With the
Government Operations Committee,
many people would be allowed to
scan the budget before submission.
This would allow many people to view
the budget in hopes that errors made
would be picked up by another com-mittee
member not seen the first time
through. Under this system, not only
would the appropriations be specif-ically
explained, but it will allow a more
in-depth analysis with members of
both FUSA and the Student Legisla-ture
present.
Aside from this business, the Legis-lature
discussed up-coming plans and
agendas. All of these proposals are
still under consideration and discus-sion,
and will be more carefully
analyzed in the future before the
Legislature.
The Legislature voted to look into
the possible changes to be made in
the shuttle schedule. Although there
has been no official confirmation or
definite plans made, the Legislature
knows of changes planned for the
townhouse and beach routes. The
Legislature is going to look into this
and report at a later date.
Another item discussed was the
number of votes on the Legislature it-self.
The Legislature has been notified
that the townhouses will be given 3
votes. The Legislature has the follow-ing
options: 1.) amend the Constitu-tion
to allow 38 votes instead of the
present 35; or 2.) subtract 3 votes
from another part of the University,
either the beach, the commuter popu-lation,
or the dorms.
The Legislature needs to form a
Constitutional Convention to amend
the Constitution. In the future, the
Legislature is going to poll the student
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Fairfield has issued a temporary permit of occupancy to the townhouses. It will not be extended to a permanent
one until the university completes landscaping necessary to block the view of the townhouses from North Ben-son
Road. [photo by Vincent DeAngelisj
Townhouse Landscape Found
Unacceptable by Town
by Elizabeth Bartus
News Editor
The Town Planning and Zoning
Committee issued the University a
Temporary Certificate of Occupancy
for the newly constructed town-houses
due to insufficient completion
of the landscaping at the present time.
According to Provost Barone, "it is
temporary because they (the Town
Planning and Zoning) wanted things
they hadn't asked before. The real
problem is that they would have liked
more planting," he stated. Dean
Schimpf agreed, "additional planting
is necessary."
The town is insisting upon more
foliage in order to limit the visibility of
the town houses from North Benson
Road.
Additional planting plans are under-way,
and will be executed by O&G
Company, a union firm. The actual
construction was done by Burlington
Construction Company,
firm.
a non-union
The townhouses, an on-campus liv-ing
alternative, were a response to a
concern voiced by the town. "The
town wanted us to provide housing for
our students, and we chose to build
what the students would like to have,"
stated Provost Barone.
Symposium Controversial
Northwest, one of the three unnamed dorms on campus, along with the seven townhouse buildings, will be
dedicated to famous Jesuits during the Parents Weekend Mass. [Pnoto by Karen Haney]
Building Remains the Same
Only the Names Change
by Matthew Benedict
Staff Writer
In the near future, Northwest, Southeast, Fareast, and
the Townhouses will have their names changed to honor
eight North American Missionaries and two other Saints.
Each individual townhouse will be named after one of the
eight Missionaries; Northwest will be the eighth; Southeast
and Fareast will be named after the two other Saints.
The tradition here at Fairfield is to name buildings after
famous Jesuits, such as those who fought against religious
intolerance or those who devoted their lives to helping
others. According to Dr. Vincent Rosivach, the tradition
does not name for "just baptizing or teaching" but for those
Jesuits who devoted and gave their lives trying to help
others. The Jesuits, known mostly for their ability to teach
and their emphasis on intellectual pursuits, also have a long
tradition of "doing things, being doers," Rosivach said. "It
is nice to recall the tradition from time-to-time, to be
reminded of the work they have done," Rosivach added.
According to Phyllis Fitzpatrick, Director of Student
Residences, the names for the buildings will be dedicated
at the Parents Day Weekend Mass conducted by Father
Francis J. Moy, S.J. Fitzpatrick also agrees with Rosivach
that "it is nice to carry on the tradition here at Fairfield of
honoring the Saints," as we here at Fairfield are part of that
long, most-respectful history of the Jesuit community.
Northwest will be named after St. Isaac Jogues
(1607-1646). Born in France, after ordination, went to
Canada by his own request, he worked with the Huron In-dians.
In 1642 he was captured by Iroquois Indians, was
tortured and mutilated for a year, escaped to New York,
returned to France, and went back to Quebec in 1644.
Captured by the Mohawk Indians on his way back from
seeking a treaty with the Iroquois, he was tomahawked and
beheaded. Jogues was canonized in 1930 as one of the
North American Martyrs.
Southeast will be named after St. Stanislaus Kostka,
(1550-1568). Born in Poland, Kostka is known for his
"studious ways, deep religious fervor, and mortifications"
as a youth. After recovering from a serious illness during
which he experienced visions, he decided to become a
Jesuit. He walked 350 miles to Dillengen in Upper Ger-many
after he was refused entrance at home by his father
and the Vienna Provincial. At the age of seventeen, he was
sent to study in Rome in 1567. He lived in great sanctity,
experienced ecstasies at mass, and practiced the most
severe mortifications. Kostka died after serving nine
months as a Jesuit, and was canonized in 1726.
Faraast will be named in memory of St. Peter Claver,
(1580-1654). Bom in Spain, Claver studied at University of
Barcelona and became a Jesuit at 20. Although he wanted
to work in the New World, Claver ended up in present day
Columbia in 1615. He helped minister to slaves who were
penned up in slave yards on the docks with medicine, food,
and religious instruction of faith and baptizing. He also
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by David M. Rothberd
Staff Writer
Controversy surrounded last
week's five day peace symposium
held here and co-sponsored by Cam-pus
Ministry and Fairfield Prep's Com-munity
Service Program.
Although many students were re-ceptive
to the series of lectures and
films concerning nuclear war and its
effects on men, many people on cam-pus
thought that it was. not right to
have only one viewpoint expressed.
As one junior stated, "It was like being
brainwashed, even some of our pro-fessors
assigned us to.go to these
things."
One group who felt strongly against
this symposium was the College Re-publicans.
Although they were not
allowed to hand out their material at
the door, they were furnished with
tables from which the people attend-ing
the lectures could take information
if they wished to do so.
Michael Quinn of the Community
Service Program and a co-chairman of
the event, said that he was glad to
have the other point of view ex-pressed.
"The College Republicans
were trying to make this into a political
issue, and it's not because it is a non-partisan
moral issue concerning both
liberals and conservatives alike." He
went on to state, "This is a most im-portant-
topic, which threatens our
existence...and i("anyone-warrts-another
viewpoint expressed, we are
glad to see it, but it is their job to
organize such an event."
College Republicans Vice-Presi-dent,
Michael Guamieri, said that the
College Republicans were not treated
very cordially at the door of the lec-tures
and alleges that Quinn did
everything in his power to keep them
out. "If it was up to Quinn, we
wouldn't have been allowed here at
all, but he opened up the other doors
of the Oak Room so that the people
could by-pass our table. We were able
to set up tables at all the entrances
though," said Guarnieri. "Also," he
added, "people were under the
misconception that we were getting
our material from the John Birch
Society when in fact that is not the
case."
When asked, many students were
upset about the way their questions at
the lectures were handled, but Mr.
Quinn said that aside from Rev.
McSorley's lecture, all the speakers
were sensitive to students' questions.
Critics of the symposium ques-tioned
the involvement of "church in
state affairs," but McElaney said,
"The church is impelled to speak up
now because the church is con-cerned
with life and love."
SEC's second mini-concert, Marshall Crenshaw, performed before a sold-out
Oak Room Saturday night. See page 10. [Photo by Dona Denfeldj