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University Meets $80,000
Dana Challenge
With the raise of Connecticut's legal drinking age from 18 to 19, local
bars and liquor stores have noticed a slight decline in the number of
university students purchasing alcoholic beverages.
[Photo by Karen Haney]
by Tricia Kowalski
Staff Writer
Increase alumni donations. This
was the challenge the Charles A.
Dana Foundation presented to
Fairfield University alumni in
August, 1981. The Dana Founda-tion
agreed to give the University a
maximum of $80,000 if the
challenge was met successfully.
Not only did the alumni meet the
goals set by the foundation, but
they surpassed the proposed
goal.
"The purpose of the challenge,"
explained Mr. Popilowski, director
of Alumni Relations, "is to get
alumni to make a further commit-ment
to the institution from which
they graduated." The foundation
only offers the challenge to a few
educational institutions each year
and it was an honor for Fairfield to
be chosen as a recipient.
The Dana Foundation carefully
chooses its recipients on the
basis of their past records and
their future potential. Help is of-fered
on the condition that the
receivers first demonstrate the
ability and eagerness to help
themselves.
The challenge consisted of
three phases. The foundation
agreed to give $10,000 if the total
Local 'Watering Holes'
Note Sales Decline
by Lori A. Buckley
Staff Writer
Social life on campus has
changed this year due to the in-crease
of the drinking.age from 18
to 19 in Connecticut.
This altercation has decreased
the number of students who are
"legal" and the amount of alcohol
served at campus functions.
Everyone complains about the
consequences this law has on
campus, but what about the effect
it has on the bars and package
stores in town?
According to Kenny Anton, an
employee of Serlin's Liquor Store
in town, "There's been a drop in
the number of Fairfield students
who come in" since the drinking
age was raised.
The Naut has experienced a
very slight drop also while the Li-quor
Barrel has had an Increase in
the number of patrons.
As for sales, Mike Janco, a bar-tender
at the Naut stated, "The
older ones (patrons) are making
up for the ones that are under-aged."
In most of the bars and
packies, sales seemed to be the
same since the drinking age went
up.
Encounters with those who are
underaged varied from place to
place. Kenny Anton of Serlin's
continued, "There's always a con-stant
flow of underaged kids who
come in." Frank Candio, a bar-tender
at O'Brien's said, "There
has been a slight increase in the
number of underaged who try to
get in."
The drinking establishments
have not changed their method in
carding.
U. Council Examines
Controversial Issues
by Mary-Margaret Walsh
Executive Editor
In an attempt to decide the
future of the Beach Shuttle, The
Bankey, and Alcohol regulations,
the University Council convened
to examine these issues.
The first item on the October 5
agenda dealt with the additional
trips on the shuttle and the ques-tion
of the Shuttle's continued
service for next year.
The University was able to ex-pand
the Shuttle Service this year
by three additional runs as a result
of additional subscriptions. There
will be 2 more runs during the day
(one at 11 and another at 3). In ad-dition,
there will be one run during
the evening.
"I'm not in the position to say
whether or not we will have a Shut-tle
service next year" stated Mr.
William Schimpf, Vice President
of Student Services and a Univer-sity
Council Member. The current
shuttle service is the product of a
one year commitment and if the
shuttle continues next year it will
be on a fully funded basis; stu-dents
will fund the service in-cluding
the capital expenditure of
needed new buses.
Schimpf wants students to be
aware of this situation and to
"plan to have a fall back position
on not counting upon the Shuttle
service for next year." Mr. Schimpf
will have an answer as to the
future of the Shuttle in 6 weeks.
The next item discussed on the
agenda was the Bankey. A pro-posal
for a Cashier Service on a
limited basis, lowered minimum
$300 balance and the 25c trans-action
fee was submitted by L.
Stanton and K. Doherty.
Mr. Hickson, Vice President of
Finance, will discuss the 25e fee
with State National. Schimpf mo-tioned
to have an operations com-mittee
look at the cost of having a
cashier and locate a potential
location.
The last item discussed dealt
with the alcohol regulations and
BYOB Oak Room dances.
The Division of Student Ser-vices
established interim alcohol
regulations for social events
where alcohol is consumed until
further Council review.
The question arose as to why
the Oak Room events must be
divided into sections while the five
major dances will not have a divi-sion
was examined. As a result of
the interpretation of the word
"premise" in the drinking laws the
University can create artificial
areas inside the Oak Room. Since
BYOB affairs are not regulated by
temporary alcohol permit from the
State Liquor Commission, no such
division is required at the five ma-jor
dances.
"The Alcohol regulation works
as well as it can under the cir-cumstances,"
concluded Mr. Fitz-patrick,
Director of University Ac-tivities.
number of alumni participating in
the alumni Fund increased by five
percent; $50,000 on an all or
nothing basis, if unrestricted
alumni contributions increased by
$50,000 over the previous year's
total of $157,560; $20,000 if
$40,000 was given by alumni who
had never contributed or who
hadn't contributed in the last five
years. The challenge had to be
met by June, 1982.
As was predicted by Fr.
Aloysius Kelley, Mr. Popilowski,
and others involved in the cam-paign,
the challenge was met on
each level. Unrestricted gifts from
alumni totaled $231,501. A $50,000
increase was necessary, but alum-ni
exceeded this by $24,000. Gifts
from alumni who had not contri-buted
in recent years totaled
$49,172, exceeding the Dana goal
of $40,000 in "new" gifts. Thirty-six
percent of the alumni made
gifts to the Alumni Fund, an in-crease
of six percent over the
previous year, and one percent
more than was necessary to meet
the goal, an increase compared to
the 3,005 alumni who donated the
year before.
FUSA Holds First
Parents' Weekend
by Kathryn King
Staff Writer
Fairfield University will soon be
receiving a large group of parents
as visitors, as the school does
every October, but this is the first
time this annual event has been
extended to a Parents' Weekend.
Chairpersons Claire Carney, Eve
McGrath, and Beth Kramer are
organizing the event. Parents will
arrive at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, the
sixteenth, for registration. They
will pick up tickets and programs
which will list activities such as
the sporting events, bus tours, a
mass, the President's Reception,
Brunch, and the Parents' Dance.
The Dance played a major part
in the success of last year's
Parents' Day. It was so popular
that two rooms had to be opened
to accommodate the crowd. The
Parents' Dance was held for the
first time last year and parents
reacted positively. This year the
Stag-Her Inn will be open so the
parents "can catch a snack before
the long drive home," according to
Eve McGrath. There will be a slide
presentation depicting campus
life for a change from last year's
program.
Last year's success led to the
idea of an entire weekend. "We
may be drawing more people who
want to come for more than a
day," said Claire Carney. Fairfield
may be too long a drive to make a
day trip worth it. The concept of
the Weekend also came from
parents who commented that
there should be Sunday events.
This year three of the area
hotels, which had saved blocks of
rooms exclusively for Fairfield
parents, reported that they were
almost totally booked. Two weeks
before the event 700 people had
signed up for the event. "We are
anticipating this year's Weekend
to be a success," said Eve
McGrath. With the new changes
the chairpersons hope to exceed
1981's number of 1200 people.
To accommodate this many
people, volunteers are needed.
Students may still sign up to help
this weekend in the FUSA office.
"We depend on volunteers a lot,"
remarked Claire Carney. Thirty to
forty members of the Cardinal Key
Society have volunteered their ser-vices.
The Society is running the
registration and the bus tours of
the campus. "The Cardinal Key
Society has been terrific in the
past years," commented Ms.
Carney about the group who is
running many of the Saturday
events.
Many of Saturday's events de-pict
academic life. Claire Carney
said that "Meet The Profs" is "to
show the parents that their kids
really do study." Sunday's events
"show parents there's more to
Fairfield than just academics" ac-cording
to Eve McGrath. There will
be an activities display to present
parents with examples of the
clubs their children are, involved
in.
Parents' Weekend is an
opportunity for parents to see
what their children do at Fairfield
University. Parents' Weekend is
being held the sixteenth and the
seventeenth of October.
In a series of applied ethics lectures, Dr. John Duff, M.D. of Yale-New
Haven Hospital focused his address on the moral aspects of the
life/death dilemma for infants. [Photo by John Mazzucco]