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Sullivan Fills
Cabinet Posts
by Tricia Kowalski
Staff Writer
F.U.S.A. President-elect, Robert
Sullivan, has announced his
cabinet for the 1983-1984 term.
Sullivan explained that all of his
appointments are subject to Stu-dent
Legislature approval next
week.
Among the cabinet changes
Sullivan made is a restructuring of
the Student Entertainment Com-mittee,
which will have a director,
an assistant director, and a seven
member advisory board to assist
in planning and programming SEC
events. Sullivan has also added
the position of Co-director of Stu-dent
Activities to his cabinet.
The 1983-1984 F.U.S.A. cabinet
members are: Vice-president of
Academics, Fran Keneally; Vice-president
of Government Opera-tions,
Melissa Murphy; Secretary-
Treasurer, Kerrie Bohyan; F.U.S.A.
Treasurer, Jane Conover; Co-directors
of Special Events, Ed
Vigliano and Ellen Dooley; Direc-tor
of the Student Entertainment
Committee, Ed Kachinski; Assis-tant
Director of the Student Enter-tainment
Committee, Jim O'Con-nor;
Co-directors of Publicity, Bet-ty
Gormley and Carol Kostynick;
Arts and Lectures-Evening
Lectures-Daytime Programming,
Phil McCarthy; Co-directors of
Student Activities, Sue Duffy and
John Brennan; and Club-coordi-nator,
Cathy Kiley. Sullivan has
chosen as the members of the
University Council, Chip Tuttle,
Annie Portela, John Roche, Fran
Keneally, and Tommy Kirchner.
The major factors on which
Sullivan based his appointments
were experience and capability of
the applicants, applications, and
interviews. The new cabinet
members are from both within
F.U.S.A. and outside of F.U.S.A.,
some being leaders from other
clubs.
F.U.S.A. inaugurations will be
held on April 1st.
Campus Playhouse To
Undergo Renovations
F.U.S.A. President-elect Bob Sullivan named cabinet members this week who will help him run the student
government for the 1983-84 academic year. They are Kerrie Bohyan, Carol Kostynick, Sullivan, Betty
Gormley, Fran Denneally, Melissa Murphy, Ed Vigliano, John Brennan, Cathy Kitey, Sue Duffy, Ed Kachim-ski,
Jim O'Connor, Jane Conover, Phil McCarthy, Ellen Dooley and Joe Mannion.
[Photo by Vinny DeAngelis]
Academic Curriculum
Review In Progress
Elizabeth Bartus
News Editor
"Interior renovations are well
planned out" for the University
Playhouse, according to Mr.
Thomas Zingarelli. The interior
overhaul, estimated at $240,000, is
geared to take fullest advantage of
the existing structure. Zingarelli
confirmed, "We don't want a
larger playhouse."
The major plans for the Play-house
include raising the house
ceiling six feet. Although this
would eliminate some of the upper
storage space, it would allow for
better lighting positions. With the
higher ceiling, the lights can be
secured at 45 degree angles, as
they should be to prevent shadow-ing
on the stagee. Zingarelli,
Playhouse Director, said, "lighting
down here is a problem for us."
Plans also call for a portable
stage. With a portable stage, "We
can work in the round a lot more,
which will increase seating," ac-cording
to Zingarelli. The house
now can seat 125, in accordance
with the Fire Marshal. A centraliz-ed
theater would allow seating for
approximately 50 more persons.
Zingarelli also hopes to do some
environmental staging with the
portable stage and ramps. He said,
"It would allow us to do shows we
can't do now."
The control room, presently
located to the right of the stage,
will be suspended from the ceiling
at the rear of the house. With this
arrangement, the entire stage will
always be in the controller's view.
The present control room will be
slightly increased and will become
the male dressing room. The fe-male
dressing room will be direct-ly
behind the male rooms.
The Playhouse renovation plans
include leveling off the entire
floor, and adding portable seat
risers. With the portable risers and
trap lighting on the walls, it would
take a matter of hours to trans-form
the theater into an art gallery.
This would temporarily fill a need
for display space on campus. The
Playhouse could also be used for
receptions and dances.
The Green Room, currently a
lounge located off of the lobby,
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by David M. Rothbard
Staff Writer
Both the General Education Elective (GEE) courses
and the courses of the core curriculum are being
reviewed this year by the Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee (UCC) which has been charged by the
general faculty to evaluate the present curriculum
and make recommendations to the general faculty.
According to Father Christopher Mooney, Aca-demic
Vice President, the UCC made a recommenda-tion
last year to change the GEE's to free electives
but the faculty voted not to deal with the issue until
this year when the package of both the GEE's and
core courses could be evaluated together.
The UCC with over twenty faculty members is
headed by Father James H. McElaney and has one
representative from each department and representa-tives
from the Schools of Nursing and Business. The
committee has requested suggestions from the
various departments and schools in the University
concerning what ought to be looked at more closely.
Changes in the core, if any, might involve re-quirements
in specific areas or a change in the total
number of core courses required. Father Mooney
pointed out that few of the core courses are specified
but rather it is the area which is specified and it is the
individual department's responsibility to specify in-dividual
courses.
When asked whether there is any student input in-to
this review, Mooney stated that there is not because
it is a faculty prerogative to deal with the cur-riculum.
"It is important to get a sense of how the
faculty feels before we make any changes," he affirm-ed,
"because they are the ones who work directly
with the students and the curriculum."
Stephen L. Weber, Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, said that the responses from the depart-ments
have almost all been received and that after
they have been collated, the matter will be debated in
the UCC which will propose a recommendation to the
general faculty for a vote.
"It is hard to foresee what changes might be made,"
Weber stated, "because we haven't detected any ob-vious
patterns in the responses." He pointed out that
it will take the UCC time to work through any changes
in the core because the core is so central to educa-tion
at Fairfield. "Our core, with 60 required hours, is
the largest of all the Jesuit Universities and is a lot
compared with other universities in the country," he
explained, "and normally there is a 24 to 36 hour core
which is quite broad, but here we mandate specific
departments."
Dean Weber also emphasized the problem of what
he termed "quality control" in a core because "a core
is like a monopoly." He asserted, "When students
must take certain courses, it is easy for the courses
to degenerate since students can't go elsewhere. We
must be able to say with confidence that the students
are taking good courses." He declared that "We need
a core which makes sense, is fair, and fosters educa-tional
purposes. This process isn't done overnight
and ought to take some time."
Concerning the GEE's, Weber stated that he still
feels the GEE's should become free electives. "The
GEE is a serious handicap for many science stu-dents,"
he contended, "because a biologist can only
take chemistry as an elective but not as a GEE." Be-cause
a student must take a GEE outside of his area,
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Boguslawski...
An Individual Who Cares
Tickets were still on sale Saturday night before the David Johansen Mini-concert in the Oak Room. A
less than full capacity crowd attended this SEC sponsored event.
[Photo by Rose Anne LaBarre]
by Richard Swietek
Chief Executive Editor
Motors running hot and heavy,
consumer reporter Mike Bogus-lawski
pulled into the Oak Room
last Friday to remind a luncheon
lecture crowd that he's in their
corner when it comes to any type
of consumer complaint or dis-crepancy.
Boguslawski, a highly energetic
and volatile individual, is presently
a consumer activist working out of
WTNH-TV 8 in New Haven, but he
doesn't see himself as the run-of-the-
mill activist. He wants nothing
to do with other consumer report-ers
who concern themselves with
how many corn flakes you may get
in a box of cereal. He would rather
attack individual problems be-cause
of his concern for people.
This concern is evident in the
100 to 900 letters his office
receives weekly. He told of one
elderly lady who had not received
any social security benefits for
eight years. She approached Mr.
Boguslawski in the hopes that he
might be able to help her.
Boguslawski began to tense-up
and anger flushed into his face as
he told the crowd, "We gave 880
billion dollars overseas last year
and here a poor lady, who could
have been my mother or yours
can't get the benefits she's enti-tled
to." Boguslawski resolved the
problem after televising her story
and secured a check for over
$64,000 in back payment, yet he
was still critical of America's
bureaucracy commenting, "It
should be American aid first!"
"No one wants to get ripped-off
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