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Bannow To Stay Open For
Late Night Studying
by David M. Rothbard
The Bannow Science Center will be open for
extended hours to give students an alternative
place in which to study, according to Fran
Keneally, F.U.S.A. Vice-President.
Many students on campus had complained
that the library was becoming a "social hall" and
that it was no longer used merely for research
but also for studying for tests and doing home-work.
After several proposals offered by F.U.S.A.
to the administration in which such ideas as
opening the cafeteria for additional study space
use were deemed not practical, Bannow became
the compromise choice since the computer
center which is located in the basement, is
presently open until midnight..
"Bannow seems to be the likely alternative,"
asserted Keneally, "and it should be sufficient
if the hours are expanded." Rooms 137,138 and
139 will remain open from 9:30 p.m. until mid-night
for students to have another quiet place in
which to study.
Keneally stated that Mr. James Fitzpatrick,
Campus Center Director, was most helpful in this
matter and that the students will have this on a
temporary basis. "In my opinion, it should be
available much later than midnight, and there is
talk of extending the hours until one a.m.,"
Keneally said. "Also, with the new Computer
Science and Business Information Majors, the
students will need more access to the computers
and the building."
In an additional note, Dr. Larry Miners, Pro-fessor
of Economics and Chairman of the Under-graduate
Curriculum Committee, approved the
resolution that students be allowed to sit in on
the UCC meetings and give input but would have
no voting privileges.
Dr. Robert Bard, Professor of Law at the UConn School of Law, addressed gathered
students and faculty on the subject of ethics in academe.
[Photo by John Pastorelle]
Bard Discusses Academe
Townhouses Near Approval
by Kathryn King
Fairfield's Town Plan and Zoning Commission held a public executive session on Novem-ber
29th to discuss the building of new townhouses on this campus. According to Dr. John
Barone, Provost, the approval needed to begin construction has not yet been formally
granted.
First, the Commission will send notice of its approval, which Dr. Barone expects by this
week. The approval with its conditions will be published in the newspapers and there will
then be a two week waiting period for challenges to the approval. If there are no challenges,
it will become official and building can begin.
The Commission had some conditions, most of which were minor, but there was one that
will affect students directly, according to the Provost. The Northeast gate will be opened in
the daytime during the week for construction vehicles and students. There will be a barrier,
though, on the North Road between Jogues lot and to Julie Hall so students will not be able
to use this gate at night. "Students should be aware of the conditions," he said. This condi-tion
was made in response to the neighbors' concern about traffic.
With this condition in mind, building should begin soon, depending on the finalization of
the approval. Dr. Barone said that," Hopefully, we'll have a hole in the ground before you
leave from exams." Plans are being made for three new townhouse units, holding 24 houses
at four students in each, so there will be ninety-six more people allowed to live at the town-houses
next year. *
The layout of the townhouses will be similar to the original ones with some minor
changes such as the absence of a front porch because it was found they weren't being us-ed.
If everything goes through with no problems these new units will be included in this
year's lottery for the Fall of 1984. These units should take about nine months to construct
with three months included for leeway so they should be ready in September.
The Plan and Zoning Commission has been very busy this fall so the issue "got in as fast
as you could expect" before the commission. "There was a quorum problem at one point,"
the Tuesday before Thanksgiving so the meeting was postponed to the 29th, according to
Dr. Barone.
by Christine Ryan
For two days last week, Dr. Robert L.
Bard, Professor of Law at the University of
Connecticut School of Law, led a thought
provoking symposium entitled "Ethics in
Academe."
With constant innovations in technology
and education, new ethical problems are ap-pearing
in every academic setting. During
the informal colloquium, many of the cur-rent
ethical considerations were discussed.
Among the controversies that arose were
the question of academic tenure, academic
honesty, plagiarism, and indoctrination.
Lisa H. Newton, Coordinator of the Applied
Ethics Program of Fairfield, proposed
various topics and Dr. Bard, members of the
faculty, and students contributed their
ideas.
At one point, Dr. Bard asked the audience,
"Would it be so terrible if everything
published was anonymous?" The question
at hand was on copying another person's
writings and passing them off as original.
The most extensive discussion was
around the idea of indoctrination and Crea-tionism.
It is still argued whether teaching
Darwin's theory of evolution is indoctrina-tion
or not It was concluded that teaching
an idea is not indoctrination if it enhances
the students' ability to appreciate new
ideas.
Dr. Bard, who is active in public service
and author of many articles, is against the
idea of copyrights for printed material
"...unless you can establish that without
them they would not be written," which is a
different approach to writing. Dr. Newton
was quite surprised at that statement, as
were most of the members of the audience.
The question of tenure was approached
but no definite conclusions were reached.
Especially interesting was the topic of
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Student Legislature
Repeats Election
by Kathryn King
Election for Student Legislature repre-sentatives
were re-run on the twenty-first of
November. Districts included in this elec-
Drive Breaks County Record
by Michael Smith
Circle K, the Student Nurses Association, and
AED, (the medical honor society), sponsored a
blood drive for the Red Cross of Connecticut on
the 15th and 16th of November. The event was
a record breaker, accumulating 512 pints, a Fair-field
County first.
The drive, co-chaired by Chuck Hacker, Lisa
Larocque and Anna Pavlick, was run as a com-petition
between the dorms on campus with
prizes of Seller's special dinners and $50 gift cer-
Father John J. Higgins, S.J., Assistant to the President, is seen here giving blood at the re-cent
Red Cross blood drive held in the Oak Room.
[Photo by Marguerite Hinderer]
tificates going to the floor which raised the most
pints of blood. Jogues IV was the overall winner
with 36 pints.
The Red Cross is using Fairfield University's
technique to run a pilot-program for any future
blood drives. "The whole thing went really well,
we were very pleased with the student turn-out,"
said Hacker who is currently planning another
blood drive to take place in February.
"The importance of these blood drives cannot
be understated" said Hacker who points to the
fact that in Connecticut there are only two full-time
blood donation centers, and the Red Cross
relies totally on the contributions of independent
bloodmobiles to keep the blood supply constant
for the area.
It should be noted that only Yale University and
UConn top the Fairfield effort. Yale, however,
runs its blood drive through the hospital where
many non-students can contribute. Additional-ly,
UConn has 22,000 students from which it can
draw donors.
February's bloodmobile is expected to top last
month's efforts, but Hacker declined to comment
on an exact number.
The 512 pints donated by Fairfield University
students, administration and staff, comes at a
crucial time for the Fairfield area and the State
of Connecticut. Unwarranted fears of contract-ing
A.I.D.S. (Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
from donating blood have held donors back. It
is not possible to get this disease by giving
blood.
tion were Jogues, who elected Rich Fahey,
Leigh Anne Wassem, and James English.
Regis voted for Bill Rowan, Christopher
O'Rourke, Fran Reed, and Dave Lombardo.
The Off Campus Boarders elected Lisa
Johnson, Jay Power, Siobhan O'Connell,
and Joe Graziano. The Commuters elected
Mary-Ellen DeAngilis, Delia Smith, Alison
Baxter, and David Robertson. In Campion
there was a three way tie between Steve
Callahan, Alicia Williams, and Maureen
Sullivan. A run-off was held by the R.A.'s in
the dorm. The results of that run-off were
unknown at presstime. Others elected in
that dorm were Michelle McCahill, and
Eileen Corbliss, according to Lisa Johnson,
secretary of Student Legislature.
The election was held again because a
rule was overlooked by the election com-mission.
Last year, with the addition of the
townhouses as a voting district, the elec-tion
rules were updated. Students of every
dorm used to vote for three representatives,
according to Antone Siciliano, chairman of
legislature election. The new rule states
that students vote for as many representa-tives
as there already are in that district in-stead
of automatically voting for three. The
number of representatives varies with the
population of the district, according to
Siciliano.
In the original election students only
voted for three representatives. Jay Power,
Student Legislature president, lodged a pro-test
after this mistake was noticed.
A re-election was scheduled for those dis-tricts
that did not elect enough people. "We
had a better turnout this time," commented
Antone Siciliano.