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University Receives $1.75 Million Grant
by Thomas P. Moore
News Editor
Fairfield University was recently bequethed
1.75 million dollars for a scholarship endowment
fund. It is the largest gift ever given to the Univer-sity.
Fr. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., the school presi-dent,
commented on the gift, "The 1.75 million
will be in the university's possession as an en-dowment
fund. It all has to be transferred to the
university, including the donor's stocks and her
home."
The donor, Miss Helen T. Farrell, who died in
April 1982, was a long time friend of the univer-sity.
She studied here, taking part time/continu-ing
education courses, employed university
students around her home in Westport, doing
odd jobs around the house, and attended occa-sional
lectures and different functions on
campus.
A Bryn Mawr graduate and the only child of
William and Annie Farrell, she left no close
relatives and donated all of her estate to the
university except a few items which she left to
a friend. The amount of her inheritance resulted
from her stock portfolio.
Discussing numbers approximately, Fr. Kelley
said that the endowment fund, invested properly
will draw enough interest to provide 24 scholar-ships
a year. Six scholarships per class,
freshman through senior. When asked about the
qualifications the recipients must have in order
Police Patrol Beach Area
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to be eligible to receive the scholarship money,
Fr. Kelley said, "It has not been decided yet. It
depends on the needs of the university at the
time."
Fr. Kelley continued by saying that combined
with the DeCamp Foundation Fund, the money
will help offset the federal aid cutbacks that
created a gap which is still quite wide. Only the
interest can be used from the money since it is
an endowment fund. Fr. Kelley said, "Since only
the interest can be used, it will be there forever,
honoring Miss Farrell's request that the money
serve as an endowment."
Commenting on the school's financial situa-tion,
Fr. Kelley continued, "The endowment is
very small here at Fairfield because the univer-sity
is so young. It was 1.5 million dollars four
years ago when I came here. Now it is 5 million
dollars." That compares to Georgetown's en-dowment
of 80 million dollars, the largest amount
by Richard Swietek
Editor-in-Chief
Students making their way to the beach have
commented on the abundance of patrol cars and
speedtraps visible along Reef Road and Fairfield
Beach, but Lieutenant Richard Gunter of the
Fairfield Police Department stated, "We had the
' same patrols and manpower on the beach every
year for the last ten years."
Lt. Gunter added that the patrols with
speedguns are not new at all, and that the idea
is to cut down on accidents in that area. "Any
time you have a popular area such as the beach,
the concentration of people is going to increase
on weekends, so we place extra patrols down
there," commented Gunter.
He mentioned that arrests are up to the of-ficer's
discretion and the patrols are, "not for the
purpose of harassing the students, but rather,
to cut down on the accident rates."
The lieutenant added that the officers patrol-ing
the area are also responsible for keeping the
roadways clear so emergency vehicles can pro-ceed
through the area. "During parties cars
sometimes park too close together to allow am-bulances
and fire trucks to pass," said Gunter.
Both William P. Schimpf, Vice-President of
Student Services, and Vincent P. Brennan,
Director of Security stated that manpower deci-sions
and other police activities are not discuss-ed
with university officials.
Schimpf mentioned that on occasion the town
police will keep the university posted on a situa-tion
if the school requests it, but in general, the
two do not share information.
According to Brennan, "The beach is their I
problem, since it's within their jurisdiction," and
the university's security force does not get in-volved
in these matters, even if an incident in-volves
a student.
As for calls made on houses to break up par-ties,
Lt. Gunter said the department only reacts
on complaints from neighbors. The neighbors of
Lantern Point residents have made a number of
calls to police resulting in the break-up of par-ties
at the Point.
Enough complaints have been waged to
cause landlords at the Point to put bans on com-munity
parties. Residents are still allowed to
have kegs, but the party can not venture outside
of a ten foot limit around the house. This ruling
is an attempt to keep students off the pier while
limiting the size of the gatherings.
A meeting has been scheduled for this even-ing
at 8:00 p.m. in the Fairfield Motor Inn to
discuss the issue of damages and the "no par-ty"
ruling.
Another resident of the Point, senior Ellen
Gallagher felt there were more problems at the
houses because more residents are com-plaining.
"I think it's a temporary thing though, and
once we have this meeting things will probably
be cleared up," stated Gallagher.
Each house is requested to have one person
in attendance at the meeting, and the associa-tion
is asking that residents make every effort to
attend.
of any Jesuit college, and Harvard's 2.5 billion,
the largest of any college.
Three years ago the scholarship endowment
was $160,000, which produced $12,800 in
scholarship funds. The 3.75 million the school
now has can generate $260,000 in scholarship
money per year.
"Last year the university gave 1.3 million
dollars in scholarships, $78,000 of which came
from endowment funds," Fr. Kelley said as he
stressed that the 2 million in federal funds lost
in the 81-82 and 82-83 school terms is still a pro-blem
the university has to deal with.
The second largest grant ever given to the
university was by the DeCamp Foundation. Their
proposal was to match a Fairfield operated, one
million dollar fund raiser with a million of their
own matching funds. Fairfield achieved tht goal
last year and will be paid in seven payments over
seven years.
A shortage of parking spaces at the townhouses has caused many students to park
in fire lanes and campus security has ticketed many of the students' vehicles. See page
four for details. [Photo by Gerry McPartland]
F.U.S.A. Proposes
Drinking Alternatives
The Fairfield Police Department denied students' claims that they had increased their patrol
in the beach area during the past few weeks. [Photo by Ellen Dougherty]
by Kathy King
Staff Writer
With the raise of Connecticut's drinking age
from 19 to 20, many changes are taking place
in the social life on campus, including the extinc-tion
of impromptus, and the prohibition of kegs.
However, in keeping with Fairfield's "good
social tradition" there will be more Oak Room
events according to Bob Sullivan, FUSA
president.
According to Kit Armour, an R.A. in Gonzaga,
students will be limited to private parties in their
rooms where no more than eight people will be
allowed. She believes rules will "be easier to en-force"
because most people on campus are
underage and all kegs are illegal so it will be
easier to detect an illegal one. People of legal
drinking age can use the Faculty Dining Room
and the Loyola activity room for parties. Bob
Sullivan said that a "social council" is being
formed to help those 20 and over organizing
FDR and Loyola events.
FUSA has plans to combat the social problem
of the absence of parties. They are shooting for
Oak Room events every Friday and Saturday
nights. A creative programming committee is at
work, planning non-alcoholic events. A winter
carnival and a mystery day are in the works ac-cording
to the FUSA president. A Boston band,
"The Stompers," will also be coming.
Changes will be made in the organization of
the Oak Room events. We will "de-emphasize
drinking," said Sullivan. Instead of the triangle
system with two bars there will be one smaller
bar.
It has not yet been decided how the drinking
will be handled at the semi-formals. Last year
both levels of the dances were BYOB with dif-ferent
colored wrist bands for those of legal age
and under age people. Sullivan said that FUSA
made proposals to Student Services and "the
final decision will be made by the University
Council." The first proposal is to keep the same
system.
The second proposal is to allow only those
who are 20 and over in the Oak Room. The up-stairs
portion of the dance would be for mixed
age couples and underage people. The event
would still be BYOB. "We think people 20 and
over should be able to drink if they want [but we
will] take measures to make sure the law is en-forced,"
said Sullivan.
Sullivan said that FUSA is trying to plan events
that will appeal to everyone from seniors living
at the beach to freshmen who cannot drink at the
events. They will have to be "dynamic events."
Sullivan stated that it was fortunate that they had
suspicions very early in the summer that the
drinking age would go up; otherwise there would
have been no time to plan events. "I'm opti-mistic.
I think it will be a good year. We have a
lot of creative people," he affirmed.