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Deli Opens After Delay
Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430 Incorporated 1977
by Chris Tyler
Christopher Garvey, a Senior Economics major,
has taken measures to rectify the problems that
the Fairfield Student Market Inc. ran into over the
course of its operations last semester. Mr. Gar-vey
has met with Mr. James Fitzpatrick, Assis-tant
Dean of University Activities, and Dean
William Schimpf in order to establish the Fairfield
Student Market Inc., or Deli as it is more com-monly
refered, as capable of productive oper-ations.
According to Mr. Garvey it is not unusual for
the Deli to carry over debts of 2 to 3 thousand
dollars. However, due to mismanagement of
funds, poor inventory control, and ineffective Ad-ministrative
controls the Deli incurred debts dou-ble
of what is normally expected. This, coupled
with a lack of communication with the vendors
the Deli deals with, led to further problems. Ap-parently
some of the vendors were not aware of
the Deli's intention to carry their debt to the fall.
In June of this year it was discovered that food
stuffs were left in the Deli. This created a prob-lem
in that this led to an infestation of insects. The
Maintenance department contacted Mrs. Phyllis
Fitzpatrick when the condition was discovered.
At that time the Deli was cleaned up and the food
items were divided into those which had spoiled
. and those that had not. The salvagable items were
returned to the Deli along with a bag of coins that
were being held by Security.
According to Mr. Garvey, a new president is
selected to replace the acting president at the on-set
of the semester for the purpose of training.
This was not done and as a result Mr. Garvey is
starting from scratch with a new staff. Some of
the new staff include: Mike Williams, Vice Presi-dent
of Operations; Sal Chieffall, Vice President
of Finance; and Nancy Garry, Secretary.
Mr. Garvey, in his meetings with Mr. Fitzpatrick,
has drawn up measures that will keep the Deli
operating productively. Some of the steps he has
taken are the drafting of a more precise budget
for this year, a promise to have the Board of Direc-tors
meet more regularly, and better cash and
management controls. Said Mr. Garvey, "In the
past one man was responsible for handling all
the cash. Now what will happen is that there will
be four different people involved with counting
and depositing the cash." Mr. Fitzpatrick was
satisfied with Mr. Garvey's efforts. He commented,
"Since he made such an effort and demonstrated
his desire to see it (the Deli) run well, he deserved
a chance. The Deli is a good service when run
properly."
Mr. Garvey stated that he was looking forward
to a good year. "With continued support, we'll get
the Deli back on its feet." Mr. Garvey is well on
his way to achieving this after reporting higher
than normal business on the Deli's first night of
operation this past Friday.
"The Deli is an alternative. And it should be
there simply because the students use and en-joy
it so much," explained Mr. Garvey. This is why
he became so involved with preserving the Deli
and its operation. Mr. Garvey pointed out what
he felt were the most positive aspects of the Deli
by concluding, "The Deli offers food late at night,
provides about twenty people with employment,
and experience which is good to have when it
comes time to start looking for a job." Mr. Garvey
said that one of his other goals is for the Deli to
become more consistent in its offerings for the
students.
Students who are not satisfied with Seller's menus can once again fill their empty stomachs
at Fairfield's Deli which reopened Friday night for the first time this year.
[Photo by Karen Haney]
Stag-Her Alters Policies
by Kathryn King
This year, the Stag-Her Inn will be open to stu-dents
of any age on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays,
and Saturdays, according to John Sohigian, the
pub's manager. The change was made on the
recommendation of the Campus Center staff.
On these days, alcohol will be served from 4:00
p.m. to 8:00 p.m. without a separate drinking area.
Remley Joins Housing Staff
by Chris Tyler
Three new appointments have been made to
the Department of Student Services. These new
appointments are Dan Remley to the position of
Assistant Director of Student Residences and Su-san
Perrelli and Michael Mutti to the positions of
Head Resident.
Mr. Remley, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan and
a former New Jersey resident, learned of the po-sition
being vacated by Leigh Cromey, the former
Assistant Director of Student Residences, at a
NASPA convention in early March and met with
Phyllis Fitzpatrick, the former Director of Student
Residences. NASPA stands for the National As-sociation
of Student Personnel Administrators.
They hold an annual convention for people in-volved
in the Student Housing field.
Miss Perrelli and Mr. Mutti learned of the open-ings
in their field at the same convention. Both
are currently attending Graduate school here at
Fairfield University. Mr. Mutti is a graduate of Wil-liam
and Mary with a bachelor's degree in Busi-ness
Administration. Miss Perrelli graduated with
the same degree from St. Bonaventure.
Mr. Remley received a Masters degree from In-diana
University in 1982 and received post-graduate
training in his field as Assistant Coor-dinator
of Residence Life at the College of
Wooster.
Both Mr. Mutti and Miss Perrelli feel that their
organizational skills and their ability to get along
with people are the key to their success at their
position. One of their goals will be to change the
attitudes of the students. 'They (the student body)
don't understand the job the RA has to do," said
Mr. Mutti. "One way to change their attitudes is
through increased visibility and increased
awareness."
Mr. Remley said that he has some definite goals
for the next two years, the length of his present
contract. "I would like to make the students more
aware and more responsible for (dormitory)
damage. I would like to see a reduction in the
amount of damage and change their attitudes
towards fire safety equipment," said Mr. Remley.
He also commented that he would like to see an
increase in the lounge and study space all over
the campus. He added, "I'm quite available and
anyone with a question is welcome to stop by and
come to us with their concerns."
After 8:00, the drinking section will be in the back.
Benches and ropes will separate the drinking and
non-drinking sections.
"To get in the pub area, you have to come in
the back door" by the Commuter Lounge, said
Mr. Sohigian. "Only those who come in the back
will be carded." People in the drinking area real-ly
can't come out of the section. "Those aren't
busy nights so there's not a lot of mingling." The
Snack Bar will be open to everyone.
On Wednesday and Thursday nights, no one
under the age of twenty will be admitted. These
nights the system will be the same as it has been.
The reason for the changes is that "the busi-ness
is just not there" on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fri-days,
and Saturdays, stated Sohigian. "We
thought it would pick up but it didn't." More peo-ple
of age are living farther away from the Stag-
Her. Most of the people on campus are under-age
so they could not go to the Stag-Her at night
under the original system that let no one under
the age of twenty inside.
"As operations come together," there will be
more programming. Now there is Monday Night
Football and a disc jockey at least once a week.
F.U.S.A. runs the programming in the Stag-her.
"The programming will be dependent on student
interest and money," said John Sohigian. The
room will be available for special programs. For
example, a dorm can use it for an event that every-one
of any age can go to. "We want them (stu-dents)
to make use of the room." He commented,
"I think it will become an active place again."
People's Forum Presents Jonathan Miller
by Thomas P. Moore
Before a capacity Oak Room crowd of mostly
non-students, Dr. Jonathan Miller delivered a talk
on his career in the theatre and his life experi-ences
in both England and the United States. The
world renowned author, producer, director, actor
and physician commenced the University's lec-ture
series sponsored by the People's Bank enti-tled,
"The university, the humanities and the
world."
Miller's experience with Fairfield occured 22
years ago when he said, "We were dumped
amidst the dogwood, stuck in a house with no
car or license to drive. The newly introduced mem-ber
of the theatrical trade was in New York City
for a number of months when the play he was
in, "Beyond the Fringe," was running on Broad-way.
One of his contacts in the city thought that
it would be better to house the group of English-men
somewhere else than the city in the dog days
of the summer.
Shifting the topic to a more serious vein, Miller
began to comment on his career change from a
life as a physician to that of the theatre by calling
the decision, "A lurch into the theatre." He coun-tered
that statement by saying, "I never felt a real
transition."
The Englishman went on to explain that lack
of transition by describing the way a physician
uses his skills to get an idea of what a patient is
trying to communicate. The patient-doctor dia-logue
was described as a "dramatic short story,"
a literary form that the sick person uses to con-vince
the doctor that he or she is sick. "They au-
Jonathan Miller, author, physician, dramatist,
producer.and director, addressed an enthusias-tic
crowd of admirers of his work including
The Body in Question and Sfafes of Mind.
[Photo by Gerry McPartland]
dition for the role of a patient." He continued,
"They want to be cast into the part of being cured."
On the current developments in the field of
medicine and its stress on technology, citing radi-ation
technology such as CAT scans, Miller said
it causes physicians to lose their doctoring ability
— to diagnose with the naked, raw encounter. It
amazed me how much could be done by looking
and listening and feeling—using the unaided
senses. The diagnostic exam is therapeutic, the
patient derives comfort from the curious caress
of the physician." These comments led to his the-ory
that the field of theater is not that far removed
from that of the medical arts.
As a specialist concerned with the function of
the brain and the nervous system, Dr. Miller found
himself studying the way that the actors delivered
their lines, "the way that the nervous system
produced the phenomena."
Miller said that he found that the two seemingly
different fields involved the use of " the same
skills that I accumulated over my six years I
studied to be a doctor." The two areas were in
Miller's words "reciprocal." In his view the physi-cian
looks at the patient's performance and at-tempts
to interpret "the act" in the area of disease.
As a producer/director he showed the actors
how to communicate their lines, coaching them
on how to put across their message in a more
effective way. Now Miller found himself helping
the people who used to be his patients how to
act more like they were sick.
His debut as a director did not happen in the
normal way that these members of the theatrical
guild usually get their start. While he was in New
York working on his first play, "Beyond the Fringe,"
he was asked to direct a play that had met no suc-cess
anywhere else. Miller phrased it, "They
scraped the bottom of the barrel and found me
in New York." Totally unexperienced as a direc-tor,
Miller told the audience about his first ex-periences
as a director.
Other topics covered in his presentation in-cluded
the differing opinions on whether Shake-speare
is "safer on the shelf" implying that any
performance would not be able to do justice to
the deep meanings that are locked inside of the
texts. Countering this philosophy, Miller stated that
he could never really get a feel for a play unless
the lines were acted out in front of him.
A problem that confronts many directors is what
Miller called "tyrannical and custodial control"
over plays and how they should be performed on
stage. Certain dramatic works become legally
guarded by persons who consider themselves ex-perts
on what the author was thinking when the
words were written. Miller considers it damaging
to require that a play adhere to a canonical ver-sion
of how a play should be performed.
Speaking about his return to medicine and turn-ing
away from theatre Miller said, "I don't think
I'll ever retire. I feel like a bomber pilot who has
been over the site too many times. The endless
wrangle over reputation in the theatrical field; you
get battle fatigue. To hell with it."