Mirror - Vol. 08, No. 15 - November 29, 1984

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Volume 8, No. 15 Thursday, November 29, 1984
Provost Reveals Plans
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by Chris Tyler
Fairfield University's campus will be seeing
many new changes over the next few years. The
university Master Plan will be implemented over
the course of the next few years and will bring
about substantial structural as well as cosmetic
alterations of the campus. The Master Plan was
drawn up as a result of a request from the Town
of Fairfield's TPZ (Town Planning and Zoning
department).
According to Dr. Barone, part of the problem
in acting on the ideas expressed in the Master
Plan has centered around financial obligations.
Presently, the university has large sums of money
tied up in other areas, such as in student loans
and in scholarships, making involvement in con-struction
unfeasible. The University does,
however, have certain goals that are expressed
in the Master Plan that it would like to see real-ized.
Said Dr. Barone, "The Master Plan is what
we would like to be able to do with what we have."
Plans to construct new buildings on campus
include the building of additional townhouses, a
theatre, a fine arts center, a receiving facility &
a shower and locker facility. Plans also include
improved roadways on campus and athletic fa-cilities.
Four new townhouse units are proposed for
construction in the present townhouse complex.
The four units would be erected due south of the
original seven units that were built several years
ago. The central receiving facility is proposed to
be built near the Rugby field. The theatre and fine
arts center are tentatively being place near Bel-larmine
Pond near Nysellius Library. The con-struction
of these facilities will bring about the
need for new roads and improved parking facili-ties.
The parking lots proposed for the area would
also service the library and the two dormitory
buildings in that area of the campus, Kostka and
Claver. A shower and locker room facility is also
being consdered. That facility would be construct-ed
near both Alumni field and the Baseball field.
The building would alleviate the strain put on
Alumni Hall and the Recreational Complex for
shower and changing space.
Residents of Jogues Hall and students who
have seen the Northwest gate have questioned
the activity that has been occurring in that area
of the campus. According to Dr. John Barone,
University Provost, the gate at the Northwest corn-er
of the campus is being shifted eighty feet south
for several reasons. Safety is the factor involved
in the movement of the gate. The new location
of the gate provides greater visibility in both direc-tions
on Round Hill Road. Although there have
been no accidents on Round Hill Road as a result
of the gate, the increase in visibility is a plus for
increased safety precautions. In addition, resi-dents
of the College Park development area, the
residential housing located near the parking lots
by Jogues Hall, have complained that there has
been a lot of confusion between the gate and Col-lege
Park Drive. Despite the fact that the develop-ment
area was constructed at a date considerably
later than that of the entrance, the gate will be
moved for that reason as well. The road between
the Townhouses and the Northwest is scheduled
to reopen upon completion of the new gate.
In a recent interview, University Provost, Dr. John Barone, explained the plans for Fairfield's
campus to be realized within the next five years. These plans include the construction of both
new roads and buildings. [Photo by Karen Haney]
Circle K/SNA Sponsor Bloodmobile
by Connie McKenna
After weeks of planning by both the Student
Nurse Association and Circle K the annual blood-mobile
came to Fairfield November 13 and 14.
The drive for blood resulted in the acquisition
of 488 pints, slightly less than last year's county
record of 515. According to Tim Martin, president
of Circle K, "the goal for this year was to get 550
pints, and although we feel short of that goal, we
still managed to get a substantial amount of blood
donated."
The preparations began about a month ago
when the co-chairpeople of SNA and Circle K met
to discuss needs and goals with the Red Cross.
Barbara Redway from SNA and Tim Martin from
Circle K co-chaired the event.
On behalf of Circle K and SNA, Martin wishes
to extend sincere thanks to all Fairfield U. students
who donated. "Without the students' help it would
have been impossible."
Court's Sentence For Party
Brings Community Service
by Eileen Quirk
On the evening of October 27, three university
beach students were arrested for breach of peace
and interference with a police officer. On Novem-ber
7 the three girls went to trial and were given
25 hours each of community service to be ren-dered,
and a signed promise to appear back in
court on December 19, for decision of the case.
Two girls were arrested for breach of peace be-cause
their party was loud and out of control. The
third girl was arrested for interference because
she asked the police officer, "Why are you arrest-ing
them?" She was quickly apprehended.
Said one of the girls arrested for breach of
peace, "it started out as a quiet dinner party. We
had 15 people on the porch. A neighbor com-plained
about the music. She had signed a com-plaint,
so I had to give my name to the police.
When another party crashed our party, the police
came back, and because they had my name, I
was arrested." She also added, "I don't think that
it was fair to arrest a person for wanting to know
why her friends were arrested."
Ironically, the 100 or so people who arrived af-ter
the first complaint was issued, arrived from
another party which the police had broken up.
This other party had 10 kegs, and no one was ar-rested
there.
Two of the three girls arrested were handcuffed
as they were escorted to the patrol car. Said the
same girl, "they probably did this just to let peo-ple
know they were serious about arresting us.
They also wanted to quiet the party down."
The girls were undecided about going to court
with a lawyer. Deciding against it, two girls were
given the community service route. The third girl
who did have the lawyer, was given the same de-cision.
The girls start their community service this
week in Bridgeport at the Community Alternative
Coffee and Soup House. On December 19, when
they return to court with 25 hours of service com-pleted,
the judge will either dismiss the case from
their records, or freeze it, whereby it will take 13
months for it to be cleared from their records.
Mike Maclteer '87 smiles as he donates a pint of blood at the annual Bloodmobile, sponsored
by S.N.A. and Circle K. [Photo by Nancy Gray]
New Art Draws Question
Criss-Cross V sits in front of Nysellius Library before the installation was completed.
[Photo by Nancy Gray]
by Kevin Connolly
Fairfield University has its second modern
sculpture, Criss-Cross V, and like Fairfield's first,
mixed reactions surround it.
Criss-Cross V, created by Larry Mohr (also crea-tor
of Vee-1), was donated to the university by a
corporation (which has not been identified yet).
Although the exact cost of the sculpture is not
known, a great deal of money was involved.
Student reaction to the sculpture has been
mostly negative. A major complaint centers
around the decision to place the sculpture by the
library. Dr. Philip Eliasoph, chairman of the fine
arts department at Fairfield, stated that the library
site was choosen because the openness of the
area was attractive. However, students in general,
feel the sculpture is out of place. As one student
pointed out, "The area surrounding the library
is a very naturalistic one with its trees, shrubs and
stone front of the library adding to the beauty of
the open space. The sculpture, on the other hand,
with its shiny steel frame just doesn't mix in with
the environment. It looks as if someone just
dumped scraps of a building there."
Another criticism is the style of the art piece
itself. One is that the work lacks any meaning to
the students and so appears weird or stupid. One
student said. "The piece doesn't seem to have
much significance behind it to me. It doesn't
represent the university in any way and doesn't
appear to belong."
Dr. Eliasoph responded to this issue by indicat-ing
that, "though this style of art is new to Fair-field,
it has been around for at least fifty years."
The students lack of meaning towards the sculp-ture
is a result of their lack of understanding what
the piece is expressing. Dr. Eliasoph stressed that
one of the main objectives of bringing this type
of art on campus was ". . . to expose the students
to this style of art, to bring them up to date to what
is going on around them and to cut away at the
ignorance the students have surrounding art and
thinking of this type."
Due to the limited exposure Fairfield students
have with regards to art, Dr. Eliasoph feels if the
student body were asked what type of sculpture
they would like to see on campus, the answer
would be, "a twelve foot high Norman RocRwell
signed statue, or a twelve foot high stag. This
would be their answer because this is what they
are exposed to all the time and what they feel com-fortable
with."
Though the issue of Criss-Cross V may not get
as controversial as Picasso's fifty-foot high sculp-ture
in Chicago, it has demonstrated the need to
bring more art to Fairfield. The controversy is a
sure sign that the students are interested in art,
maybe not all art, but they do want to see the
different types of art. As one student expressed,
"I like to see more art coming on campus, a range
of styles not just twentieth century sculptures.
Reniassance and Early American styles would
equal out the balance and be a welcomed alter-native
to what we have now."