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"The Image of Fairfield" FAIRFIELD 9 \ [MIRROR! Nonprofit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 32 Fairfield, Conn. Volume 8, No. 20 Thursday, January 31, 1985 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430 Incorporated 1977 Townhouse Lottery Held, Contracts Signed by Chris Tyler Members of the class of 1986 had a forty-eight percent chance of getting one of the much sought after Townhouse units on campus. According to Rev. John W. Keegan, Director of Student Resi-dences, twenty-nine Townhouse units were avail-able to the class of 1986. Fr. Keegan also stated that sixty-one groups of students entered the lot-tery from the class of 1986. The 244 students were vying for the 116 available beds in the Townhouse complex. Members of the class of 1987 fared worse in the lottery that was staged Thursday afternoon Rev., John W. Keegan S.J. reads the name of one of the lucky few recipients of a townhouse which were given out in a lottery held last week. [Photo by Marie Bolger] in the Campus Center Oak Room. Of the 400 stu-dents that entered the lottery from the class of 1987 only 88 were recipients of Townhouses. The 22 groups of four were evenly split between male and female houses, according to Fr. Keegan. The 100 groups of four students from the sophomore class had a slightly better than twenty percent chance of obtaining a Townhouse unit for this fall. According to Fr. Keegan, the lottery amongst the class of '87 posed some concern. Of the 100 groups seeking Townhouses, fifty-seven of them were female and forty-three were male. The wide margin mattered little, as the end result was an even allocation of the Townhouses. The race for units among the junior class was more even stated Fr. Keegan. There were sixty-one groups of students from that class and thirty-one were female and the remaining thirty were male. The lottery in that class was also an even distribution of the Townhouses. "The lottery was held so soon in the semester to answer the pleas of those students to get it over with as soon as possible," said Fr. Keegan. The Department of Student Services has come un-der sharp criticism for the handling of the lottery and the timing of the lottery was an issue that was raised. The issue seems yet to be resolved, as one student points out, "I wish they would have it even earlier. It's really too late to be looking for a beach house now because most of them have gone already." Students had mixed feelings towards the lot-tery. Said one student, "It's really stupid. They should go to all seniors. That way you'll be sure Deficit Impairs Scholarship by Chris Tyler Due to the deficit that F.U.S.A. has encountered, the F.U.S.A. scholarship fund is badly in need of financial assistance. According to Fran Kenneally, F.U.S.A. president, the deficit that the student government has had to deal with has prevented F.U.S.A. from making substantial financial gains with respect to the scholarship fund. "We have had other obligations within the student govern-ment which have really hurt our ability to reach our goal of $5,000," said Mr. Kenneally. The scholarship is to be based on two factors, need and involvement in the university. Accord-ing to the F.U.S.A. president this is to benefit the students who are in the greatest need and doing more for the University Community. The plan for the scholarship is to develop an endowment. "An endowment never goes away. Each year we'll use the interest off the $5,000," commented Fran Kenneally. The present plan is to secure a goal of $5,000 and place it in a high yield, interest bearing account. The interest earned will be divided, a portion will be used as direct scholarship funding, and the remainder will be re-invested in the endowment. "The interest earned is about twelve percent. Eight of it will be used as gifts to students, and the rest put back. This means that there is not going to be a great deal of money at first, but it will continue to grow and be able to help more people," added Fran Kenneally. According to Mr. Kenneally money for the fund has been raised through staging events like Air-bands and the Halloween dance. Lisa Johnson is coordinating the fund raising campaign, but Mr. Kenneally also added, "Right now we are in great need of ideas for fund raising." Deficit problems have left approximately five hundred dollars in the scholarship program, but Mr. Kenneally added, "I think we'll make it. It will take all our effort this semester, but we should reach our goal." Mr. Kenneally also stated that the department of Financial Aid will be responsible for supplying the list of students who are in need of scholar-ship funding and F.U.S.A. will be working with Financial Aid in administering the scholarship al-location. Those who are interested in working on this project or those who desire more information can contact the F.U.S.A. office or write to Box P at Fair-field University. and get in one. Isn't it kind of crazy that you can have a Townhouse for your junior year and as a senior you don't get one. Getting rid of squatters isn't good if it's open to both classes." Another student said, 'I think the loss of squatters is silly. It's wrong. But, a lottery is a lottery. You assume that it's run fairly and if you don't get one, well there's no sense in sour grapes." Squatter's rights to the Townhouse units were dissolved in order to give all students entering the lottery a better chance of obtaining one of the units. Another com-plaint made by some students about the lottery is the fact that some of the groups of four were forced to enter the junior lottery. Said one student, "It isn't fair. We had to go into the junior lottery where we had a worse chance of getting our house." Contracts for the Townhouses were available for signing beginning last Monday in the offices of Student Services. The contracts outline the rules and regulations regarding Townhouse liv-ing. The contract also spells out specifically what the rights and responsibilities of both the leasees (the students) and the leasors (the university) with respect to Townhouse life. In addition the Townhouse lottery has caused a deluge of calls to local realtors from Fairfield University students who are now seeking beach houses as a result of their failure to obtain Town-houses. One local realtor commented, "I must have gotten about twenty calls in one afternoon (Thursday) and another twenty the next day (Fri-day) all from university students who are looking to move to the beach." Problems in the beach area between Fairfield University students and permanent beach resi-dents have left the future of the beach uncertain. One student who secured a beach house for the fall and was not given a Townhouse for the fall said, "It really is a shame that both types of hous-ing cause so many problems. It wouid make the situation a lot easier for everyone if some kind of university housing were available at the beach so that those who lost out on a Townhouse could go to the beach and not have to worry about bothering the residents there." Currently the university is not fostering any plans to build a resi-dence at the beach, but the University's Master Plan has provisions for additional Townhouses in the future. Carol Mansfield, Student Services' Townhouse Coordinator, has been signing contracts all week. Signing for the much desired units will be completed tomorrow. [Photo by Stephen J. Humes] F.U.S.A. Discusses Finances by Connie McKenna Money took priority at the January 23rd F.U.S.A. meeting in the newly renovated basement con-frence room in the campus center. After the Kenneally Administration's year-long efforts to reduce an $18,000 deficit, the pressing question now is how much has been reduced. F.U.S.A. Legislature mandated last semester that $6,000 be removed from this year's budget. This spreads the deficit burden over three years. In last Wednesday's meeting, the fall semester's ex-penses were put forth. Chuck Hacker, treasurer, presented the final tally of last semester's expenses, profits and loss-es pertaining to F.U.S.A. special events. The larg-est loss absorbed by F.U.S.A. on a single event was over $2000 for the speech by Ralph Nader. The largest amount in black ink on F.U.S.A.'s books was for the Halloween party, which profit-ed $1,197. In total, F.U.S.A. suffered a loss on spe-cial events of just over $6,000. Remaining in F.U.S.A.'s account for this semester, however, is a healthy $37,311, which, according to Fran Ken-neally, is "within a thousand dollars of last semester's budget." Also discussed at the meeting were plans for the upcoming open house of F.U.S.A.'s new offices. The cabinet members also discussed the possibility of offering the use of meeting room B42 one or two nights a week to other clubs needing a place to meet. Loyola Hall Stages Debate After the five candidates made opening statements, they fielded questions from the audience at Monday night's debate in Loyola. Seated L-R, Fran Reed, Jay Lo Vetere, Cathy Kiley, David Smith (Moderator), John Mancini and Jim English. [Photo by Stephen J. Humes] by Chris Tyler Loyola Hall staged a debate last Monday be-tween the five prospective F.U.S.A. candidates. The four Resident Advisors from the dorm spon-sored what they called "The Great Informal De-bate." The debate offered each candidate five minutes to speak and then gave them an oppor-tunity to field questions from the floor. Two stu-dents, however, made allegations of campaign violations by two of the candidates. According to John Matheson, who is on the Election Committee representing Student Court, the distribution of literature is prohibited until seven days prior to the primary. As Monday was eight days before the primary election, David Young, '85, and William Dully, '85, charged both the Reed and Mancici camps with illegally dis-tributing campaign literature outside of the allot-ted time period. Mr. Matheson met with the other members of the elections committee to determine if other violations of the elections code were com-mitted. Said John Matheson, "I have heard alle-gations that some candidates have been putting up printed signs and posters illegally. We'll be looking into that." He went on to add that although the maximum penalty would be disqualification, he felt that the most serious punishment would be to restrict those candidates found in violation from putting up posters and force them to take down existing signs for a period of time if they were in fact found to have violated the election code. During the debate, Cathy Kiley, '86, stated that she felt her experience working in two F.U.S.A. administrations and her work in both sides of the student government (Student Life and Student Activities) gave her an advantage no one else had. "I think that I have a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn't," said Kiley. She also stated that Student Activities had been badly neglected in the past and needed to have more attention paid to it. She said, "I'm sure everyone knows about basketball games, Oak Rooms and other cultur-al events but I don't think anyone really knows what F.U.S.A. really does or what's going on with F.U.S.A. as far as the students go." She also indi-cated a desire to publish a weekly or bi-weekly newsletter to inform students about F.U.S.A.'s ac-tivities.. The second candidate to speak was Jay Love-tere. Jay praised the changes that have been made within the university to improve the quality of the education, citing the change in the grad-ing policy as one example. He did, however, go on to criticize many aspects of the university that he felt did not meet the needs of the students be-cause they were inadequate or a "mystery." He Continued on page 2
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Title | Mirror - Vol. 08, No. 20 - January 31, 1985 |
Date | January 31 1985 |
Description | The Mirror (sometimes called the Fairfield Mirror) is the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, and is published weekly during the academic year (September - May). It runs from 1977 - the present; current issues are available online. |
Notes | A timeline for Fairfield University student newspapers is as follows: The Tentative, Nov. 7, 1947 - Dec. 19, 1947; The Fulcrum, Jan. 9, 1948 - May 20, 1949; The Stag, Sept. 23, 1949 - May 6, 1970; The University Voice, Oct. 1, 1970 - May 11, 1977; The Fairfield Free Press & Review, Sept. 10, 1970 - Apr. 24, 1975; The Fairfield Mirror, Sept. 22, 1977 - present. |
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Place of Publication | Fairfield, Conn. |
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SearchData | "The Image of Fairfield" FAIRFIELD 9 \ [MIRROR! Nonprofit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 32 Fairfield, Conn. Volume 8, No. 20 Thursday, January 31, 1985 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430 Incorporated 1977 Townhouse Lottery Held, Contracts Signed by Chris Tyler Members of the class of 1986 had a forty-eight percent chance of getting one of the much sought after Townhouse units on campus. According to Rev. John W. Keegan, Director of Student Resi-dences, twenty-nine Townhouse units were avail-able to the class of 1986. Fr. Keegan also stated that sixty-one groups of students entered the lot-tery from the class of 1986. The 244 students were vying for the 116 available beds in the Townhouse complex. Members of the class of 1987 fared worse in the lottery that was staged Thursday afternoon Rev., John W. Keegan S.J. reads the name of one of the lucky few recipients of a townhouse which were given out in a lottery held last week. [Photo by Marie Bolger] in the Campus Center Oak Room. Of the 400 stu-dents that entered the lottery from the class of 1987 only 88 were recipients of Townhouses. The 22 groups of four were evenly split between male and female houses, according to Fr. Keegan. The 100 groups of four students from the sophomore class had a slightly better than twenty percent chance of obtaining a Townhouse unit for this fall. According to Fr. Keegan, the lottery amongst the class of '87 posed some concern. Of the 100 groups seeking Townhouses, fifty-seven of them were female and forty-three were male. The wide margin mattered little, as the end result was an even allocation of the Townhouses. The race for units among the junior class was more even stated Fr. Keegan. There were sixty-one groups of students from that class and thirty-one were female and the remaining thirty were male. The lottery in that class was also an even distribution of the Townhouses. "The lottery was held so soon in the semester to answer the pleas of those students to get it over with as soon as possible," said Fr. Keegan. The Department of Student Services has come un-der sharp criticism for the handling of the lottery and the timing of the lottery was an issue that was raised. The issue seems yet to be resolved, as one student points out, "I wish they would have it even earlier. It's really too late to be looking for a beach house now because most of them have gone already." Students had mixed feelings towards the lot-tery. Said one student, "It's really stupid. They should go to all seniors. That way you'll be sure Deficit Impairs Scholarship by Chris Tyler Due to the deficit that F.U.S.A. has encountered, the F.U.S.A. scholarship fund is badly in need of financial assistance. According to Fran Kenneally, F.U.S.A. president, the deficit that the student government has had to deal with has prevented F.U.S.A. from making substantial financial gains with respect to the scholarship fund. "We have had other obligations within the student govern-ment which have really hurt our ability to reach our goal of $5,000," said Mr. Kenneally. The scholarship is to be based on two factors, need and involvement in the university. Accord-ing to the F.U.S.A. president this is to benefit the students who are in the greatest need and doing more for the University Community. The plan for the scholarship is to develop an endowment. "An endowment never goes away. Each year we'll use the interest off the $5,000," commented Fran Kenneally. The present plan is to secure a goal of $5,000 and place it in a high yield, interest bearing account. The interest earned will be divided, a portion will be used as direct scholarship funding, and the remainder will be re-invested in the endowment. "The interest earned is about twelve percent. Eight of it will be used as gifts to students, and the rest put back. This means that there is not going to be a great deal of money at first, but it will continue to grow and be able to help more people," added Fran Kenneally. According to Mr. Kenneally money for the fund has been raised through staging events like Air-bands and the Halloween dance. Lisa Johnson is coordinating the fund raising campaign, but Mr. Kenneally also added, "Right now we are in great need of ideas for fund raising." Deficit problems have left approximately five hundred dollars in the scholarship program, but Mr. Kenneally added, "I think we'll make it. It will take all our effort this semester, but we should reach our goal." Mr. Kenneally also stated that the department of Financial Aid will be responsible for supplying the list of students who are in need of scholar-ship funding and F.U.S.A. will be working with Financial Aid in administering the scholarship al-location. Those who are interested in working on this project or those who desire more information can contact the F.U.S.A. office or write to Box P at Fair-field University. and get in one. Isn't it kind of crazy that you can have a Townhouse for your junior year and as a senior you don't get one. Getting rid of squatters isn't good if it's open to both classes." Another student said, 'I think the loss of squatters is silly. It's wrong. But, a lottery is a lottery. You assume that it's run fairly and if you don't get one, well there's no sense in sour grapes." Squatter's rights to the Townhouse units were dissolved in order to give all students entering the lottery a better chance of obtaining one of the units. Another com-plaint made by some students about the lottery is the fact that some of the groups of four were forced to enter the junior lottery. Said one student, "It isn't fair. We had to go into the junior lottery where we had a worse chance of getting our house." Contracts for the Townhouses were available for signing beginning last Monday in the offices of Student Services. The contracts outline the rules and regulations regarding Townhouse liv-ing. The contract also spells out specifically what the rights and responsibilities of both the leasees (the students) and the leasors (the university) with respect to Townhouse life. In addition the Townhouse lottery has caused a deluge of calls to local realtors from Fairfield University students who are now seeking beach houses as a result of their failure to obtain Town-houses. One local realtor commented, "I must have gotten about twenty calls in one afternoon (Thursday) and another twenty the next day (Fri-day) all from university students who are looking to move to the beach." Problems in the beach area between Fairfield University students and permanent beach resi-dents have left the future of the beach uncertain. One student who secured a beach house for the fall and was not given a Townhouse for the fall said, "It really is a shame that both types of hous-ing cause so many problems. It wouid make the situation a lot easier for everyone if some kind of university housing were available at the beach so that those who lost out on a Townhouse could go to the beach and not have to worry about bothering the residents there." Currently the university is not fostering any plans to build a resi-dence at the beach, but the University's Master Plan has provisions for additional Townhouses in the future. Carol Mansfield, Student Services' Townhouse Coordinator, has been signing contracts all week. Signing for the much desired units will be completed tomorrow. [Photo by Stephen J. Humes] F.U.S.A. Discusses Finances by Connie McKenna Money took priority at the January 23rd F.U.S.A. meeting in the newly renovated basement con-frence room in the campus center. After the Kenneally Administration's year-long efforts to reduce an $18,000 deficit, the pressing question now is how much has been reduced. F.U.S.A. Legislature mandated last semester that $6,000 be removed from this year's budget. This spreads the deficit burden over three years. In last Wednesday's meeting, the fall semester's ex-penses were put forth. Chuck Hacker, treasurer, presented the final tally of last semester's expenses, profits and loss-es pertaining to F.U.S.A. special events. The larg-est loss absorbed by F.U.S.A. on a single event was over $2000 for the speech by Ralph Nader. The largest amount in black ink on F.U.S.A.'s books was for the Halloween party, which profit-ed $1,197. In total, F.U.S.A. suffered a loss on spe-cial events of just over $6,000. Remaining in F.U.S.A.'s account for this semester, however, is a healthy $37,311, which, according to Fran Ken-neally, is "within a thousand dollars of last semester's budget." Also discussed at the meeting were plans for the upcoming open house of F.U.S.A.'s new offices. The cabinet members also discussed the possibility of offering the use of meeting room B42 one or two nights a week to other clubs needing a place to meet. Loyola Hall Stages Debate After the five candidates made opening statements, they fielded questions from the audience at Monday night's debate in Loyola. Seated L-R, Fran Reed, Jay Lo Vetere, Cathy Kiley, David Smith (Moderator), John Mancini and Jim English. [Photo by Stephen J. Humes] by Chris Tyler Loyola Hall staged a debate last Monday be-tween the five prospective F.U.S.A. candidates. The four Resident Advisors from the dorm spon-sored what they called "The Great Informal De-bate." The debate offered each candidate five minutes to speak and then gave them an oppor-tunity to field questions from the floor. Two stu-dents, however, made allegations of campaign violations by two of the candidates. According to John Matheson, who is on the Election Committee representing Student Court, the distribution of literature is prohibited until seven days prior to the primary. As Monday was eight days before the primary election, David Young, '85, and William Dully, '85, charged both the Reed and Mancici camps with illegally dis-tributing campaign literature outside of the allot-ted time period. Mr. Matheson met with the other members of the elections committee to determine if other violations of the elections code were com-mitted. Said John Matheson, "I have heard alle-gations that some candidates have been putting up printed signs and posters illegally. We'll be looking into that." He went on to add that although the maximum penalty would be disqualification, he felt that the most serious punishment would be to restrict those candidates found in violation from putting up posters and force them to take down existing signs for a period of time if they were in fact found to have violated the election code. During the debate, Cathy Kiley, '86, stated that she felt her experience working in two F.U.S.A. administrations and her work in both sides of the student government (Student Life and Student Activities) gave her an advantage no one else had. "I think that I have a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn't," said Kiley. She also stated that Student Activities had been badly neglected in the past and needed to have more attention paid to it. She said, "I'm sure everyone knows about basketball games, Oak Rooms and other cultur-al events but I don't think anyone really knows what F.U.S.A. really does or what's going on with F.U.S.A. as far as the students go." She also indi-cated a desire to publish a weekly or bi-weekly newsletter to inform students about F.U.S.A.'s ac-tivities.. The second candidate to speak was Jay Love-tere. Jay praised the changes that have been made within the university to improve the quality of the education, citing the change in the grad-ing policy as one example. He did, however, go on to criticize many aspects of the university that he felt did not meet the needs of the students be-cause they were inadequate or a "mystery." He Continued on page 2 |