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Reed, English Win Primary
Fran Reed and Jim English won the FUSA primary election last Tuesday. They are preparing
for the final election on Tuesday, February 12. A debate between the two presidential aspirants
will be held in the Oakroom this Sunday night, February 10, at 7:00 p.m.
[Photo by Karen Haney]
Bookstore Explains Ordering Problems
by Kathryn King
"This rush was no different than any other," said
Aida Ladabouche, the district manager at Unit-ed
College Bookstore. She said that the lack of
some books is not unusual.
The faculty is required to place request orders
by October 15th, for the Spring semester. "A small
percentage of the faculty place orders late.
Whether because they were assigned a course
late or because they hadn't made a decision yet,"
added Ladabouche.
"Also, every educational institution is ordering
books at the same time," she said. Hence, an out
of stock situation sometimes results. Professors
then have to decide whether or not to order new
books.
Another reason the books aren't available when
the students need them is that the books are out
of print. "This happened quite a few times this
past Spring. All of a sudden they're no longer be-ing
printed," said Ms. Ladabouche.
This semester only one was lost. There is also
a certain amount of raiding. Students from Univer-sity
of Bridgeport and Sacred Heart buy books
at Fairfield because they can't find them at their
schools. "However, it doesn't happen as badly
here as at other schools," said Ladabouche.
"Nobody has the concept of the time and ef-fort
for getting the books on time," she continued.
The bookstore re-organizes every semester and
gets better "at moving traffic through quickly and
out," said Ladabouche.
Returns and refunds were done after eleven
o'clock in the morning for under graduates be-cause
it takes a few hours to get enough money
in the cash registers to pay back the students.
Only graduate students are allowed to return
books at night because they have only night class-es,
and undergraduates would only lengthen
lines.
by Thomas Moore
After the polls had been closed for ten minutes,
the results of the FUSA presidential primary elec-tion
showed that Fran Reed and Jim English had
gathered more votes than their other three can-didates.
Reed showed a total of 547 votes while
English had 311. John Mancini ran a close third
with Cathy Kiley in fourth. In fifth place was Jay
LoVetere.
Commenting on the results of the first primary
to be run in five years, (when in 1980 there was
a grand total of eight candidates running for the
top spot in FUSA) Fran Kenneally, the current
FUSA president said, "On the topic of the turnout,
we would like to see more. There was a lack of
publicity. There should have been signs. There
was a lack of communication between the elecc-tion
committee and FUSA."
On primary day there were no signs in the cam-pus
center publicizing the fact that there were vot-ing
booths set up in the Oakroom to vote. John
Matheson, a member of the election committee,
said that between FUSA and the election com-mittee
there will be signs posted to direct voters
to the polling places on Tuesday for the final
election.
Matheson said, "I did not expect it to be this
lopsided. (Jay Lovetere garnered 97 votes) We had
three very close in the middle." Only 29 votes
separated Mancini from English. Kathy Kiley sat
back only 47 votes from Mancini.
As soon as the results were determined, Fran
Kenneally walked over to the Stag Her where four
of the five candidates awaited the announcement.
All of the candidates except Lovetere were
present.
The turnout for the primary amounted to a to-tal
of 1472. Fran Kenneally said that he is going
to push for a record amount of voter turnout for
the final election this Tuesday.
One of the victors, Jim English, commented on
the results, "I'm looking forward to running
against Fran in the final election. My opponents
ran a very good competition. I urge tne students
to learn about the issues."
Compared to the FUSA elections in the past
two years, the amount of voter turnout was aver-age,
55%. Fran Kenneally estimated that 45%
of the student body voted during the Sullivan ver-sus
Boyle race in 1983 while 59% voted during
the Kenneally versus McCarthy race last year.
Voting machines were used this year for the
first time during a FUSA election. The automat-ed
counters will be used during the final debate
on Tuesday as well.
The Mirror will sponsor a debate between Eng-lish
and Reed on Sunday night at 7:00 p.m. in
the Oakroom.
Flood Damages Campion Hall
by Chris Tyler
While "keying" into rooms to see that students
had evacuated Campion Hall, Paul Flynn, the RA
on Campion II, discovered awater cooler that was
spraying water on the second floor.
A fire alarm had been tripped at 2:50 a.m. Sun-day
when someone had sprayed an aerosol can
at one of the photo-electric cells. While entering
rooms to insure that no students remained in the
building, Mr. Flynn found the water cooler. "I heard
a spraying sound coming from around the corn-er
and I looked to see what it was. When I saw
the water fountain I could see water shooting up
from behind it.
Mr. Flynn stated that he called Carol Mansfield,
the Head Resident on duty Sunday night, to tell
her to get maintenance because of the water leak.
"Where the break in the pipe coming off the
walls was made, it was impossible to turn off the
water supply to the water fountain," said Flynn.
Maintenance was forced to shut off the supply
to the whole building. "The building had to emp-ty
of whatever water was in there and it came out
through the pipe."
Flynn attributed the damage done to malicious
vandalism and said that the water fountain ap-peared
to have been "pulled off the wall." Accord-ing
to Mr. Flynn, who spent the night helping with
the clean up and aiding maintenance crews, the
maintenance department was there in Campion
until 7:00 a.m.
Students in Campion Hall stated that the water
was as deep as two inches in the hall and some
rooms had water as deep as three inches. Stu-dents
put towels in front of their doors to prevent
the water from coming into their rooms.
The leak which occurred on the second floor
leaked water for about forty-five minutes, accord-ing
to Mr. Flynn. Water ran down the walls and
spread throughout the north end of the first floor.
Water leaked into student's rooms and soaked
clothing and other personal belongings. The sup-ply
room in Campion Hall is also reported to have
suffered damage from the cascade of water from
the second floor.
"We pulled the water fountain off the wall so
that we could get at the pipe," said Flynn. After
the cooler was pulled from the wall, buckets were
placed under the pipe to catch as much water as
possible.
A plumber was called in the early morning to
cap the pipe. According to Dan Remley, the cost
of the plumber and maintenance crews, as well
as the damage totals, will be figured into the
damage estimate for the building. "Each depart-ment
is adding up all their losses and then when
I get an itemized list, a final dollar value will be
assigned," said Remley.
Mr. Remley also stated that recovery from in-surance
will be looked into, but has not been aas
of yet. Remley also added that it was too soon
to tell what the extent of the damage was, but he
commented, "It's all being looked into."
Survey Guides Shuttle Schedule
by Thomas P. Moore
In a survey run by F.U.S.A.'s Student Legisla-ture
under the guidance of Michael McKeever,
'85, representative from the beach, various
proposals were sent to the Director of Transpor-tation,
Mr. Henry M. Stevens, and Mr. William P.
Schimpf, the Vice-President of Student Services
in reference to the possibility of setting up addi-tional
shuttle trips to the beach and changing the
times that some of the shuttles run. Also in the
works are continuing modifications for the times
that the shuttle goes to the townhouses. The sur-veys
were distributed at the end of last semester
and tallied recently. Mr. Stevens and Mr. Schimpf
having received the results Friday, February 1.
There will be a run to the beach added to the
current schedule as well as a change in one of
the bus' times. The new bus will go to the beach
at 12:45, getting back to campus in time for fifth
period which begins at 1:30. The schedule shift
occurred in the mid afternoon, changing the 3:00
shuttle to a 3:20 from the beach arriving on cam-pus
in time for seventh period at 3:30. This new
run will be done with the Prep by using a larger
bus to fit both the university students and the Prep
students.
These changes will go into effect on Mon-day,
February 11. After a month the additional run
to the beach at 12:45 will be dropped if there is
not an increase of students buying permits to ride
the shuttle. This semester, there are 150 less stu-dents
last year.
The times of the trips and the manner in which
they accommodate approximately a hundred and
fifty student beach residents and the three-hundred
townhouse residents create most of the
problems that have caused the proposal of
changes in the existing schedule of runs both on
and off campus.
Replying to the possibility that the current shut-tle
schedule is causing problems, Mr. Stevens
said, "Anyone who has a problem should let me
know. Most of the comments I get come from
drivers." Stevens expressed his desire to know
how well the schedule works with the students.
He explained that learning about a problem from
"Boos and Cheers" was not the way that he would
like to find out about an overloaded bus. He
stressed that he wanted students to come in and
tell him about any suggestions they might have.
At the beginning of the semester the staff of
drivers make notes of the time of each run and
of the number of riders aboard for each trip. This
way, Stevens said that the convenience of the
schedule that is set up can be checked.
Part of the proposals that Mike McKeever
presented to Mr. Schimpf and Mr. Stevens includ-ed
adding a pair of runs to the beach. Stevens
replied to that suggestion by saying that the budg-et
that he has to work with is limited to 13 runs.
Because of the minimal number of beach per-mits
(purchased by students), only a limited num-ber
of runs can be made. With the amount of
students who have bought tickets so far this
semester, there are not enough funds to add any
Continued on page 3
Long lines and crowded buses have caused the Department of Transportation to use larger
busses and make more frequent runs to accommodate the more heavily traveled hours of the
shuttle's schedule. [Photo by Karen Haney]