Mirror - Vol. 08, No. 26 - March 21, 1985

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Regis II R.A. Resigns
by Thomas P. Moore
Violence erupted on Regis II the night of March
7 in supposed reaction to the resignation of one
of their Resident Advisors, Kevin Peters. The
junior resigned after his implication with a write
up that occured one month ago at a party he at-tended
that had a keg.
The night following his resignation, Patrick
McHale the other R.A. on the floor, did not return
to Regis.
The Assistant Director of Housing, Dan Remly
made visits to the floor throughout the night and
into the early morning hours. Neither Remly nor
any member of the Regis housing staff caught
anyone inflicting the extensive destruction that
included numerous broken bathroom mirrors,
door windows, hall lights, as well as graffitti on
the walls.
Rev. John W. Keegan, S.J., the Director of
Housing reacted to the damage by calling seven
of the students who live on Regis II who have
previous records of discipline, to his office to
gather some information about what happened
on that destructive Thursday evening. He told
these seven students that he was considering
moving them off of the floor. Fr. Keegan described
his action by saying, "I chose seven. If I could
move all 63,1 would." He added, "They (the seven
called to Keegan's office) are not being punished
or being accused." The first year director of stu-dent
housing who will resign after this year, stress-ed
that the seven were selected randomnly.
The deposed R.A., Kevin Peters commented
on the loss of his job by saying, "I am kind of dis-appointed.
After seven months on the job, I finally
get to know them and I could not finish up what
I started." s
Commenting on Housing's decision to ask for
his resignation he said, "l disagree with the deci-sion.
I'm upset about it."
Peters went on to describe a previous incident
where he was caught drinking on duty for which
he received a warning. The incident that brought
out his resignation took place at a keg party where
he thought that the keg had been removed from
the premisis (a dorm room on campus.) While
Peters was inside the room an R.A., Thomas
Mercaldo of Kostka III, entered and found the keg
that Peters thought was taken out of the dorm.
Over their seven months as R.A.'s on Regis II,
Both Kevin Peters and Patrick McHale worked
with a floor that was one of the more destructive
of any on the quad last year. According to Peters,
the damage had decreased by a half compared
Regis II also suffered a freshman committing sui-cide
earlier in the first semester of this year.
Dr.'s Ross and Greenberg have become involved in activities outside their normal duties as
teachers. Ross (r), is involved in heart medication research while Greenberg (I), is currently
directing a young scholars program. [Photo by Donna Denfeld]
Ross Conducts Heart Research
Greenberg Directs Scholars Program
by Tom Quinn
Dr. Donald J. Ross Ph.D., Professor Biology,
is conducting scientific research on the effects
of certain heart medications on the muscles of
the heart and Dr. Donald W. Greenberg, Profes-sor
Politics, is directing a program on Fairfield's
Campus for intellectually gifted students from
area school systems.
Dr. Ross, in conjunction with adjunct research
professor Dr. Kurt Oster, M.D., has been study-ing
the effects of certain heart medications, known
as calcium channel blockers, on the human heart.
According to Ross, too much calcium in the sys-
Student Receives Scholarship
by Eileen Quirk
Jane Scarpeilino, a senior politics major from
North Providence Rhode Island, received the first
$1,000 John J. Sullivan Scholarship.
The scholarship, created by friends to honor
the man who was first selectman of Fairfield, from
1960-85, was given to Miss Scarpeilino due to her
high grade point average and her interest in poli-ties
and government service.
Scarpellino's interest in politics lead her to
Washington D.C. last semester where she served
as a professional intern with the Democratic Cam-paign
Committee. Her job consisted basically of
researching the opposition, and making video
tapes of them; namely Ronald Reagan. Miss
Scarpeilino is aware of any blunder of mistake
Reagan or any of his aides made during his cam-paign,
and she has numerous stories to tell. Her
internship was full-time in the D.C. area.
Miss Scarpeilino was awarded her scholarship
over the summer. Since the scholarship cannot
be applied for, and because this was its first year,
Scarpeilino expressed surprize when she heard
from the University that she was the recipient.
Never-the-less, she was happy and accepted the
award kindly.
Upon graduation, Miss Scarpeilino plans to do
some work in the Peace Corps with a non-profit
organization. The more distant future, she would
like very much to return to the D.C. area and at-tend
graduate school.
tern causes heart spasms. The drugs he is study-ing
prevent the calcium from building up in the
heart area.
Although these drugs have been on the mar-ket
and in use ince 1978, it is not fully understood
how they work. For the past two years, Dr.'s Ross
and Oster and Fairfield University have been try-ing
to establish what makes these heart drugs
effective.
Funding for this project is coming primarily from
private sources although some of the equipment
was obtained through grants from the Camp
Foundation. The research runs on a small budg-et
because most of the resources necessary were
already at Fairfield.
Ross has been at Fairfield since 1950 and has
been working on this research for the past two
years. Both Dr. Ross and Dr. Oster were the sub-ject
of a book, The XO Factor. When asked about
his motive for such research, his reply was out
of curiosity and a search for knowledge.
Dr. Donald Greenberg is the director of the
Young Scholars Program, a series of courses
designed for gifted and interested students, grade
6-9. The sessions are held on Saturday mornings
during both the fall and spring semesters and is
co-organized by Fairfield University and Cooper-ative
Educational Services of Norwalk. Neither
of these organizations fund this program; all
money comes from parental support. No credit
is given for the courses and they are designed
primarily to provide these interested students with
something they can't get in their regular school
systems. Dr. Greenberg said that the program had
a two-fold benefit: It provides prospective students
with a good impression of Fairfield and it is a pub-lic
service.
Greenberg's program has been in existence for
three years and has grown from a beginning en-rollment
of 18 students to an average of 100 stu-dents.
Dr. Ross's research is being paralleled by
few, the closest being the University of Penn-sylvania.
He finds his studies satisfying simply
because it uncovers new knowledge. When asked
if he had any advice for Fairfield students, he re-plied,
drink skim milk, it's safer.
Exxon Gives $30,500 For Ethics
by Ken Santopietro
Fairfield University is the recipient of a $30,500
grant from the Exxon Education Foundation to
promote the teaching of ethics in business
courses.
Using this award Fairfield University can now
establish the Institute of Business Ethics. Dr. Lisa
H. Newton, professor of philosophy and now
director of the Institute of Business Ethics, said,
"The Institute is a one time thing. It sets up a lit-tle
school, develops a little curriculum, gathers
material, does the instructing, collects the stu-dents'
papers, which are really their new course
curriculum plans, and has other faculty grade
them. When the workshop is over a report will be
made back to Exxon on the institute's success."
The Institute will conduct two weeks of workshops
this summer for seven members of the School
of Business faculty with the subject of the work-shops
being how to introduce ethics in the teach-ing
of undergraduate students.
Dr. Newton has said "Corporations try to de-velop
ethical principles for their decisions and we
want our courses to show tomorrow's business
executives how such decisions are reached."
The importance of the workshops is that the
education the School of Business faculty receives
through the institute will provide Fairfield Univer-sity's
undergraduates the nation's broadest range
of courses in ethics affecting majors in market-ing,
management, finance and informations sys-tems.
Dr. Newton said, "To the best of my
knowledge Fairfield U. is unique since it is the
only school that has a Fully intergrated range of
undergraduate ethics courses. We are now start-ing
to add the ethical dimension into majors still
thought of as vocations. Any course taught at Fair-field
U. reflects the tradition of a liberal arts edu-cation."
The School of Business already offers two
courses in Applied Ethics and its classes are run
by a business professor and a professor of
philosophy. Two professors work together teach-ing
an ethics class because as Dr. Newton says,
"Neither have the expertise to teach it alone. Our
program also has been helped by speakers
brought to the sGhool by other groups (i.e. Ralph
Nader)."
Inspired by this school's interest speakers such
as S. Bruce Smart, recently resigned as chair-man
of the Continental Group, Inc., John Henske,
CEO of the Olin Corporation and John F. Akers,
President of IBM, have spoken on campus on the
subject of ethics to students and to the commu-nity
in public lectures.
If the Institution works out, Dr. Newton said, "We
may apply for grants in the future to create simi-lar
institutes in nursing and communications."
Keegan Leaves Housing
Rev. John W. Keegan. S.J. has decided to leave his position in Student Services.
[Photo by Chris Tyler]
by Stephen J. Humes
After serving as Director of Student Residences
since August 1, Rev. John W. Keegan, S.J. has
decided to leave the university community for per-sonal
reasons.
Fr. Keegan announced his decision to the resi-dent
advisors on Monday at their weekly meeting.
Fr. Keegan said, "I have decided to leave, and
my reasons are personal." Fr. Keegan declined
to comment further.
Vice-President of Student Services William P.
Schimpf discussed the procedure for replacing
the Director of Student Residences this Tuesday.
Mr. Schimpf said, "Dean Krell and I will interview
the candidates. The new director will start July 1."
Mr. Schimpf added that they are looking for
someone with a minimum of a master's degree
in Higher Eduction or Counseling and significant
experience in student housing.
Both Mr. Schimpf and Mr. Krell will be attend-ing
the meeting of the American College Person-nel
Association (ACPA) in Boston to screen
candidates for the position. The conference is
meeting from March 23-27 and will be attended
by numerous job-seeking individuals, Mr. Schimpf
said.
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