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Arts-Sciences Dean Chosen
Dr. David C. Danahar, director of general edu-cation
at the State University of New York at Os-wego,
has been appointed dean of the Fairfield
University College of Arts and Sciences effective
July 1, it was announced by the Rev. Aloysius P.
Kelley, S.J., university president. He succeeds Dr.
Stephen L. Weber who was named academic vice
president of St. Cloud State University in Min-nesota.
Dr. Kanahar is also professor of history at SUNY,
with emphasis on modern European history. He
holds a bachelor of arts degree from Manhattan
College and a master of arts from the University
of Massachusetts and studied at the University
of Vienna, Oxford University and the University
of Massachusetts for his doctorate.
As director of general education at SUNY, Dr.
Danahar was reponsible for the administration
and evaluation of the academic contribution of
27 departments to the general education curric-ulum.
He has also served as acting associate
dean of arts and sciences; chairman of the board
of directors for the honors program; coordinator
of social sciences; and assistant to the chairman
of the history department. He taught at SUNY
since 1970, was an assistant professor of history
at the University of Massachusetts and visiting
lecturer at the University of Parma, Italy, and visit-ing
assistant professor at the University of Pisa-
State University of New York in Pisa, Italy.
Father Kelley commented. "Dr. Danahar brings
to Fairfield considerable experience in review of
curricula and demonstrated academic ledership.
I look forward to our association."
He added, "Dr. Kurt Schlichting, as acting
dean, has provided outstanding service to the
University and I thank him for his many contribu-tions
during the current academic year."
Kelley Announces Tuition
Increase For 1985-1986
by Thomas P. Moore
In a letter released on Monday, March 25,
Rev. Aloysius R Kelley, S.J., university presi-dent
announced that Fairfield's '85^8$ tuition
would rise by less than ten percent. A special
rise in tuition for the incoming freshman class
as well as increases in the fees for room and
board and rent at the town houses were includ-ed
in the plan.
Full time undergraduate tuition will rise to
$6,700 while the freshman amount will go-higher
to $6,900. Room and board will go up
to $3,730 and rental fees at the townhouses
will increase to $2,730.
The factors that led the university to in-crease
the freshman tuition more than the
regular tuition include a higher cost to the
university to educate the members of the new-ly
incoming class. The figure of $1,300 was
given to describe the amount of money that
is not covered per student by tuition. Among
other sources, the gap is made up by annual
fundraising.
The increased tuition rate will provide funds
for what Fr. Kelley called new faculty positions,
faculty and staff salaries as well as library ac-quisitions,
scientific equipment and deferred
maintainance. These targets for increased
funding are some of the priorities that went
unaddressed and were underfunded in past
years.
Graduation Schedule Changes
See page 12 for Lacrosse article.
[Photo by Amani Hefzallah]
by Thomas P. Moore
Commencement exercises this year will be held
in the morning hour of 10:30 on Sunday May 19.
The Baccaulaureate Mass will be held the previ-ous
afternoon at 4:00. Both of these measures
are changes from last year's agenda that were
formulated by a committee of; Rev. Christopher
Mooney, S.J., the Academic Vice President; Rev.
John J. Higgins, S.J., the Executive Assistant to
the President; Fran Kenneally, F.U.S.A. President;
and others. Activities for the week before the
graduation of the class of '85, traditionally called
Senior Week, are being slated by chairpersons,
Tom Begley and Marie Mateos.
The changes in the commencement activities
were designed for three reasons according to Fr.
Mooney. Mentioning the fact that most universi-ties
hold their commencements in the morning
and that the crowd of guests will be able to eat
their lunch at a more convenient time were his
first two reasons. Thirdly, the morning commence-ment
provide the best time to "Keep as much ord-er
possible," in the words of Fr. Mooney.
Mooney described last year's behavior at the
ceremonies as, "Not being a credit to the univer-sity,"
and, "It was not what you would expect of
Fairfield students," Mooney said these comments
in reference to the loud cheering and evidence
of champagne bottles and alcohol.
Discussions this fall between Kenneally and Fr.
Mooney delved into the possibilities of changing
Achievement Awards Preparation Begins
by Ken Santopietro
Plans are now being made for the 6th annual
College of Arts and Sciences awards competition.
Four awards are given in each of the following
catagories: Natural Science and Math, Social
Sciences, Humanities, and Visual/Expressive Art.
"The purpose of giving these awards and their
$250 cash prizes," said Dr. Kurt C. Schlichting,
Dean of the college of Arts and Sciences, "is to
recognize outstanding work done by undergradu-ates
at the university."
Many faculty members of Fairfield University
view the Arts and Sciences awards ceremony as
the highlight of the academic year. In addition to
the four major awards, Fairfield University profes-sors
will award many departmental achievement
awards for outstanding merit. Last year thirty-nine
awards were presented at the ceremony.
"The importance and significance of an Arts
and Sciences award given to a deserving student
can not be emphasized enough," noted
Schlichting.
The award recipients may invite a guest of their
choice. However, those who wish to attend and
are not recipients must be Dean's List students.
"The entry which is made in the Arts and
Sciences awards competition," says Schlichting,
"is a project the entrant is proud of, feels good
about and may be a completed piece that is not
necessarily part of a present course." Entries in
the Arts competition range from creative to team
projects while entries in the Sciences include
many significant experiments. In some cases,
usually within the Sciences, Dean Schlichting ex-plained,
projects are entered in which the student
was normally conferring with a professor on
his/her project's progress. This is now the regu-lations
of the competition. Realistically, it is quite
improbable that a single student does an in-depty
study of a discipline he/she is not fully capable
of doing alone.
In the task of applicant judging, it is possible
for the committees to chose more than four award-winning
entries. "They (committee judges) try to
be flexible and fair," says Dean Schlichting." The
judgements that have to be made are often very,
very difficult." He added that the three awards
committees include faculty members who are ex-perts
in the division that they are judging. Each
Fall, new committee members are elected, there-by
rotating different professors in and out of com-mittee.
Dean Schlichting highlights the Arts and
Sciences ceremony as a holiday, stating, "Mem-bers
of this university are very, very interested in
stimulating the academic atmosphere of the
university. We recognize the difference between
the social and intellectual life offered to our stu-dents
and this (ceremony) gives us all a chance
to celebrate scholarship."
Applications are stilt available in the College
of Arts and Sciences' office on the 1st floor of
Canisius. The deadline for entry is April 4th. This
year's distinguished speaker for the event has not
been announced.
the times of the ceremonies. Through their meet-ing
it was decided that it would be better to go
back to the older way of holding the commence-ment
exercises in the morning hours.
From eight to ten years ago the commencement
was moved into the afternoon, with the Baccalure-ate
mas being held a few hours before the receiv-ing
of the diplomas. The time left in between the
day left time for the hundreds of chance for guests
and students on campus to picnic and tailgate.
In the opinions of Mooney and Higgins it is bet-ter
to leave the lunch time open for people to get
their own meal off campus. There are not suffi-cient
facilities to feed everyone that afternoon on
campus.
Higgins theorized that the earlier starting time
will mean less drinking or at least less than last
year.
The plans for senior week are starting on read-ing
day with a senior Jesuit social and then the
Wednesday before graduation there will be a
senior brunch followed by a pub night that even-ing.
On Thursday there will be a picnic at Sher-wood
Island with a possible free day following on
Friday afternoon closing. The senior semi-formal
will be Friday night. Saturday there will be a
parents-senior dance. The tickets price for the
whole deal should be less than last year accord-ing
to Marie Mateos. She said ticket prices may
be around fifty dollars.
Drive For Five Nears Goal
by Stephen J. Humes
Fran Kenneally got more than he asked for
when he stood up to the microphone at Monday
night's Leadership Banquet to introduce Alumni
Association President Ed Fitzgerald. He got a
check for $1,000.
The Alumni Association contributed to the cost
of the F.U.S.A. sponsored event itself, but the real
contribution came in the form of recognition
to Fran Kenneally and his administration on the
year's performance. The $1,000 grant was
presented to help F.U.S.A. reach their "Drive For
Five" goal of $5,000 for an endowment scholar-ship
fund. Each year the interest earned on the
$5,000 base will be used for the scholarship.
Fran Kenneally said, "This generous gill nas
made it possible for us to reach our goal. For the
last three months, I've been seeing the words
"Drive For Five" in my dreams, and now its wi-thin
our grasp."
Other activities at the banquet included a spe-cial
guest speech by Mayor of Bridgeport, Lenard
Paoletta who spoke on the importance of good
leadership. He cited his work in Bridgeport on im-proving
the Police Department as an example of
leadership which is controversial, but working.
The invocation at this third annual event was
delivered by Fairfield University President Aloy-sius
P. Kelley.
John Mancini and Ellen Ullo organized the
event which included a full dinner. John Mancini
presented the awards.
Trash Fires Continue
Fairfield fire equipment responded to Claver Hall early Tuesday morning during the third trash
fire to hit Claver/Kostka in as many weeks. Pictured here is a car parked in the fire lane over-night
which was never towed from the "tow-away" zone.
[Photo by Stephen J. Humes]
by Stephen J. Humes
Claver Hall was filled with smoke by 3:00 a.m.
Tuesday as a trash-filled drum burned on in the
first-floor lounge. Security received the alarm at
3:03 a.m.
As always, the loudly-ringing buzzer brings with
it feelings of anger and annoyance for students
living in the building. But for the second time in
three weeks, the feeling was different when the
students realized the alarm was real.
This most recent incident was the third trash
can fire in Claver and Kostka in as many weeks.
Director of Security Vincent Brennan said that on
March 4 at 6:04 a.m., the same thing happened.
"When it happened then, we thought it might have
been an accident." But on March 18 at 1:30 a.m.
a trash can fire broke out on the first floor mens
side in a maintenance washroom. Mr. Brennan
said, "After the second one, we knew it wasn't
an accident."
After this third fire, Mr. Brennan feels the same
person is responsible. "We have a witness who
saw someone running from Claver as the alarm
was sounded." He added, "there are very simi-lar
MOs in each of these."
Mr. Brennan explained that anytime a crime is
committed, it is under the jurisdiction of Fairfield
Police. "An Arson squad detective is on the case,
and we're going to help any way we can."
No one was injured on Tuesday, but on March
18, a security officer and an RA were treated and
released from the hospital for smoke inhalation.
Mr. Brennan said that no one was injured in the
fire on March 4.
"We're very concerned for the safety of the stu-dents.
I don't like any fire because it is unpredict-able
and can get out of hand, Mr. Brennan sair1