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Legislature Elects Officers
Incorporated 1977
by Stephen J. Humes
Student Legislature held elections for officers
last Thursday night, April 18, in the Faculty Din-ing
Room of the Campus Center.
Bill Rowan, this year's legislature president,
presided over the election which is conducted by
the representative members of the legislature.
Fran Reed was elected as next year's president
of the legislature after being the only one nomi-nated
for the position. Elected to the position of
vice-president was Doug Green '86. Four other
candidates were nominated to the number-two
position. Lynn Boland '86 was opposed by one
other candidate but secured a seat as treasurer
of the legislature. Eileen Corbliss '86 was elect-ed
secretary and Kim Fletcher selected for the
position of director of correspondence and pub-lic
relations.
Each of the positions was filled by a nomina-tion,
followed by popular vote of the represented
legislators who were elected earlier this year to
represent the dormitories, commuters, off-campus
boarders, and the townhouses.
Student Legislature is one of three branches
of F.U.S.A., the other two are the executive "and
the judicial branches.
The elected officers have taken their respec-tive
positions and retain their offices until the fall
when they may be elected again by their consti-tuents.
Fran Reed announced the appointments to the
executive board. The executive board is madeup
of chairpersons of the three divisions of
legislature—appropriations, government oper-ations,
and judiciary. Michelle McCahill, '86 was
appointed by Fran to appropriations, Carmine An-zellone
'86 was appointed to government opera-tions,
the judiciary division will be managed by
Peter Fay '87.
Telephone Number Changes
by Chris Tyler
Fairfield University announced that effective
July 1 a new phone number for the school will
be implemented.
The old phone number 255-5411 is being
replaced by a more business-like number of
254-4000. The new phone number will also bring
some changes to the phone system employed by
the university. According to the Director of Pur-chasing,
George Moloney, the move was made
to relieve the congestion on the switchboard. Ac-cording
to Moloney, Direct Inward Dialing (DID)
will be possible to departments with a high fre-quency
of calls. Gary Will, personnel specialist
in the Department of Human Resources, said,
"The switchboard gets tied up answering ques-tions
and not directing calls. The switchboard was
set up to direct calls throughout the university."
Will cites growth of the university as a reason for
the overloading of the university's switchboard.
Billing for the new service will still be handled
through the university despite the fact that some
departments will receive their own phone num-bers.
The separate numbers will allow callers to
access a particular department directly. Final cost
estimates for the installation, according to
Moloney, will be available in approximately two
weeks. Legislative officers Fran Reed, Douglas Green and Eileen Corbliss recently anounced the new
student legislature members. [Photo by Karen Haney]
Senior Mary Beth Curtis performed before an
Oak Room crowd on Thursday, April 11. The
evening was an enormous success. See page
11 for story.
Southwell Hall Changes Hands
by Stephen J. Humes
Campus Ministry will be moving from South-well
Hall and the building will be renovated to ac-comodate
the offices of Alumni Relations, said
Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., university president
Tuesday.
Fr. Kelley announced his decision to Rev. Fran-cis
J. Moy, S.J., university chaplain, on April 1.
He cited space and usage as the reason for the
move.
"There is a need to provide better space for
the advancement division. There has been a re-quest
for a house by Alumni to establish an "Alum-ni
House," said Fr. Kelley.
Fr. Moy and Rev. J. Randall Sachs, S.J., assis-tant
professor of Religious Studies, are currently
living in this two-story dwelling which is situated
on the southwest end of the campus adjacent to
the playhouse. Both must vacate the building by
July 1.
Southwell Hall has been used by Campus
Chris McGuinness and Jeff Gromos were both named recently to the Metro Atlantic Ath-letic
Conference All-Academic women's and men's basketball teams respectively. The award
is given to athletes with excellent academic standing.
[Photo by Michelle Byrd]
Ministry for the last four yars as an all-purpose
meetingplace. Campus Ministry's main offices are
on Loyola ground. Last year. Campus Ministry be-gan
a new program called the "ministry of Hospi-tality"
in which students could sign-up and eome
down to the house in small groups for dinner. Stu-dent
members of the Ministry of Hospitality serve
as hosts along with one of the chaplains from
Campus Ministry.This program has grown rapid-ly
since it first began.
"As of today, we have served dinner to 524 stu-dents
this year alone," said Fr. Moy.
Fr. Kelley explained that by making Southwell
into an Alumni House, it will get much more use.
The offices will be open daily, and then there will
be room for Alumni gatherings and small meet-ings
on evenings and weekends. Fr. Kelley ad-ded
that some of the things Campus Ministry used
Southwell for can be duplicated in other areas
on campus. He cited the McElaney Room of the
Campus Center as an example of a place where
meetings and meals can take place.
Richard Popilowski, Director of Alumni Rela-tions,
said, "I think it is a question of space, and
who can best use it." He added, "This allows us
some great opportunities, like better meetings and
receptions for the Alumni."
Fr. Moy, however, felt differently. "We are very
saddened by this in terms of the work of Cam-pus
Ministry. We aren't sure yet what we can and
can't continue to do for the students." He added,
"We're losing a place for small prayer groups and
masses. We had many picnics outside in the yard
too. We were trying to create an aspect of shar-ing
a meal together... we try to create a commu-nity
where we can experience love."
Walter Petry, Jr., Assistant Professor of Histo-ry
said, "it is an outrageous travesty, especially
when they call it a 'Catholic' and a 'Jesuit' univer-sity."
He continued, "It's a superb indication... it
really tells you where the hart and soul of the
university is." Petry said that Campus Ministry is-doing
a wonderful job on campus and that to do
this to them is a grave injustice.
Students who participate in the many different
activities of Campus Ministry wil miss using
Southwell Hall. Linda Federici '86, an active par-ticipant
in Campus Ministry said, "It is a ques-tion
of values, and one thing is certain—Fr. Kelley
Continued on page 2
Task Force Fights Fire Alarms
by Chris Tyler
Tom Kushner, a Resident Advisor on Loyola III,
has recently been appointed to the F.U.S.A. cabi-net
position of Director of Student Services and
is currently developing a task force to address
the problem of false alarms across campus.
The committee will be comprised of seven
members coming from the executive, judicial and
legislative branches of F.U.S.A., with members
coming from Student Residences, the RA staff,
Dorm Council Chairpersons and the student
body. Kushner, the executive branch represen-tative,
will be the chair of the committee. Its ob-jectives
will be to address the problem, develop
a deterrent program and educate the students as
to the dangers and consequences of false alarms.
Said Kushner, "A situation exists that is a source
of problems all across campus."
The committee will be meeting once this
semester to begin working on their objectives list.
A decision will be made at that time to determine
the frequency of the committee's meetings.
Kushner's cabinet positon is the merging of the
old positions of Housing and Food and Health that
were designed under Fran Kenneally, former
F.U.S.A. president. According to Kushner, Jim En-glish,
the present F.U.S.A. president, approached
him with the idea and he has "gotten the ball roll-ing
on the project." Students interested in the stu-dent
body position on the committee can contact
Kushner at Box P or in the F.U.S.A. office.
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