Mirror - Vol. 09, No. 10 - September 26, 1985

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Fairfield
Volume 9, No. 10 MIRRORy Thursday, September 26, 1985 The Image of Fairfield
Noise ordinance
affects beach
by Kathryn King
In July, the town of Fairfield put a noise
ordinance into effect. Between the hours of
ten p.m. and seven a.m. Sunday through
Thursday and between eleven p.m. and
eight a.m. Friday and Saturday, it is un-lawful
to have noise levels above certain
decibels. Noise levels cannot go above
forty-five decibels in a residential area.
If a complaint is made, the police will go
to the site of the party to determine if there's
noise. If there is, the sound meter is sent.
If the noise registers above the acceptable
level, the police will give a verbal warn-ing.
If the police have to return, an infrac-tion
notice will be given. The first offense
carries a fine of fifty dollars. Each addi-tional
offense within a twenty-four hour
period will cost ninety dollars.
Captain Robert P. Comers said, "Resi-dents
of the beach wanted some method of
curtailing loud beach parties and distur-bances."
In a meeting with the Chief Prosecutor
of a Superior Court in Bridgeport, Isaac
Murov, and RTM, the Fairfield town
government, an ordinance was suggested.
With this ordinance, a neighbor can make
a complaint "without having to put his name
on a piece of paper," said Comers.
Before the ordinance was passed, a.per-son
had to sign a complaint against the peo-ple
having a party. People were fearful of
retribution. With the noise ordinance, a
resident "can make an anonymous call," said
Comers.
Captain Comers said that only a few
warnings have been given. "I can say almost
positively no tickets have been given." He
said that "it appears that students are con-cerned
about the problem. That will help
the situation." He noted that a lot of students
asked questions about the ordinance at the
beach meeting held last Tuesday.
Club participation stressed
by Stephen Muggeo
The Council of Student Organizations
(C.O.S.O.) initiated "Operation Participa-tion"
for the 1985-86 school year. The cam-paign
hopes to increase student involvement
in University clubs, teams, and different or-ganizations.
Chris Ritchie, C.O.S.O.'s
chairman, and Mike Voytek, chairman of
"Operation Participation," sum up the goal
of the program: "to get every student in-volved
in some sort of activity on campus."
"Operation Participation" meetings have
been held throughout the first few weeks
of school. Booths of various athletic and
academic organizations are set up to dis-play
what the club has to offer. The meet-ings
give a chance for the student to learn
more about clubs that they are interested
in, and they can also sign up to begin to get
involved. Other aspects of "Operation Par-ticipation"
are the pink booklets that the pro-gram
distributed throughout the student
body. The booklets describe all the clubs
that the school has to offer. Also, interest
slips were given out which allowed the stu-dent
to write down the clubs he or she is
interested in and the clubs will get in touch
with the student via mail or a phone call.
"Operation Participation" has been a suc-cessful
program. Students have found the
club fairs to be interesting and useful in get-ting
involved in new activities in Univer-stiy
life. For Freshmen it is an easy way
to see what is offered and to meet new peo-ple
with the same interest. The title of the
program is the essence of what it is trying
to increase: participation.
Accounting Department
Receives New Software
Ken Santopietro Cooper's and Lybrand
(C&L), one of the big groups of eight na-tional
accounting firms, had donated its own
brand of accounting computer software to
Fairfield University. The software made
available by C&L is a custom package, ac-tually
used in the market place. There were
ten pilot schools working with C&L soft-ware
last year and Fairfield is among the
second ten schools this year. C&L is giv-ing
accounting students the educational
source they need to understand by integrat-ing
the C&L computer concepts into the
classroom.
Professors Allinger and Lyngass attend-ed
C&L training sessions over the summer
to learn to use the software. Professor Lyn-gass
has emphasized that the Accounting
Department, is committed to getting com-puters
into applications. Accounting classes
this semester, in most sections, will be us-ing
the new software and testing out the
results. Some classes and other subjects
(i.e. economics) will also be using the Lo-
Beach residents have to curb excessive noise. [Photo by Karen Haney]
Refugees to tell story
by of Susan Connery,
Assistant Chaplain
Campus Ministry
From September 9th through the 30th,
a car caravan of between 17 and 25 Salvado-ran
and Guatemalan refugees will travel
through the six New England states, stop-ping
in approximately 30 towns and cities.
These refugees have expressed a desire to
travel and give testimony about their ex-periences
both in the U.S. and in their
homelands. The Caravan will be highly
visible, dramatic event. It will reach and
touch many New Englanders who have
never met a Central American, nor heard
testimony about the conditions in Central
America which cause hundreds of thou-sands
of its people to flee. The Caravan is
timed to pressure Congress just prior to the
Foreign Aid Appropriations vote. It will
also highlight the plight of refugees in the
United States and help to generate support
for the Moakley-DeConcini Bill, that would
provide legal status for the 5000,000 Sal-vadoran
refugees now in the U.S., as well
as other refugee bills.
On Sunday, September 29, Fairfield
University's Campus Ministry Office and
the following co-sponsors: Fairfield
University's Special Events, Politics
Department, Latin American and Caribbe-an
Studies Program, Society of Phi Kappa
Theta, Latin American Studies Club and the
Faith and Justice Steering Committee in-vite
the Fairfield University at large to listen
to the stories oftwo refugees. The speakers
will be a Guatemalan and Salvadoran refu-gee.
The event will be from 2:30-3:30pm
in Loyola Chapel.
The New England Caravan is one ofthree
caravans travelling through the U.S. this
fall. On October 9, the New England
Caravan will arrive in Washington, D.C.
where it will converge with two caravans
originating from the West coast. Important
pieces of legislation will be before Congress
at this time. Caravan participants will meet
with Senators and Congressional Represen-tatives
on October 10 to discuss their con-cerns
over Central America.
tus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software package that
Fairfield University purchased.
On September 12, Fairfield was
represented at a convention in New York
City where the pilot schools reported their
progress and expectations on the program.
Among the other schools in attendance were
the likes of Rutgers, UMass, and Cal
State,etc. The main question brought up at
the convention was a concern by Profes-sors
about where their students will learn
to use computers. Professor Lyngass said,
"The accounting teachers want to teach ac-counting
in the classroom, not computers,
and such a computer program like Lotus
1 -2-3 is not the kind of thing that works in
a lecture program." Students, therefore, are
told they will have to spend their own time
to experiment with the computers.
With the new software donated by C&L
and with the aquisition of Lotus software
by Fairfield University, more marketable
skills have been added to the education of
our students.
WVOF the student radio station located in Regis Hall, was placed on probation last week,
as a result of the stations Trivia Contest during Orientation. See story next week.
[Photo by Jamie Given]