Mirror - Vol. 09, No. 17 - November 14, 1985

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FairfieldMIRRORv Volume 9, No. 17 Thursday, November 14, 1985 The Image of Fairfield
WVOF wattage increases
by Connie McKenna
Fairfield University's student operated
radio station increased its broadcasting
power to 100 watts as of last week.
The new equipment which WVOF
received consists of turntables, cassette
players and reel-to-reel tape players as well
tionmagagerShaun .O'Leary calls "a com-pletely
new FM studio."WVOF will now
pletely new FM studio." WVOF will now
be broadcasting in stereo instead of mono,
and weekend listeners report reception from
as far away as the coastal areas of Long Is-land.
OLeary states, "We still have a few
problems with interference to work out, but
we're also considered raising our antenna
to pick up the locations we may have lost
by going to stereo." Some of the interfer-ence
is coming from WNHU, which is lo-cated
close to WVOF at 88.7 on the radio
dial.
WVOF disc jockeys will have to under-go
a short orientation to familiarize them-selves
with the new equipment. Says
O'Leary, "Obviously our DJs should know
what the new equipment is and how it
should be used before they start broadcast-ing.
The informal orientation is to make
them feel comfortable with the new
equipment."
Purchased from Harris Company, the
new equipment cost about $100,000 and
was funded by the University. Harris Com-pany
in turn sub-contracted Radio Systems
to install the equipment, who worked two
days to set up the new studio. O'Leary as-serted,
however, that "two weeks is an op-timistic
estimate of how long it'll take before
we're fully operational, since we still have
soundproofing to do and a few loose ends
to tie up." WVOF's equipment was installed last week. [Photo by Jamie Given]
Freshman SAT scores higher every year
A profile compiled of the freshman class
at Fairfield University shows that the aver-age
score on the Scholastic Achievement
Test (SAT) was 1094, an increase of 16
points over last year, according to David
M. Flynn, dean of admissions.
In addition, he reported that 41 percent
of the freshmen were in the top tenth of their
high school classes and the average student
ranked in the top 20 percent of the high
school class. In contrast, in last year's fresh-man
class 33 percent were in the top tenth
of their high school class and the average
for all freshmen was the top 22 percent of
their high school class.
The 750 students in the freshman class
were drawn from 5,689 applications, a
record for Fairfield University placing the
university among the most competitive in
the United States for admission.
Dean Flynn said that the average score
for the freshmen in the class of 1989 on the
nationwide SAT was 567 for math skills and
527 for verbal. The test is scored from a
minimum of 200 to a maximum of 800. Last
year, the class of 1988 averaged 564 for
Sadies to be one floor
by Kathryn King
Traditionally, the Sadie Hawkins dance
has been a two floor dance, but this year
the dance will be held only in the cafeteria.
A.E.D. has always run the dance in the
past, but has never run two floors before,
accoding to Christa Lamy, president of
A.E.D. Last year, they split the dance with
FUSA. They decided to run the entire dance
this year, but after a meeting four weeks
ago, they realized they did not have the
money to run two floors. "We just can't run
two floors," said Lamy. They told Kim
Hale, the assistant director of the campus
center three weeks ago.
"It's not A.E.D.'s fault. I just wish they
had been able to find out earlier," said Hale.
FUSA may have been able to do something
about it. She said that on November sixth,
A.E.D. told her they could not afford to run
the dance. A.E.D. asked FUSA to either
loan them the money or take ove*r the Oak
Room portion of the dance. FUSA decided
not to finance the Oak Room.
FUSA has taken a substantial loss on ev-ery
event and did not want to risk losing
money. They even lost money on Harvest,
which usually sells out. According to Hale,
it would cost about 4,000 more dollars to
run another floor of the dance.
Lamy said, "We run dances to raise
money for a convention in Ohio. We can't
afford to take a loss on the dance. With one
floor, we're hoping it will sell out." A.E.D.
had never run both floors before.
Hale said that it is difficult for clubs to
run both an upstairs and downstairs dance.
"They don't have the people power. You
can't always expect clubs to be able to run
the dances because sometimes they can't."
She said, "We're looking at a restructuring
of activities." A new policy on who runs
the dances is in the proposal state.
The Commuters will be playing at the
dance on November 23rd.Tickets for the
Sadie Hawkins dance will be on sale be-tween
9 a.m: and 4 p.m. on November
19th. Tickets will cost fifteen dollars per
couple.
math and 514 for verbal, a total of 1078.
The national average for students tested in
April of this year is a total of 906, an in-crease
of 9 points over 1984
Further analyzing the freshman class,
Dean Flynn said 51 percent of the students
attended a private school and 49 percent
public school, and that women outnumber
the men 53 to 47 percent.
The students come from 25 states and ter-ritories
of the United States and only 37 per-cent
are from Connecticut, the second
lowest ever for Fairfield which was a com-muter
college when it accepted its first class
in 1947. In the class of 1988, 35 percent
were Connecticut residents.
Dean Flynn noted that the growth in the
number of applications reflects the grow-ing
recognition of the university as a Jesuit
institution that encourages academic excel-lence
and traditional values. He said the
university selects students based on their
high school grade average and class stand-ing,
SAT scores and personal interview.
For the first time, Fairfield will enroll
students from Hawaii, Utah and South
Carolina. The bulk of the students continue
to be drawn from the Northeast with 292
students from Connecticut; 202 from New
York; 106 from New Jersey; and 101 from
Massachusetts.
Among the states that show increases are
Illinois with 8 freshmen; Ohio 8; New
Hampshire 9; Florida 5. Approximately 70
students will be commuters and the others
will live in eight residential halls on
campus.
According to Dean Flynn, in the College
of Arts and Sciences, 161 students are un-
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Oak room policy changes
Mr. Fitzpatrick discusses the Oak Room policies. [Photo by Jamie Given]
by Kathryn King
Bringing the Stag-Her Inn into the Oak
Room, a policy proposed by FUSA, was
accepted by Jim Fitzpatrick, Assistant dean
of Student Activities, and Mr.William
Schimpf, dean of Student Activities.
A temporary drinking policy was put in
effect by the Department of University ac-tivities,
this summer, according to Fitz-patrick
. With this policy, there was drinking
only in the Stag-Her during Oak Room
events. "It was up to FUSA to come to us
with changes and suggestions," said Fitz-patrick:
We were "frustrated with the policy and
with the fact that students couldn't do any-thing
about it," said John Mancini, Vice
President of Student Life for FUSA. Two
of this year's Oak Rooms were barely at-tended.
Even the popular Halloween Dance
didn't sell out. John Mancini, with the help
of John Shine, co-director of Arts and Lec-tures,
Chris Ritchie, chairman of
C.O.S.O., and Brian Flaherty,
troubleshooter, researched other colleges
and their drinking policies at events. They
formulated three proposals and presented
them to Fitzpatrick on October ninth.
In the memo sent to Fitzpatrick, Manci-ni
argued that the temporary policy of
drinking only in the Stag-Her "promoted
drinking for the sake of drinking." With the
drinking section in the Oak Room, students
would be socializing.
Three proposals were submitted. The
first proposal is to bring the Stag-Her into
the Oak Room. Part ofthe Oak Room would
be sectioned off for people of the legal age
to drink. The second proposal promoted
responsible drinking in the Oak Room.
Lower volume alcohol beer would be sold
and students would be restricted in the num-ber
of beers purchased. The third proposal
concerned the major dances. With cash
bars, only beer and wine would be sold.
Fitzpatrick and Schimpf accepted the first
proposal with modifications. "I'm very
comfortable with the policy," said Fitz-patrick.
"Those students of legal age have
the opportunity to drink. We don't want to
penalize the legal students."
The revised alcohol regulations state that
"the Stag-Her Inn will be moved on a tem-porary
basis to the south section of the Oak
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INSIDE THIS WEEK
News 1,2,3
Editorials 5
Politics 6, 7
Internships 8, 9
Features 10
Science Week 11
A&E 12
Crosswords 14
Classifieds 14
Doonesbury 14
Sports 15, 16