Mirror - Vol. 09, No. 22 - January 30, 1986

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FairfieldMIRRORy Volume 9, No. 22 Thursday, January 30,1986 The Image of Fairfield
by Kathryn King
New townhouses will be built by 1988. [Photo by Karen Haney]
New townhouses will be buil
originally planned, according to Dr. Ba-rone,
Provost. Another set of townhouses
will be built between the first set of town-houses
and McAuliffe Hall.
Additional townhouses are part of the
Master plan but originally they were going
to built at a later time. The university is
making an attempt to construct them by
September 1987. If they are not ready then
they will be constructed by September
1988.
"Given the institutional needs and student
concerns the second date is nearer to origi-nal
projections,' said Barone.
In the third set of townhouses each house
will have three bedrooms housing six stu-dents
instead of four as they do now. Ba-rone
cited -rising construction cosBrforthe
Teason for the change in number.
He said that they are making plans to ac-comodate
168 students. He would like to
pull 100 students off the beach and would
like to take care of the 62 students in Julie
Hall in case the lease isn't negotiated. 28
new townhouses will be in varying clusters
depending on the land.
The land in the area behind the tower
and McAuliffe Hall will have to be cleared.
There are a lot of walls in there," said Ba-rone.
There is an underground heating sys-tem
that has been abandoned for over fifty
years. "We'll be making good use of land
that was utilized for other purposes." The
plateau that McAuliffe Hall is on will have
to be expanded. Fletcher Thompson, the ar-chitects
who built the other townhouses has
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Freshman Orientation process begins with selections
by Ann Sullivan
The class of 1990 will have a new color
cover for their Freshmen Record, said
Jeanne Osbourne, Director of Orientation.
Osbourne said that students have shown
so much more enthusiasm this past year,
that she wanted to capture it for the incom-ing
freshmen. So, she said, what better way
to capture spirit at Fairfield than at a Stags'
basketball game? On February 1, at the
game against Iona, a photograph will be
taken of the end student section, and this
photograph will serve as the cover for the
Freshman Record for the class of 1990. Os-bourne
said that she hopes to see the stands
packed with students wearing red and
white, shouting for the Stags. The photo-graph
will be taken at half-time.
Besides this upgrading ofthe publication
of the Freshmen Record, the Orientation
selection process has also started. The Co-
Lease Seminar to be held
The Fairfield University Student Associ-ation
will sponsor a Seminar on Leases and
Realty Practices on Tuesday, February 4,
1986, at 4:00 p.m. in the Nursing Audito-rium.
The objective of the seminar is to in-troduce
students who are planning to move
off-campus to the particulars of real estate
leases. Additionally, topics concerning the
process of finding a house along with com-mon
realty practices will also be discussed
by a local real estate agent.
Tom Kushner, FUSA Director ofStudent
Services, is organizing the event and feels
it is worthwhile and important endeavor.
"Students moving to the beach may not be
aware of many circumstances inherent in
renting a house. This forum will give them
an opportunity to have some questions an-swered
along with increasing awareness of
their rights," explained Kushner.
Kushner added, "We are encouraging ex-isting
off-campus borders to attend to have
their questions as a result of some real-life
experiences answered."
Senior Mary Duffy, a resident of Lan-tern
Point, exclaimed, "I think I would have
been in a better position of knowing my
rights had a meeting like this been held last
year. Just knowing a little more than one
normally knows would have eased my mind
a bit.!"
"I may stay here in Fairfield county after
graduation, knowing something about real
estate practices will provide me with rele-
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Senior Week Co-Chairs picked
by Jeanne Burke
Plans for Senior Week '86 got under way
this week with the selection ofjuniors Tim
Martin and Jeannine Carolan as Co-chairs.
According to Kim Hale, Assistant Direc-tor
ofthe Campus Center, there were seven-teen
applicants for the two spots. Hale and
three graduate assistants chose seven can-didates
to interview. Applicants were
judged in terms of leadership experience
and the amount of time they were willing
and able to devote to planning Senior Week.
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Editorials 3
Calendar 3
Politics 4
Features 5
Humanities Feature 6, 7
Arts & Entertainment 8, 9, 10
Crosswords 10
Doonesbury 10
Sports 11 .12
Hale said that the selection committee
agreed unanimously on Carolan and Mar-tin,
and that it was only by coincidence that
there is one male Co-chair and one female
one, although this has been done deliber-ately
in the past.
The Co-chairs will be meeting with Hale
and the grad assistants this week and work-ing
closely with them for the rest of the
semester. Their next task is to choose Sub-chairs
to run the events. The number of Sub-chairs
for this year hasn't been determined
yet; last year there were twenty-eight.
Those who applied for Co-chair positions
and weren't chosen will be given first con-sideration
for Sub-chair spots.
Committee members, who will be work-ing
during Senior Week (May 14-17), as
well as at graduation itself, will be chosen
by February 14. Co-chair Jeannine Caro-lan
said that she'll be looking for juniors
who show team work and enthusiasm, and
who are willing to work. She hopes to make
this Senior Week stand out by "giving it per-sonality."
Chairs will be announced on February 3,
and the deadline was January 20. The Co-
Chairs will be one female and one male,
chosen from seven females and five males.
Osbourne said that this position is one of
longevity, so she is intersted in two in-dividuals
that show patience, commitment
to die University, high energy and plenty
of enthusiasm.
The deadline for Sub-Chairs is February
10, not February 20, as was incorrectly
printed on the Orientation 1986 Selection
Information posters. Osbourne said that in
this position there is less emphasis on
leadership, people with long term energy
are needed. Sub-Chairs will be announced
on February 19.
Committee selection begins on April 3.
People who are willing to take on less
glamorous jobs and serve the freshmen
class with energy are needed for commit-tee
work.
O.A.s are needed to present the Univer-sity
to the new freshmen class. These peo-ple
should be more scholastically oriented,
and willing to expose themselves to the
freshmen. They should like the school, for
both it's good and bad qualities. O.A. selec-tion
begins on March 3.
Osbourne is very excited about Orienta-tion,
and believes that the success ofOrien-tation
will continue. One-third ofthis year's
sophomore class will be involved in Orien-tation,
and everyone is encouraged to be-come
a part of it.
Fans follow Stags to NYC
by Kathryn King
Buses filled with 675 Fairfield Univer-sity
students lined up outside Madison
Square Garden on Saturday. Fifteen bus-loads
of students left Saturday to go to the
Fairfield versus Holy Cross basketball
game.
Originally, only three buses were sched-uled
to go to the game, according to Patti
Potuznik, cabinet member for Sports and
Leisure. Tickets at five dollars a piece were
sold for an hour on Monday but sold out
in ten minutes on Tuesday. By Wednesday,
seven buses were sold out. In a cabinet
meeting it was decided to go from nine to
fifteen buses.
"This is the largest number of buses that
have gone" to an away Fairfield game, said
Potuznik. The school had to go to outside
bus companies to get all the buses needed.
The buses left at 10:45 a.m. from the
school and left New York at 9:00 p.m. The
students cheered the Stags on to a 74 to 61
victory. Tmglad it's something that's bring-ing
the campus together," said Potuznik.
Jenine Carolan and Tim Martin were chosen for Senior Week co-chairs.
[Photo by Karen Haney]