Mirror - Vol. 10, No. 01 - April 03, 1986

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FairfieldMIRRORY Volume 10, No. 1 Our Tenth Year Thurday, April 3, 1986 The Image of Fairfield
Elie Wiesel speaks
Elie Wiesel speaks on Jewish Intolerance.
By Joseph Draper
Yesterday afternoon in the Nursing Au-ditorium
the Humanities Institute sponsored
a discussion with Professor Elie Wiesel for
those unable to acquire tickets for the even-ing
lecture.
Wiesel, a survivor of the Nazi Concen-tration
Camps of World War II, travels all
over the world in an attempt to curtail the
terrorism and violence that has spread to
every continent. An award winning author.
Dr. Wiesel is acknowledged to be one of
the top educators of the Holocaust.
This is the second time Wiesel has spoken
at the University.;He was the 1983 Com-mencement
speaker. "I'm more pessimis-tic
now," he said in comparison to three
years ago. "I do not believe that society is
making progess in morality. In technolo-gy,
science and medicine yes. But there are
more hungry, in jail and more people are
indifferent about them."
"Those that speak out are not heard." He
went on to say that there are not more rea-sons
to hope in a nuclear age. He pointed
out that the Space Shuttle blew up even with
the best scientists around working on it. "A
missile in the Soviet Union or America
could blow up as easy as the shuttle."
The thrust of Wiesel's responses dealt
with indifference being the enemy of good
rather than evil. "The opposite of culture
is indifference, the opposite of love is not
hate — it is indifference."
When asked where he finds courage and
hope in life Wiesel responded that he looks
at the small miracles. "I no longer believe
in the big miracles. I sec the gestures of hu-manity;
stopping to put money in an empty
hand or a smile or a handshake." Laser printer shut down: high student use cited
by Stephen J. Humes
Laser printing equipment was removed
from a Bannow computer lab two weeks
ago as a result of overuse by the wrong stu-dents,
said the manager of microcomputer
operations.
Dr. Frederick W. Mis said he was in-structed
by Dr. George E. Lang, Jr., Chair-man
of Mathmatics and Computer
Sciences, to remove the equipment because
the department could not continue to con-trol
the problems surrounding the equip-ment.
Mis said the laser printer was being
used too much, and it was being used mostly
by students for non-academic purposes.
Mis said, "Students decided it was their
word processing lab, and it wasn't." Mis ex-plained
that the equipment was installed for
math and computer science related course
work. "The students who were supposed to
be using it (the laser printer) weren't able
to."
The laser printer was attached to the
Macintosh computers in a laboratory room
on the first floor of Bannow. According to
Mis, the removal of the laser printer does
not mean students can not use the facility
to process term papers. "They can't do re-sumes
now, but by using the image writers
students can still use it to produce papers."
Once the printer was removed, a num-ber
of students were outraged by the com-puter
department's actions. Dr. John A.
Barone, university provost, announced
Monday that preliminary arrangements are
being investigated to accomodate students
whose resumes are already on the disk. Ba-rone
said, "We're going to try to arrange
it so that students can make one copy of their
resume on the laser printer. Then, they can
make photo copies elsewhere."
The overuse factor, according to Mis, oc-curred
when students were printing too
many copies on the laser printer. Mis said,
"the machine was designed to produce 3000
pages per month. We got 18 months of serv-ice
in only six." Mis explained that the laser
printer broke down on a number of occas-sions.
However, he blamed student atti-tudes
as the catalyst in the department's
recent action. "What you have is a lab, just
like physics or chemistry, designed for stu-dents
taking those related courses. Once
other students started using it, we felt it was
fine, and we tried to accomodate them. But
they weren't cooperating."
According to Mis, he sent a proposal to
the provost, proposing that the necessary
equipment be bought and installed in the
Career Counseling Center, so that students
can process resumes in that office. He said
it would cost roughly $8,500 to install a
Macintosh computer and laser printer in
that location, and that no decisions have
been made on that idea yet.
Newsbriefs
Draper elected editor
by Denise Murphy
Joseph T. Draper was elected as Editor-in-
Chief of the Fairfield Mirror on Mon-day
evening, March 24, defeating David
Wunsch, Associate Editor. Draper replaces
Stephen J. Humes as the tenth Editor of the
Mirror.
Draper, who is completing an Account-ing
major and a French minor, spent his
junior year in France studying four months
in Aix-en-Province and six months in
Niece. He joined the newspaper's Features
writing staff in the Fall of 1985 and was
then chosen as Features Editor.
Draper has announced he plans "to bring
high humor and high drama to student jour-nalism".
He commented,"I am excited about
the enthusiasm students have been demon-strating
for the Mirror. I am very optimis-tic
about our potential". Draper also has
several ideas for improving the physical
aspects of the Mirror. However, he plans
to wait until the Fall to implement these
changes.
Applications are now available for all
editorial positions. Applicants must include
a brief explanation of what they would like
to do in the desired position. The selection
process for section editors also requires that
each applicant include a writing sample.
Applications must be returned to by April
15, to Box AA or the Mirror Office, which
is located on the ground floor of Gonzaga.
by Stephen J. Humes
Drummer Weinberg to hit Oak Room
Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce
Springsteen in the E Street Band, is the
F.U.S.A. Arts & Lectures' featured guest
Saturday, April 5 in the Oak Room. Wein-berg
will make a presentation, and then play
the drums both solo and with the student
band, "Shut Up and Drive." Weinberg is
expected to speak on topics such as moti-vation,
goal setting, overcoming obstacles
and ultimately achieving success — spiced
with stories and anecdotes pertaining to the
twelve years Weinberg spent playing be-hind
his mentor, Bruce Springsteen.
Keg Beer will be served during the lec-ture
and the performance. Tickets are
$3.00.
Remley to leave Housing
Dan Remley, assistant director of hous-ing
will be leaving this summer when his
contract expires. Remley accepted his po-sition
in 1984 and replaced Leigh Cromey
in the position which traditionally lasts two
years.
This week, several university adminis-trators
including William P. Schimpf and
Richard R. Rossi are attending a conference
in Washington to search for a replacement
for Remley and several other available po-sitions.
Black Intolerance to be discussed
The second lecturer in the Humanities In-stitute's
series, "Intolerance: Four Perspec-tives,"
Dr. Cornel West, of Yale Divinity
School, will be speaking next Wednesday
in the Oak Room. An early talk has been
scheduled for students from 4:00 to 5:00
p.m. The regularly scheduled talk will be-gin
at 8:00 p.m.
Glee Club holds annual concert
The Men's Glee Club will hold will hold
their annual concert on Saturday April 12
at 7:30 at the Klein Memorial Auditorium
in Bridgeport. Tickets are available from
any Glee Club member or Fr. Albert
Cardoni. Free buses will leave from Loyo-la
at 6:30 p.m.
Jazz show in Oak Room
The Mitchell-Ruff duo will perform a
spontaneous selection ofjazz tomorrow nigt
at 8 p.m. in the Oak Room. This concert
is part of the university's evenings of Mus-ic
series.
FUSA inauguration held
By Lisa Boyne
The English reign ended last Monday in
Bellarmine Hall when Mike Miller was in-augurated
as the new FUSA President.
Justice John Matheson served as the inau-guration
official and swore Miller in for the
1986-87 year.
Former President Jim English gave an
opening speech quoting from Ronald Rea-gan
"Are you better off today than you were
a year ago". He agreed that we are, in-troducing
Mike Miller, who confessed "It's
news to me that I had to make a speech."
Miller added "I'm looking forward to a good
year and I hope this year is just as good."
English next gave a toast to Miller to make
the event official.
Father Kelley ended the procession
reminiscing of his first introduction to Mike
Miller in the play 'Born Yesterday' where
he played a skidrow bum. Father Kelley ad-ded
"I hope he was not typecast"
After the speeches Miller comented to
the MIRROR "I look forward to positive
things in the future".
Jim English passes the reigns of command to Mike Miller at Monday night s FUSA inau-guration.
[Photo by Joe Draper]