Mirror - Vol. 10, No. 02 - April 10, 1986

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FairfieldMIRRORv Volume 10, No. 2 Our Tenth Year Thurday, April 10, 1986 The Image of Fairfield
Dith Pran of "Killing Fields" to speak
Commencement address to Grads of '86
Dith Pran, New York Times photo-grapher
and survivor of the Khmer Rouge
terror whose life was depicted in the film
The Killing Fields, has been chosen as the
speaker at commencement on Sunday,May
18. Honorary doctorate of human letters
degrees will be awarded to Pran, as well
as to Dr. Robert Coles, professor of psy-chiatry
and medical humanities at Harvard
University, and the Reverend William A.
Wallace, O.P., director general of the Leo-nine
Commission and professor of history
of science and philosophy at Catholic
University.
Dith Pran was working for the New York
Times, as an assistant to reporter Sydney
Schanberg, when the Khmer Rouge over-ran
Cambodia in 1975. His family was
evacuated and Pran was left behind,as he
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Dith Pran, the 1986 Commencement Speaker
Quinn named WVOF station manager
by Andrew Hunt
Tom Quinn, a Class of 1987 Economics
major, became Station Manager ofWVOF
88.5 on Tuesday evening April 1. Quinn
began his career at VOF as a Freshman,
doing news broadcasts. He joined the sta-tion
at the first Operation Paticipation Fair.
In Quinn's Sophomore year he bacame As-sistant
News Director and then proceeded
on to Program Director in his Junior year.
As Station Manager, Quinn plans on "get-ting
VOF into the minds of the students."
His main goal is to make the station worth
Fairfield Students' while. Quinn is very en-
News Briefs
thused and excited about the 1986-87 year
and his staff. He will work closely with
them to provide a full spectrum of music.
Quinn hopes to get the student's input along
with his staffs ideas.
There is a lot of work behind each voice
that goes on the air. Quinn stressed that a
little care goes far and makes that voice
work. He pledged to use that care "to get
VOF to become a preset on Fairfield
University's radio dial."
by Stephen J. Humes
Boswell to discuss AIDS early
The Humanities Institute and the School
of Nursing will sponsor a talk by Dr. John
Boswell, Professor of History, Yale
University. The talk, entitled "Lepers An-cient
and Modern: AIDS in a Social Con-text",
will be held Wednesday, April 16,
3:30 p.m. in the School of Nursing Audito-rium.
All members of the university com-munity
are invited.
Dr. Boswell will be lecturing at 8:00 p.m.
that evening in the series "Intolerance: Four
Perspectives." The title of his lecture is The
Establishment of Social Values and the Op-pression
of Gay People."
Laser printer incident resolved
According to Fr. Lawrence W. O'Neill,
S.J., director of the Career Planning
Center, the laser printer will be made avail-able
for students who have their resumes
already processed on disks. The equipment
will be available from now until April 16.
Only one copy per student may be printed,
and the hours are restricted from 1:30 to
4:30 p.m.
O'Neil has made arrangements with
Xerographies of 1275 Post Road, Fairfield,
to have many copies reproduced.
Fellowship conducts survey
A survey was conducted by the Christi-an
Fellowship, a special-interest club led
by Amanda Kelly '87, which asked the
question "If you could ask God one ques-tion
what would it be?". 121 people
responded to the survey. 34 people wanted
to know why there is suffering in the world.
9 people asked, "Why was I born?". 5 peo-ple
inquired on the meaning of life.
This survey will be followed up by a dis-cussion
with Jim Park, a representative
from Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship in
the Hartford area. The discussion is slated
Tuition up!
by Joseph Draper
Full-time tuition will increase in the
1986-87 academic year. In its March
meeting, the Board of Trustees reviewed
the proposals and voted for the in-creases.
The classes of 1989 and 1990
will be charged $7,550 as opposed to the
current $6,900. For the classes of 1987
and 1988 the cost is now $7,350 from
$6,700. Also, room and board will in-crease
from $3,730 to $4,050, town-house
rentals go from $2,730 to $3,150
and the General University Fee goes up
from $10 to $170.
In his letter to the student body, Father
Kelley addresses the causes for the rais-ing
oftuition: "Many significant factors,
such as faculty and staff salaries, finan-cial
aid, library acquisition, scientific
equipment and deferred maintenance
continue to be high priority items and
must be addressed in our budgeting
process."
Elaborating further, Father Kelley
points out that there is a gap between
what students pay and what the real cost
of a Fairfield education is; "on the aver-age
about $1,500 this year." For the
classes of 1989 through 1992 modest ad-justments
will be made.
Also tied to the tuition increase is a
committment to fund "some of the
recommendations contained in the
University Planning Committee's
Report." This was a group established
two years ago which handed in its
recommendations recently on how to im-prove
the University in four areas: Jesuit
and Catholic nature of the University,
academic life, quality of student life and
institutional resources.
for Wednesday, April 16, at 7:00 p.m. in
the Bannow 3rd Floor Faculty Lounge.
History club to show film
The history honor society, Phi Alpha
Theta, and the History Club will present a
film, The Aliens Place, on Monday, April
14th, at 7:30 p. m., in the Nursing Audito-rium.
The film, a personal exploration by
the Dutch Jewish filmmaker Rudolf van den
Berg, asks the question "What does it mean
to be Jewish?" It has been described as a
moving study of the relations between per-sonal
identity, history and contemporary
politics.
Dr. Ronald Kiener, Associate Professor
of Religion at Trinity College, Hartford,
who is an expert in Jewish and Islamic
studies, will comment upon the film and
lead a discussion.
Alpha Sigma Nu Selects Candidates
Members from the Class of 1987 have
recently been named to the candidates list
for Alpha Sigma Nu, the National Jesuit
Honor Society. This year's pool of candi-dates
consists of 29 people from the vari-ous
schools.
Among those from the College of Arts
and Sciences are Deborah Bacchieri, Ger-aldine
Cramer, Jeffrey Daly, Katherine De-meri,
Paula DiGiovanni, Laura Dix'
Paul Dudzik, Patrick Fitzgerald, Tatiana
Foroud, Peter Gabos, Denise Graziano,
Robert Hickey, Patricia Jarzabek, Brian
Machler, Sharon Millstein, Robert Patrig-nelli,
Peter Pronovost, John Russoto, Caro-lyn
Shea, Stephanie Stiefel, Michael
Voytek and Honora Willcutts.
Those from the School of Business in-clude
Carole Kearney, John Masselli, Alan
Minieri, Joseph Murphy, Paul Terreri and
Kelly Tormey.
From the School of Nursing, Stacey
Everett has been selected as a candidate.
Legislature president elected
by Kathryn King
New officers were elected to Student
Legislature on April third. The Student
Legislature voted for five new officers.
The new president elected was Pete Fay.
Philip Treacy was elected vice-president;
Jean Halloran was elected secretary; treas-urer
is Tony Minnefor; Kathy Lenox is
director of correspondence. All the officers
Black Scholar
program planned
by Stephen J. Humes
[Editor's note: This article concludes a
three-part series on minority recruitment
and retention problems.]
As part of a plan to increase campus un-derstanding
of minority issues from a scho-larly
perspective, the university has
established a program to recruit black scho-lars
to conduct meetings and lectures, said
the newly-appointed assistant academic
vice-president.
Thomas J. Savage, S.J., who was ap-pointed
as assistant to Christopher F.
Mooney, S.J., academic vice-president, in
January, released a letter to the university
community on March 4. His letter an-nounced
that a Visiting Black Scholars
Committee had been formed, and that the
search was on to find two black scholars
a semester to conduct lectures, and meet-ings
with classes and student organizations.
According to Savage, the seven-member
committee includes four professors, two ad-
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were sworn in on April third, according to
Fay.
Chris Ritchie, director of government,
said these officers and legislators who are
not graduating or moving to cabinet posi-tions
are part of the summer session. The
summer session goes until October when
39 new legislators will be elected by the stu-dent
body.
The summer session will be taking care
of emergency legislation and the fall con-cert.
Fay says he still has to appoint three
committee chairpersons of government
operations, judiciary committee, and the
appropriations committee. Seniors are now
resigning their positions and Fay needs to
appoint new people. He says he will prob-ably
take applications for the committee
chair positions/Meetings of student legis-lature
are held every Thursday at 7:30 in
the Faculty Dining Room. All students are
welcome to attend but they cannot vote un-less
they are legislators.
Inside this week
Doonesbury...
madness in the middle
News 1.2
Editorial 3
Politics 4
Super Spread 6, 7
Arts & Entertainment 8, 9
Sports 10, 11, 12