Mirror - Vol. 10, No. 03 - April 17, 1986

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FairfieldMIRRORv Volume 10, No. 3 Our Tenth Year Thurday, April 17, 1986 The Image of Fairfield
Open House a success
by Andrew Hunt
This past weekend the Fairfield Univer-sity
Admission's Office hosted it's Open
House Weekend. During this weekend all
recently accepted students had their first in-troduction
as incoming freshman. During
this weekend many of those who are not
sure of their decision to attend a school, de-cide.
The Admissions Office sponsors this
event but it includes almost everyone, on
campus. Faculty members plan their
presentations of their majors, students give
tours and participate by being around and
the Administration provides assistance for
those who need it.
This year the Open House was coordi-nated
by Evonne Galucci, Suzanne Siano
and Mary Whalen. In order to have a suc-cessful
weekend these people began work-ing
in January on all the preperations
required for this project. There are book-lets
that have to be organized and printed,
departmental sessions that have to be lined
up and reply cards to be categorized.
'There is a lot of busy work" that goes
into the weekend said Galucci. "Enthusias-tic
people help a lot, we couldn't do it
alone," said Siano. Correlating the three
sessions is difficult because over 1500 peo-ple
came, including students and their fa-milies.
It is more than worth the effort,
though. This weekend is the culmination of
a years worth of interviewing, reviewing
applications and making final decisions
This year students came from Washing-ton,
Florida, Missouri, as well as from
regional states. More people attended this
year compared to last year's attendance. The
Open House is always a success. Seventy
percent of last years attendees decided on
Fairfield and the same percentage is expect-ed
this year.
The program consists of a general wel-come
and individual department meetings.
Some departments do unique presentations,
such as the Chemistry Department's actual
demonstrations. Other majors use videos
and slide shows. The Book Store opens for
the day as does the Stag-Her Inn.
Orchestrating the whole University is a
difficult process and the Open House proves
it can be done successfully to present a
beneficial image of Fairfield.
Incoming Freshmen tour the campus [Photo by Joe Draper]
Nominate Best Professor New FUSA Cabinet meets
By Tim Kelly
Each year at this time Alpha Sigma Nu-the
Jesuit Honor Society —sponsors the
Teacher of the Year Award. This award is
presented to the Fairfield University teacher
who has demonstrated outstanding dedica-tion
to his/her profession,to the students,
and to the development of Fairfield Univer-sity
and the surounding community.
Last week all students recieved nomina-tion
forms in their mailbopxes. We would
like to ask that each student take five
minutes to fill out the form with the name
■ of a teacher that you feel qualifies for this
award, and return it to box 2956 by
tomorrow.
The recipient will be awarded at the end
of April and will be presented the award
at the end of the semester. Thank you for
taking the time to help us with the selection
process.
Summer storage place provided
Joseph Draper
Students' desire for summer storage space
has been fulfilled.
Carmine Anzalone,Chris Ritchie, and
Jim O'Meara have announced an arrange-ment
whereby American Van Lines will
make a pick-up from the Oak Room and
deliver the possesions to a warehouse in
New Haven.
"It's something the students want." said
Anzalone. After Kathy Kiley brought up the
issue during last year's election FUSA ap-pointed
Jane Dwyer to look into the possi-bilities.
After a series of polls and some
exhaustive research the three found this plan
most useful.
While exact pricing has not been worked
out the three said the cost is 25% less then
individuals doing the same thing on their
own. The storage service will include lofts,
couches, refridgerators, rugs and whatever
else a student may possess.
Drop offs can be made from 11 to 5 on
May 4, in the Oak Room. Boxes will be
made available. Further information will
be provided at the Info Booth.
by Jeanine Pollitt
The first meeting of the new cabinet was
held on April 8. President Mike Miller wel-comed
all the new members of the cabinet.
He set down a few guidelines for them and
stated that he wants his cabinet to empha-size
goals for the following year.
Chris Ritchie, Director of Government
Affairs, discussed the Leadership Banquet
that will be held on Tuesday, April 15 at
6:00 P.M. in the Oak Room. Members of
the three branches of FUSA received invi-tations.
Mike Miller passed out the POSITIVE
polls to team captains. The poll will be con-ducted
by students during the next week to
determine what students' priorities are. The
results will help FUSA to plan events and
to work for improvements in the universi-ty.
Mike is very enthusiastic and he is hop-ing
for a good response. He plans to publish
the results in the Mirror and also to publish
booklets with graphs illustrating the results.
Polls are to be returned to team captains by
April 24. All team captains will then return
the polls to the FUSA office on April 25.
Mike discussed Airbands, which will be
on Friday, April 18 from 7:30 until 1:00.
Dogwoods will be held on Friday, April
25 in Alumni Hall. Tickets will go on sale
on April 17 from 9:00 A.M. until 3:00
P.M. in the Oak Room. The prices will be
$15. May Day will be on April 26 from 1:00
P.M. until 5:00 P.M. The two bands will
be The Taste and The Laughing Bones. En-tertainers
will also include Simon Sez and
"Murph the Physical Comedian." There will
be animal rides, and clubs will sponsor
booths and games.
Mike Miller discussed the Leadership
Weekend(which was held on April 12 and
13). On Saturday, cabinet members attend-ed
a conference at Southern Connecticut.
On Sunday, they met to plan events for next
semester.
On April 17, Chris McNulty, Director
of Academics, will hold a meeting to begin
revision of the FUSA Constitution.
West speaks out on intolerance
Junior Party it up at 400 Nights [Photo by Joe Draper]
By Joseph Draper
Calling institutionalized terror the "life
of my forefathers and mother". Dr. Cornell
West articulated his views to an Oak Room
crowd in his lecture "Intolerance and the
Afro-American Experience."
Held on Wednesday,April 9,at 8
p.m.,West spoke of the Black underclass
as a group removed "culturally, if not eco-nomically"
from American society. "It took
until the 1960's to rebel."
West elaborated on his opinions concern-ing
what the called "natal alienation. It's a
form of social death. You have no right to
predecessors or progeny or tradition. It is
an inherent state of alienation. One has no
public worth, only economic value.
"T.S. Eliot once said that Christians want
more than tolerance, they want a name.
Afro-Americans want that. They want their
humanity to be recognized."
West's lecture pointed out the lack of
progress for Afro-Americans from the
Reformation after the Civil War to the pro-
"Black men in Harlem aged 18-30 are
eight times more likely to be shot than in
Viet Nam. The Black underclass is as in-visible
as the slaves."
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