Mirror - Vol. 10, No. 07 - September 11, 1986

              The
FairfieldMIRRORv Volume 10, No. 7 Our Tenth Year Thursday, September 11, 1986 The Image of Fairfield
Several Hundred Students Attend
FUSA GENERAL MEETING A BIG SUCCESS
The Open House and the FUSA Meeting packed the Oak Room
promotes FUSA.
Jeanine Caroline
[Photos by Lisa Boynd]
Miller Greets Future Members
by Connie McKenna
The Fairfield University Student Associ-ation
(FUSA) held its first general meeting
Monday night to a crowd of over 200 stu-dents.
FUSA President Michael Miller greeted
the listeneres and proceeded to explain the
organizational structure of the executive
branch of FUSA, which itself is divided into
four branches, each containing several
more sub-divisions. The four main
branches are headed by the Treasurer,
Kevin Mclntyre, the Vice President of Stu-dent
Life, Brian Flaherty, the Vice Presi-dent
of Student Activity, Caitilin
O'Connell, and head of Government Af-fairs,
Chris Ritchie.
Brian Flaherty was then introduced by
Miller to explain the different cabinet po-sitions
under his jurisdiction. Although he
noted that his division of FUSA might not
be the most visible, he contended that it is
"no less important or active". Flaherty's sub-division
includes such cabinet positions as
Academics, Drive-For-Five, and Student
Services.
Caitilin O'Connell next took the podium
to describe the duties of her cabinet mem-bers.
Included in this branch are Special
Events, Arts and Lectures, Athletics, and
Sports and Leisure.
Representing the judicial branch of
FUSA was Chris O'Connell, Chief Justice
of the Student Court, who encouraged stu-dents
to take their case to Student Court "if
you think you got a bad deal".
President of Student Legislature Pete
Fay, then described the duty of Student
Legislature. Since being a legislator is an
elected position, Fay asserted that represen-titives
are truly "the voice of the people".
All funds must be approved by the Student
Legislature before programming can be
planned.
Miller then encouraged students to be-come
involved in FUSA, stating that "30
people can't program for 2800". He
described the turnout at the meeting as "fan-tastic"
and added that he felt the "enthusiasm
shown really predicts a strong showing for
lots of events".
Greenfield to speak on terrorism
The worldwide spread of terrorism has
prompted serious questions about the role
of the media that will be discussed by
columnist and television political analyst
Jeff Greenfield at Fairfield University on
Monday, Sept. 29.
He will speak on Terrorism and the Me-dia"
at the University's Campus Center at
8 p.m. in the People's Forum series,
presented through a grant from the People's
Bank. The lecture is open free to the public
with tickets available at the People's Bank
and its branches.
Among the key issues Greenfield is ex-pected
to review whether the media pro-vides
a platform to terrorists for propaganda
and whether publicity for terrorism stimu-lates
other acts of violence.
Greenfield is a contributing analyst with
ABC-TV news and was previously a polit-ical
commentator for CBS-TV's "Morning,"
"Sunday Morning," and the evening news.
He was also a regular on William F. Buck-ley's
"Firing Line" and a panelist on PBS'
"We Interupt This Week."
His twice weekly column on politics ap-pears
in 35 newspapers and he was form-erly
a consultant with the political media
(continued on page 2)
Parking Spaces Added
New Parking Spaces behind Canisius
by Connie McKenna
In order to increase pedestrian safety
and create grounds which are more aes-thetically
pleasing, the semi-circle park-ing
strip in front of Canisius and the
Faculty Office Building has been
eliminated.
To compensate for the removal of the
parking area, 48 spaces for faculty and
staff have been added behind Gonzaga.
University Provost Dr. John A. Barone
explained that summer plans called for
digging up the area behind Canisius in
order to improve water service to several
buildings. Barone proposed to the Space
Committee that the parking lot be added
[Photo by Joseph Draper]
at this time in order to consolidate sum-mer
construction.
"The Space Committee agreed to the
plan," he said, "with the aim of optimiz-ing
parking availability while enhancing
the aesthetics of the campus areas in-volved."
Dr. Barone specified the benefits of the
changes. "Of greatest importance is the
increased pedestrian safety we achieve by
making the changes. The relocated access
area will also enable service vehicles to
approach closer to the rear of Canisius and
Gonzaga than in the past, and students will
be able to load and unload their belong-ings
closer to Gonzaga.
ii
JEFF GREENFIELD
Inside This Week
News 1,2
Editorials 3
Doonesbury 3
Arts & Entertainment 4, 5, 13
Features Spread 8,9
Sports 12-15
Coming Soon
Special
retrospective
on Fairfield.. .
A Walk through
40 years.