Mirror - Vol. 10, No. 08 - September 18, 1986

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FairfieldMIRRORv Volume 10, No. 8 Our Tenth Year Thursday, September 18, 1986 The Image of Fairfield
Night Programs in the Air
Stag-Her Inn Policy changes over summer
This semester may see the Stag-Her at less then capacity Thursday nights.
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Joseph T. Draper
Editor-in-Chief
Students going to the Stag-her Inn or
Thursday nights will find the live entertain-ment
in sharp decline from years past. Ac-cording
to the proposal made by Michael
Miller, Fairfield University Student Associ-ation
President, over the summer and ap-proved
by Mr. James Fitzpatrick, Assistant
Dean of University Activities and Direc-tor
of the Campus Center, their will be one
Thursday night per month for non-alcoholic
Musical Programming 9:00 p.m. to 11:00
p.m. and one Thursday night per month for
Musical Programming from 7:00 p.m. to
9:00 p.m. with the Stag-her serving regu-larly.
This is opposed to last year when the
Stag-her in conjunction with FUSA sched-uled
bands on Thursday nights and occa-sionally
Wednesday nights.
"We had a feeling at the end of last
semester that things would not be the same,"
said Miller. "Nothing was said until the
summer.;Mr. Fitzpatrick had to say no to
any proposals of any musical entertainment'
until a proposal could be agreed upon.
In his proposal Miller first listed four rea-sons
why last year's policies should remain
in effect. 1: Freedom of Choice. "Students
feel that at age 21 they have the right to de-cide
when and what types of entertainment
they will seek. Students are more cognizant
ofthe fact that when they enter their careers,
bars and other establishments of entertain-ment
will not close down simply because
they have work the next morning," he
wrote.
2: Capacity. "At this time the Stag-her
Inn Pub can fit approximately 180 paying
customers. This amounts to only 6.4% of
the student body at Fairfield University and
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McCloud named Dean
of Graduate School of Communication
by Jedd Sherman
Dr. George McCloud, the new Dean of
the Graduate School of Corporate and Po-litical
Communication, reflects upon a
childhood experience from his fourth grade
Religion class with his Irish teacher, Sister
Mary Eugene. He had been taught by Sr.
Eugene that he was too young to read and
understand the Bible alone, and that he
should just be content with studying his St.
Joseph's Missal . But being naturally in-quisitive,
curiosity led him one day to open
the Bible and to read a portion of the "Book
of Acts". In a particular section of the "Book
of Acts", a reference is made to Jesus'
brother,James. So the next day, in class,
George made mention of his discovery to
Sr. Eugene. But this did not please Sister
because she had explicitly told George not
to read the Bible on his own. In her thick,
stern, Irish brouge Sister reprimanded,
"What do you think youVe doing George
McCloud, reading the Bible on your own!
Are you questioning the virgin birth?! He
was then sent down to see the Mother Su-perior
for further disciplinary action, but
was fortunately saved by the understand-ing
Fr. Haney. Many years later, he now
apprciates this incident (even stern sister
Mary)and thinks of it to reinforce his own
educational convictions. "Teach people not
what to think, but how to think."
After completing his doctorate work from
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
Dr. McCloud put his ideas into practice
first, as an Associate Professor , then as
Acting Dean of the Graduate School of
Eastern Michigan University at Ypsilanti
(16 Years). As Acting Dean, he developed
the Collegium for Advanced Studies, a
faculty-student organization to promote
research development, scholarship, and the
arts. This program worked well in break-ing
down walls formed by the bureaucra-cies
which separated the various disciplines.
He believed that a large, graduate student
body of 5500 students in 55 different pro-grams
must not keep their ideas contained
within their own discipline, but instead,
trade these ideas through open channels of
communications via the Collegium. Also,
at E. M. U., he helped arrange an exchange
program with Hualein University in
Taiwain. As acting dean, he considered
himself a "watchdog" against low levels of
quality (in teaching, students, and research
projects) throughout the Graduate School.
In addition, Dr. McCloud, a Detroit na-tive,
was a National Endowment for the Hu-manities
fellow at Princeton, former
president of the Michigan Academy of
Science, Arts, and letters as well as a former
chairperson of the Michigan Council of
Graduate Deans.
With these experiences behind him, he
looks forward to new challenges offered at
the Graduate School of Corporate and Po-litical
Communication. One of Dean
mcCloud's goals is to take an already strong
program and make it stronger by adding a
few missing parts. At present, the Gradu-al
ate School is conducting a nationwide
search for two new faculty members to start
teaching in the school as early as Septem-ber
1987. He hopes to devise a better pro-gram
that will offer a curriculum in
Graduate Communication to serve the con-temporary
society (corporate America) in
the Fairfield County area. In addition, the
school (average enrollment-200) now re-quires
G.R.E. scores and a healthy G.P. A.
in a greater effort to raise the quality of stu-
Asian Studies Minor offered
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dents. Finally, he would like to correct an
old misconception that the study of com-munications
is the study of T.V. and Film
media. "This infatuation with the media,"
says Dean McCloud,"has created too many
people interested in only T.V. and film, and
too few persons interested in Corporate
Communications, Public Relations, and
Organizational/Human Resources. Here, at
the Graduate School, we're not stressing
hardware, we're stressing people." We hope
that his tenure here at Fairfield University
is as productive and successful as his apst
endeavors.
For the first time this semester, Fairfield
University has launched an Asian Studies
minor, which combines courses in
philosophy, religious studies, economics,
history and politics.
Dr. David Danahar, Dean ofthe College
of Arts and Sciences, said the new minor
will provide students with a broad back-ground
in Asia that will prove valuable in
in a variety of professions or graduate
study.
He noted that it is important for students
to develop a fuller understanding of Asia
since half of the world's people live there;
the United States has fought its last three
wars there; and many of the Asian econo-mies
have been among the world's most suc-cessful
in recent years.jln addition, he
stated that Asia is the birthplace of a num-ber
of the world's great religions and con-tains
the world's most populous democracy
(India) and most populus communist state
(China).
"American ignorance about Asia has been
costly in the past," Mr. Danahar added,
"and Asia continues to exert a profound eco-nomic,
political and cultural influence on
the United States. No student, regardless
of major or profession, will be unaffected
by Asia."
The Asian Studies minor, combined with
a major in another discipline, will help to
prepare students for careers in internation-al
business or in banking, journalism,
government or international organizations.
This semester, students have the oppur-tunity
to choose courses in religious studies
dealing with Hinduism, Buddhism and
other religious traditions including Confu-cianism,
Taoism, Shinto and Zen. The po-litics
electives include America and the
Vietnam experience, while the electives in
history, economics and philosophy touch
on topics as diverse as Marxism and
Western imperial penetration of China and
Japan.
INSIDE THIS WEEK
News 1,2
Editorials .3
Features 4, 5
Spread pages 6, 7
Financial pages 8
Arts & Entertainment . . 9, 10
Sports 11, 12