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

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FairfieldMIRRORV Volume 10, No. 10 Our Tenth Year Thursday, October 2, 1986 The Image of Fairfield
STAG-HER returns to students ...FOR NOW
By Joseph T. Draper
Editor-in-Chief
The Stag-her Inn will resume program-ming
as it had in the past. This was the de-cision
of the University Council which met
Thursday, September 25 in the Faculty
Dining Room. This recommendation by the
Council is a temporary one until the data for
a more lasting decision can be made.
The Council was chaired by Dr. James
Farnham, professor of English. The discus-sion
of the meeting dealt uniquely with the
topic of the Stag-her. After having an open
forum to discuss the policy, there was a call
for a motion that the question of Stag-her
Inn be put off and that the current policy re^
main intact. This motion was defeated 5-4
as the four student members; Ken Caisse,
Gina Carbone, Kathy Demeri, and Kristen
Dodge along with James Fitzpatrick took
the stance that the policy should revert to
its prior posture while a formal arrange-ment
can be supplanted.
Fitzpatrick questioned whether a policy
that had been in effect for a long time should
be changed over the summer when student
input was minimal. "The Stag-her has been
in operation since 1973,"said Fitzpatrick,
"there have been bands in there since."
Considerable debate and confusion en-sued
as to what the next step should be.
Caisse called for the motion that the Stag-her
return to its former policy while the
sub-committees of the Council study the
policy further.
Mr. William Shimpf. Vice President of
('Student Services countered this proposal.
Shimpf said the proper channels were used
and that the policy should remain as is. "I
understand this was done in the absence of
the full student body but FUSA was con-sulted.
The policy used was not unique," he
said. "There are many decisions made with
consultation of the FUSA President."
The student members of the Council
presented the data published last week in the
Mirror concerning the small percentage of
students who are of drinking age and can
fit in the Stag-her at one time.
"I feel really good about the data you have
provided." said Suzanne D. Lyngaas, As-sistant
Accounting Professor. "Perhaps
you'll have a case. We can get a faculty sur-vey
and move things along."
The motion was voted on in two parts.
First there was a unanimous decision to
study the Stag-her in more depth. The se-cond
motion passed was to recommend to
the Vice President of Student Services to
change the current Stag-her policy to what
had existed in prior years. That being to al-low
FUSA to schedule bands on Thursday
nights. In exchange the Stag-he will not be
serving alcohol on the weekends. This mo-tion
passed 5-1. Caisse, Carbone, Demeri,
Dodge and Lyngaas voted to the affirma-tive.
Shimpf was the lone negative vote.
Stag football ends at Fairfield U. after last week's decision to disband.
[Photo by Andrea Whitehouse]
Greenfield probes terrorism
By Jeanine Pollitt
Jeff Greenfield, a television political
analyst for ABC-TV news, spoke to a large
Oak Room crowd on Monday September
29 on "Terrorism and the Media". He dis-cussed
the questions and criticisms con-cerning
the way the media, and in particular
television, cover terrorism. He ac-knowledged
the power of the media and
therefore agreed that it should be
scrutinized..Greenfield said that terrorism
involves a deliberate decision to spread fear
and terror through violence against inno-cent
people.
Greenfield readily admitted that televi-sion
news does overplay some stories. For
example, during the TWA hijacking crisis
Continued on page 4
No Key this year
For the first time in 24 years, there will
be no Cardinal Key Sociey Directory this
year. A recent law, THE FAMILY
PRIVACY ACT, prohibits such a publi-cation
as an invasion of privacy without
the express consent of each student.
This week, Dean Schimpf informed the
Cardinal Key Society of the University
lawyer's ruling on this issue. The express
permission must be a positive statement
on the part of students: i.e. it would not
be sufficient for the Cardinal Key Socie-ty
to request that those who do not want
their names in the directory send in their
names so that they can be deleted. Instead,
the directory would consist only of stu-dent's
names who responded positively to
some form of questionnaire. Since the
Cardinal Society does not have the
resources to undertake such a task, it was
suggested that FUSA set the machinery in
motion to find out which students want
their names published and then print the
names of those who respond.
Fitzpatrick, Phyllis Porter, Dean of the
Nursing School; Stephen Jakab, Associate
Provost; and Farnham abstained.
The Council has begun to research the
question not only of entertainment in the
Stag-her Inn. but also what the role of the
University should be concerning entertain-ment
during the week.
The University Council debated the Stag-her Policy. (L. to R.) Stephen Jakab, Phyllis
Porter, William Shimpf, James Fitzpatrick and James Farnham.
[Photo by John Courtemanche]
Football Club disbands
By Chris Michailoff
There will be no more football at Fair-field.
No more cheering for the Stags as
they bring the ball in for a touchdown, or
groans of anguish as the other team scores.
Club football at Fairfield disbanded. Fair-field
University plays a unique brand of
football, which operates on a limited budget
and offers players little opportunity for per- )
sonal glory. The complexities of maintain
ing a team is undertaken entirely by
students.
This year's budget for the football team
was under $20,000. This was a cut from
last year's budget. The money is allocated
for the purchase of equipment, paying for
coaches and officials, as well as other ex-penses.
The team is allowed to vote for a
coach who they think will best fill their
needs. They selected Coach Tregliano, who
had coached the last two seasons. Victor
Geraldi, club president, told Tregliano that
he wanted two additional coaches, an offen-sive
coach and a line coach. This demand
was met with Paul Christian, as offensive
coach, but unfortunately the line coach quit
before the season started.
The team felt that Coach "Tregs" couldn't
adequately meet the demands of coaching
a full team. Why vote him back then? The
Stags wanted stability, and they felt Tregs"
knew most of the players. Coach Christi-an
had comprised an offensive book, and
they felt he would help the team where
"Tregs" had failed.
Unlike most other club sports, football
plays under NCAA guidelines for football.
In many ways it is like a varsity sport. All
.^the players attend daily practice which lasts
for two hours. Players must condition
themselves because of the very nature of
football. There is a sacrifice by the players,
and for this reason it was difficult to con-vince
prospective candidates to submit to
the drills and the banging of heads, without
scholarships or glory.
The University's policy was for the foot-ball
team to keep a roster of forty active
players, who would play for the season.
The team had forty-three players at the start
of the first game. Fairfield puts a high stress
on academics. This makes is difficult to
practice everyday. Each day several play-
Continued on page 11
Hunt discusses irony
By Monica Roberts
On September 24, 1986, at 8:00 p.m. in
the Oak Room, Rev. George W. Hunt,
S.J., gave a lecture entitled, "American
Literature in a Technological Culture." Fr.
Hunt, a Jesuit priest, is editor of America
magazine and received a Ph.D. in
philosophy and literature. He is the author
ofJohn Updike and the Three Great Secret
Things: Sex, Religion, and Art and John
Cheever, The Hobglobin Company ofLove.
His hour-long talk focused on how the liter-ature
of Cheever and Updike reflect the
modern culture, particularly through the
use of irony.
As modern writers, says Hunt, Cheever
and Updike express "what it's like to be a
human being." They emphasize the impor-tance
of human subjectivity as opposed to
scientific objectivity. For example, in Up-dike's
story, "The Astronomer", a man
shares his fears and religious doubts with
a scientist. In a story by Cheever, "The
Wapshot Scandal", the protagonist has
similar thoughts when he asks about scien-tists,
"had they made any progress in solv-ing
the problem between night and day?"
Continued on page 2
Rev. George Hunt S.J.
[Photo by Marc Belanger]
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