Mirror - Vol. 10, No. 23 - February 05, 1987

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FairfieldMIRRORY Volume 10, No. 23 Our Tenth Year Thursday, February 5, 1987 The Image of Fairfield
1,361 Votes Cast
Students Elect Ritchie for FUSA President
By John Courtmanche &
Melissa Campanelli
With 1,051 votes, Chris Ritchie
won the FUSA Presidential election Tues-day.
He will be inaugurated the first week
of April.
"I feel really good. I didn't expect the
landslide victory," Chris said after the
election.
Chris's major opponent, Ken
Caisse, received 199 votes.
"I'm relieved it's over," Caisse
stated. "I gained a tremendous amount of
experience. I'm looking forward to
getting back to studying, and to the
MAAC Swimming Tournament next
Thursday." .
"It's a bittersweet victory—I have
mixed reactions," Chris says of his large
margin of victory. "Ken worked hard on
his campaign, he did a good job."
A total 1,316 votes were cast for
twelve candidates; fifty-nine were cast for
ten write-in candidates. Craig Maloney
led the write-in race with 50 votes.
"I'm a little disappointed," Maloney
says. "I'm always looking to help student
life in the Jesuit tradition."
The voter turnout was "what we
expected," according to Jeannine Carolan,
member of the Election Commission.
An estimated 2,800 Undergraduates could
have voted in the Presidential elections.
The Elections this year were held in
the Campus Center lobby, a switch from
the traditional Oakroom location. John
Masselli, Chairman of the Elections
Commission, says "Mr. Fitzpatrick
(Assistant Dean of Student Activities)
had already booked the Oakroom. I think
it worked out better this way because
students couldn't miss the voting
machines."
"More people should have voted,"
says Michael Miller, FUSA President.
Arrest in Library
By Joseph Draper
Editor-in-Chief
Fairfield Town Police with the help of
university security made an arrest in
Nyseltus Library Tuesday night. Sean
Dixon, 16, and a town resident was arrested
after a brief chase on the third floor at
approximately 9:00 p.m.
According to Glenn Griffin, Assistant
Director of Security, Dixon had been causing
disturbances at the university for several
weeks. On January 27, Dixon was issued a
written notice of criminal trespass m$ he
was then escorted off the campus with the
understanding that he would be arrested if he
was found on campus again.
Security had received previous reports
that Dixon had been disturbing students in
the library. He has been seen filming
students while they study, jumping out at
women from the bookshelves, climbing
under tables and other behavior that required
his removal from university grounds.
Griffin urges students to report
incidents that seem suspicious to them
whenever possible*
"The problem with the previous
incidents in that no one told us about it.
Don't wait and treat it as innocence." he said.
"If you see anything out of the ordinary let
us know. We would rather check it out and
find that it is innocents."
Griffin mentioned that Dixon has a
prior record but neither he nor the Town
Police could furnish more detail on him.
Dixon may be known to some as the person
in the guerrilla suit at Stag basketball home
games.
His court arraignment was Wednesday
morning.
"But I'm excited that it's over. I wish
Chris the best of luck."
Miller expects a "smooth transition"
within FUSA for the coming year. Chris
Ritchie has until February 20 to select
next year's Cabinet members-eighteen
positions need to be filled. This is ten
less than the present 28 Cabinet
positions, a reduction attributed to
Ritchie's campaign promise for less
leaders.
Chris says the first item on his
agenda is to review townhouse policy.
"I'm meeting with Tim Martin and Rich
Rossi this week" to discuss next year's
townhouse regulations.
Second on Ritchie's agenda is the
selection of his Cabinet. "I'll announce
the Vice-Presidents by this weekend,"
says Chris, "and the rest of the positions
"**'»:
Chris Ritchie
[Photo by Andrea Whitehouse]
within the next three weeks."
Applications for Cabinet positions
are available in the FUSA Office.
Co-Chairs Announced
Jeanne Osborne surrounds herself with next year's co-chairs of orientation, Brian Kavanaugh
and Beth Gillin. [Photo by Vince Cervoni]
By Connie McKenna
News Editor
Sophomores Brian Kavanagh and
Beth Gillin have been chosen to Co-chair
Orientation '87. The pair were chosen
over 15 other applicants and will begin
work "immediately," according to
Orientation Director Jeanne Osborn,
Osborn stated that recommendations
for the two candidates, as well as
feedback from the interviewing
committee strongly influenced her
decision this year. "This is really the
first year that the interviewing committee
had definite recommendations as to who
to choose," said Osborn. She added that
she had had a "gut feeling" about the pair
from the beginning, and was glad when
their interview and application scores
were correspondingly high.
According to Osborn, Kavanagh's
sense of humor played a large part in his
being chosen. "I know it will be great to
have Brian there after nine months of
hard work; I think his sense of humor
will nicely balance the intense, judicial
side of me."
"As for Beth", Osborn continued
laughinly, "99.9 percent of the student
body campaigned for her and I finally just
gave in to peer pressure."
Gillin. an English major from
Massachusetts, have already received thier
first assignment; creating a recruitment
poster for sub-chairs of Orientation.
They are also expected to look at last
year's report and determine how they
would like to structure this year's
Orientation.
Osborn asserted that Gillin and
Kavanagh were chosen from a "very
qualified group of sophomore applicants
whom I would not hesitate to recommend
as sub-chairs."
Kavanagh and Gillin are looking
forward to working with members of
their own class as well as "making the
class of 1991 feel welcome and
Orientation '87 successful."
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