Mirror - Vol. 02, No. 07 - September 28, 1978

              Dorm
Councils
Elect
Officials
by Meg Flannery
The delayed establishment ot Dorm
Councils is expected to be completed
this week. The final election of
representatives from each dorm will
allow the institution of new drinking
regulations to begin. The new
regulations, aimed at a student self-policing
policy, are the end result of a
controversial issue last March in
which a number of dorm residents
were written up at a party allegedly
deemed "out of control" by security
officials.
Business School Opens
Griffin Optimistic
Last Thursday a meeting for all those
interested in working in the dorm
councils was held in the hope of
clearing the air of many of the
misconceptions that had formed. Much
of the controversy centered on the
problem of what degree a dorm council
member would be responsible for
"policing" various activities.
Council members are responsible for
keeping order and will therefore have to
use their own judgement in dealing with
problems that arise. The role of the R.A.
has not been diminished, they will still
be there in the event that a council
member is unable to handle a given
situation. For the most part individual
discretion will be necessary in dealing
with possible problems.
Vinnie O'Brien plans to meet
this week with the resident advisors and
headmasters to work out the final
details. The dorm councils will then
begin to assume their important roles in
self-government. Hopefully these
councils will provide an opportunity for
better representation of all students and
an opportunity for a variety of projects
and entertainment alternatives.
DEAN JOHN GRIFFIN
(photo by Al Graziano)
This fall, a new School of
Business opened at the University to
better accommodate the rising number
of students enrolled in the various
business majors. Its aim, according to
Dean John Griffin, is to provide students
with a better identification with the
total aspect of the business field. The
school also seeks to establish a
reputation for an excellent quality of
education in the community and
professional fields.
In order to provide for these goals,
many new plans are being implemented.
New elective courses are to be added to
the standard curriculum on two year
cycles and the curriculum will be under
constant review to keen it a irrent in the
changing business world. Dr. Griffin has
also informed us of plans to initiate two
new majors—Quantitive Analysis and
International Business, now being
developed by Professor D. Reilly.
When asked if the development of the
new business elective courses would in
any way affect the basic core
requirements, Dean Griffin emphatically
stated that the school of business will in
no way affect the liberal arts at-mosphere
of the university. "This is an
artificial issue. We are in complete
agreement with the excellence of a
liberal arts base. Persons entering the
business field must still understand how
to reason, write, and speak."
In addition to this, Accounting
Professor H. Allinger remarked that "a
school of. business will give a more
prestigious reputation to the graduate. It
will enhance job resumes and perhaps
provide better opportunities to
graduates." Allinger also felt the
creation of a separate school will be a
vehicle for additional grants and
fellowships from various .companies.
Dr. Griffin backs up this view by
informing us-that the Senior Internship
Program was expanded this year with
more companies particupating and the
growth is expected to continue. Another
addition to the business curriculum is
the Distinguished Executive Lecture
Series being sponsored by Champion
International Corporation, who have
agreed to furnish four executives to
lecture on each of the four areas of
business specialization—Accounting,
Management, Marketing, and Finance.
These lectures will be geared toward
current issues in each field of study in
order that the student may receive
information generally not available in
the classroom.
The School of business will also begin
publishing a quarterly magazine, the
Fairfield Business Review which will
contain a lead article written by a
prominent local businessperson. In
addition to this, it will feature articles on
Fairfield business students, alumni, and
faculty and statistical material on
economic trends in Fairfield County. It
will be distributed to business and;
political leaders in the area.
The faculty has also been expanded
with the addition of three new
professors —Dr. Frank Greenwood,
Management and Quantitative Analysis,
Professor David T. Cadden, Finance and
Management, and Professor Robert W.
Kravet, Accounting and Finance.
The new school of business is
currently accredited by the state of
Connecticut and additional ac-creditation
by the American Assembly
of Schools of Business will take ap-proximately
three years. At that time,
immediate accreditation is expected
since planning in terms of curriculum
and faculty are all in conformity with
A.A.S.B. standards.
The possibility of the development of
a graduate program in business is seen
as a strong prospect for the future by
Dean Griffin whose immediate concern,
however, is to provide the Fairfield
business student with a better op-portunity
for the future.
THE
FAIRFIELD VOL. 2, No. 7; September 28, 1978
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 06430 MIRRORIncorporated 1977
Campus Pub Prospers
by Tony Tarnell
The Stag-Her Inn has sold a
staggering 1,378,4% ounces of brew,
and had realized a marginal profit of
$7,500 for the 1977-78 school year
In a recent interview, Fitzpatrick,
detailed that," the Stag-Her Inn is
operated like any other division of an
organization. The $7,500 profit that the
Stag-Her realized last year was funnelled
according to James Fitzpatrick, Director right back into university funds."
of the Campus Center. Celebrating its fifth birthday, January
Academic Council
Chooses Head
by Andrew Masini
The University's Academic Council
elected Dr. Jerome Meli of the Physics
Dept.,as its chairman at last Thursday's
meeting. He will serve for one year in
this capacity without speaking or voting
rights save to break a tie, but rather to
run the Council meetings and see that
order is maintained. The Council had
already chosen its executive and
recording secretaries, Drs. Joseph
Boggio and Morris Grossman,
respectively, at a previous meeting this
year.
The members of the Council who are
elected for three year terms by the
departments and schools that they
represent serve as a link between the
faculty and the administration and as an
advisory body to the president. They
handle faculty and general academic
issues on a week to week basis turning
certain major ones over to general
faculty discussion. All other faculty
committees are responsible to the
Council.
The Council's duties range from the
approval of new schools to the
University, such as recently added the
School of Business just this past year
and possibly the Center for Lifetime
Learning in the future, to the ap-pointment
of faculty members to
search committees.
The Council has been very much
concerned with this latter duty having
recently appointed members to the
Dean Search Committee to find a
permanent replacement for Rev. James
Coughlin, S.J. They also appointed four
faculty members to the Presidential
Search Committee at their last meeting.
Fr. Coughlin, Dr. Elizabeth Gardner of
the. Psychology Dept., Dr. William
Garrity of the Graduate School of
Education, and Rev. Joseph MacDonald
of the Mathematics Dept. were elected
to the Search Committee as the four
faculty members.
The Council also chose two additional
faculty members, Dr. George Lang
(Math) and Dr. Vincent Rosivach
(Classics), to serve on the committee
should the Board grant their request for
more representation in the way of two
additional faculty positions on the
committee.
Although it is required that the
chairman of the Academic Council not
be a member of the Council, Dr. Meli's
five years experience as a previous
member (three of his own term and two
finishing out that of another member)
will form a solid background for him as
he presides over a very active com-mittee.
21,1979, the Stag-Her Inn's short history
has been one of development. Back in
1973, David Zola, then Director of the
Campus Center, and Dean Schimpf put
in the majority of the effort to get a beer
permit and zoning regulations for a beer
serving pub on campus. It was not until
BOB KENNEY
fall 73, that the University of Con-necticut
received a special license from
the State Liquor Control Commission
allowing them to sell beer in their
campus pub. When this law was put into
effect, University of Connecticut
became the first school in the state to
offer beer to the students.
When this law was put into motion,
the other Connecticut universities
.reacted explosively, saying that it was
T'^W unfair for only U Conn to be covered
"■""""""jsP under the law. The state then permitted
all Connecticut universities to file under
this law.
Arts and Sciences
Awards Announced
By Marianne O'Connell
Dean Rinaldi today announced the
institution of an arts award and a
science award to be presented each
year to students of the College for
distinguished performance in the Arts
and in the Sciences. The Awards will
be given for a specific project, and
each award will carry a stipend of
$250.
'The purpose of the awards is to
give public honor to high achievement
in the area of the arts, and to com-municate
to the academic community
and to the general public a sense of
the vitality of the liberal arts~and
sciences here at Fairfield," according
to Dr. Rinaldi.
The Awards will be presented at an
Awards Night Ceremony which will be
held in February or early March, where
finalists will be given an opportunity
to present their projects to the general
public.
'The point of the program is to
stimulate an awareness of the high
achievement of our students during
their college studies." Added the
Dean, "Up until now, all recognition
took place at graduation. These
awards are an attempt to change
that."
Applicants for the Arts Award may
submit a painting, a musical com-position,
a poem or group of poems, a
dramatic performance, an essay in
aesthetics, an essay on a work of
literature or on an author, a study of
the impact of the arts on history or of
history on the arts, or any such en-deavor
relating broadly to the ex-continued
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"Due to the effort of Zola and
Schimpf, Fairfield was ready to act once
the law was passed," said Fitzpatrick.
"Fairfield was the second university in
the state to be approved under this new
proposition."
With the new beer permit, all the
university needed was a proper area to
house the new pub. A number of
suggestions, including taking over the
Playhouse, and renovating the old barn
by the Playhouse, were considered and
rejected as the University decided to
convert the existing snack bar into the
Stag-Her Inn. After a $15,000 con-struction
investment, on January 21,
1974, the Fairfield University pob
poured its first beer.
Fitzpatrick pointed out that, "as of
now, the Stag-Her is restricted to the
sale of beer and cider only." When
asked about the possibility of selling
other alcoholic beverages (ie. wine and
sangria), Fitzpatrick pointed out that,
"University of Connecticut has recently
received a full service permit for its
pub." Other Connecticut schools do not
as yet fall under this new proposition.
Fitzpatrick concluded that, "the
university has not as yet taken any steps
in acquiring such a license."
When asked if the existing Stag-Her
Inn is to be the permanent location for
the pub, Mr. Robert Kenney director of
the Stag-Her stated that, "Of course the
Stag-Her would like move into a larger
more versitilearea." He continued that,
'There is a general concern among the
university administration to find
another area, however, due to the lack
of space on the campus, the Stag-Her is
relatively low on the list."
The Stag-Her Inn is operated like any
other small intricate part of a large
organization. Before every fiscal year
the pub submits a planned budget to
Mr. John Hickson, Director of Business
and Finance for the university. Last year
the budget for the Stag-Her was $70,000.
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