Mirror - Vol. 02, No. 10 - October 26, 1978

              Increase In Turnout Marks Elections
No Write-ins; President Encouraged
by John Hughes
The Student Legislature, weaken-ed
in recent years by lagging in-terest,
may be on its way to recovery
as the election on Thursday the 12th
indicates. The number of candidates
increased 140% over last year; 65
students ran for the 35 available
positions. Two candidates from
Regis tied, making necessary a run-off
election to be held in the dorm
within a week. Unlike last year, no
student was elected by means of a
write-in vote.
More students turned out to vote
than last year, yet only 842 ballots
were cast from a student population
of over 2700. The turnout about one
third of the school, occured despite
heavier campaigning and election
publicity. Notices of the election
were posted at least a week in ad-vance
in the Campus Center, the
dorms, Canisius, Bannow, and the
shuttle.
The Legislature represents the en-tire
student body while voting on bills
dealing with student concerns, yet
few students are aware of its poten-tial.
"An inactive and isolated
legislature is at least partially
responsible," explained Jim Connol-ly,
acting President of the
Legislature. "Treating the Govern-'
ment as just 'another club on cam-pus'
is a major reason for its ineffec-tiveness
in the past. Representatives
operate with little direct involvement
with the student body."
Dave Klim, Chairman of the
Government Elections Commission
states that, " for too long the
legislature has been a 'lame duck'
organization. This year there were a
full 35 elected and no write-ins. This
will mean a stronger legislature."
Last year only 28 students ran for the
35 available positions, excluding five
who were elected by write in votes.
The two remaining spots were never
filled. This year showed a 140% in-crease,
with 65 candidates.
A bill put forth last year to reduce
the number of representatives was
vetoed. Connolly, who was opposed
to the bill, commented, "The more
people involved in the legislature, the
better. More ideas and input are
generated, and there is a better
chance of reaching more students.
There is plenty of work for every
representative."
Connolly feels that major em-phasis
of the legislature should be to
"bring results to the students." Con-nolly
stresses opgT) meetings,
perhaps in the Oakroom, to make the
legislature more accessible to the
students. Plans for the legislature in-clude
such areas as the extreme
temperatures in the library, the poor
sound system in Gonzaga
Auditorium, and the unresolved
basketball ticket situation.
REGIS
82 ballots cast
Doug Fauth 40
Andy McGowen 40
John Schlahoub 29
Joe Giacino 28
TomCallahan 28
CAMPION
87 ballots cast
Jeannie Cuscione 48
Jean Albrecht 26
Vinnie Ferranti 26
FAR EAST
63 ballots cast
James Callahan 45
Tony Tarnell 37
Terrence McElgun 34
LOYOLA
63 ballots cast
John Fitzgerald 58
Lynne Desmond 45
Greg Magner 30
Election
Results
GONZAGA
90 ballots cast
Brian Bellows 65
Bill Greenwood 52
Jeannie Luglio 43
SOUTHEAST
58 ballots cast
Bryan Norwood 37
Lisa Craig 34
COMMUTERS
65 ballots cast
Marcia Williams 39
Duane Greenawalt 37
William Burland 37
Shabnam Kapoor 33
Doug Smith 38
Bob Schumm 38
Mark Fredick 45
NORTHWEST
157 ballots cast
Jim Connolly 107
George Schietinger 82
Trisha Comey 70
Vinny McLaughlin 68
JULIE HALL
13 ballots cast
Pat Conti 10
O.C.B.
184 ballots cast
Ed Martin 119
Mark Fitzgerald 96
Christine Newhall 111
Ken Donovan 84
Tim Buckley 78
THE
FAIRF1ELD Volume 2, No. 10, October 26,1978
FAIRFIELO UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 06430 MIRRORIncorporated 1977
Shuttle Solution Proposed
Question of Funding Remains
The festivities of Harvest Weekend were kicked off by Kinderhook.
The second show was delayed by a fire alarm that proved to be false.
(Photo by Alex Graziano)
President Search
Committee Meets
by GiGi Byron
FUSA presented their proposal for
Campus Shuttle security to Student
Services last week, in the hope of
returning the shuttle service to its full
schedule.
Shuttle service had been cut back
on weekends because of disciplinary
problems during nighttime weekend
runs (8:00pm-1am on Friday and
Saturday nights.) Student Services
had made that decision and given
FUSA the option to come up with a
proposed solution, subject to ap-proval
by Student Services.
The Solution that FUSA has come
up with has three parts. The first is
establishing contact between the
bus driver and University Security.
This will be done by installing walkie
talkies on the bus and in the Security
office.
A paid post of student rider on the
nightime weekend runs will be
established as the second part of the
proposal. The student rider will col-lect
student I.D.'s from every rider.
Students will have their I.D.'s return-ed
as they get off the bus, provided
there has been no trouble. If trouble
does occur, the I.D.'s are put in a
locked box at the front of the bus, to
be sorted the next day. A list of riders
will then be submitted to Student Ser-vices,
so proper disciplinary action
can be taken.
The third part of the proposal is a
wide-ranging publicity scheme to
make students aware of the new
"get tough" policy.
Kevin Lawlor, FUSA represen-tative
and primary author of the pro-posal,
said that "the bus drivers are
receptive to the idea." He explained
that it is "not a foolproof solution, but
if it does not work the only solution
may be to cancel the bus."
When asked what part FUSA
would take in the new shuttle policy if
it is established, Lawlor answered,
"We would recruit riders and we
would schedule them."
Lawlor sees the only real pro-blems
with the new policy is the fun-ding
for the student riders. Student
Services feels that it is the student's
resposibility (FUSA) to pay for the
new policy. "We are working on
funds now," explained Lawlor.
He also added that the solution-finding
process has gotten "bogged
down by the question of who would
pay for it," and that he thinks "Stu-dent
Services can handle it financial-ly
better than we (FUSA) can."
Student Services should have
their answer on the proposed policy
sometime this week.
by Claudia M. Napp
The Presidential Search Commit-tee,
according to student member
Tom Cleary, "is searching for a man
•who will: strive for academic ex-cellence;
have good financial
knowledge, thus keeping the univer-sity
in the black; have a genuine in-terest
in the students."
The committee has had one
general meeting to get the search of-ficially
started. Mr. L. William Miles,
the new chairman of the Board of
Trustees and head of the committee,
presided over the first meeting. At
this time he presented the members
with a "general outline approved by
the Board of Trustees." The Commit-tee
members have also been in-structed
to use their own personal
guidelines in screening the can-didates.
Word has been sent out that the
school is looking for a new president,
and the committee is now accepting
resumes from all interested can-didates.
These resumes will be
screened by the members and those
applicants that best fit the re-quirements
will be interviewed
before any final decision is made.
How the committee will decide
upon the three names they will pre-sent
to the Board of Trustees, for the
Board members final decision, is not
yet known. Tom Cleary said he was
not sure whether he and his fellow
student member of the committee,
Linda Stephenson, will have an equal
say to that of the representatives
from the administration, faculty,
board of trustees, community, and
alumni in the final outcome. Father
Fitzgerald, who is not on the commit-tee
himself, feels that the final can-didates
presented to the Board of
Trustees will be agreed upon by the
committee through a consensus of
opinion. "In my past experiences in
such matters no formal vote has
been taken."
When asked if the university was
limiting its candidates to seeking a
Jesuit successor to his position,
Father Fitzgerald replied: "It is not
implicit that he be a member of the
Jesuit Community, but I would like to
think that there are many fine can-
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Rinaldi Initiates Core Review
Request Self Study By Departments
By James Endrst
A four phase timetable with
guidelines for the review of the core
curriculum has been approved by the
curriculum committee. The plan was
outlined by Dean Nicolas Rinaldi and
the first stage is already in motion.
Phase One of development, the
thrust and the foundation of the en-tire
process, will be spent in inter-departmental
student discussions,
after which each department will
submit a position paper on core cur-riculum
to Dean Rinaldi by
December 15. The position paper will
include: the department's philosophy
of the core as a whole and a state-ment
on the significance of their of-fering
within the core; the changes
the department would like to imple-ment
with respect to their own offer-ings
in the core; and the changes
they would like to see in respect to
the core in other departments.
During the second phase, the
Dean's Council of Chairmen will
"review all position papers (majority
and minority) in an effort to form a
comprehensive proposal relating to
core by February 15. The Curriculum
Committee will then review the pro-posal
from the Dean's Council will
discuss possible changes and am-mendments,
finishing their work by
the first week in March.
In the final phase the 18 member
committee will submit the completed
proposal to the full faculty for
deliberation and a vote at a General
Faculty Meeting to be held sometime
in the spring.
In addition, the departments are
being asked to take this opportunity
to review their major programs and
to submit any proposals that they
consider revelant to the core.
Albert Anderson, a philosophy
teacher at Clark University is Fair-field's
curriculum consultant. Mr.
Anderson was hired by the University
last year after the faculty turned
down a proposal from the curriculum
committee which was felt to be in-adaquate
because it didn't properly
address itself to the problems or
needs of the core or the univeristy in
general. According to Dean Rinaldi,
Anderson agreed that the proposal
should have been turned down. "The
present review is an attempt to start
that dialogue again," he said.
Fairfield's official statement on
the core, defined by the
Undergraduate Curriculum Commit-tee
and authored by Professor Arthur
Riel, Jr., says that "the goal of the
university is education, not just a job.
In short, Fairfield University trains
you for life. To achieve this goal, a
basic understanding of science,
mathematics, history, the social
sciences, composition, literature,
foreign languages, fine arts,
philosophy, and religion is
necessary." Professor Riel, a well
known supporter of the core said,
"When a man comes looking for a
job with a college degree, there are
certain things that an employer has a
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