Mirror - Vol. 12, No. 10 - November 12, 1987

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MIRRORy The
Fairfield
Volume 12. No. 10 Our Second Decade Thursday, November 12. 1987 The Image of Fairfield
Brewer
addresses
resource and
environmental
issues
By Lynn Ann Casey
Staff Writer
Parking problems persist
By Ann Marie Puckhaber
Staff Writer
"Man is an integral and potent corn-potent
in the enviroment and he is respon-sible
for it" said Dr. Garry Brewer to a
capacity crowd in the Nursing Auditorium
Wednesday, November 4 at 8:00 pm. He
presented his lecture, which was part of
Fairfield University's Olin Lecture Series
on the Enviroment entitled "After the Fall:
Resource Reconstitution". a topic which he
found difficult to understand as well as
present. He said that enviromental and re-source
issues are an "important but poorly
understood" issue and a "widespread grow-ing
problem "
A Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Pro-fessor
of Resource Policy and Management
at Yale University, Dr. Brewer tried to get
his audience to recognize today's problems
with resource management. He is a well-educated
author and co-author of seven
books and over 150 professional articles of
reports.
To begin his lecture. Dr. Brewer
remarked on a bumper sticker which he
encountered on his way to the University
which read "Live long enough to get even
with your kids". As he continued to present
his talk, this statement came to have real
meaning in relationship to his topic of re-source
reconstitution. He asked, "Are
today's decisions sensitive to tomorrow's
needs?" In truth, he feels that our present
society is much too concerned with short
term goals and that the furure is not being
prepared for. Someday, like the bumper
sticker implies, it soon may be too late.
Before we can reconstitute our re-sources,
we must "assess the authoritative
systems that got us where we are." and
remedy them first. Resources, in general,
are depleted, but there are "advantages and
opportunities". Dr. Brewer feels "we need to
make plans before disaster strikes".
The Yale Professor does not agree
that any progress made by society is at the
expense of the environment but that recon-stitution
of resources is very possible. All it
requires is "money and a lot of luck" as well
as attention from politicians, businessmen,
free enterprisers, and citizens in general.
What can we do? Dr. Brewer knows
that we, "as a society, are confused." But,
he says "what we can do best is think glob-ally
but, to start, act locally." Then, maybe
it won'tbe too late for enviroment or for the
world.
The next Olin Lecture in this fall's
Enviromental Series will be held on Mon-day,
November 23 at 3:30 pm in the Oak
Room. It will be given by S. Bruce Smart,
Jr.. the Undersecretary of Commerce for
Foreign Trade.
There have been numerous com-plaints
about the parking on campus from
both students and faculty. According to
William P. Schimpf, Vice President of Stu-dent
Services and member of the University
Council, parking has become an "issue that
needs serious consideration."
The problem is that "parking hasn't
grown with the University," expalins Todd
Pelazzo, Associate Director of Security. So
far this year there are 4,978 cars registered
on campus. There are 2,116 parking spaces.
However. Pelazzo says that parking is a
"managebale problem." According to
Schimpf, "there are parking spaces avail-able
on campus except when we do extraor-dinary
things."
Len DelGallo. Legislature President
of FUSA. states that there really "isn't a
major parking problem on campus" but that
it is more of an attitude problem." Students
and faculty want to park wherever they want
and are unwilling to walk. Pelazzo has
timed a walk across campus to take on 4 1/
2 minutes. Schimpf added that Fairfield was
intended to be a "walking campus."
Security has "been pushing for the
University to establish a parking authority,"
says Pelazzo. Parking Operation Assistant
is a position that was created by the Univer-sity
that would act as a "liason between the
Traffic Appeals Board and Security," ex-plains
Pelazzo. However, this position is
presently vacant. The Traffic Appeals
Board is an "active body of people," says
Steven Jakab, Associate Provost and mem-ber
of the University Council, that consists
offaculty, students, and administrators. The
board hears complaints and makes sugges-tions
and recommendations.
According to Pelazzo, "tickets are
down" this year because there is no Parking
Officer. This position, which is responsible
for distributing tickets, is also vacant. Dur-ing
the 1986-87 school year, 15,138 tickets
were given. So far this year, there has been
3,010 tickets given. "I don't believe in fines
as being the number one answer" to the
parking problem, states Pelazzo. He added
that he would prefer having parking
privleges revoked after five tickets. All
money from the tickets goes into a Univer-sity
general fund. Security tows cars "from
roadways, firelanes, handicapped and serv-ice
spaces" in order to "maintain a safe
condition," says Pelazzo.
In response to the many complaints,
the legislature has devised a bill, a "list of
recommendations," states DelGallo, to
present to the University Council. DelGallo
says that "reorganizing" can be done to
improve parking. The bill suggests that the
University assign two parking spaces to
every townhouse, improve the shuttle
schedule, and have one lot for Julie Hall
residents.
Jakab says that "people are now more
aware" of the problem. He believes that
"we're all on the same side of the problem
and together we can solve it."
United Way
surpasses
goal
By Connie McKenna
Managing Editor
Club Football survey results tabulated
Chris Michailoff
News Editor
Fairfield University has
not had a football team since it
folded a year ago. Juniors Sal-vatore
Arena and Sean Power,
who both played on the team,
distributed 1,500 surveys to de-termine
whether the student
body was interested in returning
club football to the University.
Both Arena and Power
conducted the survey, after get-ting
the permission of Dr. Ha-rold
Menninger, the Athletic
Director. According to Power,
"We wanted to see if the school
was interested in a football
team, or if they really didn't
care." The survey results were
tabulated, with 64 males con-senting
to play, 18 cheerleaders,
13 statisticians, and 127 stu-dents
expressing interest in
being spectators.
Based on these results
Power and Arena feel there is
enough support to substantiate
their claim to bring football back to
Fairfield. The initial phase of
conducting a survey permits them
to formulate a presentation for Dr.
Menninger. Power and Arena feel
they have a persuasive argument
for rein tituting football.
Fr. Victor Leeber S.J., pro-fessor
of Spanish, served as mod-erator
and chaplain to the football
team favors the return of football,
because it promotes school spirit
and provides spectators with a
sport for the fall. "Football allows
the student to develop a sound
mind and sound body," because of
the unique values it inculcates in
its players both on and offthe field,
stressed Fr. Leeber.
Fairfield's football team
has always been maintained at a
club level. Club football has tradi-tionally
been administered by stu-dents
who not only play on the
team, but run the business of the
team. Club football was organized
and operated by the students, in
conjunction with the Athletic De-partment.
Since football is such a
mammoth undertaking, Fr. Leeber
stated, that for football to be suc-cessful!
it would require a culmi-nation
of both students and the ad-ministration.
This would ensure
that the team would receive the
proper support. Fr. Leeber con-tends
, "Club football is a bad name
since students don't take it seri-ously
enough, instead it should be
called inter-colligiate football."
Club football adheres to the same
NCAA rules governing varsity
football, and must meet the same
standards of requirements. In
view of, this Fr. Leeber feels that a
club football team is heavy burden
for students to carry alone.
Dr. Menninger expressed
surprise over the survey, since
football had been disengaged in
such a short time, "it seems strange
to reinstitute a team." He also felt
that if there was so much support
for a team, "Why didn't everyone
put all their efforts into helping
keep the team up last year?"
The process of returning
football to the University will be
very long, and according to Men-ninger
"it's going to take more
then a survey for the final consid-eration
to be made whether to
bring back football." Initially
when Power and Arena ap-proached
Menninger with the
survey, Menninger held that the
survey was not comprehensive
enough; and he encouraged them
to develop a more thorough
document.
When asked to comment
on the results of the survey,
Menninger wondered whether
64 people who indicated they
would play are committed to
practise five days a week, or just
on the survey. He also stated, "I
don't understand why the people
who would be cheerleaders or
statisticians for the football team,
haven't expressed doing it on a
regular basis." Menninger said,
"Right now I am pessimistic as to
whether a football team will
come around."
The annual fund drive on
behalf of United Way raised over
$22,000, surpassing its goal of
$18,500 by over $4000. Chairper-son
of the 1987 campaign, Phyllis
Fitpatrick, commented, "I'm re-ally
pleased with the results and we
certainly appreciate all the help we
received from the entire Univer-sity
community. Everyone's hard
work really paid off."
Fund raising events appeal-ing
to the student body were organ-ized
by FUSA's Bridget Moran
and Charlene Sorvillo, and in-cluded
such activities as the Penny
Wishing Well and dorm competi-tions.
These activities netted
$1551 from the students. Other
solicitations were made to the rest
of the University community and
its various departments, including
the faculty, administration, Sellers,
the library. Fairfield Prep and the
Jesuit community. The clerical/
switchboard departments and secu-rity
also contributed over $2000,
while retirees and Friends of the
University donated $400.
Participation in this year's
campaign was increased by 4%,
according to Fitzpatrick, who
noted that "everyone's generosity
surpassed all expectations."