Mirror - Vol. 12, No. 12 - December 03, 1987

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Fairfield
Volume 12, No. 12 Our Second Decade Thursday, December 3,1987 The Image of Fairfield
Fairfield's future debated
By Chris Michailoff
News Editor
The Fairfield 2000 report, produced
over the past year by some 800 persons from
Fairfield County in eight Task Forces and a
Steering Committee, was debated at an open
conference on November 21, in the Fairfield
University Campus Center.
The report proposes that chief execu-tives
from 26 county towns form a Fairfield
county conference of municipalities. This
group would meet quarterly during the year
to assess problems and progress made in
solving them. A professional staff person
should also be hired to assist in this process.
The report also promotes increased
funding for job training and for day care and
after school care of children of working
parents. Public libraries should maintain
job and information data banks to assist
residents, it says.
The main thrust of the Fairfield 2000
meeting was a slide show, which encapsu-
Jesuit Superior
General will
visit in Fall '88
By Greg Curley
Staff Writer
Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.,
the Jesuit S uperior General, has slated a visit
to Fairfield University next fall. He will be
in the United States to attend a meeting of
the Jesuit Conference in Washington, D.C.,
and he wil spend Oct. 6-7 at Fairfield.
Rev. Joseph D. Delvin, S.J., rector at
the Fairfield Jesuit Community, said Father
Kolvenbach is coming mainly "to visit the
Jesuits whose apostilatejs teaching at Fair-field
University and Fairfield Prep." He also
plans to meet with the Board of Trustees,
which is the governing body of the Univer-sity,
but it is not known at this time if he will
meet with the student body.
Fr. Kolvenbach is a native of the
Netherlands, born in the village of Druten in
1928. He entered the Jesuits in 1948 and
was ordained in 1961 in Lebanon. He was
elected in September 1983, on the first bal-lot,
to be the Jesuit Superior General, a
position which he holds for life. As Superior
General, he is the chief administrator of all
the Jesuits around the world. Fr. Kolven-bach
speaks seven different languages.
October will mark Fr. Kolvenbach's
second visit to Fairfield. When completing
his tertiary training in the United States in
1962-63 in Pomfret, Connecticut, he came
to the university during a Lenten break.
After meeting Fr. Kolvenbach, and highly
impressed with his language abilities, Rev.
Victor F. Leeber, S.J., who was chair of the
modern language department then, allowed
him to teach a class in conversational
French.
latcd the findings of the various committees.
The committees favor increased use of rail
and water for movement of materials and
goods in order to reduce heavy traffic on the
highway. They maintain that a county arts
council should be established to promote
and support artists, arts, activities, and or-ganizations.
Likewise, it recommends that a
human services council be set up to handle
drug and alcohol abuse, child and maternal
health care, services for the aged and other
social problems on a county-wide basis.
Fr. Thomas Savage, S.J., the Assis-tant
Academic Vice President, one of the
chairmen for the committees, was pleased
with the turnout. He felt that the conference,
"came away with the need to educate the
electorate in terms of issues pertaining to the
development of Fairfield County." Fr.
Savage also said that he forsees tangible
results, "in the actions of both public and
private institutions that will use the findings
of Fairfield 2000."
A reason to cheer! See photo essay, p. 4
Large agenda covered at FUSA meeting
By AnnMarie Puckhaber
Staff Writer
The Fairfield University Student
Association (FUSA) Cabinet held its third
monthly meeting ofthe semester on Sunday,
November 22. Twenty-three of the 25
members of the Cabinet were present for
this meeting. The Cabinet had a large
agenda to cover.
Chris Ritchie, FUSA President, be-gan
the meeting by complimenting the cabi-net
on its work. He said that "things are
going very well with the cabinet" and he
feels this is evident since its "events have
been so successful." He thanked everyone
for the work they have done so far.
Following Ritchie's opening re-marks
were reports from the Vice Presidents
and each of the Committees. Ken Caisse,
Vice President of Student Life, informed
everyone about the Alcohol Awareness
Task Force on campus. This was designed to
continue the efforts of Alcohol Awareness
Week. He also encouraged student partici-pation
in the canned food drive that will take
place from now until Christmas. Everthing
collected during the drive will go to Opera-tion
Hope in town.
The Academics Committee, headed
by Mark Dietz, has been working to make
more study space available on campus. As a
result of its efforts, Canisius Hall is now
open until midnight. The Committee is also
trying to get an extra reading day during
exams, but this has not yet been approved.
The Academics Committee will host Career
Week in January where representatives
from different companies will be available
to talk to the students.
Athletes Week has been one of the
projects of the Athletics Committee, headed
by Rusty Magner. The week began with a
Pep Rally on Monday and different club
sports have been highlighted in the Campus
Center Lobby every day this week. The
Athletics Committee is responsible for dis-tributing
basketball tickets in the Campus
Center Lobby before each home game.
Students must pick up tickets in advance,
otherwise they must pay for a ticket the day
of the game. The committee will also be
scheduling buses to some of the away bas-ketball
games and home ice hockey games
that are played in Bridgeport.
After conducting a poll, Tina Bur-gara,
Director of Films, changed the FUSA
movies to Wednesday nights. This was done
with the hope that more students will attend
the movies. There will also be another Din-ner
Theatre, "It's A Wonderful Life," on
December 8.
Frank Carroll, Executive Director of
FUSA, informed the cabinet of the proposal
to raise the student activities fee from S35 to
S50. This would provide $30,000 or
540,000 more for programming. This pro-posal
has not been approved by the univer-sity.
See FUSA, p. 2