Mirror - Vol. 02, No. 11 - November 2, 1978

              Limit Set On Student Basketball Tickets
1771 Provided To 2700 Undergrads
by Tony Tarnell
1771 of the approximate 2700
students of the university
undergraduate population will be
allowed to attend each of the 12
home basketball games for the up-coming
season, reported Mr. William
Schimpf, Dean of Students.
This policy, which states,
"Because of limited capacities of the
existing gymnasium, a student will be
provided a ticket for regularly
scheduled home games on a first-come,
first-serve basis white seats
are available," was approved last
May by the University Council.
"The 1771 figure is a very careful-ly
selected number," pointed out
Schimpf. The figure was set by look-ing
at the numbers from the U.Conn
game of last year, the season's most
popular game. 1713 students picked-up
tickets for the game, and 58
students desired tickets but couldn't
get them because of the seating
capacity. These figures add up to the
1771 figure, which Student Services
and the Athletic Department feel to
be an accurate number'
The Student Legislature has
established an Ad Hoc committee
composed of members Ken
Donovan, Tim Buckley and Greg
Magner to look into the ticket situa-tion.
Chairman of the committee,
Donovan feels that the new policy is
in "direct conflict with a statement in
the student handbook which details
that every student is entitled to a
ticket to every home basketball
game."
Mike Robinson, Athletic Liaison for
F.U.S.A. detailed in a recent Student
Legislature meeting that F.U.S.A. is
in the process of establishing a
similar committee to Donovan's, to
look into the ticket situation, with par-ticular
focus on the 20 dollars
Athletic fee, of which 10 dollars sup-posedly
guareentees each student a
ticket. They will also look into the re-maining
tickets for each home
basketball game, to the general
public at 3 dollars apiece.
When asked if the 3 dollar price
charged for the public is placed in a
Student fund, or into the general
university pool, Dean Schimpf ex-plained
that Fairfield University, be-ing
a Non-Profit organization,"is like
a perfect bowl; nothing comes out
unless it first of all goes in." When
asked to explain this, Schimpf detail-ed
the essential outline of setting the
budget for Student Services-related
departments (of which the Athletic
department is one.) He noted that
each department submits, a planned
budget for proposed needs for the
next fiscal year on September first.
December, the Board of Trustees
receives the proposals and then,
looks for methods to generate'
enough income to meet all University-expenses
(approximately
$16,000,000 a year). Dean Schimpf.
pointed out that "if any surplus is
placed in a general investment fund,
which is aimed at helping to meet ex-penses
for the next year." Thus
noted Schimpf that " any income ac-cumulated
by the sale of basketball
tickets is treated in much the same
fashion as tuition and room and
board income. It goes toward
meeting University expenses."
"I'm not pleased until each stu-dent
is allowed into an event he or
she wishes to attend. However, if you
ignore the rest of your obligations
(financial) the system would not work
in the long run." Stated Mr. C.Donald
Cook, Athletic Department Director.
He continued that "the B.C. game
and the Army game are the biggest
home contests of the season.
However, the figure for student
tickets (1771) should handle any de-mand
for tickets shown." Cook feels
that under any circumstances, there
will be a good percentage of
students who either will not be able
to, or who will not want to attend a
basketball game. With this in mind,
Cook feels thaf'the" 1771 figure for
student tickets is an outer limit of the
maximum for student interest in any
single game. "Cook continued that
"this figure will be realistic and work
as long as no one tries to throw a
.wrench into the machinery of the
system." When asked to comment
on this, Cook pointed out that last
year prior to the University of Con-necticut
game, a letter was cir-culated
around campus, asking for
100 percent ticket pickup.
As the situation stands now, the
Student athletic fee gets the Fairfield
student a ticket for home basketball,
hockey ana football contests on a
first-come, first-serve basis, for
about 38 cents apiece. When asked
about the possibility of the new
system failing, Schimpf pointed out
Continued Page 3
Athletic Director, C. Donald Cook
(Photo By Dorie Slater)
THE
FAIRFIELD Volume2, No. 11, November2,1978
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 06430 MIRRORIncorporated 1977
Arts Award
Guidelines Announced
Increase In Student Harassment
by "Doc" Dougherty
Dr. Nicholas Rinaldi has announc-ed
the guidelines for the Arts Award,
to be presented March 6, 1978,
granted annually to an under-graduate
in the School of Arts &
Sciences for single achievement in
the arts. The award may be granted
for a painting, a musical composi-tion,
a story, a play, 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, a
study or the relationship between an
artist, or poet, or novelist or any of
the arts of a given era and the
political, economic or social status of
that era, a study of any aspect of the
relationship between the arts and
religion, ere. The field is too wide
open to even begin to specify:
basically, any endeavor relating
broadly to the experience of the arts.
The purpose of the award is to
give public honor to high achieve-ment
in the area of the arts, and to
communicate to all of our students
and to the general public a sense of
the vitality of the liberal arts here at
Fairfield and an awareness of the
continuing relevance of the liberal
arts experience in the modern world.
Finalists for the award will be in-vited
to read their works or an
abstact or short version of them or
perform them for the general public
at an Awards Night to be held during
the spring semester, at which time
the award ($250) will be conferred.
The recipient of the award will be
selected by a panel of faculty
members in consultation with the
Dean of the College of Arts &
Sciences.
The Arts Award Committee (1978-
79 membership: Professors
Eliasoph, Morris Grossman, Petry
[Chairman], Thiel, Wells) have agreed
upon the following guidelines to en-courage
students of the College of
Arts and Sciences of Fairfield
University to present their creative
efforts in the field of the arts for the
enjoyment, enlightenment and judg-ment
of their peers and teachers.
The Committee wants maximum
participation by the students in this
creative competition, thus the follow-ing
guidelines are mainly procedural
and are not meant to limit or exclude
any reasonable student project in the
field of the arts understood in the
broadest possible manner.
1. Projects or papers demonstrating
originality or creativity which may
have originally been done for a
course requirement may be sub-mitted
to the committee.
2. Projects or papers may be the
work of an individual student or a
team of students.
3. Any project or paper should be
submitted to the Committee
through a faculty member who will
serve as a sponsor and so in-dicate
that the project or paper
has merit and worthy of further
consideration.
4. Deadline for submission of all en-tries
is 31 January 1979.
5. Screening committees composed
of faculty whose expertise is ap-propriate
to the various entries
will choose the best entries which
will then be submitted to the Arts
Award Committee which will
determine the finalists and their
rank.
6. A program for the presentation of
the projects and papers to the
University community and the
award of merit citation and the
Arts prize will take place on Tues-day,
6 March 1979, in the Oak
Room.
7. To give the Committee some sort
of notion of the number and type
of projects or papers that will be
submitted, each student who
plans to make a submission is in-
Continued Pag* 3
by Karen Erdos
There has been a notable increase
this year in student reports of uniden-tifiable
persons walking through dor-mitory
halls for no apparent reason,
reports Patrick Carroll, Director of
Security for the university. Most of
the people manage to leave the
buildings before a security officer ar-rives,
but there have been several
reports of student harassment.
Most recently, a Bridgeport man
was reported walking through the
halls of Campion, opening doors and
entering rooms at random, and an-noying
many of the girls living there.
There have also been more accounts
than usual of solicitors selling goods
in the dormitories, which is in viola-tion
of university regulations.
Another area in which crimes have
increased is in situations where
guests of Fairfield students have
been responsible for them. For ex-ample,
several Stamford students
were involved in a physical assault of
a girl in the Southeast parking area.
Students of Manhattan College were
also asked to leave recently for
creating a disturbance in the Stag-her
Inn. Seton Hall students were
also requested to leave the campus
after creating separate disturbances
in Campion, Regis, and Northwest,
and being written up several times.
Motor vehicle break-ins have ac-counted
for the largest single type of
criminal activity on campus this year,
with tape decks and C.B.'s being
stolen from the cars in most of the in-stances.
After a rash of these break-ins
occuredln the Northwest parking
lot, extra security patrols were added
to the area and a decrease in in-cidences
has already been noted.
Vandalism to cars is another often
reported phenomenanon the' Fair-field
campus. One night several
weeks ago, there was damage done,
in the form of broken antennas and
windshield wipers, to over a half
dozen cars in the Southeast lot.
There had also been a rash of
burglaries reported in the beach area
during the first few weeks of the
semester according to a spokesman
for the Fairfield Police Department.
More recently though, "things have
been pretty quiet there," and the
number of reported instances of
break-ins are back to a "normal"
level for this time of year.
Chief Carroll wants to emphasize
the importance of an active student
role in the prevention of crime on
campus."All suspicious persons
observed or those wandering the
halls without a purpose should be
reported to security immediately so
they can be asked to leave or
become subject to arrest for
tresspassing. The simplest, yet most
often ignored rule of crime preven-tion
in the dormitories is the locking
of doors and windows when no one is
in the rooms, which would put an end
to the major percentage of simple
thefts that occur there," stated Car-roll.
On the subject of motor vehicle
break-ins, in most of the reported
cases, valuable items had been left
in full view thereby providing an open
invitation to theft.
Award Announced
The following criteria have been an-nounced
by Dean Nicholos Rinaldi
for the newly created Science
Award.
General Instructions - Each stu-dent
who plans to submit a project
to be considered for the Science
award normally would contact a
faculty member to serve as an ad-visor.
The faculty member will
monitor the student's work and
serve as a guide and resource.
In addition should prepare a brief
abstract describing the project he
or she is planning to submit. This
* abstract should be completed on
the form available from the
Awards Committee or the Dean's
Office. The abstract should be
submitted to the Committee Chair-man
or any member of the
Science Awards Committee as
soon as possible.
Original and creative projects
which may include work
prepared as part of course re-quirements.
Student/faculty research pro-jects
in which the student has
contributed significant creative
imput.
Team projects - a group of
students who have collaborated
on a project may submit it to the
Awards Committee. Any award
received would be shared by all
participants.
Students are encouraged to
contact the members of the
Science Awards Committee if
they have any questions concer-ning
submission criteria.
The following faculty comprise
the Science Awards Committee,
which includes the social and
natural sciences (i.e. Biology,
Chemisty,' Economics,
Mathematics, Physics, Political
Science, Phsychology and
Sociology.)
Dr. Edward Deak (Economics)
Canisius 325
Dr. Alan Katz (Political Science)
Canisius 221
Dr. Abbas Khadjavi (physics)
Bannow 114
Dr. Donald Ross (Biology)
Bannow 218
Dr. Kurt Schlichting (Sociology)
Regis G-20 (Mail Companion)
Chairman Science Awards Committ.