Mirror - Vol. 13, No. 06 - October 20, 1988

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 13, No. 6 Our Second Decade Thursday, October 20, 1988 The Image of Fairfield
Fairfield's Ratings Improve
Lynn Ann Casey
Assistant Editor
Recently, Fairfield Univer-sity
has been rated by two respected
sources in the field of comparing
colleges and universities. By both
sources, Fairfield is ranking highly
among the best 120 schools in the
nation.
Barron'sPro/z/es of Ameri-can
Colleges has ranked Fairfield
in the second highest category of
its rating system. The highest cate-gory,
Most Competitive, contains
36 colleges, and the second high-est
category contains 80. This
category, Highly Competitive,
contains Fairfield, and it is a step
higher from where Fairfield was
before, the third category, Very
Competitive.
Barron's has been called
the most used directory by high
school seniors and guidance coun-selors.
Among the top 115 schools
to be ranked with, Fairfield, less
than 50 years old, is one of the two
youngest to be listed. According
to Murray Farber, Director of
Public Relations, "being young
makes us more flexible, yet we still
have the 450 year old Jesuit tradi-tion
behind us."
U.S. News and World
Reports Americas Best Colleges
has ranked Fairfield number 7
among the nations 399 Compre-hensive
Colleges. Unlike last year,
the rating system utilized this year
was much more objective, based
on 5 criteria: selectivity, resources,
faculty, retention rate, and aca-demic
reputation, the only subjec-tive
criteria.
In the same category, Fair-field
is ranked below Wake Forest
(1), Trinity University (2), Univer-sity
of Richmond (3), The Citadel
(4), Worcester Polytechnic (5), and
Santa Clara University (6). U.S.
News and World Report says these
comprehensive colleges and uni-versities
"Fill an immense middle
ground that provides American
higher education with much of its
intellectual variety and academic
vitality."
According to U.S. News,
fifteen of the nation's best com-prehensive
schools are affiliated
with religions, and five, including
Fairfield, are "products of the leg-endary
Jesuit educational system."
The 399 institutions with
which Fairfield is ranked enroll no
fewer than 2,500 students and
award morethan halfoftheirbache-lor's
degrees in two or more occu-pational
or professional disciplines.
According to David Flynn,
Dean of Admissions, considering
U.S. News and World Report is a
national magazine with widespread
distribution, the ranking is "mean-ingful
to us as we try to develop a
diverse student body from as many
states as possible." The ranking
has "been a tremendous help in
that effort.".
With respect to Barron's,
which many parents and students
look to to find the best quality
educations available, "this objec-tive
rating will be helpful in posi-tioning
us with other universities
of comparable excellence," said
Dean Flynn.
Another respected publi-cation
on ranking colleges, the
Selective Guide to Colleges, has
included Fairfield University in its
most recent publication. Accord-ing
to Murray Farber, "we are
consistantly one of the youngest
colleges to be listed."
Director Named for Arts Center
AnnMarie Puckhaber
News Editor
Thomas Zingarelli, actor and
director oftheater productions, has
been named Director of the new
$7.5 million Regina A. Quick
Center for the Arts.
Zingarelli, a 1969 Fairfield
graduate, returned to the Univer-sity
in 1980, after working as a
reporter for The Bridgeport Post,
to assume the position of Associ-ate
Director of the Playhouse, in
1982 he was promoted to Manag-ing
Director and in 1986 he also
became the Artistic Director.
As Director, Zingarelli will
supervise all aspects of the Center,
which will include a 750-seat thea-ter,
a smaller "black box" for re-hearsals
and experimental plays,
and an art gallery. "Hopefully,
now hundreds of students can have
the opportunity to discover their
own potential," says Zingarelli.
The main task of the Director,
according to Zingarelli, "is to try to
find and bring in more exciting
programs." Currently, the Play-house
offers four undergraduate
plays a year and works with vari-ous
clubs on campus to offer Eve-nings
ofMusic, ChamberConcerts,
FUSA programs, readings, and
lectures. Zingarelli believes the
Arts Center "will create a better
audience."
Included in Zingarelli's plans
for the Center is a concentration on
children's programs. He would
like to help children develop an
appreciation for the arts by offer-ing
theater camps, tours, work-shops,
and tour shows to inner city
schools.
Zingarelli would also like to
conduct a nationwide search for
the best college plays and produce
them in the new Center, as well as,
develop an active summerprogram.
Zingarelli says, "I think the whole
Center should be dedicated to
encouraging and nurturing new
talent."
Another role the Center for
the Arts will perform, according to
Zingarelli, is to keep the students
and the community mindful of the
theater's heritage. Zingarelli says
it is not the same as the commercial
theater.
In speaking about the Cen-ter's
art gallery, Zingarelli says,
"The gallery will do programming
which will help to encourage new
artists from our student and other
student populations."
Zingarelli describes himself
as a "working actor." He has per-formed
at the Westport Country
Playhouse, the Westport Commu-nity
Theater, and the White Barn in
Westport.
Among the plays he directed
at the University Playhouse are the
dramas "Trojan Women," "Curse
of the Starving Class," and "The
Diviners" and the musicals "God-spell"
and "Berlin to Broadway."
Zingarelli has also taught thea-ter
courses at Fairfield as an ad-junct
professor and during the past
two years produced The Play-wrights
Series, bringing profes-sional
performers to the campus
for readings of plays in progress.
The new Director is a member
of the Actors Equity, Theater Art-ists
Workshop, and U.S. Institute
of Theater Technology.
Thomas Zingarelli PR Photo
U.S.News and World Report Rating
of National Comprehensive Colleges
RANK SCHOOL (STATE) TUITION
1 Wake Forest University (N.C.) $7,950
2 Trinity University (Tex.) $8,160
3 University of Richmond (Va.) $9,080
4 The Citadel (S.C.) $4,963
5 Worcester Polytechnic Inst. $12,000
6 Santa Clara University (Calif.) $8,784
7 Fairfield University (CT) $9,325
8 Villanova University (Pa.) $9,100
9 SUNY College, Fredonia $4,087
10 Rollins College (Fla.) $10,881
11 Providence College (R.I.) $9,550
12 Simmons College (Mass.) $11,028
13 University of Scranton (Pa.) $7,184
14 St. Mary's College of California $8,566
15 Creighton University (Nebr.) $6,762
16 St. Joseph's University (Pa.) $7,600
17 Stetson University (Fla.) $7,675
18 Assumption College (Mass.) $7,750
19 Trenton State College (N.J.) $2,680
20 Oral Roberts University (Okla.) $5,075
Ozick Discusses Writing
Career
Gary Thomann
Contributing Writer
Last Thursday, the Hu-manities
Institute ofthe College of
Arts and Sciences presented a lec-ture
by well-known author, Cyn-thia
Ozick in the Oak Room.
Professor Leo O'Connor
introduced Ozick, calling her "a
writer of many different genres"
and saying that her career was
exceptional because she becomes
more prolific as the years go by -
much like her hero, Henry James.
Ozick proceeded by read-ing
the first chapter ofa 1984 novel
called At Fumicaro that she never
finished. The novel takes place in
Fascist Italy, where the town
Fumicaro is located. It centers on
character Frank Castle, a journal-ist.
Religious themes pervade this
work, especially as we see Castle
happy with his Catholicism. We
are also awakened to the harshness
of poverty when Castle marries a
peasant girl named Katarina.
After apoligizing forwhat
she called "dense prose," Ozick
proceeded with a question and
answer session. She spoke on
becoming a writer, saying that "no
one formula exists for everybody."
She stated that writers are "born,
not made," while making a distinc-tion
between "people who love to
write and those who love to have
written."
She talked of her book
MetaphorsandMemory saying that
"no metaphor can be made except
out of the memory of one's life."
She noted that many people had
wondered, since she is Jewish,
about her involvement in Catholic
philosophical writing. She replied
we "decode the world through re-ligion"
and that most people as-sume
incorrectly that anyone who
asks if a person is religious, that
they are asking if that person is
fanatical.
Ozick was questioned on
whether she agreed with E.L.
Doctorow when he said that people
today view the world in minature -
we see the world in terms of indi-viduals,
not ofthe whole. She said
she did, in general, and bemoaned
the current lack ofa Balzac to sieze
all there is to seize in American
society.
Concluding by saying that
any writer has an obligation to
write, Ozick said it is something
like being a slave: "You must do
all you can before you die."
Cynthia Ozick is the author of
essays in numerous anthologies and
magazines as well as many books
including The Pagan Rabbi and
Other Stories, Levitation, The
Cannibal Galaxy, and Metaphor
and Memory.. She graduated cum
laude with honors from New York
University in 1949 and was
awarded her master's at Ohio State.
Since then she has won several
awards and honors including being
a judge for the National Book
Award in 1973 and the Distin-guished
Artist-in-Residence at the
City University of New York
(1982).
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