Mirror - Vol. 13, No. 09 - November 17, 1988

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Fairfield Alumni Assoc. Presents Service Awards
AnnMarie Puckhaber
News Editor
The Fairfield University
Alumni Association Awards Din-ner
was held last Thursday, No-vember
10, at the Hyatt Regency
Hotel in Greenwich. The $300-a-plate
dinner raised close to
$100,000 for minority scholar-ships.
The three people honored
at the dinner were: ABC-TV news
anchor Peter Jennings for outstand-ing
service in communications;
Patrick J. Waide Jr., 1959 Fairfield
graduate and Vice Chairman of
Multi-National Client Services for
Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, Inter-national,
for service to the Univer-sity;
and Father Henry J. Murphy,
Dean of Freshman, for service to
the education of Fairfield students.
Father Aloysius P.
Kelley, SJ, University President,
delivered the welcome and thanked
the people for making the dinner a
success. Daniel P. Tully, Chief
Operating Officer ofMerrill Lynch
& Co., Inc., served as Chairman of
the dinner. The awards were pre-sented
by Joseph Berardino, Presi-dent
of the Alumni Association.
Jennings was helicop-tered
into Stamford after his regu-lar
evening broadcast inorder to
attend the dinner. After receiving
his award, he offered his views of
the recent presidential election. He
said that the "political campaign
was not an inspiring campaign."
This year's election had
the lowest voter turnout since 1924.
Jennings said it is a "sad comment
on what we are as a nation when
fewer than 50% exercise their
democratic francaise."
Jennings did not feel that
any "gripping issues" emerged
during the campaign or that the
candidates differed greatly. He
felt that "the voters were put off by
a degree to which candidates pulled
one another down, instead of tell-ing
where they would take the
nation" if elected.
Frank Jefferson, Presi-dent
of UMOJA, gave Jennings a
Fairfield University Sweatshirt and
challenged him to wear it on the
Jefferson Challenges Jennings with Fairfield Sweatshirt
air. Jennings explained that his
producer would not allow him to
wear it on the air, but that he would
wear it elsewhere.
This was the first time the
awards dinner was held off cam-pus.
Murray Farber, Director of
Public Relations, said that it was
an "important cause recognized by
the people who came." The dinner
received coverage from TV chan-
Kevin Wolfthal - PR
nels 8 and 12, the Bridgeport Post,
Greenwich News, Fairfield Citi-zen
News, Greenwich Time,
Stamford Advocate, WSTC radio,
WGCH radio, and WEBE radio.
Townhouse Residency Becomes Senior Privilege
Margaret Sweeney
Staff Writer
Based on the results of a
survey conducted last spring by
the Office of Student Residences
and the Fairfield University Stu-dent
Association, the townhouses
will be a senior first privilege in
the lottery for 1989-90 academic
year. Sixty-one percent of all re-spondents
felt that the townhouse
Fairfield University Townhouses Mirror File Photo
lottery should be a senior first privi-lege.
In the past, 70% of the units
would go to senior application
groups and 30% of the units would
go to junior application groups.
Last year, five interested senior
groups were unable to receive a
unit, since townhouses were open
to both juniors and seniors. Now,
the townhouses will be made avail-able
to seniors first, with only re-maining
units being made avail-able
to junior application groups.
The composition of the
application groups will remain the
same. A senior group will consist
of at least three members of the
class of 1990 for four person appli-cations
and at least four members
of the class of 1990 for six member
application groups. In future years,
AIDS Mini-Series Increases Awareness
1 in Every 300 College Students in America Carries the AIDS Virus
Greg Curley
Staff Writer
Last week the Fairfield
University AIDS Task Force pre-sented
a mini-series in the Campus
Center to increase student aware-ness
about the dreaded AIDS vi-rus.
The program took place
Monday through Wednesday
nights and was followed by the
release of a four-page AIDS up-date
in last week's Mirror.
On Monday, Denise Co-leon
of the nursing department
presented AIDS 101, an informa-tional
and descriptive lecture on
the virus. In it, she disclosed such
alarming figures as the fact that
close to 1 in 300 college students in
America carries the AIDS virus.
On Tuesday, a Donahue-type
discussion/program took
place, hosted by Professor War-den.
A panel of faculty fielded
questions on AIDS from the audi-ence.
On Wednesday, a film on
AIDS was shown, followed by a
discussion led by Liz Good, a social
worker on the Bridgeport AIDS
Task Force. The film focused on a
true story where a college girl
contracted AIDS from her bisex-ual
boyfriend, unaware of his al-ternate
lifestyle.
The Fairfield AIDS Task
Force was formed last year be-cause
the administration felt "there
was a need to educate students
about medical and social problems
involving the virus," according to
Nazaro Propati, Regis RA and Task
Force member. The force consists
of five administration members:
Anne Babb Cole, Patty Christiano,
Pal Rombalskli, Fr. Jim Hayes S.J.,
and Barry Vcsciglio and two stu-dents:
Maura Cenci and Nazaro
Propati.
Mr. Propati commented on
the program last week. "If any-
^ body got anything out of it, it was
"a success. AIDS is a topic more
people should face and be edu-cated
upon."
an earlier lottery will be consid-ered,
since 65% of the respondents
to the survey felt that the lottery
should be held in December rather
than January.
The Office of Student Resi-dences
would like to see full occu-pancy
of the townhouses. Patricia
Christiano, Townhouse Director,
is pleasedby the students' response.
She says that FUSA and the major-ity
of students, especially seniors,
seem to be happy. There is now
more of a guarantee that seniors
will receive a townhouse.
Christiano invites any
members of the class of 1990 who
are interested in the details of the
new process to attend a townhouse
lottery information session on
December 5 in the Oak Room.
Inside...
2 1988 Senior Gift An-nounced
4 The Return of Joe
DeVito
6 The Carrying of the
Cross: Letters to the
Editor
9 Edward Degas
Exhibition
12 Women's Basketball
Preview