Mirror - Vol. 12, No. 19 - February 25, 1988

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Fairfield
Volume 12, No. 19MRRORV Our Second Decade Thursday, February 25, 1988 The Image of Fairfield
University Proposes Chapel
First Plan Released
Chris Michailoff and
AnnMarie Puckhaber
News Editor and Staff
Writer
Fairfield's response to its
relatively young tradition, which
includes its faith as a Catholic
community ,will be manifest in the
construction of a comtemporary
University chapel.
Fairfield has proposed to
undertake the construction of a
chapel, based on the recomenda-tion
of the Long Range Planning
Commitee; and as a visible re-sponse
to its Jesuit heritage.
The University's Long Range
Planning Committee of 1983,
which was comprised of adminis-trators,
faculty, and students, set
the construction of a chapel as one
of the school's objectives. The
Committee had contended that the
Loyola Chapel could no longer
accommodate the needs of the
University; the Fairfield commu-nity
had outgrown it.
Another reason for the con-struction
of a new chapel would be
to "centralize worship" on the
campus, since Fairfield aspires to
the ideals of a Jesuit Catholic insti-tution.
The chapel will be located
behind the Campus Center to af-ford
easy access to the students.
Dr. John Barone, the Uni-versity
Provost, has been oversee-ing
the architectural drafting of a
model. He made the choice of the
firm Fletcher Thompson to design
the chapel, since they had built
many of the University buildings.
Barone felt the chapel
should lend itself to the "modern
look the campus puts forth." Bar-one
further cited that an overriding
criteria for the chapel is "to have
the symbols ofthe past represented
in the present with the process of
changing for tommorrow."
The outer facade will be
comprised of materials that blend
with the rest of the University
buildings. The chapel has been
placed in close proximity to the
main road in order to be on a focal
point on campus.
The interior of the chapel
will consist of two levels. On the
lower level will be the Campus
Ministry Center. It will contain
offices, a large meeting room, a
small library and reading room,
and a kitchen. The upper level of
the building will house the actual
chapel. According to Fr. Philip
Pusateri, S.J., Fairfield University
Chaplain, the chapel will be "con-temporary
in design, while follow-ing
the outline of Vatican II for
liturgical space."
Fr. Pusateri says the chapel will
be an asset to Campus Ministry
because "it will put Campus Min-istry
into the mainstream of stu-dent
traffic."
The chapel will accomo-date
500 people; and will have
chairs, not pews, so that the chapel
can be arranged for different occa-sions.
The chapel has been de-signed
"in the round." This design
is keeping with post-Vatican II
Catholic tradition, by attempting
to place the worshipper near the
altar.
Since the chapel is only in
the initial proposal stages, there
has not been a tentative date set for
the beginning ofconstruction. The
University is currently assess the
feasibility of different methods
which will be employed to fund the
chapel:
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FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY CHAPEL & CAMPUS MINISTRY
FUSA begins planning for next Semester
Gail English
Staff Writer
FUSA President-elect
Frank Carroll, and newly ap-pointed
Vice President of Student
Activities, Maria Orabona, at-tended
the 28th annual National
Association of Campus Activities
National Convention in Washing-ton,
D.C. from February 16-21.
The purpose ofNACA is to
unite students with agents and
other other colleges in order to
book shows and improve the qual-ity
of the student association's
programming.
A year ahead, FUSA fig-ures
NACA into their budget,
planning for the President and one
Vice President to attend.
The D.C. theme was
"Making a Difference", in order
that the students could help make a
difference on their campus as a
result of what took place at the
convention. More than 150 educa-tional
seesions were offered, in-cluding
talks on publicity, leader-ship,
and managing groups.
Nightly showcases exhibited
bands, comedians, and other enter-tainers.
"We saw The Village
People, Skippy from the TV show-
Family Ties, and some soap opera
stars. We had a chance to see the
acts and talk to the agents," said
Orabona.
No acts were booked for
Fairfield University because,
agreed Carroll and Orabona," We
didn't want to make all of the
decisions without the Cabinet
members," and, added Orabona,
"It wouldn't be fair if we came
back here (to F.U) and just told
them, 'We booked this band and
that comedian.'"
The two Fairfield U. reps
have been to other NACA conven-tions.
At the November regional
convention in Hartford, Orabona
learned a lot about poster public-ity.
"We've changed our poster
style to a glossy texture with a
modern design because of what
we've learned," she said.
Successful publicity was
also taught in D.C. Orabona ex-plained
that one school that was
having actor Alan Alda of
M*A*S*H come to speak, distrib-uted
hospital greens and caps out
to students to be worn that week.
This increased campus awareness.
"We probably couldn't do
the exact same thing because our
budget is not that large, but public-ity
like that would make our pro-grams
more interesting and suc-cessful,"
said Orabona.
Carroll and Orabona feel
that every NACA convention is a
new learning experience. The
performers are always different,
and trends and the location
change. The Hartford convention
was very' helpful because only
schools from this area attended,
making the students easier to relate
to.
While in D.C, Orabona
learned about colleges from the
South. " A lot of the students,
about 70%, are married, with kids,
and so they benefit from showing
children's films, whereas we
wouldn't," she explained. "It was
hard for us to relate to that and to
the really bigf schools that have
larger budgets."
"NACA conventions are
most beneficial if we speak with
the agents, mingle with other stu-dents,
and take full advantage of
what they offer," said Carroll.
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Speaker for
'88 Grads
Lynn Ann Casey
Assistant News Editor
Francis T. Hannafey, S.J., As-sistant
Academic Vice President,
has been asked to organize and
chair the 1988 Valedictory Com-mittee.
The primary purpose of the
commitee is to select the Valedic-torian
to address the University at
the commencement ceremony.
Each of the 62 members of the
graduating class with an overall
QPAof 3.5 or above are eligible to
submit speeches to the committee
for review. The committee, com-posed
of five faculty members and
three students, will choose the
three best speeches anonymously.
The final three students will
then be asked to present their
speeches to the commitee, who
will then make their final decision
on the basis of content, appropri-ateness,
and presentation.
"Speeches submitted by eli-gible
seniors should reflect the
intellectual, social, and spiritual
growth achieved at Fairfield Uni-versity,"
said Mr. Hannafey. He
continued by saying students
"should be mindful of the audience
in attendance which, besides fel-low
students, will include their
families, faculty, staffiand admin-istrators
as well as visitors from the
wider community and nation."
Personally, Mr. Hannafey
hopes the valedictorian to be
"someone who reflects the Class
of 1988, speaks knowledgeably
and intelligently of their experi-ence
of four years at Fairfield
University, enlivens the audience,
and represents the graduating class
with their hopes and future inter-ests."
Mr. Hannafey encourages and
invites all eligible seniors to sub-mit
speeches. He calls the oppor-tunity
to address the audience an
"honor" because "the University
Commencement is the major aca-demic
convocation of the year."
"In my view,"-continued Mr.
Hannafey,"the Valedictory ad-dress
is a wonderful tradition." He
is glad it still exists at Fairfield
University, as the whole tradition
is undergoing numerous changes
on university campuses around the
country." Overall, he hopes for
student interest and participation
in the selection process.
Speeches must be submitted
to the Office of the Assistant Aca-demic
Vice President in Canisius
312 by March 25, 1988.
The final decision of the
committee will be made by April
22,1988. The student chosen will
then be invited to work with a
faculty member from either the
English Department or the Com-munications
Department to polish
and practice their speech.