Mirror - Vol. 13, No. 13 - February 02, 1989

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 13, No. 13 Our Second Decade Thursday, February 2, 1989 "Read My Lips"
University Acquires Julie Hall Complex
AnnMarie Puckhaber
News Editor
Fairfield University has
reached an agreement with the
Sisters of Notre Dame to acquire
the Julie Hall complex and 12 acres
of land located off North Benson
Road. The University also has the
option to purchase the remaining
13 acres of the Sisters' property.
The complex includes
four buildings: the main building,
Julie Hall, an estate house, and a
dining hall-chapel. The cost of the
acquisition has not been disclosed.
Fairfield will assume control of
the property in November of this
year when the Sisters move to
another residence.
For the past nine years,
the University has leased 60 rooms
in Julie Hall for student residences
along with space for continuing
education and student services. Dr.
John Berrone, University Provost,
said that the acquisition will pro-vide
for an "extension of what we
(Fairfield) have been doing there
already." According to Berrone,
the goal of the University in ac-quiring
the property is to provide
greater student services.
Once th University has
control of the property, student
services and the infirmary will
move out of Loyola Hall to the
main building in the complex.
There will also be housing in the
main building which will include
both double and single rooms. The
space in Loyola that student serv-property
is going to be used for
continuing education offices and
student services. The financial aid
office will move into Canisius Hall
where the continuing education
office is presently located so that it
turning the dining hall-chapel into
a cafeteria and not using it as the
chapel, according to Berrone, is
because it is the wishes of the
University to have a chapel "cen-trally
located and inter-related with
The recently acquired Julie Hall Photo: Michelle Clifford
ices and the infirmary now occupy
will change back to student resi-dences
which it was originally
intended to be. Berrone believes
the move of student services will
help those students in Julie Hall
and the townhouses feel "less iso-lated."
The estate house on the
will be closer to the registrar.
Also located on the prop-erty
is a dining hall-chapel. Since
the property was not made avail-able
until after the University's
Capital Campaign was launched
(which includes a new chapel) this
will be made into a new dining
facility. An additional reason for
the Campus Center." The new
chapel of the Capital Campaign
will also reflect the changes made
by Vatican JJ, whereas the chapel
located in the Julie Hall complex is
traditional.
Plans for a separate din-ing
facility in the complex has led
to the proposal of making Jogues
and Campion Halls freshmen dor-mitories.
The new dining hall will
be for freshmen and the residents
of Julie Hall. However, these
changes will not be effective until
the 1990-1991 acedemic year.
Richard Rossi, Director
of Student Residences, feels that
there are benefits to having fresh-men
halls. He believes they will
"facilitate an easy transition into
college" for the freshmen because
the students will be among equals.
Rossi also sees freshmen dormito-ries
as helping the development of
the class structure and allowing
programs to be geared toward
freshmen concerns.
Rossi comments that the
freshmen hall concept is new to
Fairfield but that it is "common to
schools like Fairfield." The only
downfalls he sees in having fresh-men
dormitories will be the lack of
relationships between freshmen
and upperclassmen, and that the
more specialized the residence halls
are the more difficult room assign-ments
will become. However,
Rossi sees the space of the com-plex
as having many possibilities
and alternatives.
The purchase of the Julie
Hall complex is the first property
acquistion made by the University
since its foundings in 1942.
Campus Ministry Welcomes Father Paul Holland
Tom Rhatigan
Staff Writer
Faifield University is proud
to welcome the newest member of
the Campus Ministry, Rev. Paul
Holland, S.J.
Rev. Holland arrived at
Fairfield this semester from South
Bend, Indiana, where he spent the
last 5 1/2 years doing doctrinal
studies and campus ministry work.
The Jesuits needed someone for
Campus Ministry work here at
Fairfield when they asked Rev.
Holland to come here for an inter-view.
"I saw Fairfield and I liked
it immediately," said Rev. Hol-land.
"I liked the people I met and
I was very impressed with the
Campus Ministry's program and
the members I would be working
with. I was more than happy to
sign on."
Some of the roles he has
inherited include the functioning
of the soup kitchen, where more
than 60 people have already signed
on to volunteer their time to help
feed the hungry and to spend some
time with them as well. "I've been
very impressed by the generous
outpouring ofavailability and serv-ice
on the part of all die volun-teers,"
continued Rev. Holland.
"It's nice to see them take time out
of their busy schedules to think
about somebody else instead of
themselves. I'm excited about the
prospects of seeing their good ef-forts
bear some fruit, not only in
the lives ofthe people they 're going
to serve, but in the students them-selves."
Rev. Holland is also going
to continue the work of the RCIA
Father Paul Holland, Campus Ministry Photo: Rich Nunziante
program, which is the Rite for
Christian Initiation of Adults. It is
the process which the church uses
to bring people into the Church
who have never been baptized or
confirmed. He will be part of a
team helping to prepare these adults
for membership into the Christian
community.
Living on the first floor of
Loyola, Rev. Holland has become
the resident priest there. He will
also be performing liturgies on
Tuesday and Thursday nights at
10:00pm. "I'm still trying to catch
up with all the good things going
around here," he added. "There is
a lot happening so I am still trying
to figure out what this is all about
and become a part of the ongoing
activities here. So far, I'm very
impressed with the energy, enthu-siasm,
and goodness here at Fair-field,
and I'm glad to be a part of
it."
Rev. Holland will also take
part in the Campus Ministry's re-treats.
"It's a good thing to do. I
hope people will consider going
on a retreat," he said. "We will
also have prayer groups to give
people a chance to grow deeper in
one's relationship with the Lord."
Rev. Holland was born in
the Boston area, in Belmont, Mass.
He graduated from Harvard in 1970
and then worked for a political
consulting firm where he was
elected to public office. After his
"conversion experience" and a
change of heart, he became a
member of the Society of Jesus in
1972.
In 1974 he went to Zambia,
Africa where he taught English
and African History in high
schools. After that, Rev. Holland
worked at Fall River before he
went to Berkely, California, where
he spent 6 years working in parish
ministry. For the next 5 1/2 years
he was in South Bend before trans-ferring
here.
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