Mirror - Vol. 02, No. 13 - November 16, 1978

              Campus Vandalism On Upswing
Damages Total Over $35,<in
By Tony Tarnell
Due to the increase in "irrational
and malicious" destruction of their
vending machines, The Macke Ven-ding
Corporation has recently detail-ed
plans to Mr. William Schimpf,
Dean of Studerit Residences, to
remove all vending machines from
the campus if the misuse of their pro-perty
continues.
In addition, Mr. William Voltz,
owner of the laundry facilities on the
campus noted that, "I have been
supplying Fairfield with my machines
since 1957, but never in my twenty-one
years have I seen such misuse
and abuse towards the machines."
Voltz continued that, "Although it is
not feasible for me to remove the
machines from campus, if the van-dalism
continues at the accelerated
rate, I will have no alternative but to
increase the cost per load of wash."
In a recent interview, Dean
Schimpf pointed out that, "Due to
the recent upsurge in vandalism to
their vending machines, (specifically
cigarette machines), Macke Vending
Corporation informed us (Student
Services) that upon replacing the
machines on the quad, they will be
forced to remove all their machines
from campus."
"This would not be the first time
Macke removed the machines from
campus," pointed out Henry Krell,
Associate Dean of Student Services.
He continued that, "Seven years
ago, Macke removed all the
machines due to excessive
damage." When the machines were
reinstalled two years later, Krell
pointed out that the amount of van-dalism
had decreased.
"Even the safer spots on the cam-pus
for vending machines are no
longer safe," reported Dean
Schimpf. When asked to explain this
statement, Schimpf detailed that
recently a cigarette machine in the
Campus Center was emptied of its
contents (both money and merchan-dise)
and the mechanism completely
ruined.
"It does not take much for a cor-poration
to realize that its profits are
not covering specific losses" detail-ed
Schimpf. In the last two years M
acke has experienced vending
machines falling from windows, fall-ing
down flights of stairs, and damag-ed
to the extent of being un-salvagable.
"It takes an awful lot of
candy bars to pay for this type of
damage," pointed out Schimpf. He
continued that "the students are
now on their last chance. Macke is
determined to remove their
machines if the abuse continues."
"The vandalism to vending
machines is not done only by Fair-field
students" noted Schimpf. He
continued that "on occasion we
have fouund people on campus who
have no apparent reason for being
here." Schimpf is not ruling out that
Fairfield students do a good portion
of the damage to the various
machines on campus, but to a "fair
degree" he feels it is outsiders.
Vending machines are not the only
facet of the university feeling the
reprecussions of vandalism. "Dorm
damage is at a much higher level
than over the previous years,
"pointed out Donald Hastings, Assis-tant
Direactor of Housing. Schimpf
added that "what is even more alar-ming
than the amount of the damage
is the amount of malicious, pre-meditated
vandalism occuring this
semester." He noted that "the
amount of irrational damage done
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Formerly the Rudolph Bannow Science Center, this building has been
renamed by vandals.
around campus this year is stagger-ing."
Recently during the Halloween
binge, the letters were pried off the
sign leading into Bannow. Elevators
had been disassembled and conse-quently,
have been turned off in-definitely.
The most alarming havoc
displayed, however as pointed out by
(photo by Patty Lanza)
Mr. Hastings is the constant break-ing
of the 8 foot resident hall win-dows.
"What purpose does this type
of damage serve? asked both Mr.
Schimpf and Mr. Krell.
"A great amount of malicious
damage done to University property
is alcohol-related," commented
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FAIRFIELD Volume 2, No. 13, November 16,1978
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 06430 MIRRORincorporated 1977
FUSA Financial Position
Brightens
By Tucker Forman
The financial position of the SEC is
"making a definite comeback after
having some big problems since the
beginning of the fall semester," ac-cording
to Treasurer Denise D'Agos-tino.
"What was once a $12,198
deficit will be an approximate $2100
gain by the end of the term."
The SEC was allocated $10,000
for the fall semester as part of the
1978-79 budget. The figures shown
indicate that following the
September Halt & Oates concert, a
loss of $12,198 was sustained. Thus,
at this point, the SEC was "in the
red", for $2198. .
Numerous events such as Stag-
Her Inn activities, the Locomotion
Circus, the Hobbit, and the co-sponsorship
of an Oakroom band
have increased the loss to approx-imate
deficit of $6400.
Miss D'Agostino noted that "Many
students do not realize that the films
shown in the Stag-Her Inn cost the
SEC between $40-$50 each."
D'Agostino added "The final ex-penses
for' the recent Harvest
Weekend have not been received.
There is no way to give a accurate
account of what has transpired to
this point since the electrical bill and
police expenses have not come in.
These may be large or small. But we
can make an approximation that
Harvest will net us a $1000 profit,
thus cutting the current dificit to
$5400."
However, a "big surprise" is in the
offing. Due to previous accounting
discrepancies over the past few
years between FUSA and the Ac-counting
Department books, it has
been established that FUSA will be
receiving some $7500. D'Agostino
commented "We both don't know
how it happened- the fact is that the
Accounting Department contacted
Mrs. Samway saying that approx-imately
$7500 was due FUSA."
"I had to go back and make sure
that all my receipts had been proper-ly
itemized and listed. Once the
check was made and no error had
been found, the result was that FUSA
will soon receive the $7500."
FUSA President Vinnie O'Brien
has decided to put the money where
it is most needed- into the SEC ac-count.
The $7500 will thus alleviate
the previous $5400 loss and puts the
SEC "into the black" for some
$2100.
In addition to this gain, the SEC
will make 90 percent profit from the
Backgammon Tournament held this
past weekend. Also, the
Smorgasbord, set for November
30th, will be 100 percent profit.
Miss Dagostina pointed out "We
have learned alot so far. After the
financial catastrophe of Hall &
Oates, we have really pulled
ourselves together. We realized that
it is a difficult job to accomodate the
students in terms of social activities.
But we could not keep losing- we
have ignited a catalyst to become
creative."
Associate Director, Mike D'Spirito
added "We are currently working on
spring concerts in order to break
even or possibly sustain a minimum
loss. If we can make the students
happy, we'll take the $2000 loss."
D'Agostino concluded, "we made a
mistake- but it was not totally our
fault. You must also consider a lack
of student input and a lack of adver-tising
outside the campus. But we did
get our wheels turning because we
were in a pressure situation. We are
now starting to improve our reputa-tion.
Most students do not realize
that every year the SEC has incurred
a loss in its account. How many
remember the 1972 loss of $17,000
when Doc Severinson visited this
campus?"
FUSA representative Kevin Lawlor
also commented "A reorganization
has taken place within the SEC.
There has been a redefinition of roles
of key members in order to avoid the
confusion of past concerts. The ex-ecutive
council feels the SEC is now
working under a sound structure."
Dean John I. Griffin
(photo by Bob Torello)
Business Requirements
Expanded
Hall & Oates Concert
Receipts: 9,909.38
Expenses:
Hall&Oates $1,100.00
Allen Smith 4,150.00
Athlone Enter (City Boy) 1,000.00
Monarch Entertainment (Commission). 1,000.00
Joe Procaccini (Piano Tuning) 60.00
Quick Tick (Tickets). . 84.31
Cape Co. Rentals (Staging^ 1,875.00
Fairfield Wine & Liquor 250.00
New Haven Advocate 198.00
Devon Ice Co. 60.00
Savoy Linen Service 10.80
Peter Young (Driver) '. 3.50
Broadcast Music, Inc 40.00
Macke (For Band) 492.54
Fairfield U. Maintenance 314.67
Fairfield Fire Dept 111.60
Fairfield Wine & Liquor 177.30
Ray Brown (Electrician) 756.50
Fairfield Police Dept 459.06
Total 22,108.28
Net Loss (12,198.90)
By Kathy Zutell and Mike Navarro
Under the new requirements of
the School of Business, a business
core of 37 credits is now required of
all business majors. This is an addi-tion
to business major requirements
of 21-30 credits, and liberal arts core
requirements of 60-66 credits.
Economics 11-12 fulfills 6 credits of
both the business core and the
liberal arts core.
Depending on the major, this will
mean an addition of anywhere bet-ween
six and nine credits that were
not previously required of students in
the School of Business.
As a result, Finance and
Marketing majors beginning with the
Class of '81 have a maximum of
three possible free electives,
Management majors one possible
elective, and Accounting majors
none. This assumes that a student
needs only 2 semesters of a
language to achieve intermedite
competency, as required' by the
liberal arts core.
Despite this, the business school of-fers
a Concentration in Quantitative
Analysis, at present offered only to
business majors. An additional 19
credits is required of students
wishing to take advantage of this
new business minor. A business
seminar for each major is also of-fered
open to qualified seniors.
Dr. Griffin, Dean of the new School,
doesn't feel that the new programs
are too restrictive. He says that the
120 credit figure required for a
degree is only a minimum and not an
absolute number.
Three courses have been added to
the business core. They ere introduc-tory
courses in Finance, Manage-ment,
and Marketing. The new re-quirements
were initiated since
under the previous system, a student
enrolled in a particular business ma-jor
is not exposed to any of the other
(business) disciplines. He feels that
this is a serious short coming for
students entering the business field.
"The changes in the curriculum,"
according to Dr. Griffin, "are re-quired
by the American Assembly of
Collegiate Schools of Business."
"Even if it wasn't required," Griffin
feels "it would make sense for a stu-dent
to take them."
Contrary to rumors circulating
among Junior business majors,
these new requirements do not apply
to them. Dr. Griffin states that "new
requirements in terms of business
curricula become effective in
September, 1978 and the freshman
must adhere to them. The students in
the academic year 1977-1978 were
made aware of the requirements and
it is hoped that a substantial number
of students will follow the new re-quirements.
However, they are not
required to follow them but are
strongly urged to do so."
Dr. Griffin also pointed out that
"despite the change in the Business
School, the fact still remains that
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