Mirror - Vol. 14, No. 01 - September 14, 1989

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 14, No. 1 Welcome Back! Thursday, September 14, 1989 The Image of Fairfield
Class of 1993: In Pursuit of Excellence
AnnMarie Puckhaber
News Editor
Tradition continued on
Sunday, September 3, as 260
members of the Junior class banned
together to welcome the Class of
1993.
The theme of Orientation
'89 was "In Pursuit of Excellence"
and excellence was achieved by
the Class of 1991 with hard work,
organization, and quality events.
Beautiful, sunny weather also
contributed to the success of Ori-entation
by keeping everyone's
spirits high.
"I'm always amazed at
what the Junior class can do," said
Jeane DiMuzio, Director of Orien-tation
and Judical Officer.
DiMuzio led the Orienta-tion
committee with the help ofcq-chairs
Christopher McSherry and
Suzanne Podurgiel.
Th e goal of the commit-tee
was to get the Freshmen off to
a good start and to make them feel
at home in the Fairfield commu-nity
so that they too can "pursue
excellence in all that they do,"
DiMuzio said.
The Junior class was as-sisted
by WVOF, the Manor, the
Mirror, the Loyola Chapel Sing-ers,
the bookstore, the peer coun-selors,
and the resident advisors,
bringing the total staff up to about
350.
Day one of Orientation
allowed the Freshmen to lay back
and relax as Juniors unloaded their
belongings and guided them around
campus.
After parents were dis-missed,
the Freshmen met their
student advisors and were later
entertained by the improvisational
comedy of Abrams and Anderson.
The SA position which
was formed last year was devel-oped
further this year. Each SA
was paired with a faculty advisor.
The SAFA groups, which were
arranged according to major, in-creased
in number this year.
On Monday, day two at
college for the new arrivals, aca-demic
workshops were held and
later the Freshmen and Juniors
engaged in an afternoon of "Sports
and Leisure."
Monday was topped off
with a BBQ and Musicfest. The
music of Calipso Hurricane
brought all the Freshmen up to the
dance floor. "It was an incredible
event," DiMuzio said. "I've never
seen people enjoy themselves at
Fairfield U. so much."
Additional workshops
and library and computer lab tours
were held on Tuesday. The Fresh-men
initiation was completed that
night at the Activities Fair where
Freshmen were given the opportu-nity
to become a more intregal part
of the University by joining school
clubs.
Orientation is a chance
"each year for the University
community to come together,"
DiMuzio said. "Every aspect of
the University was involved and
that's what makes it a very won-derful
tradition."
"Without the cooperation
of everyone the Freshmen would
not have received the welcome that
they did," DiMuzio added.
Freshmen attempt to climb the Grease Pole at Orientation's "Sports
and Leisure" activity. Photo: Rich Nunziante
University adopts new housing policy
Some students loose off-campus housing option
AnnMarie Puckhaber
News Editor
Under new University
policy, all Juniors and Seniors will
no longer be allowed to choose
where they want to live. This was
announced by Richard Rossi, Di-rector
of Student Residences, this
past July.
In previous years, it was
the policy ofFairfield to let Juniors
and Seniors select the housing style
of their choice. Their options in-cluded
remaining in a dormitory,
moving into a townhouse, or
moving off campus. However,
with the new policy the last option
of moving off campus will be
removed for some students.
The recent purchases of
the Julie Hall complex from the
Sisters of Notre Dame will add ap-proximately
180 beds after reno-vations
are completed, bringing the
total on-campus housing capacity
to almost 2300 students.
"We will have more hous-ing
than we need in the next couple
of years," Rossi said. For this
reason, to insure that the residence
halls operate to capacity, students
will participate in a lottery that will
determine the priority by which
they can choose where they want
to live, Rossi said. As a result,
some students who planned to
move off campus may not be al-lowed
to do so.
Additional beds are
needed due to a greater demand for
on-campus housing by the students
since off-campus housing availa-bility
has declined in recent years,
Rossi said. "There are several
hundred students less living off
campus than years ago," he said.
"We had two choices:
leave the additional beds empty
which would increase costs for on-campus
residents or fill up those
beds with students who would
normally live off campus," Rossi
said.
Last year 75% of the stu-dent
population was housed on
campus and 180 Juniors lived in
the dormitories, not including those
in the townhouses.
In the next few weeks, a
student/administration committee
will be developed to work out the
details of the new policy. Rossi
said that the University would like
to hold the lottery in the mid-fall
semester so that those eligible may
find off-campus housing.
However, Rossi warned
students in a letter this summer not
to sign off-campus leases for the
1990-91 academic year until the
lottery process has been completed.
Rossi said that he "as-sumes"
the townhouses will re-main
a senior privilege, but that he
is not sure. "Changes are in the
works," he said.
In the University's pres-ent
plans the new part of Julie Hall
and Campion and Jogues halls will
be Freshmen dormitories. There
will also be a Freshmen cafeteria
in Julie Hall. That will leave
Loyola, Regis, Gonzage, Kostka,
and Claver hall to be Sophomore
and Junior dormitories.
Disciplinary action will
be taken against any student who
falsifies records and declares him-self/
herself a commuter in order to
live off campus, Rossi said. "A
commuter has to live at home,'' he
said. If the University finds out a
student has falsified records, that
person will be forced to return to
on-campus housing, Rossi said.
Around the same time this
summer that Richard Rossi sent
out his letter about housing
changes, Father W. Laurence
O'Neil, SJ, Dean of Students, also
sent a letter to all off-campus resi-dents
concerning their responsi-bilities
to the Town of Fairfield.
Fr. O'Neil's letter urged
students to be "law abiding citi-zens"
and outlined what he con-sidered
"inappropriate behavior
for Fairfield University students."
Rossi said that students
are mistakenly "hooking" the two
issues of housing and behavior off
campus together. "We are dealing
with two separate issues entirely.''
It is necessary for the
University to keep the residence
halls full, Rossi said. "We're fo-cusing
on filling up the residence
halls, not stopping off-campus
housing."
Seagrape proposes shuttle service for students
Laura Ann Frauenhofer
Staff writer
In mid August, 1989,
the owner of the Seagrape began
offering the services of a shuttle
bus after "No Parking" signs be-tween
the hours of 8 p.m. and 6
a.m. were posted along the side of
Reef Road on which the Seagrape
Cafe resides.
The shuttle transported
Seagrape patrons to and from their
cars, which were parked along the
designated route.
Steven Levine distributed
fliers at that time advertising the
shuttle, and announcing his plans
to donate the proceeds from the
shuttle to M.A.D.D. (Mothers
Against Drunk Driving), as well as
to provide routes to and from Fair-field
University at the beginning
of the school year.
Fairfield University's
Vice-President for Student Serv-ices,
William Schimpf, said that he
had no knowledge ofLevine' s plan;
"To the best of my knowledge,
Fairfield University has not been
contacted by Mr. Levine to operate
a shuttle bus to and from the Uni-versity.
Should the request be
made, we would reject it."
The day the Town of
Fairfield posted the "No Parking"
signs, Levine said he filed suit
against it asking that the signs be
removed. He called the sign post-ing
"arbitrary, capricious, and
unreasonable, and designed to put
him out of business."
In reaction to the parking
problem that the signs would cause
for his patrons, as well as in reac-tion
to the complaints he says he
receives from Fairfield University
students about the University's
beach shuttle hours, Levine de-cided
to provide the shuttle bus
service.
Levine said he rented a
bus from the Fairfield Transporta-tion
Company for approximately
two weeks in August and the shuttle
ran to and from the Seagrape along
Reef, Post, Beach and Fairfield
Beach roads. However, at the end
of the two weeks Levine said the
bus company told him they would
no longer rent the bus to him.
Levine said that is when
he decided to purchase his own
bus. To date, he has chosen a bus
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