Mirror - Vol. 14, No. 17 - March 15, 1990

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 14, No. 17 Thursday, March 15, 1990 The Image of Fairfield
University Offers Faculty 12% Raise
Picket Signs Not To Be Auctioned Off Yet
Lynn Ann Casey
Editor-in-Chief
In the financial package pre-sented
to the faculty salary com-mittee,
the administration has
granted the faculty a 12% payroll
increase for 1990-91 and a 9%
increase for 1991-92.
According to the FWC News-letter
Volume 1, Number 9, ac-ceptable
solutions have also been
reached on the two outstanding
non-economic issues: lawyers for
both sides have worked out the
language for the agreement's pre-amble
and both sides have found a
workable alternative for payroll
deduction for the American Asso-ciation
of University Professors
through the Credit Union.
"There is now an upbeat feel-ing
about reaching an agreement,"
said Murray Farber, Director of
Public Relations. "This has been a
long process and has been tough
on both the faculty and administra-tion."
Until an agreement on these
two non-economic issues, the fac-ulty
were prepared to information-ally
picket, which means they
would picket inbetween their
classes. Pickets were called offbut,
as the Newsletter states "Picket
signs will not be auctioned offquite
yet, although we have every hope
that the news will continue to be
positive."
The 1990-91 and 1991-92
benefit packages would result in
increases in total compensation of
13% and 10% respectively. The
projected increases in benefit costs
are the equivalent of salary in-creases
of 3.6% and 3.4% for the
respective years.
According to a University Per-sonnel
Brief from Stephen Jakab,
Assistant Provost, the faculty fi-nancial
analyst overestimated the
University's available resources
and this two-year package will
stretch the allocation for salaries
and benefits.
The Brief says that this same
consultant "drew similiar conclu-sions
with respect to the Univer-sity
of Bridgeport's financial con-dition."
The FWC Newsletter responds
to this Brief by saying: "This is FUSA Books
Etheridge For
Spring Concert
AnnMarie Puckhaber
News Editor
Melissa Etheridge will per-form
at Fairfield on April.27 as a
kick-off to her national tour. The
Indigo Girls will open for Eth-eridge
during the Dogwood Week-end
concert sponsored by FUSA.
"We're very limited to what
we can get here," said FUSA Presi-dent
Tom Pellegrino. "We got
lucky."
FUSA initially wanted to
get Etheridge and The Alarm to
play on campus. According to
Pellegrino, FUSA has enough
money to do a double bill and
thought the two would provide
"musical diversity." FUSA placed
a bid at the end of January for
$49,000 for both Etheridge and
The Alarm, but The Alarm
cancelled their stateside tour and
went to Europe.
FUSA then had The Kinks
lined up and were planning to have
Etheridge open for them. How-ever,
The Kinks felt Etheridge's
act was too long for an opening and
FUSA had already committed to
Etheridge.
A second bid was then
placed by FUSA for Etheridge and
untrue. The FWC will provide the
Salary Committee with informa-tion
to correct the administration's
mistaken impression."
"There is a need to continue to
attract new faculty members to an
area with a high cost of living and
a need to recognize and reward the
faculty members who are already
here," said Farber.
In the new financial package,
the University also plans to reim-burse
employees for the expenses
they had resulting from the changes
in Blue Cross deductibles and the
drug plan co-payment.
In addition to the increases in
salaries and benefits, the Univer-sity
is introducing a FACHEX
program. This is a system of
remitting tuition costs for eligible
employees for their children at
Jesuit colleges and universities
participating in the program.
Egan Chapel Of St. Ignatius Loyola
Construction of the Egan Chapel of St. Ignatius Loyola continues. The Chapel is scheduled to open in the
fall. Photo: Tom Beirne
The Indigo Girls in the amount of
$59,000. "The Indigo Girls just
won a grammy and are very popu-lar
on campus," Pellegrino said.
"We got them with a little negotia-tions."
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"It's going to be a great
show," said Laura Puckett, Assis-tant
Director of Student Activi-ties.
"We're very excited."
"This is the best concert bill
we've ever gotten," said Pellegrino.
"I'm happy with the way things
turned out."
Julie Matthei, Chair of the
Special Events Committee, has
been working since the beginning
of the year to bring a concert to
Fairfield. "One of the most diffi-cult
things for a student to do at this
school is plan a concert and she's
done a good job," Pellegrino said.
Pellegrino explained that
time limits and money hinder
concert opportunities. He said there
was no concert last semester due to
"circumstances out of our control."
, , FUSA did not conduct stu-dent
polls to seek a concert favor-ite.
"There's a nine out of ten
chance that we can't get what they
want," Pellegrino said. He gave
the example that many students
asked for Billy Joel.
"We've already got a lot of
positive response from the Univer-sity
community and a tremendous
response from the public," Pelle-grino
added.
Tickets for the concert will
go on sale on April 2 and will be
$ 18 for students. Public sales will
open on April 19 and will be $22.
The concert will be held in Alumni
Hall, general admission.
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Students Inoculated
Against Measles
AnnMarie Puckhaber
News Editor
Approximately 1,600 stu-dents
were inoculated against
measles prior to Spring Break and
this week after one case of the
measles was discovered on Feb-ruary
25.
All students who did not
get the vaccination after January
1, 1980 were required to get in-oculated.
There have been no
other cases reported as of yet.
The infected undergradu-ate
was diagnosed with the
measles by a physician in town
and the case was reported to the
Student Health Center, according
to Ann Cole, Director ofthe Health
Center.
The measles are "very con-tagious,"
Cole said. She said the
clinic that was set up before Spring
Break in the Rec Plex was a ne-cessity
and ordered by the State of
Conneticut. The State did step in
and offered its assistance with
immunizing students.
The measles are transmit-ted
like the common cold and
begin with fever, muscle ache,
eye sensitivity to light, joint pain,
and then finally the rash, which
Cole says is "not like any other."
The incubation period for
the measles is 14 to 18 days.
Therefore, if no other cases are
reported this week, Fairfield will
have escaped the threat of an epi-demic.
"I think we're in the
clear," Cole said.
There have been other out-breaks
of the measles on college
campuses in the past several
weeks, but Fairfield is the only
school in Conneticut to report a
case, Cole said.
Vacinations were given
last year to a number of students
at this time when the measles hit
other schools, but that was only
to bring everyone up to "minimal
standards," Cole explained.
"In retrospect, we should
of brought everyone up to stricter
standards," she added.
Cole said that the students,
faculty, and Student Services
have been very cooperative.
She said the Health Cen-ter
was working with a very
short time frame to get all stu-dents
immunized before break.
According to Cole, if an-other
case of the measles should
be reported, anyone who was not
vacinated or has an exemption,
for either religious or medical
reasons, will have to leave cam-pus
for two weeks.
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