Mirror - Vol. 02, No. 16 - February 1, 1979

              Senior Week
Co-Chairmen Selected
by Gigi Byron
Steve Chessare and Mary Jean
Schratwieser have been chosen as
this year's Senior Week Co-chair-men.
Chessare, a junior, is from
Lenox, Massachusetts and is a Man-agement
major. He is sports-director
at WVOF, the campus radio station,
and assistant operations director for
S.E.C. He was also one of four "trou-ble
shooters" for Orientation 78.
Chessare is used to being in posi-tions
of authority on campus and
feels this will help run Senior Week.
"For the S.E.C, the directors set up
before events, make sure they're run
smoothly, and take down the event.
I've had experience in ordering sup-plies,
supervising events and handl-ing
money. All these things should
come in handy for Senior Week,"
Chessare feels.
Schratwieser, also a junior, now
lives in San Diego, California, but is
originally from Rockville Center,
Long Island. She is an English major.
Her previous experience includes
working as a Resident Advisor at
Fairfield this past summer. She was
also the Greeter Guide Chairman for
Orientation 78.
There will be 20 Chairmen serving
under the two Co-chairmen and 50
people serving on the entire Senior
Week committee. The 20 chairmen
have already been chosen and
notified of their positions, but
Chessare and Schratwieser have
decided to hold off a few weeks
before naming the remainder of peo-ple
to the Committee. "We want to
wait and see how many people we
think w.e'll need for each event, so
we can assign them to a specific
committee," Chessare explained.
All of the chairmen, with a few ex-ceptions,
were Orientation commit-tee
chairmen. The Senior Week Co-chairmen
felt that these people had
proved themselves during Orienta-tion.
"We've worked with these peo-ple
before. They did a great job on
Orientation, so we know they're
dependable and willing to work. For
something like Senior Week, you-need,
more than anything else, peo-ple
you can count on."
When asked about further similari-ties
to Orientation, Chessare explain-ed,
"They're a lot alike, but I think
Senior Week is even harder. That's
mainly because some events are
held late at night, and you have to
clean up after they're over, then get
up early the next morning to work
again." Schratwieser agreed, then
added, "Also, Senior Week goes on
for longer than Orientation did. It
takes more endurance."
The two Co-chairmen have al-ready
set up a tentative schedule of
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Steve Chessare and Mary Jean Schratweiser were chosen to head Senior
Week'79. Photo by Alex Graziano
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FAIRFIELD Volume 2, No. 16, February 1, 1979
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 06430 MIRRORIncorporated 1977
New RA's Selected To Fill Vacancies
jXathy Markos
Seven ""Fte&tdenT Advisors have
assumed their new positions follow-ing
the R.A. resignations of last
semester. The new R.A.'s are
Dominick Barrone, Greg Blair, Dane
Bonn, Biff O'Reilly, Bill Malloy, Ginny
Kelly and Ann Whelehan, a grad stu-dent.
According to Phyllis Rogge, 17
applied for the vacant positions, 5
women and,12 men. After screening
and interviews, it was decided that
only two new males would be hired,
Dominick Barrone and Bill Malloy,
and the rest of the positions would be
filled from the alternates of last year.
The new R.A.'s gave various
reasons for taking the job. All inter-viewed
had positive feelings and
hopes about their new position. Biff
O'Reilly and Bill Malloy, now both in
Regis, moved back on campus after
living at the beach. "I wanted to get
more involved with the university and
recycle what they have given to me."
commented Biff. "The job has in-trigued
me and I didn't turn it down
because it- would be a change to
undertake responsibility, and a
challenge and a way to find out about
myself. My R.A.'s in the past were
good and I've wondered if I could do
it," added Bill. The job was also con-sidered
by others to be a challenge,
a learning experience and a way to
help fellow students. Greg Blair a
former candidate for FUSA president
now in Far East felt that being an
R.A. would be his way of helping to
improve life on campus. Monetary
reasons were also cited as reasons
for being an R.A.
When choosing an R.A. Ms. Rogge
said that they look for "people who
have'had experience at Fairfield so
that they are not coming into an ideal
situation." For example, the dorm
which they lived in would piay a role
where the R.A. would be placed. Dur-ing
the interview the applicant is
assessed to how realistic or
idealistic he or she is, if they have a
good perception of what the job en-tails
and why they want the job in the
first place. A grade point average of
2.3 is required to be an R.A. Ms.
Rogge continued by saying that "I
guess my big thing is how the person
impressed me on a gut level, if they
felt comfortable in this office, their
self composure, maturity and con-fidence.
Again, we have misjudged
and I'll be the first to admit it, and if
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Seven Candidates Vie for FUSA Top Spot
by Tony Tarneil
' With the FUSA primary only five
days away, seven candidates have
entered into the race. Steve Ciar-diello,
'80, Jim Connolly, '80, Mike
Navarro, '80, Trudy Neuhaus, '80,
George Schietinger, '80, Bob Stall,
'80, and the unknown candidate.
Steve Ciardiello, a junior Biology
major is a chancellor.of the Knight of
Columbus. He has been an active
member of SEC since his Freshman
year, and a worker with the upward
bound program.
"I feel the position of FUSA Presi-dent
has as much power as the limits
you put on yourself", noted Ciar-diello.
He continued that if elected,
his administration would be based on
positive action, with himself as the
catalyst. Ciardiello feels that the
Freshmen of Fairfield are.a major un-tapped
resource. Ciardiello hopes
that he will get as much feed-back as
possible from the students if he is
elected. This feed-back will let him
and his administration know what the
students want to get accomplished.
Jim Connolly, junior Finance ma-jor,
has been an active member of
the Student Legislature for two
years, one of which he served as
President. Connolly also served on
the R.A. Selection Committee and Ad
Hoc Committee in the basketball
ticket investigation.
Connolly proposes a "dynamic"
platform. "My foremost interest
would be in setting the framework,
and opening a student Deli-shop."
This he feels would be of enormous
interest and benefit to the com-muters,
and off campus boarders
who find themselves at the mercy of
the Stag-Her Inn. Connolly proposes
to have business students run this
co-op. Second on Connolly's plat-form
is to increase entertainment on
the campus. Some ideas suggested
by Connolly include weekly coffee
houses in the Stag-Her Inn, and a
Juke box in the Stag-Her. Also, he
sees the need for a more effective
SEC. Finally. Connolly would want
"the legislature to continue as the
essential forum it now is."
Mike Navarro is a junior account-ing
major. For the last year he has
been active with the Mirror as promo-tions
manager. He was a trouble,
shooter for Freshmen Orientation,
and he serves as Co-director of
security in SEC.
Navarro's platform stresses the
students. He detailed that "each stu-dent
is too important to ignore."
Navarro would, if elected, make an
active campaign come September to
go from dorm to dorm to see what
the students would desire the FUSA
Government to accomplish. Mike's
biggest issue would.be his establish-ing
a presidential council made up of
two students from each class, as
well as two commuters. They would
function as part of the FUSA cabinet.
Navarro also hopes to increase the
development of SEC. In doing this, he
hopes to get more under-classmen
involved. Navarro also hopes to con-tinue
the progression of Dorm Coun-cil,
and also improve the teacher
evaluation program.
Another candidate with interesting
ideas is Trudy Neuhaus, a junior
English major. Trudy is an R.A. and
was a member of the Fairfield
Mirror's editorial board. She is also a
member of. present FUSA President
Vinnie O'Brien's cabinet, serving as
legislature liaison.
Ms. Neuhaus feels that the pri-mary
issue of this year's FUSA elec-tion
is receptive to the student's
needs. Trudy, if elected, would
establish a system to get the
students to become more involved.
"It is not to merely communicate
with the students, but you must have
the students communicate to the
government what they want done for
them." Ms. Neuhaus proposes to
have Dorm Councils fall under the
jurisdiction of FUSA. She feels this
alliance would benefit both Govern-ment
and student interests. Neuhaus
fully realizes the restrictions time
places upon the FUSA president. "I
feel if anything is to be accomplished
if I am elected, it will be to initiate a
program by which all students will
feel comfortable with FUSA govern-ment."
She will be available and ac-cessible
to both the students and the
government to encourage success-ful
community effort in accomplish-ing
goals.
Junior George Schietinger has
also put up a bid for the chief FUSA
spot. Schietinger, a Finance major,
has been a member of the Student
Legislature for all'three of his years
Trudy Neuhaus Mike Navarro George Schietinger
Jim Connolly Bob Stall Steve Ciadiello
at Fairfield. He also has worked on
two Freshman Orientation Commit-tees,
and served on the basketball in-vestigation
committee.
Schietinger feels that the major
issue is to build up communications
between FUSA and the student body.
Schietinger's campaign evolves
around the idea that the students
and the government should interact
and work together like a fine-tuned
machine. Schietinger also feels the
proposed FUSA budget increase (the
budget has been at $50,000 for the
past six years) will yield the best year
FUSA has ever, and perhaps will
ever have. Schietinger detailed that
the proposed increase would give
the SEC more leeway and mobility in
developing semester events.
Bob Stall is a junior Accounting
major. He is the Business Manager
for the Football Club, a member of
Northwest Dorm council. Stall was
also a member of the student legisla-ture
last year.
Stall feels the primary issue for the
FUSA president is to stop the
amount of vandalism and to improve
the now ineffective security system.
Stall feels that via student and
government interaction, the amount
pf dorm damage and vandalism
could be reduced. He would, if
elected, follow up on some of the
programs that Vinnie O'Brien has in-itiated.
Stall feels that the Dorm
Councils are a vital function of the
university,'and could play an impor-tant
role in encouraging more stu-dents
to become involved in the
school. Stall proposes that the Dorm
Councils alleviate some of SEC's
heavy work load.
Not much is known about the un-known
candidate. Although neither
the candidate nor his campaign
manager could be reached for an in-terview,
the possibility of voting for a
candidate without any biases based
on identity and associations may
make for an extremely interesting
election.