Mirror - Vol. 15, No. 01 - September 13, 1990

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FairfieldMIRRORV Volume 15, No. 1 Thursday, September 13,1990 The Image Of Fairfield
Orientation'90 Lifts Off
Christina Hennessy
News Editor
Touting balloons and col-orful
signs to go along with Ori-entation
'90's theme "Up, Up
and Away...The Sky's the
Limit," 230 members of the
junior class helped unload and
greet nearly 700 freshman and
their parents under hazy sun-shine
and soaring temperatures
on September 4, continuing a
tradition that is very unique to
Fairfield.
"Many ofthe parents were
flabbergasted at the greeting
they received, and many ex-pressed
how happy they were to
be leaving their children in good
hands," said Jeanne DiMuzio,
director of Orientation.
This is DiMuzio's ninth
and final orientation as she will
begin this year as the new assis-tant
director of Student Activi-ties.
Co-chairs Brian McSherry
and Dipa Mehta led the junior
class in this event.
"All the parents were
impressed with the workers'
attitudes and the postive atmos-phere,
" said Mehta.
"Many parents remarked
on how they had never seen a
program like ours, " added
McSherry.
Many changes were im-plemented
into this year's pro-gram,
especially in the area of
arrival and unloading on Sun-day.
Over the summer, the
freshman were given the name
of their residence hall and di-rected
to register and receive
their freshman packets at th^ir
respective buildings.
According to DiMuzio,
the new traffic routes created by
the decentralized registration
process was the most successful
also evident in that the Parents'
Forum and Reception, as well
as the President's Welcome and
Reception were held in the
newly opened Regina A. Quick
Center, adding a "formal touch
to the program," said DiMuzio.
Sunday's comedy night
workshops, as well as partici-pated
in the Orientation Olym-pics.
The night was topped off
with Music Fest '90, featuring a
cookout and a reggae band, the
Shakers.
Monday also saw the arri-val
of nearly 40 transfer stu-
Two students compete at the
part of this year's program in
that "the longest wait may have
only been twenty minutes."
"All these changes made
my life a lot easier on Sunday,"
she added.
Program changes were
Orientation Olympics.
featured Jon stetson, the comic
magician and Murph, the physi-cal
comic.
Activities continued
through Monday during which
freshmen attended the academic
welcome and the academic
photo: Dan Wall
dents, who participated in the
transfer orientation program
headed by co-chairs Shawn
Russell and Jen Cinguina.
On Tuesday, freshmen
started the day at the Student
Services Forum, continued to a
library tour, participated in their
first meeting for the Freshman
YearExperience andmixed with
the rest of the university com-munity
at the Activities Fair '90
Welcome Back Picnic.
Many diverse areas of
university life combined their
efforts for Orientation this year,
including the Resident Advisors,
who began Sunday by greeting
the students and taking them to
their rooms during arrival, led
their halls on campus tours be-fore
dinner and finished the day
with events designed to bring
the freshmen together.
"Thisprogram established
a personal relationship with the
freshmen and their RAs, which
will eventually build a commu-nity
in their buildings," said
DiMuzio.
The Sunday Day-Chairs
and the Orientation Executive
Council felt there was a need to
get the RAs more involved in
Sunday's program in order to
begin fostering a sense of com-munity
among the residence
halls, according to DiMuzio.
"This year's program
heoped to make the freshman
comfortable, in that the hall took
tours, went to dinner and felt
part of a group immediately , "
said Colleen Lane, '92, an RA
in Regis.
"The juniors were always
willing to help, " said Lyn
Campanella, "94.
Added Kim Buhler, '94,
"I felt very welcomed the min-
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University Tightens Security
In Residence Halls
AnnMarie Puckhaber
Editor-in-Chief
A card access security
system was installed in each of
the residence halls this summer
that will limit entry into those
buildings after 6 p.m. to those
that live there and their invited
guests.
The system was turned on
at North Campus Monday night
and will be turned on in the rest
of the residence halls tomor-row,
according to Rebecca
Clement, Director of Telecom-munications.
The system was turned on
earlier at North Campus because
it is "so remote," Clement said.
The system was installed
following the formation of a
Safety Security Committee last
Spring.
Members of the commit-tee
said they took a "pro-active"
role by installing the system and
that the action was not a result
of something that happened.
From 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. the
residence halls will remain open.
From 6 p.m. to 12 a.m.
from Sunday to Wednesday and
from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. from
Thursday to Saturday, students
living in the residence halls will
be able to get into any of the
buildings with their cards.
After 12 a.m. from Sun-day
to Wednesday and after 1
a.m. from Thursday to Satur-day,
the access card will only
get students into theirown build-ing.
The new system also in-cludes
a visitor access system.
Each of the students are listed
in a directory at a telephone by
the main entrance with a three-digit
code.
Visitors can call the per-son
they wish to see and if the
student wants the person to
enter, they push a button on the
telephone and the doors of the
building will open.
Students need to have a
telephone in theirrooms in order
to use the visitor access system.
The administration did not think
this would be a problem since
only six rooms did not have
telephones last year, according
to Pat Rombalski, Associate
Director of Student Residences.
It has not been decided
yet whether or not the fire doors
on female halls will be locked
at 12 a.m. as it has been done in
past years, Rombalski said. This
will be explored further by the
Safety Security Committee.
Rombalski also said that
the exterior doors of the build-ings
may be wired in the future
so that the Security Department
will be made aware if a door is
propped open.
The system could not be
turned on the first day students
moved into the residence halls
due to the need for each student
to get a new identification card.
"Weneeded to photograph
all the residence hall students
where in the past we only had
the freshman," said Jeanne
DiMuzio, Assistant Director of
University Activities.
"It took a full week to get
the new system ready," Di-
Muzio said. "This is new for the
University."
The new security system
"can't hurt," said sophomore
Tim Sullivan, "It's not much of
an inconvenience and every
other college has it so why not
us."
"Last year a woman was
attacked in Loyola - they had to
do something," said Bernie
Reilly, also a sophmore.
"It might be an inconven-ience
for people visiting, but at
the same time it's a good pre-caution,"
said DipaMehta, Class
of '92.
FUSA Books
10,000 Maniacs
Tom Rhatigan
Assitant News Editor
FUSA, the Fairfield University Student Association,
has booked 10,00 Maniacs to perform at Fairfield on Harvest
Weekend.
"This is one of the best shows we will ever have," said
Greg Golub, Student Entertainment Commission Co-Chair.
"It is good quality entertainment that will appeal to all audi-ences."
The band was booked in late July. Other bands consid-ered
were the Pretenders, the Go-Gos and Little Feat.
"We always wanted 10,000 Maniacs, but there have
been scheduling problems," Golub said. "We finally caught
them at a good time."
According to Golub, ifthe show is a sell-out, there may
be enough funds for a concert in the spring.
"There have never been two major concerts in one year,
so that would be really great," Golub added.
Hoping to break even, FUSA's costs for having 10,000
Maniacs play at Fairfield will be in the $25,000 range.
FUSA also hopes to get an opening band, but nothing
has been scheduled yet.
"I would like to thank FUSA president, Chris McSh-erry,
and the graduate assistants for working so hard to bring
such a great act to Fairfield," Golub said. "The Melissa
Etheridge concert last year was a sell-out and a huge success
and we hope to have the same kind of success."
Upcoming events for FUSA also include a Comedy
Cabaret Night on Saturday. Comedians from the Second
City Touring Company will be on hand to entertain the
crowd.
McSherry has also implemented part of his plan to im-prove
Fairfield's campus life with the addition of the com-pact
disc jukebox in the Stag-Her Inn.
APop-A-Shot is also in the works for the Stag-Her Inn.