Mirror - Vol. 15, No. 06 - October 18, 1990

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 15, No. 6 Thursday, October 18, 1990 The Image Of Fairfield
New Registration System For Spring Courses
Students To Complete Schedule in a Week
Christina Hennessy
News Editor
A new revised registration
process replaces the former op-scan
system this November, ena-bling
students to complete their
schedules within six days and to
avoid the long lines at the registrar
at the end of the semester.
"The University has been
looking towards a new system for
a long time," said Robert Russo,
University Registrar.
The changes were based on
input from students, faculty and
administrators since 1982 and the
implementation of the opscan sys-tem.
A committee of faculty and
administrators and student repre-sentative,
Craig Haba, FUSA Vice
President of Student Life, was put
together last fall to hammer out the
guidelines of the new system,
which is the first step towards on-line
registration.
"We wanted to improve the
gliches found in the system we had
been using for eight years," said
Russo.
"First, we wanted to end
student error on the opscan sheets,
improve the time factor so the stu-dents
knew what classes they actu-ally
got while registering and to
prevent people from filling in
courses that may have already been
filled."
Students meet with their
advisors during the sign-up week
and register according to their lot-tery
numbers at posted times.
"Terminals will be set up in
Advisement Periods
Seniors: Nov. 7-9 by appointment
Juniors: Nov. 12 Noon-4 p.m.
Sophomores: Nov. 13 9 a.m.-l p.m.
Freshmen(declared): Nov. 14 9 a.m -1 p.m.
Freshmen(undeclared): Nov. 19 9 a.m.-l p.m.
Registration Dates(bv major)
Seniors: Nov. 12 8 a.m.-Noon
Juniors: Nov. 12 4 - 8 p.m.
Sophomores: Nov. 13 1-5 p.m.
Freshmen: Nov. 14 1 - 5 p.m.
The Minor, Core and Elective reg istration will run from
Nov. 15-19 at various times. Check the course booklet
coming out No\^.5.
Bannow, FOB and Canisius and
students will register right in the
building of their advisor," said
Russo. —
Seniors register their major
courses first, followed by juniors,
sophomores and freshmen.
The minor, core and elective
courses are chosen after all stu-dents
have registered their major
courses.
"Hopefully the new process
will prove to be an efficient and
systematic process, in addition, to
guaranteeing people their major
courses," said Haba.
One of the benefits of this
rotation of registration, according
to Russo, is the time each student
saves by only picking classes that
are still open.
The registrar's office will
solve this problem by posting
updated computer lists of the vari-ous
courses and the number of stu-dents
in them after each registra-tion
period.
"Students had no idea if the
classes they were picking with their
advisor were open or closed. Now,
Athletics May
Drop Division I
Membership
Tom Maguire
Sports Editor
The Fairfield University
Athletic Department must decide
by Jan. 11th, 1991 whether or hot
to keep Fairfield athletics on the
Division I level.
From Jan. 7th to 11th next
year all Division I schools in the
country will meet in Nashville,
Tennessee for the NCAA con-vention.
Fairfield University ath-letic
director Dr. Harold Mennin-ger
called next year's convention
"a setting for some landmark de-cisions."
If one of three parts of this
legislation is passed, it will force
Fairfield to two options: grant
more financial aid into the ath-letic
program or remove some or
all of the financial aid in the pro-gram
and give scholarships on a
need or merit basis only if it de-sires
to stay a Division I school.
In this year's Spring edition
of Fairfield Now, Father Kelley
said, "I think it's very important
for institutions like Fairfield,
which take both academics and
athletics seriously, to stay Divi-sion
I."
"If we choose one of the
three options required [to stay in
Division I], it calls for a substan-tial
increase in the money given to
athletics," said William P.
Schimpf, Fairfield University's
athletic representative. "If we do
that it will come out of the general
operating funds of the University
which includes tuition and fund-raising."
To remain a Division I
school if the resolution is passed,
Menninger along with Schimpf
and Father Kelley will have to
choose one of these five options
given by the NCAA:
1. Cut the maximum num-ber
of scholarships allowed for
each men's and women's sport in
half. For example, if the men's
baseball program is allowed 13
scholarships they would be al-lowed
only 6.5 scholarships.
2. That beyond the sports of
basketball and football, the Uni-versity
must make an expenditure
of $250,000 in each men's and
women's program, but give no
less than 19 scholarships in each
sport.
3. The University must give
25 full scholarships in each men's
and women's sport not including
basketball or football.
4. Rescind all athletic schol-arships
and give scholarships only
to those on a need basis.
5. Change the University
membership from Division I and
become a Division II or Division
III school.
"We have no intention of
getting out of Division I athlet-ics,"
said Menninger. "We want
to stay, but if we are forced out
[by the passage of this ruling] we
will either not give aid to athletes
or then move to Division III. It is
going to be a real fight for pas-sage,
and we will vote against it."
One of the reasons why this
piece oflegislation is up for a vote
is that the NCAA wants to rele-gate
the Division I schools in that
they must make the commitment
to play Division I or else move to
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the student will know right up front
ifsomething is closed," said Russo.
"If the class is really needed,
then that student will have more
time to try to add it on his or her
schedule," he added.
Registering by terminals will
also help advisors to spread out
their appointments over the course
of a week, rather than having ma-jority
of their advising occur dur-ing
the end of the sign-up week
said Russo.
"The system will reduce the
number ofpeople who must add or
drop, because they will be making
more permanent decisions for
classes," Haba said.
The process allows the dif-ferent
departments to adapt the
system, in that the advisement
periods are flexible. Advisors will
receive transcripts oftheir advisees
also, in order to help the one-on-one
appointments
A questionnaire sent to a
random sample of students and
faculty at the end of the registra-tion
process will attempt to obtain
feedback of the new system.
Koerting Takes Over
As Judicial Officer
AnnMarie Puckhaber
Editor-in-Chief
She does not look tough or
threatening, but Frances Koerting
said you would be surprised how
tough she can be and, if you are
lucky, you will not need to find
out.
Koerting is the new Judicial
Officer at Fairfield, replacing
Jeanne DiMuzio, who moved to
the position of assistant director of
University Activities this Fall.
"She's got to be the heavy,"
said Father W. Laurence O'Neil,
S.J., dean of students. "But I think
she is a person who will be fair but
strict when she has to be."
"That doesn't bother me,"
Koerting said. "I've had to prove
I'm tough enough in most of my
past positions."
Koerting will also be taking
over the role ofdirector of Orienta-tion,
bringing her back to an earlier
position which she held at the
College of New Rochelle.
"It's very difficult to wear
both hats but she's going to do it,"
Fr. O'Neil said. "The judicial
officer requires student contact,
when the students are not here we
want to use her talents for other
purposes. A person of her caliber
we want to keep for 12 months a
year."
Koerting received her
undergraduate degree in Psychol-ogy
and Biology from the Univer-sity
of Rhode Island in 1979 and
her masters degree in college stu-dent
personnel from Bowling
Green University in Ohio in 1983.
Following the completion
of her degrees, Koerting went to
the College ofNew Rochelle where
she was the coordinator of Student
Activities and residence hall direc-tor
and later, became director of
Orientation.
For the past four years she
has worked at the University of
Bridgeport in its continuing edu-cation
department.
"I'm very excited about
holding both positions," Koerting
said. "I'm able to go back to Ori-entation
and the judicial part is
interesting to me because it' s a part
of Student Serviced that I haven't
seen."
"It's almost nice to wear
two different hats because the
judicial will be more of a distant
relationship with the students and
Orientation will be more of a fun
relationship," she said.
Since her start over a week
ago, Koerting has handled 48 cases,
many of which dealt with alcohol
violations. "Some may not expect
the University to enforce (the al-cohol
policy) as strict as we do,"
Koerting said. "We need to get the
word out that we do. It's a State
law and it is not something the
University will tolerate."
Koerting said she is happy
to join the Fairfield community.
"There is a lot her to offer the
students and it's exciting being a
part of that."
"The students really seem
to enjoy it her and have chosen
Fairfield because of what the Uni-versity
has to offer," she added.
Koerting was chosen for the
position out of approximately 15
applicants. "She was the best can-didate
both from experience and
education," Fr. O'Neil said. "Her
credentials best matched the posi-tion."
"I know the students will
like her," he added.