Mirror - Vol. 02, No. 18 - February 15, 1979

              Connolly Elected Pres.
by Tony Tarnel!
Jimmy Connolly has been elected
President of the Fairfield University
Students Association. In an election
which marked the highest student
turnout in the past several years,
Connolly amassed 554 votes, write-in
candidate Bob Stall received 505
votes, and Mike Navarro ac-cumulated
407 votes.
The 1466 turnout for this election
reached the 54 percent mark, and
bettered last Tuesday's primary by 3
percent. The best voting turnout
came from the Off-Campus Boarders
with 229 votes cast, and Northwest
with 219. All the various areas
reported an increased turnout over
last weeks primary except Regis
Hall, Gonzaga, and Northwest.
As in the primary, the most disap-pointing
turnout was the commuters.
Only 13.5 percent of the 850 com-muters
cast their ballots.
"Bob's turnout really surprised the
hell out of me", detailed Connolly a
few minutes after hearing the
results. He continued that "Mike ran
a fantastic campaign, and I have to
give him a whole lot of credit."
"The 1466 turnout was fantastic,
and it goes to prove that the students
of this University are not as
apathetic as people seem to fee,
"noted Connolly. Connolly detailed
that during the past three weeks, he
worked at getting his ideas'around to
the students, and that the vote for
him was really a vote for those ideas.
"As of next Monday, I will start right
in with Vinny, and learn all the ins
and out of the office," said Connolly.
He continued that "I feel the transfer
of office will run, to say the least,
smoothly." He attributes this to his
past positive relationship with the ex-isting
FUSA government, based on
his year as president of the Student
Legislature.
Connolly plans to initiate some of
his proposed programs as soon as
possible. He said that "next week I
will establish a committee to start
work on my student Grocery Shop."
Connolly noted that since his term of
office is only one year, he wishes to
get started on the important issues
as soon as possible.
Connolly officially takes over of-fice
on April 1. During this interim
period, he will work with Vinny
O'Brien to learn as many of the
details of the FUSA chief office as
possible. During this period, Connolly
will also be in the process of
establishing his 40 member cabinet.
"I feel like an athlete in the Olym-pic
Games who just set a new world
record, however, finished second in
the event," said Bob Stall in com-menting
on his 505 write in votes.
Stall credits his incredible showing to
the support of Steve Ciardiello, and
George Schietinger, candidates in
last Tuesday's primary, who aided
Stall in the final week of his write-in
campaign.
Stall, who was very pleased with
his showing in the election, noted
Continued On Page 2 Jimmy Connolly
(Photo by Bob Torello)
ELECTION RESULTS
Gonzaga Regis Northwest Campion Loyola Julie Fareast Southeast O.C.B. Commuters TOTALS
Connolly 57 87 62 70 64 5 33 31 102 43 554
Stall
(Write-in)
58 50 132 57 34 28 36 51 33 26 505
Navarro 49 34 25 35 48 7 36 33 94 46 407
Totals for Area 164 171 219 162 146 40 105 115 229 115 1466
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Ad-Hoc Committee Releases
Alcohol Report
Jack Bello (Photo by Don Marron)
Jack Bello Chosen
To Manage WVOF
by Tucker Forman
In an election which took place
Monday night, Jack Bello was
elected as station manager for the
1979-80 academic year of WVOF.
Bello, who has had two and one-half
years experience as AM direc-tor,
assistant program director and
hockey announcer, primarily stress-ed
that he will "work to bring the sta-tion
closer together. The inside
aspect must work before the outside"
can."
As to the possible change in the
frequency, Bello states "If they
decide to change it—we would like
the community to give us a chance to
be good. Currently, we feel the cam-pus
doesn't give us the proper atten-tion.
It seems the campus gets toget-her
once a week for the Sunday 'Full
House' show."
Bello adds that his long range goal
for WVOF will be in terms of public
relations. "Look for WVOF to be
more open. We plan to be in the Stag-
Her every other Thursday night. Also,
we are considering record promo-tions
in the Campus Center. We
would like the Board of Directors of
the University to meet more often
with our entire staff."
"We have much potential for a ten
Watt station. If the audience would
give us a chance, they could ap-preciate
our diverse style of music. If
you like music—then you'll like
WVOF."
In terms of personnel changes,
Bello responded "Some minor
changes will be made, but the staff
will basically be the same."
"We want everyone to know, on
and off-campus, that we are here.
We are open for any types of sugges-tions
in the form of letters, com-ments
and calls. WVOF is only as
good as the student body wants it to
be. I am determined that as a closely
working team, we can please the in-terests
of the student body."
Continued On Page 2
by Robin Becker
In recent weeks there has been a
growing awareness among the stu-dents
at Fairfield about the irrespon-sible
actions of a few due to the in-crease
of alcohol abuse on campus.
As a result of this awareness, a Com-mittee
for Campus Life, or CCL, has
been established in an attempt to
counteract these problems. This
committee includes a group of con-cerned
students, several faculty
members, and campus ministry.
It is the belief of the CCL that cer-tain
issues should be raised to help
prevent future irresponsible actions.
In a statement soon to be released to
the Academic Council and the Board
of Trustees, the CCL cites these pro-blems
and possible solutions:
1.A review of the disciplinary ac-tion
taken by the university.
2. The utilization of Dorm Councils
as self-governing bodies to im-pose
internal guidelines and
rules to be enforced by the
students.
3. A correction of the absence of
participation of the Housemas-ters
through an increase in com-munication
between them and
the students.
4. Increased student awareness of
disciplinary procedures so as to
lessen the burden placed upon
the Resident Advisor.
5. More efficent character screen-ing
of admissions applicants.
6. Initiation of an alcohol education
program and mandatory ses-sions
as part of certain
disciplinary sanctions.
The goal of the committee is to in-crease
student awareness which it
hopes will result in a decrease in
future problems. This awareness can
be achieved through the use of pro-motion
devices such as "I Care" but-tons.
These buttons will be distrib-uted
in the latter part of the coming
week. It is the hope of the committee
that these buttons will stimulate in-terest
within the student body in
order to create a safer and more
constructive campus.
When asked about their personal
reasons for starting the CCI, CCL
members echoed similar sentiments.
Joe Giacino ('81) said that "I saw the
University as a whole taking what I
thought to be a turn for the worse,
and I thought it was time I did some-thing
about it. Through Campus
Ministry and the CCL I found the op-portunity
I needed." Michael P. Fitz-gerald
(79) commented that, "Cas-ualties
seem to be getting worse
since I've been here and it's impera-tive
that something be accomplished
to check this. I believe the Commit-tee
is the tool." John Hughes, a
sophomore, said, "Many of the stu-dents
on campus do care about the
quality of campus life. We want our
voice to be heard." Junior Marie
McGinnis noted that "Most of us are
tired of waiting for someone else to
do it, so we formed our own commit-tee.
Anyone interested should join
us." Joe DeLuca ('81) stated that "I
was just sick and tired of the van-dalism
and broken glass and felt that
something had to be done. I feel that
the CCL is the best way to do it."
Donovan To Head Legislature
Concert Funds Approved
by John Hughes
Ken Donovan was elected Student
Legislature President, at a meeting
of that body last week. Donovan, a
junior, was chosen to replace Jim
Connolly, who had recently stepped
down to aid his presidential cam-paign.
Donovan will serve in this
capacity until October.
Donovan has recently served as
interim president for the body.
Formerly chairman of Government
Operations committee of the legisla-ture,
Donovan feels that he will have
ample time since his term will last to
October.
The legislature also allocated
$10,000 to the Student Entertain-ment
Commission for a March 3rd
concert featuring Southside Johnny
and the Asbury Jukes along with the
Good Rats, to be held in the gym.
This measure was necessary after
the legislature invoked its power to
control FUSA spending.
In other action, the legislature
passed a bill calling fpr a student
handbook suppliment to be prepared
by members of student government
and its branches for the purpose of
making the government more easily
accessible to the students. "The sup-plement
would describe the purpose
and duties of the various positions
and their areas of jurisdiction, and
would include a FUSA constitution,"
according to one representative.
Both measures have been submit-ted
to FUSA President O'Brien for his
approval.