Mirror - Vol. 15, No. 04 - October 04, 1990

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 15, No. 4 Thursday, October 4, 1990 The Image Of Fairfield
Fairfield Gets A Taste Of New England
Debra De Shong
Staff Writer
The Fairfield University
community played host to a small
petting zoo, as well as a horse-drawn
cart last Friday, as the Inter-
Residence Hall Government spon-sored
"New England Day" at the
Campus Center Patio.
In addition to the goats,
geese, chickens and the pony and
pig of the petting zoo that were
gathered on the lawn, IRHG of-fered
hay rides from the front of
the Campus Center.
Also, each residence hall
sponsored a different booth at the
festival.
The IRHG executive board
organized the event to promote
unity among the residence halls.
The board is comprised of Jamie
McHugh, president; John Mitch-ell,
vice president, Rob Maina,
treasurer; John Martinez, acting
secretary, and Lellarie Davis,
AHANA representative.
"We planned the event
because it had never been done be-
Students mill around the Campus Center Patio checking out the difference IRHG booths.
Photo: Kevin Guterl
fore and we just wanted to get ev-eryone
together," said Jamie
McHugh, president of IRHG.
"Basically we did it for fun,"
he added.
IRHG picked up the tab for
the cotton candy stand, the dunk-ing
booth and the sno-cone counter.
The individual halls picked
ideas for the various booths that
littered the patio area.
"It was up to the internal
governments of the halls to do
whatever they wanted at their
booth. IRHG just provided the ac-tual
stall," said McHugh.
The most popular booths
included the caricature stand run
by Gonzaga, the picture buttons
from Jogues and the tie-dyed T--
shirts stall led by Regis.
The group from Loyola
managed to round up some popu-lar
faces to become targets in their
pie-throwing event. Dolan spon-sored
golf games, while Kostka
hall engaged in a dart-throwing
contest.
A barbeque was provided
by Seilers for the residence stu-dents,
who were entertained by the
band Grand Design, as well,
through dinner and into the night.
"I felt it inspired residence
hall unity, because the dorms
worked togerher for the very first
time," said McHugh.
McHugh said the event was
a success and IRHG hopes to con-tinue
with another event next year.
"All this fun for free, what
more could you want?", said sen-ior
Val Anton..
University Celebrates Anniversary Of Jesuit Order
Christina Hennessy
News Editor
The Ignation Yearofficially
got underway last Thursday as
members of the University com-munity
participated in campus-wide
events to honor the founding
of the Jesuit order by St. Ignatius
of Loyola 450 years ago.
The picnic on the Bel
larmine lawn was the most suc-cessful
event, at which Seller's
food service provided a picnic for
most of the members of the school.
"I felt the picnic was a
masterful touch to the day," said
Mary Fiances Malone, the assis-tant
academic vice president and a
member of the Anniversary Com
mittee.
"It was really rather demo-cratic
with a real community feel-ing
as all of the University com-munity
sat together," she added.
The Ignation Mass on the
Campus Center Patio that preceded
the picnic, was well received and
also drew a large crowd.
The Glee Club sang for the
occasion, and a procession to honor
those students and organizations
who do service for others came
before the mass, in an effort to
recognize those individual's who
are answering the Jesuit ideals.
There was a considerable
decrease in the attendance level of
the students, however, at that after-noon's
academic convocation.
"I thought more people
would attend the Convocation than
actually did," said Rev. Paul Car-rier,
S.J.. University Chaplain and
participant in the event.
Many students expressed the
fact that they felt they did not be-long
at the convocation and that it
was a rather distant event for the
students.
"I went to the mass and pic-nic,
but the convocation sounded
formal ," said Lauren Capello, a
senior.
"I think a better explanation
was needed of what is was, why
they were doing it and who was
going to be there. I really just didn t
know what to expect," she added,
"While the auditorium
wasn't empty, I would have liked
better numbers," said Malone.
"I really don't know why
the students didn't attend. Aca-demic
Convocations are, after all,
a major tradition at universities."
Several students suggested
that there was too much of a break
between the picnic and the convo-cation,
or perhaps, the event coulc
have taken place outdoors.
"The mass was really very
good, because I understood what it
meant to be a Jesuit, but it didn't
seem that the convocation was
something for the students," said
freshman Meg Flynn.
"The people who went
hopefully had their consciousness
raised and as word gets around the
message of the day will hit every-body,"
said Fr. Carrier. "For those
who participated, the day's events
encouraged and confirmed what
we are all about and for those who
didn't attend it was really their
loss."
FUSA Sends Rep To
NACA Conference
Christina Hennessy
News Editor
In continuing last's year's attempt by FUSA to ensure minority
representation in student government, Charis Burt, Minority/Speciai
Interest chairperson, attended theNational Association for Campus
Activities (NACA) annual conference.
This summer's workshop at California State University at
Northridge, gathered representatives from colleges and universities
! from around the country to focus on cultural diversity on campus.
The program entitled "Multi-Cultural Diversity Through Under-
1 standing and Progamming" attempted to address the problem of
I setting up campus events that are accessible to all members of a
i school's community.
"This conference helped in providing a backdrop to the work that
I'll do this year," said Buri, a junior.
" The conference's aim wasn't solely based on the aspect of pro-gramming
diverse activities.
"1 didn't expect what I got. in that the discussions focused on di-versity,
especially what and who is diverse, " Burt said.
Minorities were seem in the sense of numbers rather than
traditional groupings.
Topics such as sexism, racism, homophobia and the physically
challenged were all examined during the conference.
"As the former president of UMOJA. (the African-American
! group on campus) I have been working all along to get the University
community to be aware of the diversity here at Fairfield, but now
hopefully, I got a better understanding, from the event, of how to work
with people to get everybody involved," said Burt.
The Minority/Special Interest cabinet position was created last
year in response to the concerns of many studentst.The Student Senate
proposed a bill to implement the position and this year's FUSA presi-dent,
Chris McSherry, took the recommendation and appointed Burt
last year.
"This position is only a stepping stone and I don't know how
much I can accomplish to expand the awareness of the diversity pres-ent
on our campus." added Burt.
One of her goals is to create whole school involvement in all
events and get the University "to become more educated and more
interested in the whole idea of cultural diversity so it will be a reality
and not merely a prevalent issue."