Mirror - Vol. 15, No. 19 - March 28, 1991

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 15, No. 19 Thursday, March 28, 1991 The Image Of Fairfield
Kegs Saved by New Townhouse Policy
Christina Hennessy
Editor In Chief
Kegs have been saved fol-lowing
the approval of the new
townhouse keg policy by William
Schimpf, vice president for Stu-dent
Services. The policy is a
revised version of the student pro-posal
introduced a month ago to
the University Council.
"This policy will eliminate
much confusion and it' addresses
issues that may have been skirted
in the past, " said Schimpf who
also helped to draft the policy along
with student representatives from
FUSA and FUTA.
"I think the best part of this
plan is that students initiated the
policy and I see it having a good
shot at working," Schimpf added.
The changes from the origi-nal
student proposal include a drop
in the maximum number of kegs
from three to two half kegs, the use
of the back door as a fire door only
and an increased fine of $ 150.00 or
50 hours of community service for
the townhouse if any regulation is
broken.
Students are responsible for
issuing and removing' wristbands
(6$ for 150 or $4 for 100 at the time
of registration) from those who are
21, stationing a member of the
house at the front door to check
identification and positioning
another member of the house at the
keg. Only residents of the
townhouse will be allowed to serve
beer from the keg.
The general registration
policy is as follows:
1. All parties at which there
will be a keg(s) and more than 24
persons in attendance must be
registered with Student Residences
at least 24 hours prior to the start of
the party.
In addition, at least one
townhouse resident giving the party
must be 21 and all members must
have attended one of the alcohol
awareness sessions given during
the semester, for failure to follow
both rules will prohibit that
townhouse from registering a party
at which kegs will be present.
"The important thing to
remember is that the policy is only
a portion of a whole reworking of
our alcohol policy," said Schimpf.
Originally, the Alcohol
Task Force reported on alcohol
consumption on campus and rec-ommended
the banning of kegs to
the Office of Student Services, and
subsequently the recommendation
was passed on to FUSA, FUTA
andlRHG.
The student groups were
Coach Buonaguro Resigns
Tom Maguire
Sports Editor Emeritus
Fairfield University's
Men's head basketball coach Mitch
Buonaguro resigned March 11th.
Buonaguro's contract runs out on
June 30th, and the status of his as-sistants
is up to the new coach
Fairfield hires.
"The school treatedmevery
well," Buonaguro said, "but if a
coach doesn't win like I did my
first two years here, this [a coach-ing
change] is what happens."
Buonaguro finished his
sixth season with Fairfield this year,
compiling a(72-103,.420)record.
Fairfield won two MAAC Cham-pionships
and two automatic bids
to the NCAA Tournament in 1986
and 1987, his first two years at
Fairfield. "Going to the NCAAs
set a high standard for basketball
at Fairfield," Buonaguro said.
But since then Buonaguro's
teams have only won 38 games in
four seasons. "Every loss went to
my head," Buonaguro said.
"He started to worry a year
ago," said William Schimpf, Vice
President of Student Services and
Fairfield's athletic representative.
Last year Buonaguro went
through the worst season in Fair-field
history, compiling only seven
wins. It was Fairfield's third con-secutive
losing season since com-piling
a (24-7) record in 1986.
This year Buonaguro prom-ised
14 wins before the season
started. The cover of the men's
media guide said "One Step at a
Time" and when the team opened
the season winning three out of
four games, it looked like Fairfield
was taking one large step very early
in the season.
"My goal for this team was
to be competitive," Schimpf said.
"I don't want to be considered the
dormat of the league. I like our
athletic program to reflect the
quality of the school."
But as quickly as the Stags
came out of the gate, they quickly
tripped and fell through the rest of
the season. The Stags won only
two of their last 15 games and lost
in the first round of the MAAC
Tournament to Canisius, 62-54.
After this season Buonaguro
said that he wasn't sure how Fair-field
was going to handle the situ-ation.
"They told me they were
going to evalute my work after
this season. I thought about re-signing
and talked to a lot ofpeople
before I made my decision."
"This team needs someone
who can develop the team because
the talent is in place," he added. "I
could see this team becoming a
very good team because we have
the best freshmen in the league."
"It wasn't just the wins and
losses as to why he made this deci-sion,"
said Dr. Harold Menniger,
athletic director. "We were look-ing
at a lot of things like the future
of the program, his recruiting, how
he treated his budget, his relations
with the players, etc."
"Mitch is a classy guy,"
Menninger added. "He will land
on his feet."
Now Fairfield must find a
coach between the end of the
NCAA Tournament and when
Buonaguro's contract runs out on
June 30th. "We want to get the
right person," Menninger said. "We
want to find someone who can do
the things Mitch wasn't able to
do."
Fairfield is taking its time
for one very good reason: they
don't want to let a great candidate
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Lady Stags Win MAAC
All Tournament Winners Trish Sacca and Kate Abromovitch and MVP Lisa Mikelic stand among
other MAAC honories.
then to come up with a solution, if
they didn't agree with the recom-mendation,
according to Schimpf.
"The students realized the
University was serious about cut-ting
down on the alcohol abuse on
campus and we made a genuine
effort and attempted to curb the
problem, as well," said John Tede-sco,
president of the FUSA Senate
and University Council member.
"Every group worked to-gether
and there was good com-munication
between administra-tion
and students," he added."It
was really a victory considering
we were facing a keg ban."
The policy, in fact, is less
restrictive than most campuses in
this area, which have already
banned kegs and put restrictions
on the amount of alcohol at a party.
"The University isn't any
more restrictive that the state laws
and at the same time we are abid-ing
by the law," said Schimpf.
The policy is expected to go
into effect in September, with the
possibility of an awareness session
to be scheduled this Spring.
Multiculturalism: A
Growing Concern
at Fairfield
Emily Okenquist
News Editor
Racial concerns among students on campus dominated Sunday
evening's panel discussion "Talking Race at Fairfield," as a five
student panel and an active audience voiced observations on the state
of multiculturalism on campus.
Moderated by Dr. Arthur Anderson, chairman of the Sociology
department, the panel consisted of senior Conan Schreyer and juniors
Ringgo Abarro, Gladys Chevere, Langston Jones, and Patrick O'Toole.
This diverse group of students debated current racial subjects
and the future of race relations at Fairfield.
"We're very pleased with the turnout," said Leilani Davis, or-ganizer
of the'panel discussion which was sponsored by Faith, Peace,
and Justice and IRHG. "I hope this is just the beginning of bringing the
problem of race to the forefront."
Chevere opened the discussion by giving a definition of racism
as "belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and
capacity and the racial differences produce an inherent superiority of
a popular race."
This general statement about race led to the more specific views
about racism as they are found on the Fairfield campus.
"People don't come here to meet international students," said
Jones. "They don't come to be challenged."
Coming to Fairfield from an inner city, Chevere said, "The
University wasn't as open minded as I thought it would be [about
minority students]" and admits to being a "bit uncomfortable."
"It's difficult to stay at Fairfield as a minority student," said
Abarro, who experienced culture shock here after leaving his high
school in Los Angeles which was predominantly minority students.
"We have to keep minority students here and educate other
about them," he said.
O'Toole agreed that it is "the responsibility of the University to
increase diversity."
Anderson then posed the question of what would make it better
to attract and retain these students at Fairfield. With minority groups
representing 30 percent of the United States population by the year
2000, action must be taken to better recognize the different races.
Abarro stated more communication on campus to stop minority
segregation, especially if a racist situation occurs.
"Information should be made available," he said. "We should
know what's going on, not just hear rumors from other people."
Issues of AHANA, the network of student minority organiza-tions,
should be integrated into classes so students can learn about
culture. Minority relations should be addressed on campus because
"we will deal with multiculturalism in the real world," Chevere said.
To further recognize racial groups at Fairfield, an increase in
minority related courses in the curriculum was recommended by all
the panelists.
"The main reason for coming to college is to get an education,"
said Schreyer. "To be truly educated, you must be open minded and
establish a curriculum representing what everyone calls for."
The courses offered at Fairfield may turn some students away
because, according to Abarro, "they're not what people want."
AHANA students comprise less than eight percent of the
University population, so due to this, "you don't get the multicultural-ism
that you'd get in other places," said Jones.
"To increase the number of students, you must offer them what
they want," said Chevere.
Because the ratio of whites and minorities outside of Fairfield
is far greater than that on campus, Anderson asked if Fairfield is pre-paring
students for America and the world.
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