Mirror - Vol. 16, No. 03 - September 19, 1991

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 16, No. 3 Thursday, September19, 1991 The Image Of Fairfield
Fr.
Boughton
Joins
Fairfield
Community
Emily Okenquist
News Editor
The Fairfield Jesuit
Community received a new rector
in the Rev. Michael Boughton, S.J., I
following his appointment by the
Rev. Peter Hans Kolvenbach,
Superior General of the Society of
Jesus.
He replaces the Rev.
Thomas O'Malley, S.J., who is
now president of Loyola-Mary-mount
College in California.
"I'll be working with the
Jesuits as individuals and as a
community," said Fr. Boughton.
"They are a very diverse group."
Fr. Boughton received his
B.A. and M.A. from Boston Col-lege
and was ordained in 1979.
He has worked with stu-dent
leaders of Student Programs
in Urban Development in Worc-ester,
MA and has been involved
in liturgies, retreats, and counsel-ing.
Coming from the Col-lege
of the Holy Cross where he
served as director of Campus
Ministry for eight years, he brings
experience which can be used in
Fairfield's Campus Ministry pro-gram.
He will participate in lit-urgies
and retreats and plans to
travel to Jamaica with this year's
Mission Volunteers.
The choice to transfer
from Holy Cross to Fairfield was
not his own.
"I was asked to take this
job," said Fr. Boughton, "but was
glad to do it. I'm very impressed
with what goes on at Fairfield
University."
Because he assumed this
position less than two months ago,
Fr. Boughton does not ye.t know of
all his responsibilities.
"I want to get to know the
people here and see what the needs
are," he said.
While at Holy Cross, he
also taught classes in English Lit-erature,
a job which he found
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Fairfield Awarded $98,909 to
Combat Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Christina Hennessy
Editor-in-Chief
The U.S. Department of
Education awarded $98,909 to
Fairfield University this August,
following a submitted program by
members of the Student Services
division outlining a plan to com-bat
alcohol and drug abuse. The
two-year program will take the
form of a living laboratory, as the
University continues an ongoing
effort to bring about a change in
the mindset of the area commu-nity,
stressing wellness of body,
mind and spirit through various
programs and resources.
The grant was made
through the Fund for the Improve-ment
of Postsecondary Education
(FIPSE).
The program entitled,
"Healthy Attitudes, Healthy Be-haviors",
grew out of a proposal
submitted by Barry Vesciglio,
Substance Abuse Counselor, and
Rich Rossi, director of Student
Residences. Fairfield's proposal
was in the top 15% of all post-secondary
schools that had entered.
"I think one of the reasons
Fairfield was chosen was the fact
that every aspect of student life
was included in the proposal," said
Vesciglio. "In addition, we had
many programs already in place
that dealt with the prevention of
alcohol and substance abuse. We
just needed that extra push with
the funding."
The plan calls for new
approaches to be added to the
present self-help groups on cam-pus,
including Alcoholics Anony-mous,
Adult Children of Alcohol-ics
Support Group, and other coun-seling
and referral services, as well
as the addition of a new resource
center in the existing area of the
Health Center.
The new center will house
pamphlets, videos and other re-source
materials which will be
available for both students and
individuals, such as the Peer Coun-selors,
who offer help to those
with problems. In addition, Lynn
DiRobertis will come aboard as
Vesciglio's assistant and support
the health education aspect of the
Center, as well as aid in the train-ing
of the Peer Counselors.
"We hope to get the whole
campus more involved so that the
existing programs, many of which
will be enhanced through the fund-ing,
will be much more effective
in changing behavior," said
Vesciglio. "We first have to
change somebody's thinking be-fore
we can change their behav-ior."
The program will also al-low
for some experimentation of
previously mentioned suggestions,
such as expanded hours at the
RecPlex as it will be open an extra
two hours until midnight on Thurs-days
through Saturdays, and as
late as 2 a.m. on special occasions.
"The funding enabled the
University to invest in some of the
non-alcoholic alternatives that
were suggested by students in the
Alcohol Task Force that was re-leased
a year ago," said Anne Cole,
director of the Health Center, who
along with William Schimpf, vice
president of Student Services, will
be administering the grant. "The
fund will allow us to see if the non-alcoholic
events work and if the
level of student interest is high
enough to continue this form of
programming."
The FIPSE competition
called for an element of commu-nity
outreach in the proposal, so
Fairfield introduced a program that
will encompass several area high
schools, including Fairfield Prep.
"In my mind, particularly
in this area of the country, it is
unrealistic to assume someone
learns to drink in college," said
Schimpf. "Therefore, we need to
recognize that drinking patterns
start before college and we need to
send a consistent message that
substance abuse is disruptive and
dangerous."
Such thinking has attracted
other schools in the area, as well as
community recreation programs,
such as the YMCA, according to
Vesciglio.
Ultimately, this effort to
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Curriculum Expands with New Arrivals
Debra De Shong
Assistant News Editor
In the recent years, the
University has promised an ex-panded
curriculum to include more
diverse classes.
This year, the promises have
begun to materiali? e with the ar-rival
of new professors. Seven
new faculty members have been
appointed to the College of Arts
and Sciences, and fournew courses
have been added.
Dean David Danahar said
the new professors were hired as
replacements for those who retired.
"A big issue in hiring seven
new professors is the large turn-over
in the Arts and Sciences due
to faculty retirements," said
Danahar, "but another issue is the
expansion of the faculty and the
curriculum,".
The new faculty includes
two additions to the History De-partment,
Dr. Patricia Behre, who
will teach a course in Religious
Outsiders in Early Modern France
and Europe.
Dr. Behre received her
degrees from Yale and has been a
writer for The New York Times,
The Providence Journal and a cor-respondent
for the United Press
International in Isreal, Lebanon
and Paris.
Thomas R. E. Murphy is a
Jesuit Scholastic who will teach
Western Civilization for a semes-ter
before returning to his Jesuit
studies.
Rev. Joseph Schad, S.J. will
also teach a semester before re-suming
his studies. Schad, who
has worked in the Peace Corps in
the Sultanate of Oman as director
ofphotography, will be teaching in
the Communication Arts program.
New additions to the Biol-ogy
Department include Dr. Vir-ginia
Hodgkinson, a resident of
Fairfield who is returning to the
University where she previously
taught and served as a laboratory
coordinaor.
Dr. Ursula Bond, a native of
Ireland is also joining the Biology
team. She is the co-author of 15
publications, primarily in genetics
and will teach a new course in
molecular genetics.
Dr. William Rice, who is
listed in "Who's Who in US Writ-ers,
Editors and Poets," will be
joining the English Department.
Dr. Sally O'Driscoll, an-other
addition to the English de-partment,
will teach two new
courses - a study of autobiographi-cal
writings and "Sex and Sensi-biltiy:
Approaches to the Study of
Women's Writing."
According to Danahar, each
professor has been hired not only
because of their excellent quali-ties,
but because each professor
brings with them an expertise that
will add to the University.
"Dr. O'Driscoll's special-ties
are part of the reason the Eng-lish
Department has hired her,"
said Danahar.
O'Driscoll's new course on
women show the University's
continuing effort to recognize
women's issues and to include them
in the curriculum.
The new faculty were cho-sen
from a significant pool, and
Dean Danahar hopes to continue
to hire on a regular basis for the
next few years. This will help to
further the goal of a diverse uni-versity
in which all subjects of
interest are represented.
Fairfield University welcomes new faculty mem-bers
Dr. Patricia Behre, Rev. Joseph Schad, S.J.,
Thomas R.E. Murphy, Dr. Sally O'Driscoll, Dr.
Ursula Bond, and Dr. William Rice. Missing is Dr.
Virginia Hodgkinson. photos: Joanne Hanion