Mirror - Vol. 02, No. 03 - March 15, 1979

              Tuition to Increase in 79;
Inflation Cited as Cause
By Rober J. Schumm
Tuition, room and board, and the
activity fee will all increase next
year, it was announced by Rev.
Thomas R. Fitzgerald, S.J. Tuition will
increase $275 to $3475, room and
board will increase $150 to $1950,
and the activity will increase $5 to
$100. The rising cost of living was
given as the reason for these
increases.
The 8.6 percent increase in tuition
and the 8.3 percent increase in room
and board, are "within President
Carter's wage and price guidelines,"
according to John Hickson, Vice
President for finance.
The increases come despite a
$346,379 operating surplus in fiscal
year 1978. "It is necessary to have a
surplus as a contingency against the
future. It is a reserve fund," explain-ed
Mr. Hickson. "That figure does
not really account for non-recurring
income. We try to have non-recurring
income offset our one time ex-penses,
such as deferred maintain-ance
problem," he continued.
George Diffley, Vice President for
Development, added that the surplus
"keeps us from having to borrow
money in the summer months before
tuition payments are received.
The increases have been approv-ed
by the Board of Trustees Finance
Committee and the Executive
committee.
Another reason cited by Fr. Fitz-gerald
for the increase is the reduc-tion
of enrollment to try and achieve
a 2700 student level. "We are trying
to reduce the total of our fulltime
undergraduate enrollments by 50 or
so in an effort to get back down to
what is considered our proper enroll-ment
size of 2700," explained Fr.
Fitzgerald.
The increase in the Activities fee is
the result of the increase granted to
F.U.S.A. for the upcoming year. This
is the first increase in the student
governments budget in six years
since its inception. The five dollar
increase amounts to a 5.2 percent
increase.
No formal opposition to the in-crease
has been formed yet. Fr. Fitz-gerald
has stated that "I am more
that willing to discuss the salient
points of the new budget" with cam-pus
leaders.
"While the administration of an
enterprise the size of the university
always can be improved, I feel that
our current financial management
and financial planning are quite good
and reflect rather constant
vigilance."
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FAIRFIELD ^W FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 06430 [MIRROR \^^^^ Incorporated 1977
Kevin Lawlor, Administrative Director of FUSA
Beusse Resigns After
"Full House" Controversy
(Photo by Bob Schumm)
Trustees Grant FUSA
$13,500 Increase
By Tucker Forman
An increase ot approximately
$13,500 to the 1979-80 FUSA budget
was announced last week by Father
Fitzgerald and the Board of Trustees.
According to Kevin Lawlor, the in-crease
was granted "to continue
providing the essential services we
have produced in the past." The in-crement
results in a $5 increase in
the student activity fee ($5 X 2700
students).
"It gives us leeway in expanding
pur program," comments Lawlor.
"The entertainment budget would
have been hit the hardest if there
were no increase. Band prices have
skyrocketed in the past few years."
"However, we are hoping for an
$18,000 increase along with a 6 per-cent
cost of living escalator clause
each year to account for inflation.
The Budget Committee voted and re-ceived
the $13,500. We were not
pleased with the Committee's refusal
to grant us the escalator clause
since this was the key aspect in for-mulating
future budgets due to cons-tant
rising inflation. Currently, we are
in the same position as the faculty in
that we renegotiate our financial
position every year."
Lawlor continues "With our in-crease,
FUSA plans to continue past
programs and institute some new
ones. We plan to expand teacher
evaluations, career spectrum,
career speakers and create an alum-ni
course evaluation." The purpose
of this program would be to find out
how beneficial certain courses are in
the long run. "We will take a sample
of alutnni and seek their opinions as
to the relevance of different classes
and courses. Culturally, we plan to
expand lecture in arts into a series of
mini lectures. Also, we are thinking in
terms of instructional programs deal-ing
with auto mechanics, self
defense, music and dance lessons."
"In addition, we a/e hoping to in-crease
dorm allotments and allot-ments
to clubs. One issue that
seems to be of the utmost impor-tance
is the funding of a legal aid
society. This would benefit off cam-pus
boarders because these stu-dents
have been cheated and legally
abused by their landlords. The pro-blem
arises mostly in house deposits
and claims of damages. The
students at this point are at the mer-cy
of a small monopolistic group of
landlords. The landlords already
have the deposit money and they
make the estimates of damages.
However, if a school wide legal aid
group was formed, it would assist
these students plus any other stu-dents
that needed legal help or ad-vice.
The society would perform
three major functions: 1) It would aid
the beach students and other stu-dents
as well. 2) It would give the
students involved an experienced
taste for the law and would aid on
Law School applications. 3) It would
allow the faculty and the alumni to
work with the students on a different
level than the class level. (Some
alumni have already offered their
services at a very low price.) The
cost arises from various forms, ap-plications,
procedures, advertising
and lawyers' fees.
In terms of the Recreational Cen-ter,
the fee for this upcoming year
will be incorporated into the tuition
fee. This is different procedure from
last year when it was a separate $90
fee. "We are presently negotiating
with Father Fitzgerald about exten-ding
the use of the Center for grad-uating
seniors for another year.,
Lawlor added."
"Hours are probably the biggest
issue right now. Budgeting is the pro-blem
because for every extra hour
that the Center is open, you have to
pay staff to run it. This includes pool
lifeguards, maintenance, security
and recreational staff. But these
growing pains should work them-selves
out as time goes on."
By Tony Tarnell
Brian Buesse, former Station
Manager at WVOF resigned from the
chief, position of his self-developed
talk show Full House last Sunday
night at 11:05 pm. Buesse's resigna-tion,
which was aired by WVOF, was
the culmination of a week long in-vestigation
regarding the occur-rences
of the Sunday, March 4 Full
House show, which in Buesse's own
words "was an abomination, and
which got completely out of hand."
Beusse's resignation follows last
Sunday night's show, which aired
several profane remarks directed at
some top administrators of this
University. The profane remarks
were not made by either Brian or his
Co-host Steven "Wheels" Paulone,
but by callers over the phone.
Beusse is being held responsible for
the actions of his show, since it was
deemed within his power to edit the
profanities with the seven second
delay system used by the station
specifically for this purpose.
"I feel that my track record up till
last Sunday was near perfect,"
noted Beusse in an interview prior to
his resignation speech. He continued
that," I am completely upset at my-self
for every letting that type of gar-bage
ever happen on my show."
Beusse explained that due to the
amount of people in the studio he
could not hear the monitor. Paul X.
Tavino, who was Beusse's guest
host on the show, "did not know the
station rules concerning this type of
event," detailed Buesse. Tavino who
was on the phone handling calls
when the calls in question were
received. It is argued by both Beusse
and new Station Manager Jack Bello
that Tavino did not know how to
operate the seven second delay
system. Beusse noted that," It was
my duty to know what was going on
in the station, and most importantly
to know what was going over the air
at all times."
After the show, the events which
led up to Beusse's resignation
developed between the station's
Board of- Directors, and Jack Bello.
The Board of Directors is a combina-tion
of faculty, administration,
students and alumni. The members
are: Edward Deak of the Economics
department, Rudolph Landry of the
English department, Dean Samway,
Gregory Pia, a junior, Bob Cuzzi, a
senior, Mr. Cheney from the Grad-uate
School of Communications, and
Alumni members Stan Hiriak, and C.
Mich McCullough, who acts as Chair-man
of the Board.
Dean Samway noted that on the
Tuesday after the show, Jack Bello
came to her upset over the occur-rences
of Beusse's show. Samway
pointed out that "Jack did not know
Continued on Page 10
SEC Directors Named;
Cabinet Continues to Take Shape
By Gigi Byron
Jim Connolly's FUSA cabinet con-tinues
to take shape with the appoint-ments
of Mike DiSpirito and Tony
Amarante as co-directors of the Stu-dent
Entertainment Commission
(SEC) this week.
The appointments came as a sur-prise
to no one because both
DiSpirito and Amarante have been
very active in SEC since their
freshman year. The co-directors
began their involvement by working-security
for concerts, then moved on
to setting up and breaking down SEC-sponsored
events, and the to actual-ly
booking bands.
Amarante ran last year's Dog-wood
dance as a sophomore. This
year DiSpirito held the position of
head of stage crew and Amarante
was assistant director of SEC.
The directors feel their job is to find
out the student's entertainment pre-ferences
and then "try to give them
what they want." DiSpirito explained,
"It's the student's money we're
spending, so we always try to get as
much input as possible. We combine
what they want with our own discre-tion."
Both Amarante and DiSpirito
would like to see a little more variety
in the entertainment at Fairfield.
Amarante discussed the possibility
of bringing diversity in the forms of
jazz, blue grass, rock, soul, and
blues to the campus. He added that,
"You can't please everybody all the
time, but by variety you can please a
majority of the people."
Along with choosing Fairfield's
entertainment, the co-directors are
also responsible for running all
events—setting up, security, ac-commodations
for the band, and
breaking down. They see no pro-blems
in doing this. "We have one of
the best concert crews around.
They've always worked great before
& I'm sure they'll pull through for us
this year," commented DiSpirito.
The first event that the new direc-tors
will run is Dogwood weekend.
They have already begun the pro-cess
of looking into the availability
and price of bands. "One possibility
is a joint concert with U.B. They
already have the Cars booked for
that day," Amarante said, then add-ed,
"But it's all very tentative now
and really too early to tell what will
happen."
Other Connolly cabinet appointees
who were announced last week have
begun working with those people
who hold the post in O'Brien's cab-inet
to learn what exactly their jobs
entail.
Mike Navarro, academic coordin-ator,
explains that his job is to "deal
with all aspects of academics."
"When you talk about academics,"
Navarro added, "you're talking
about a whole realm of things that
deal with the administration faculty
and students."
Continued on Page 3
Denise Dzurec, Attorney General and Mike DiSpirito, Co-director of SEC.
(Photo by Bob Schumm)