Mirror - Vol. 16, No. 08 - October 31, 1991

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FairfieldMIRROR Volume 16, No. 8 Thursday, October 31, 1991 Happy Halloween!
Board Elects New Trustees
Emily Okenquist
News Editor
Following the election on Oc-tober
4, the Board of Trustees
welcomed eight new members,
including three Jesuits, three Fair-field
alumni, the mother of two
University graduates, and the presi-dent
and COO of UST, Inc.
"These are people who have
ideas and initiative," said Murray
Farber, director of Public Rela-tions.
"They are dedicated to the
University."
One quarter of the 36 mem-ber
Board must be made up of
Jesuits. The three newly appointed
Jesuits joining the Board are Fr.
Howard J. Gray, S.J., Fr. Daniel A.
Degnan, S.J., and Fr. Herbert B.
Keller, S.J.
The Fairfield graduates are
Joseph F. Beradino, '72, Antony
E. Champ, '59, and Daniel R. Finn,
Jr., '66. Also joining the Board are
Eileen M. Cullen and Vincent A.
Gierer, Jr.
The Board of Trustees,
comprised of 36 members, meet in
committees dealing with finances,
administration, student life, and
public relations and are updated on
happenings within the University.
They also meet with Fr. Aloysius
P. Kelley, University President, to
make decisions and recommenda-tions.
According to Fr. John J.
Higgins, S.J., Executive Assistant
to the President, the Organizational
and Nominating Committee re-views
nominations sent in by the
current Board then chooses the
apprpriate ones. The Board ofTrus-tees'
term lasts for three years,
though most remain for six years.
No member can serve for more
than two terms.
Fr. Gray, director the Detroit
Spirituality Team for the Detroit
Province of the Society of Jesus,
spent a year traveling as consult-ant
to the President of the Jesuit
Conference of East Asia. A mem-ber
of the Fairfield Board of Trus-tees
from 1981-83, he was awarded
an honorary degree from the Uni-versity
last year.
President of Saint Peter's
College in Jersey City, New Jer-sey,
Fr. Degnan has served as pro-fessor,
dean, and associate provost
at Seton Hall University School of
Law. He also held a position on the
Supreme Court Committee on the
Bar Examination and the Supreme
Court Advisory Committee on
Judicial Conduct for New Jersey.
Fr. Keller was recently ap-pointed
the principal of St. Jo-seph
' s Preparatory School in Phila-delphia,
following eight years as
principal of Scranton Preparatory
School. He also served as Jesuit
Community Director at the Weston
School ofTheology and was an ad-ministrative
intern at Fairfield Prep.
A certified public account-ant,
Berardino of Greenwich has
been a partner with Arthur An-dersen
& Co. in New York since
1982. Berardino is a past president
of the Fairfield University Alumni
Association and is a member ofthe
Board of Visitors for the Univer-sity's
School of Business. He and
his wife Gail have two daughters.
Champ has held the positions
of vice president of marketing for
Celanese Fiber Operations and vice
president of advanced technology
for Hoechst Celanese. His most
recent positions include president
and CEO of Fiber Industries.
Champ is currently establishing
his own business. Champ and his
wife Edith are the parents of five
children and live in Chappauqua,
New York
Finn, of Greenwich, is presi-dent
ofLouis Dreyfus Energy Corp.
in Wilton. He has also served as
vice president of the oil import
distributing company for seven
years and as president for 12 years.
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University Council Recommends
Change to Freshman Housing
Christina Hennessy
Editor-in-Chief
The freshman housing pol-icy
is currently up for review within
the Office of Student Services, as
the University Council has sent a
recommendation to modify the
existing policy of freshman hous-ing.
The council is in essence a
proposal passed by the Fairfield
University Student Senate, which
outlined the findings of a Senate
ad-hoc committee, as well as pro-posed
that the quad residence halls
should be fully integrated, by re-serving
a certain percentage of
rooms on each floor for freshmen.
The motion to send the bill
as the University Council's rec-ommendation
for the new fresh-man
housing policy was passed 0-
8-1, after a long discussion. The
next step was to send the proposal
to the Office of Student Services,
which would analyze the proposal
and come up with a decision be-fore
the housing lottery begins at
the end of November.
At the meeting, William
Schimpf, vice president of Student
Services and member of the coun-cil,
presented a statistical report
culled from different University
sources, which looked at many
measures to analyze the differences
between the classes of 1993 and
1994. The report measured such
things as the difference in SAT
scores, class rank, disciplinary
records, GPAs and residence hall
damages. No conclusive evidence
was obtained, however, and at times
the "statistics were all over the
place," according to Schimpf.
"Basically, my conclusion,
and the conclusion most others
would make, was that there was no
meaningful differences between the
two classes," he said.
"On a general basis, the
statistics were somewhat inconclu-sive
as one could draw their own
interpretations," said Jim Fitzpa-trick,
chairperson of the Council.
"The recommendation was
made after an hour or so of discus-sion
that centered around the sta-tistical
findings, as well as the
wording and policy of the Student
Senate bill and included proposal,
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Dolan Subdivison Approved by TPZ
Christina Hennessy
Editor-in-Chief
After more than a month
of deliberation, The Town Plan-ning
and Zoning Commission of
theTownofFairfield has approved,
with conditions, the University's
subdivision proposal for 13 acres
of the Dolan Campus.
Members ofthe Commis-sion
stated that the application was
in accordance to regulations, but
there were some some changes that
were to be implemented with their
approval.
The conditions and modi-fications
to the original plan in-clude
expanding the original meas-urement
of the buffer zone to 20-
feet deep, along a section of North
Benson Road and the property lots
that will be in easy view from the
existing residences in the area if
such a natural screen is not cre-ated.
The buffer will consist of
trees and hedges.
In addition, the Univer-sity
must install underground utili-ties
for the area and present a map
to the Commission outlining how
the topography will change. Also,
the Commission directed Fairfield
to plant trees and shrubs on the
turnaround which abuts the cam-pus
to prevent people from cutting
through the property to get out to
North Benson Road.
"It is not uncommon to
have modifications stated when a
proposal is approved," said Mur-ray
Farber, director of Public Rela-tions.
"The University has the
option, however, to appeal the
modifications within 15 days after
the decision. The University is
currently reviewing where it stands
with the subdivision proposal."
There have been others
beside the University who plan on
reviewing the proposal. For as
angered debate between town resi-dents
and the University over the
proposed use of the land character-ized
the meeting held on Tues.,
Sept. 24, a group of more than 650
neighbors from both the Univer-sity
and beach areas are planning to
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Clockwise from top left: Fr. Herbert B. Keller, S.J., Antony E. Champ,
Joseph Berardino, Vincent A. Gierer, Jr., Fr. Howard Gray, S.J., Danielj
Finn, Fr. Daniel Degnan, S.J., and Eileen Cullen.
Halloween Legends,
Haunt Connecticut
Christina Hennessy
Editor-in-Chief
The year was 1915 and according to local legend when Thomas
and Sybil Kelsey of Southport had a quarrel, it led to some drastic changes
in their travel plans to their favorite haunt - Long Island. For the day after
the quarrel, instead of flying down in tandem, each would hop on his or
her separate broom to make the journey.
Ahhh, the path of true love is so difficult for a couple who
supposedly practiced witchcraft. Such legends mark the Fairfield County
area, as well as all of Connecticut, as a place rich in tall tales and scary
stories to cause a chill up anyone's spine.
Beyond the whimsical legends and hearsay of long-ago residents,
the area has several myths of haunted places, eerie specters, looming
structures and reports of supernatural forces, as well as an occasional
fanciful tale.
Being Halloween is the time we live in the eerie realm of ghosts,
goblins and witches, even if they only are a cardboard cutout, The Mirror
went on a ghost hunt of its own to trace the legends and lore of
Connecticut and as witches have the most notable infamous connection
with Halloween, it is appropriate to start with the Witch Trials of
Fairfield, which occurred at least 30 years before the Salem Witchcraft
Trails.
The Witch Trials of Fairfield
In 1653, Goodwife Knapp of Fairfield was accused by Goody
Bassett of neighboring Stratford of being a witch. Before her death at the
Gallows, Bassett supposedly
the founder of Fairfield and
and whispered an accusa
After a group of
they proclaimed that they
she was condemned to
of having an "extra teat,"
remained steadfast in her
implicate any others as
Knapp was even-
Mary Staples, the outspo-
Staples, who had crossed
ran up to the body of Knapp
Tomlinson' s book"Witchcraft!
Staples said "Will you say these
more teats than I myselfhave,
leaned over to Roger Ludlow,
deputy governor of the state,
tion.
women examined Knapp,
had found devil marks, and
death. They accused her
howeverGoodwife Knapp
innocence and refused to
witches.
tually hung, however, and
ken wife of Thomas
lines with Ludlow before,
'and according to R.G.
Trials of Connecticut,"
are witches teats...her's are no
or any woman...ifyou but search
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