Mirror - Vol. 17, No. 02 - October 01, 1992

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FairfieldMIRRORV Volume 17, No. 2 Thursday, October 1, 1992 The Image of Fairfield
Car Thief Hits Campus
Debra De Shong
News Editor
There is a car thief with a
fetish for Mazda MX6's on the
loose and he has his sights set on
Fairfield University. On the week-end
of September 19, one Mazda
MX6 was stolen and another came
very close.
"Oh my God," was sen-ior
Deirdre Pollack's, first reac-tion
when she stepped out of her
townhouse at 8:30 pm on Satur-day,
and saw an empty spot where
her white Mazda MX6 used to be.
Pollack had just returned
from the grocery store a half hour
before and upon leaving, locked
all the doors and rolled up the
windows.
"My friends saw a man
in a baseball cap driving away but
they thought it was my brother,
who lives in the area, and they
beeped. Obviously he didn't wave
back," said Pollack.
When her friends told her
that they just saw her brother bor-rowing
her car Pollack panicked.
She immediately alerted security
who called the Fairfield Police.
When the police arrived,
Pollack called her parents for the
Security officer demonstrates "The Club." photo: K. Guterl
name of her insurance agent. She
says, "they didn't take it very well."
The car was a graduation present
from them.
Since the incident, Pol-lack
has obtained a rental car and
plans to look for a new car over the
weekend.
Another Fairfield student
was much luckier than Pollack.
The next evening at about 9:21 pm,
a student reported that the passen-ger
side lock on their Mazda MX6
was pulled out. The car was parked
in the Regis lot at the time. It is a
mystery as to why the thief was
unable to carry out his plans.
According to Glen Grif-fin,
Assistant Director of Security,
says, "other than the fact that they
were the same cars, there is no hard
connection."
In 1991, 311 cars were
stolen from Fairfield while, only
two or three cars are usually stolen
from campus each year. Griffin
says not to worry because we are
"not into a crime wave."
Fairfield Makes Top Three
Jennifer Luongo
Assistant News Editor
U.S. News and World
Report ranked Fairfield Univer-sity
third, among the nation's re-gional
colleges and universities in
the North, last week.
Fairfield moved up from
last year's fourth place ranking,
and has continued to climb stead-ily
since 1987, when it was ranked
eighth.
Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in Massachusetts was
ranked first in this category, fol-lowed
by Villanova University in
Pennsylvania.
The groupings of re-gional
colleges and universities
represent the middle ground in
higher education.
Six other institutions in
Connecticut were included in the
magazine's five categories.
Yale University was
ranked third in the category of
natiuonal universities, which are
the largest in the nation.
Wesleyan ranked sev-enth,
while Trinity College ranked
twenty-seventh in the grouping of
The center of activity for the region's #3 school. photo: file
national liberal arts colleges. The
University of Connecticut was
listed in the second quartile of the
"Best of the Rest," which listed
universities alphabetically and
included those ranked from 50 to
150.
Connecticut College was
included in the first quartile from
national liberal arts colleges, those
between 25 and 35.
St. Joseph's College was
ranked tenth in the category of
regional colleges and universities
in the North.The regional colleges
and universities are split into cate-gories
of North, South, West, and
Northwest.
Othercategories included
best specialty schools, which
ranked Julliard, as number one in
the Art, Babson College for Busi-ness
and Harvey Mudd for Engi-neering.
For best buys in the north,
New Jersey is the place according
to the survey. They included Tren-ton
State College and Rutgers
University at Camden.
A school's overall score
is based on its academic reputa-tion,
student selectivity, faculty
resources, financial resources and
student satisfaction.
Protect Yourself
Debra De Shong
News Editor
"Car thieves can be in
your car in about 30 seconds,"
says Glen Griffin, Assistant Di-rector
of Security.
If you own a car, this is
not good news. However, there
are some things you can do to
protect yourself from being a vic-tim
of a car theft.
Griffin says the number
one tip to remember is always
take your keys out of your car,
lock all doors and roll up the win-dows.
Nationally, about 30 per-cent
of all cars stolen hadthe keys
in them. Just use common sense
and good judgment.
Other tips recommended
by security are store all valuables
in the trunk or take them with you.
"It is very tempting to a
thief when you leave a radio ex-posed
on the seat of a car," says
Griffin. Parking in well lit areas is
also beneficial in protecting your
car.
Ifyou feel as ifyou need
added protection, Griffin recom-mends
"The Club," a device that
locks the steering wheel. "Noth-ing
is 100 percent, but the point is
to harden your car more than the
next," he says.
There are many devices
like "The Club" on the market,
but they are not as effective and in
some cases, more complicated.
Griffin says "the simpler the bet-ter."
In order to make "The
Club" more effective, it is recom-mended
that the lock face the
dashboard to further hamper the
thieves attempt.
Deidre Pollack, whose
car was stolen Sept. 19, says "my
parents are going out to get us all
clubs for our cars now."
Ifyou see any suspicious
activity in the campus lots, alert
security immediately by calling
254-4090 or ext. 4090.
University Awards
Jubilee Medals
Jo Docimo
Staff Writer
In celebration of its Fifti-eth
Anniversary, Fairfield Univer-sity
held an academic convocation
on Monday, September 21, at 3:30
pm at the Regina A. Quick Center.
A brief presentation pre-ceded
the keynote addresses. Six
jubilee medals for outstanding
service to Fairfield and the com-munity
were presented.
Recipients included
E.Gerald Corrigan, President of
the Federal Reserve Bank, Rev.
James Coughlin S.J., posthu-mously;
David W.P. Jewitt, the
first lay Chairman of the Board of
Trustees and executive vice-presi-dent
the Connecticut National
Bank, Rev. Victor Leeber, S.J.,
retired professor of modern lan-guages,
Dr. Vincent Murphy,
teacher of psychology and acted as
Associate Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences; Dr. Chester
Stuart, Professor of German, Eng-lish,
and American Literature.
Dr. Mary McPhearson,
President of Bryn Mawr College,
wary of "sounding like a weather
forecaster," made some practical
predictions and suggestions. She
used the upcoming national elec-tions
as evidence of women's
growing role in government by
and for the people.
She was quick to point
out that "for women, it is worth
running for a seat on the inside,
where the governmentofthis coun-try
takes place."
"In order to make prog-ress
until gender is no longer a
qualification nor a disqualifica-tion
for public service, we must
educate," said McPhearson.
Dr. McPhearson espe-cially
emphasized the education
and preparation of women in the
political arena.
"While the first woman
president has not been elected, she
has almost surely been born," said
McPhearson.
Rev. Timothy Healy S.J.,
president ofthe New York Library
and former president of Geor-getown
University, found to his
horror, "that I shall discuss, in
some sense, family values.."
Healy shed some light on
Fairfield University's history, fu-ture
and mission as a Jesuit institu-
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Mourns the
Death of Pro-fessor
Freya
Littledale
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