Mirror - Vol. 03, No. 03 - May 4, 1979

              Special
Senior
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THE
FAIRFIELD Volume 3, No. 3, May 4,1979
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 06430 MIRROR ^^ Incorporated 1977
Charlie Rose, who is in charge of planning the Student Market.
(Photo by Robert Schumm)
Work Study
Program Detailed
by Janet O'Connor
The student work-study program is
part of the financial aid package
allowing students to earn $600.00
working in various university depart-ments.
However the students them-selves
are responsible for deciding
the amount of hours they work each
week. Once they have earned
$600.00, and their financial need has
been met, they must stop working.
Of the 154 students on the work-study
program, five have reached
their earning capacity for this year
and must cease working. This small
number, according to Mr. Paul J.
Marchelli, Director of Financial Aid,
worked more hours a week than his
office recommends. Mr. Marchelli
advises students on work-study to
schedule 7-10 hours a week of work.
If this limit is adhered to Mr. Mar-chelli
stated that the students could
work for the entire semester without
over-earning.
The funding for the work-study
program is 20% university, 80%
Federal money. The work-study
along with various grants and loans
are rewarded to students who dem-onstrate
the highest needs. Because
the money from the government is
fixed; evety student receives the
same $600.00 amount.
Those who earn the $600.00 prior
to the end of the semester can only
continue to work if their need is
demonstrated and there is a surplus
of funds. Mr. Marchelli emphasized
however that for the past seven
years the program has had no
surplus.
In detailing other financial
resources available to students Mr.
Marchelli stated that the middle in-come
student could now apply for
the Basic Educational Grant. The
Middle Income Student Assistance
Act has raised the maximum income
for application from $13,000 to
$25,000 for next year. This law
makes it possible for many students
previously ineligible for the Basic
Educational Grant to apply for these
government funds.
Senior Week Housing
Phyllis Rogge, Director of Housing for Student Services has announced
the procedure lor Seniors to retain their rooms and register dates if they need
housing for Senior Week. The guidelines are as follows;
A. All Seniors are expected to "close-out" their rooms with their resident
advisors by 5:00 P.M. May 18, 1979. (A detailed memo will be coming
May 1,1979.)
B. The dorms will reopen Tuesday, May 22nd at 2:00 P.M. for seniors to
reoccupy their rooms for Senior Week.
C. Seniors will keep their keys until Commencement. Then keys are to be
left in a labeled envelope on the desks.
E. All rooms will be reinspected by the Housing Staff after Commence-ment.
Registering a Date:
A. If your date currently lives on-campus, he/she is expected to "close-out"
his/her room on May 18th and return all keys (Southeast and
Fareast residents who are guests will keep their keys.) All students
must depart on May 18th.
All dates currently living in the Quad building will be reassigned to
rooms for Senior Week. Southeast, Julie and Fareast guests will keep
their rooms but will receive roommates (unless both are attending
Senior Week.) Rooms will be available for occupancy, Tuesday, May
22nd at 2:00 P.M.
If your date is not a Fairfield student, housing will be honored. All
rooms will be for double occupancy; linens are not provided.
All keys for guests (student and non-student) will be available 2:00
P.M.-4:00 P.M. Tuesday—Friday, May 22nd-25th, in Student Services.
Fill out the form to register your date and return by May 10, 1979. Be
sure to indicate which day of Senior Week your date will be arriving so
keys will be available for your date.
Seniors Living at the Beach with OnCampus Dates:
Please inform these seniors to pick-up guest registration forms at Student
Services. All guests living in the Quad buildings will be reassigned. All on-campus
dates must be registered for housing and currently live on-campus.
Everyone is to leave campus May 18, 1979 by 5:00 P.M. Special excep-tions
are to see the Director of Student Residences by May 10, 1979.
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Student Market a Reality
Hopes to Open in Fall 79
by GiGi Byron
Plans for the Student Market,
which began as a part of FUSA Pres-ident
Jim Connolly's campaign plat-form,
have come a long way under
Charles Rose, a Junior Business Ma-jor,
who was given the job of making
the idea a reality.
The objective of the market, ac-cording
to Rose, is "to provide a
service to the students." "It is not a
money making deal. We plan to file
for non-profit organization status,"
Rose added.
That does not mean, however, that
the store will not be run like a busi-ness.
There will be four managers,
one of these being a general mana-ger
who will oversee the actual oper-ation
of the store. There will also be
approximately 10 employees. At all
times, one manager and two employ-ees
will be present in the market, "It
is not a club," Rose explained." It's a
business; there will be hirings, firings
and promotions."
Initially, the market will have a fair-ly
small stock of goods such as a
variety of subs, canned and instant
soup, yogurt, snack cakes, candy,
gum, cigarettes, soda, salads and
potato chips. The idea is to stock
items that sell fast, so the market
can expand its inventory. Rose feels
that the subs will be the biggest
seller, appealing to both the lunch
time and late night crews.
Rose plans to circulate a survey to
better assess student reactions to
and suggestions for the market. The
survey, which consists of 800 ques-tionnaires,
will be randomly dis-tributed
today, barring difficulties.
Questions about what products the
store should carry and what operat-ing
hours would be convenient are in-cluded.
Tenative hours for the store are 11
a.m.-2 p.m. and 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rose
feels that the store will serve mostly
Off Campus Boarders and Commut-ers
during the daytime hours and
resident students, especially the
"library crowd" during the evening
hours.
The market will hopefully be
located in the basement of South-east,
down the hall form the Manor
office. This is subject to approval of
the space Committee, made up of
University administrators. The com-mittee
should make that decision
sometime this spring.
Rose explained that he has al-ready
checked out any possible zon-ing
problems with Town Hall and
found none. "The only restriction is
that we can't compete with area
markets by outside advertising, but
we hadn't planned on doing that any-way,"
detailed Rose.
After the room question is settled
and the survey results are analyzed,
a cost/revenue study will be done.
Rose intends to find the least expen-sive
place to buy goods. Also, in-dividual
product prices will have to
be set, after estimating costs of the
goods plus labor and taxes.
Initial funding for the market will
come from FUSA.
When asked about potential pro-blems
of the market, Rose explained
that he was most worried about theft.
Rose will not tolerate it. "The mana-gers
will have to be people I can
trust, and can trust not to turn their
back if a friend walks in," he explain-ed.
If everything goes as hoped, the
Student Market should be open and
operative by the beginning of Fall
Semester 1979.
Rinaldi Addresses Legislature
Explains Core Revisions
by Robert J. Schumm
Outgoing Dean Nicholas Rinaldi
addressed the members of the Fair-field
University Student Legislature
regarding the ongoing Curriculum
Review last week. He presented a
summary of Phase II of that review to
the body.
The summary detailed the propos-ed
revisions of the Core curriculum
which had been accepted by the
Council of Chairmen. The proposals
were then transmitted to the Under-graduate
Curriculum Committee
(U.C.C.) and the full faculty.
The approved proposals are:'
1. Allow options in math core except
where a specific course is re-quired
by student's major.
2. Eliminate "sandbox math"; Core
math should at least teach basic
computational skills, "sandbox
math" was interpreted as refer-ring
to Ma 9-10.
3. The Natural Science requirement
of two courses is a free option.
4. Introduce History options.
5. For majors in the Social Sciences,
courses in the department in
which they are majoring cannot
be used to fulfill the Social
Science requirement in the core.
6. Introduce Philosophy options.
7. Two semesters of Modern
Language suffice, even at the
basic level, provided student has
achieved intermediate compet-ence
in another language during
pre-college preparation.
8. As an item of business for the
future, the faculty should explore
thematic links and patterns of
inter-relationship among existing
core courses.
9. Retain the five part core cur-riculum.
The Council of Chairmen also ap-proved
the following core-related
and non-core matters:
1. A formal review of the under-graduate
curriculum (with special
emphasis on the core), par-ticipated
in by all segments of the
undergraduate division, will take
place regularly every five years.
2. For implementation and inclusion
in the catalogue:
MINORS: In addition to carrying a
major, a student may, after con-sultation
with the appropriate
chairmen and dean(s), exercise
the option of selecting a minor
outside the area of his specializa-tion.
A minor is a cluster of thema-tically
related courses drawn from
one of more departments, usually
in the range of 15 to 18 credits.
Students electing a minor are still
required to fulfill the liberal arts
core requirement and to observe
the regulations relative to
G.E.E.'s. Currently, Fairfield offers
minors in Communications, Fine
Arts, Latin American Studies, and
Quantitative Analysis. With ap-propriate
consultation and advise-ment,
students may develop
minor programs suited to their
needs.
3. The Council instructs the Ad-ministration
and the Under-graduate
Curriculum Committee
to explore the possibility of
reconstituting an Undergraduate
Honors Program (Interdiscipli-nary)
to substitute for a portion of
the core requirement for a limited
number of students.
4. The faculty of Fairfield University
recognizes the special value of
clear and accurate prose in the
modern world, and it considers
good writing to be a matter of
broad concern affecting all dis-ciplines.
Wherever appropriate,
undergraduate courses will place
a special emphasis on written
assignments.
5. The Council congratulates those
faculty members who have taken
initiative in the seeking of grants
for curriculum development, and
it urges other faculty members to
move in this direction.
6. The curriculum changes approved
during the 1978-79 Curriculum
Review will be implemented no
later than academic year 1980:81.
The U.C.C. has also approved the
proposals but offered three amend-ments.
Dean Rinaldi explained that "the
core gives you a broad general edu-cation.
It is a controlled and dis-ciplined
exposure to many areas.
This background is looked for in
today's graduates."
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As Spring Weather warms things up, some professors are persuaded to
move classes outdoors. (Photo by Colin Kelleher)