Mirror - Vol. 01, No. 05 - October 27, 1977

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• Death in Caanan. An in
depth look at the Peter
Reilly case and the premier
of a unique new feature.
Pg. 4
• Linda Stephenson com-piles
some mouth-watering
(and cheap) recipies for
off-campus gourmets. Pg. 5
• "Better accomodations
could be found in the heart
of the South Bronx."
Mishaps in Maintenance
and more...Pg. 7
• "It will shock you, ikt will
frustrate you and it will
sadden you." A review of
LOOKING FOR MR.
GOODBAR on Pg. 9.
• Halloween at Fairfield.
Ghosts, goblins and Jeanne
Dixon. For those brave
enough to read...Pg. 13
• Rugby Team sweeps Three
—Soccer still at a loss—
"But Don't Bet On It". Pg.
14.
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FMRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 06430 MIRRORIncorporated 1977
35 Take Seats In Delayed Vote
Write-ins, Low Turnout Raise Doubts About Legislature
by Trudy Neuhaus
Student Legislature elections
were held Tuesday after being
postponed one week. Of the 36
seats vacant in the legislature, 29
were filled by students who sub-mitted
petitions and six by stu-dents
written-in by the voters. The
one seat remaining will be filled
by a runoff election in the com-muter
division due to a ten-way
tie for the last position —each per-son
received two votes.
With the delay of elections, 16
additional petitions were handed
in, making the total submitted 31.
According to Jim O'Shaughnessy,
Chairman of the Government
Elections Commission, this, and
the fact that there were less write-in
candidates than last year, could
indicate a stronger legislature. "It
will be easier for the legislature to
work since 29 of the people who
wanted the position got it."
Still, however, of the some 2700
students who attend Fairfield Uni-versity,
only 664 ballots were cast,
or approximately 25% of the stu-dent
body. The general reaction to
such a low voter turnout was that
it was "poor, but average." Steve
Pallone, who serves on the Execu-tive
Board of FUSA,5 contributes
Faculty Guns Down Changes,
But Core Issue Still Alive
by Patricia M. Reid
While the Curriculum Commit-tee's
proposed core revisions were
voted down by the faculty last
week, the issue of curriculum
change has not ended. As the
votes of the general faculty indi-cated,
there is widespread division
among faculty members concern-ing
the implications of the defeat
and how to reapproach the whole
question of changing the core.
The revisions to the core pro-posed
by the Curriculum Commit-tee
were essentially designed to
give the freshmen more freedom
of choice in selecting courses
within the five required core areas
by allowing students to take ten
semester-long core courses fresh-
-Ballarmine Pond/Autumn-
Vutumn, the season of abrupt yet subtle change. Here the camera,
freezes the season's flux, capturing repitition of light, transition of form,
cycling progression, the twirling, cooling heart of autumn. (Photo by
Frank Godfrey)
man year. The proposal would not
only have eliminated many of the
required two-semester courses,
but was intended to expose stu-dents
to a broader spectrum of the
liberal arts from which they could
later choose their majors. The pro-posal
also offered the option to
substitute one semester of Philo-sophy
with an additional Religious
Studies course.
Major difficulties with the pro-posal
centered on the fact that
various departments would have
to revamp their course offerings,
creating more one-semester
courses and thus eliminating
many full-year studies such as
those presently taught in History
and Mathematics. Also, under the
new proposal courses would no
longer have to be taken in se-quence;
a factor which some de-partments,
such as Language, re-garded
as detrimental to the
learning process.
The Curriculum Committee
worked all of last year on the pro-posed
alterations. Dr. Richard Re-gan,
Faculty Secretary, pointed
out that the proposal was only de-bated
for approximately two
hours at the General Faculty
meeting where only 52 members
were present. "There was not
much constructive debate at all,"
commented Dr. Regan concerning
the faculty discussion that "con-sisted
of broadsided attacks on
the curriculum from the point of
view of special interests."
Dr. Regan expressed concern
over poor attendance at the meet-ing
in which only 25 per cent of
the general faculty were present,
saying, "It is symptomatic of the
lack of faculty interest." Although
attendance was low, the proposal
was even more overwhelmingly
defeated by the fact that 41 of the
votes cast i n opposition were by
proxy. When asked if the privilege
of vote by proxy may have been
abused, Dr. Regan stated that he
"plans to ask the Academic Coun-cil
to reconsider the issue of proxy
votes."
Dr. Regan's opinion that re-cont.
on page 3
the lack of participation to "lack
of interest in the legislature. Stu-dents
know very little about the
legislature—what it does or can
do. And few people, once they get
in, really want to learn how it
runs."
In many instances, write-in
members feel honored or obliged
to go, but if it doesn't hold their
interest, they resign. This creates
openings in the legislature as do
dismissals because of failure to at-
ELECTION BREAKDOWN
LOYOLA
Denise Dzurec 72
George Schietinger 70
R.Scott Wilson 66
All others 7
Invalid 1
216
CONZACA
Joe Murphy 55
Betsy Cronin 44
Tim McDonald 42
Diane Dalessio 36
All others 11
188
JULIE
Sophia Clark 2
Trish Ginty 1
3
SOUTHEAST
Christine Neuhal 46
John Denobile 45
All others 21
Invalid 1
112
NORTHWEST
Pat Gizzo 75
Bob Stall 70
Kevin Lawlor 69
Rich D'Autilo 64
Laurence Wknig 39
All others 24
Invalid 3
341
FAREAST
Felicienne LeMall 51
Tom Spera 46
Michelle Terriault 34
Erila Serra 39
All others 17
187
COMMUTERS
Kevin Collins 47
Deborah Hanstein 32
Kim Dowling 37
Ken Meehan 37
Pete Merkle 32
Allan Buman 32
fimRyan 3
10 tied with 2 votes —
REGIS
Andy McGowan 40
Jim Connolly 38
Anthony Gee 34
Larry Goltlbier 5
All others 41
Invalid 1
158
OFF CAMPUS
Brian Flynn 87
Jim Hoefner 80
Jim Wehr 77
Blair Delker 23
Ray Hilkey 22
All others 87
Invalid 2
376
CAMPION
Claire Gilooly 10
Jane Wagner 39
Liz Scully 6
All others 65
120
tend the meetings, and appoint-ments
made to other positions
within FUSA from the legislature.
Steve Swantek, executive liaison
to the legislature, sees this con-stant
turnover as "the reason why
the legislature is so ineffective:
"there were no permanent posi-tions."
This year a sub-commis-sion
has been established under
the Judicial Branch. It will solely
concentrate on filling the vacan-cies
in order to prevent an occur-rence
like last year—there were
only 24 members for the latter
portion of the year.
Jim O'Shaughnessy feels that
"the legislature is definitely too
big." There is a bill ready to be in-troduced
into the legislature to re-duce
the number of members, for,
as it has been proven, it is hard to
get enough people to fill the posi-tions.
O'Shaughnessy said that the
cooperation he received from the
legislature in running the election
was good, but there was little stu-dent
interest.
McKay
Appears
Nov. 8
Jim McKay, for the past 16
years host of ABC-TV's Wide
World of Sports program, and
equally renowned for his telecasts
of the Olympic Games, will speak
at Fairfield on Tuesday night,
November 8, in the Oak Room.
Jim McKay became the first
sports commentator to win an Em-my
Award, presented in 1968, and
has subsequently received six add-itional
Emmys. Two of these were
presented to him for his out-standing
performance during the
1972 Olympic Games in Munich,
one for his reporting of the tragic
shootings during the games, and
another for his sports coverage.
During the course of his career,
McKay has covered the Olympics
seven times.
A limited number of tickets
available to the general public
without charge will be issued on a
first come, first served basis,
beginning October 24, and may.
be picked up in the Campus
Center office.
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