Mirror - Vol. 03, No. 10 - October 12, 1979

              Fairfield Mirror
Classroom Building Planned
"Twin" To Canisius A Reality
By GiGi Byron
The University's Board of Trustees
announced last week that $1.25 mil-lion
has been set aside for renova-tions
and construction on campus.
The bulk of the money will go to
building a new faculty office-classroom
building to be situated on
the hill next to Canisius. The re-mainder
of the money will be used to
renovate Bellarmine Hall so that it
will accomodate administrative of-fices.
Most Jesuits now residing in Bel-larmine
will be moved to Ignatius
House, down by the pond.
Once the new building is comple-ted,
and administrators are in Bellar-mine,
faculty will be moved out of
Campion and Regis and placed in the
new building and Canisius.
This announcement came after
the Board of Trustees learned that
the University had completed an-other
financially successful year,
with a moderate operating surplus of
$279,477.
The $1.25 million figure was
reached by utilizing operating sur-pluses
the University has accum-ulated
over the past three years.
Construction of the new faculty of-fice
and classroom building that is
being studied by the board, would
provide adequate space for faculty-student
counseling, a need specified
in the university's self-study plan
completed two years ago, board
chairman L. William Miles said. The
new building to the left of Canisius
will share a circular green and be
designed in a compatible profile ar-chitectural
style.
The board allocated $100,000 to
finance preliminary architectural
designing and a plan for construction
of the new building, and for conver-sion
of Bellarmine Hall to administra-tive
office use. The renovation of
Bellarmine would preserve the land-mark
building's distinctive Tudor
architecture, according to the study
plan.
' Chairman Miles declared that
"bringing classroom and faculty of-fice
space to an optimum level that
matches our enrollment was a goal
outlined in our self-study plan that we
are now seeking to realize." He said
that further financial data relative to
funding potential will be gathered to
assist the board in future decision
making.
The enhancements to the Univer-sity
will be made for the existing stu-dent
body size, not to accomodate
more students.
Also at the trustees meeting, Pres-ident
Aloysius Kelly noted that the
quality of student enrollment in Fair-field's
undergraduate college has ad-vanced.
Of the fall entering class of
708 students he said more than 60
per cent had ranked in the top one-fifth
of their high school classes
academically, "the highest qualified
freshman class in the university's
history". Fairfield's current full-time
undergraduate enrollment is 2,775
students.
Father Kelly noted the university
has sought to level off its full-time
undergraduate enrollment in spite of
the increase in applications. But, he
said, enrollment is still somewhat
higher than anticipated due to a low
attrition rate. "Our students are stay-ing
with us."
The board of trustees report noted
that the undergraduate School of
Nursing in a few years has attracted
vastly more numbers than it can
accommodate in its four year bacca-laureate
program. The university's
continuing education experienced an
11 per cent growth in enrollment dur-ing
fiscal 1979. Overall there were
4,704 students enrolled in credit pro-grams,
the report noted, as well as
1,703 in non-credit programs.
A final action of the board at the
meeting was to elect three new
trustees to the board. Appointed to
three year terms of office were Dr.
Patrick Carolan Jr. an orthopedic
surgeon and graduate of Fairfield,
Class of '59, Thomas E. McKinney,
President of Sheridan Broadcasting
Association and Mutual Black Net-work,
a graduate of Fairfield in 1972,
and Rev. Gerald R. Rippon SJ, Direc-tor
of Admissions at REgis High
School. New York Citv.
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Young Dems Organize Amidst Quarreling
By Claudia M. Napp
A controversy has broken out on
Campus as two separate groups at-tempt
to organize student members
of the Democratic party. Both fac-tions
started out together on Mon-day,
September 28, to reorganize the
Young Democrats' Club that dis-banded
in 1976. The two groups dis-agreed
in idealogy: on the one side"
cooperation with the Connecticut
State Young Democrats was stress-ed,
and on the other priority was
given to working within the student
body and in conjunction with other
colleges in Connecticut (Yale Univer-sity
and Connecticut College).
"It soon became apparent to us
that we would be unable to function
properly in the same organization,"
stated Patrick McCabe a Senior Poli-tics
major. The results of this split in
party affiliation are the resurrection
Richard Marano
President Of Young Dems
(Photo by Helen Dillon)
of the Fairfield University Young
Democratic Association, and the
creation of the Fairfield University In-dependent
Democrats (which Mc^
Cabe is a member of). The reasons
for the break up of the party into two
separate organizations are not all
that clear, but seem to revolve
around the 'Draft Ted' Kennedy
movement. Since the initial split in
the group occurred, there is another
branch of democrats on the scene.
This group which plans to work from
within the Young Democrats is also
pro-Kennedy. They do not as of yet
have a title, so the Mirror will refer to.
them as Faction III,
Members of both organizations
were interviewed separately and ask-ed
why they felt the meeting on
Judiciary Board Appoints
Three Student Members
By Ken Vaughn
Three seniors have been chosen
to serve on the Fairfield University
Judiciary Board, according to Dean
Henry Krell, Associate Dean of Stu-dent
Services.
The three students, David Klim,
Steve Chessare and alternate
Denise Dzurec, will serve on the
board until their graduation. The
students were nominated for the
positions by Fairfield University Stu-dent
Association (FUSA) President
Jim Connolly and approved by Dean
William Schimpf, Vice-President in
charge of Student Services.
The Judiciary Board is a six-member
board that recommends dis-ciplinary
action to Dean Schimpf
after considering cases involving
university students who have
created a misconduct that could
result in dismissal from the school,
suspension or disciplinary probation.
Krell said that when he is notified of
any such misconduct, he finds out
exactly what has happened, and then
proceeds to find the alleged student.
The student may then choose to
either have the hearing before the
Judiciary Board or Dean Krell in
private. The hearing is then held
before the board if the alleged stu-dent
wishes, and a decision is reach-ed
after considering all the evidence.
A student may appeal the decision of
the board within 15 days if new evi-dence
is discovered or the board has
improperly conducted the hearing.
Besides the students, other mem-bers
of the board include Krell;
Chariman Paul Marchelli, a Financial
Aid officer; Fr. Victor Leeber, Chair-man
of the Modern Language
Department; and administrative
representative Willian Reid. Krell and
Marchelli do not have a vote on the
board.
While the board offers oppor-tunities
for a fair hearing, Krell said
that most students choose to have
the hearing held with him privately.
"Students probably do this to avoid
the hassle," said Krell, who added
that while the Judiciary Board heard
12 cases involving 13 people over
the 1978-79 academic year, Krell
himself heard 117 cases involving
162 students, and consulted on
another 202 cases which involved
non-disciplinary action.
Krell explained that the board may
not make the final decision because
the university Board of Trustees
have entrusted only Dean Schimpf
with the power of disciplinary action.
However, Kress said that the board
was an excellent opportunity for all
the students to be treated fairly and
justly.
Klim, who is also Chief Justice of
the Student Court, which handles
less severe cases, said that being on
the Judiciary Board allows a student
to get the practical experience of
following rules and procedures and
making judgements on each indivi-dual
case. He added that it also built
character by trying to make objec-tive
decisions involving people he
knows. However, Klim says that des-pite
the board's importance, it is not
playing as vital role in the university
as it could. "Education of the
students to the Judiciary Procedure
is lacking here. Many students will
take there cases to Dean Krell just to
get them over and done with in a
short time," said Klim.
September 28 caused a wall to build
between the two groups, forcing
them to go their separate ways: "We
would like to stimulate political in-terest
within the student body here at
the university by enabling every stu-.
dent to follow his own political ideals
and convictions in whatever manner
chooses," stated Richard Marano, a
Sophomore recently elected presi-dent
of the Young Democrats. Ma-rano
went on to explain; "We wish to
be affiliated with the Young Demo-crats
of Connecticut. As a result we
have to work within stricter limits
• than the Independent Democrats.
We have a State approved constitu-tion
to contend with. Basically the In-dependent
Democrats only want to
support Sen. Edward Kennedy for
President; our primary interest can-not
be drafting Kennedy. If he should
decide to run, then that is a different
story."
"The reason for our split was that
we do not feel we should be dictated
to by the State Young Democrats,"
commented Patrick McCabe, presi-dent
of the Independent Young
Democrats. "We are working for
Sen. Edward Kennedy's election to
the Presidential office in 1980. The
Independent Democrats have con-tacts
with Yale University and their
Draft Kennedy Movement. In Yale's
prior dealings with the State, they
have found them to be of no real help
and so we have decided it is better to
work without them."
Bryan Norwood a senior Politics
major and the vice president of the
Independent Young Democrats,
sighted the problem as the following:
"We formed our club because of the
persistent interference of the State
Young Democrats into the internal
workings of the Fairfield Young
Democrats. The State organization is
headed by Mr. Donald DeVeny. Our
original intention was to revitalize the
Young Democratic Club here, and
use the organization as a nucleus of
support for Sen. Kennedy.
"However, a group of sophomores
tried to sabotage our efforts. In their
attempt they went to the State Or-ganization,
who came to the first offi-cial
meeting of the Young Demo-crats.
At that time it was apparent to
me that Mr. DeVeny would not allow
the Young Democrats to organize
itself in a democratic fashion. He told
us what dues we should pay, what
constitution to use, and how we
should vote for officers. Quite frank-ly,
he was a dictator."
Faction III, which is under the di-rection
of sophomore delegate to the
Young Democrats Dennis Cronin, is
a splinter of his club that is pro-moting
Sen. Kennedy too. This new
group is seen by Norwood as a fur-ther
ploy to agitate the Independent
Young Democrats.
When asked why he was not work-ing
with the .Independent Young
Democrats, Cronin answered, "As
far as the other Draft Kennedy move-ment
is concerned, I had not been
contacted until tonight. (Monday,
Oct. 8) by them. Bryan Norwood and
Mike asked me if I would work with
them and I said 'no.' Without waiting
for an explanation they insulted me
and walked out.
Norwood was later contacted by'
the paper and asked why he had felt
it necessary to insult Cronin. The rep-ly
was, "I didn't know that calling him
'illogical' and refusing t<5 talk to him
any further was an insult?"
McCabe was also asked to com-ment
on his vice president's behav-ior,
and his feelings about the third
faction.