Mirror - Vol. 03, No. 14 - November 9, 1979

              WVOF Adds
New Programing
By Claudia M. Napp
WVOF has slated several new
radio programs to be aired this
semester by the staff. "Since we are
in the process of renewing our
license, we have to gear our pro-gramming
more toward the commun-ity.
We have certain priorities that
will no longer allow us to solely cater
to the needs of the students. WVOF
still offers alot of musical programs
geared toward campus life, but we
must reach out to other Fairfield
County" sectors," stated Jack Bello,
WVOF Station Manager.
Greg Blair will begin a program to-day,
November 8, called Conversa-tions.
The show entails private inter-views
done with various faculty and
administration members. WVOF's
programming board feels that there
are many talented and interesting
people on campus that the university
community, is not aware of.
.This semester "The Other Voice"
spots have been instituted to fulfill
the stations public service require-ments.
Disc Jockies Bob DelRusso
and Terry Ryan will be going around
campus asking people questions
about current event related subjects.
The spots will be both serious and
humorous in nature. They will be
aired Monday thru Friday at three dif-ferent
programming periods: 9am-12
noon; 3pm-6pm; 9pm-12 midnight.
"These spots also serve as a learn-ing
experience for the staff; since
they must produce their own tapes
outside of the radio station and must
thus work with portable equipment,
which is something new to us," com-mented
Bello.
To interest the off-campus, non-student
residents of Fairfield and
Bridgeport, four ethnic programs are
being aired on Sunday mornings.
These include shows that relate to
the Polish, Irish, Hungarian, and
Greek sectors of the community.
The sports pVograms are being re-vamped
to include covering some of
the Girls Basketball games on cam-pus
this upcoming season. On Mon-day,
November 12, a new sports
show will be broadcast that will ap-peal
to team sports watchers, and
will even include coverage of in-tramural
games for those campus
athletes who are not into Club or Var-sity
teams. Interviews will be con-ducted
with players of all campus
sports teams.
In regard to a talk show being re-established
this semester, Bello re-marked,
"With the new telephone
system put in by the university, the
lines are all messed up. We no longer
can use our Key Set that enabled us
to handle outside callers on the air.
To get sufficient equipment to handle
a talk show we need time and money.
Maybe if all goes well, we'll have the
proper facilities next semester."
Special Events Programming
Director, Tom Romeo, has planned a
"Progressive Rock" weekend to be
aired this semester. This year's pro-gram
will be a blend of new and old
rock. Romeo wants to show that the
rock of the 70"s is not really a 'new'
wave, but a spin-off of the 60's. WVOF Station Manager Jack Bello (Bob Schumm Photo)
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FAIRFIELD
Volume 3, No. 14, November 9,1979
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY. FAIRFIELD, CONN. 064.M) MIRROR ^^ Incorporated 1977
New Legislature
Sworn In
Canisius Twin Discussed
Career Spectrum, held last week, was a great success.
(Colin Kelleher Photo)
Fast For
World Harvest
By Claudia M. Napp
The newly elected members of the
student legislature were sworn in last
Tuesday night by Dave Klim, the
Chief Justice of the Student Govern-ment.
Originally, the President of the
old Legislature, Chris Pfirrman, had
hoped to have the old members
show the new members how to per-form
their duties during the meeting.
As a result of not enough of the old
Legislative body being present to
reach quorrum, the new members
were sworn in.
One of the reasons for the prompt
swearing in of members was to ap-propriate
money to the two clubs
(Nursing club and Commuter club)
whose representatives attended the
meeting. Prior to the meeting being
called to order, Pfirrman remarked,
"Whether we give it (the money) out
with the old legislature or the new
one, I'm going to give it out because
the Commuter Club and the Nurses
are here tonight."
Tim Buckley, F.U.S.A. liason to the
Legislature gave a report from the
Executive Branch of the student
body. He discussed the future "Twin
Canisius" and asked that Legislators
obtain feedback from the people
they represent as to hear how the
students feel about two new 75 car
parking lots being built between
Canisius and Bellarmine Halls.
These, the Building Commission,
feels will be needed in order to house
the cars of the teachers and adminis-trators
whose offices will be switch-ed
up to Bellarmine Hall (this in-cludes
both those who park at Xaviar
Halland Campion Hall). The two new
parking lots would cover approx-imately
100-105 feet of land. Anyone
who has any problem with this pro-posal,
or suggestions for alternatives
should contact Tim Buckley in the
F.U.S.A. office, or your Dorm
Legislature member.
The Minutes were read from the
Emergency Legislature meeting held
on October 22nd. They were not pas-sed
because they did not include all
the events that occurred. Nottably
the Minutes did not mention the fact
that a committee was being formed
to investigatge the possibility of rais-ing
the ceiling placed on SEC to
secure entertainment without Legis-lative
approval, form $2000 to $3000.
Both the Student Nurses associa-tion
and the Commuters Club were
appropriated money for the semes-ter.
This occurred after John Fitz-gerald
gave the Appropriations Com-mittee
report on each and the private
auditors report, written by Bill Shaub,
a junior accounting student, who is
not a member of the Legislature.
By GiGi Byron
Oxfam-America, a non-profit inter-national
agency that supports inno-vative
self-help development pro-jects
in Africa, Asia, and Latin Amer-ica,
is sponsoring a fast for a World
Harvest on November 15.
Students will be asked to sign their
names and agree to fast at lunch
time that day. For every name,
Macke Food will give Oxfam the
equivalent amount of money it would
have cost to feed the students.
Oxfam-America is one of five Ox-fams
operating throughout the world.
They carry out projects on behalf of
others by providing monetary sup-port
to local people who are working
towards social and economic
change through their own initiative.
All five Oxfams share a staff of 30
field directors who live in the poorest
countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin
America. It is their responsibility to
seek out and encourage local devel-opment
efforts and report back on
the ones they think are worth fun-ding.
Oxfam-America's voluntary
committee of advisors then evaluate
the field reports and decides which
projects to support.
Oxfam is a non-sectarian group.
They give their support to projects ir-respective
of race, religion, or poli-tical
belief.
Oxfam is completely dependent on
contributions from individuals,
schools, community and religious
groups. It neither solicits nor accepts
government funds.
Oxfam's efforts are aimed at mak-ing
people less dependent on outside
aid. Their emphasis is on long-term
development efforts that become
self-sustaining over time.
The purpose of the fast is not only
to send money to poorer people of
the world, but also to "awaken
Americans to the politics of food and
the need for everyone to take more
control over how their food is pro-duced,
transported, kept and sold."
Everyone who signs up for the No-vember
15 fast will receive a button
with the Harvest symbol of wheat.
They will be asked to wear the button
until the 15th as a symbol of
"recognition of the need of a fair and
equitable world harvest."
Young Republicans
Endorse Energy Petition
By Claudia M. Napp
The Fairfield University Young
Republican Club is endorsing a
"Clean Energy Petition" to be cir-culated
on campus for the next two
weeks. A table has been set up on
the Campus Center and is manned
during lunch and dinner hours by
"members of the College Republi-cans.
The peitition is also being
taken door-to-door in the dorms and
at the beach residences, so that all
students will have a chance to sign it.
The Young Republicans have join-ed
in a nationwide petition drive for
the promotion of alternatives to nu-clear
energy. The nationwide cam-paign
is endorsed by Ralph Nader.
The petition reads: I petition my
representatives in government to
sponsor legislation to: (1) foster wide
use of solar - including wind - power
NOW, and (2) phase out operation of
nuclear power as quickly as pos-sible."
Each signature must be ac-companied
by the person's name
printed clearly, his permanent street
address, city, state, zip code, and the
date it is signed.
The petitions that are signed get
"sorted by Congressional District
and taken to the right Representa-tives
again and again. We prove that
concern is growing in their own Dis-tricts.
IT WORKS! In areas where
there are enough Clean Energy Peti-tion-
signers, elected officials at all
levels are paying attention. THIS IS
NO ORDINARY PETITION! We main-tain
a permanent, legible registry of
petition-signers. Through this nation-al
petition, you can WIN a sunshine
future instead of a radio-active one!
"(Quote taken from the Petition
itself).
In order for the above process to
be activated the petiions are sent to:
Task Force Against Nuclear Pollu-tion,
Inc. in Washington, DC.
According to John Morris, Execu-tive
Director of the Young Republi-cans,
distributing the Clean Energy
Petition was a decision made by the
Club in conjunction with a Resolution
they passed on September 25, 1979.
This Resolution passed by acclama-tion.
In the Resolution it is stated that
the Club supports' the proposals and
ideas expressed by Congressman
Stewart B. McKinney on our energy
future. ". . It is incumbent upon all
of us to reconsider both the present
and future use of nuclear power as
an energy source. . . Unfortunately
this goal is easier to state than to
achieve. To accomplish the phase
out of nuclear power, therefore, I
have long advocated a dual ap-proach
to conserving energy and
developing alternate sources such
as solar, hydro, coal and fusion ..."
"We hope to procure at least
1,000 signatures before we finish
this project, "stated John Morris.
Anyone wishing to obtain more infor-mation
about the project can see a
representative of the Club during
lunch and dinner in the Campus Cen-ter
lobby.