Mirror - Vol. 21, No. 06 - October 31, 1996

              FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
IRROR
Volume 21 Number 6 The Image of Fairfield Thursday, October 31, 1996
Harvest Weekend features song and
dance
Kristen Sullivan
Assistant News Editor
"We're very happy with the
ultimate success ofthe
weekend," said
Chris Cipriano,
FUSA Vice
president of Stu-dent
Activities,
with regard to the .
Heavenly Harvest
Dance and Harvest
Weekend on the
whole.
The dance, spon-sored
by FUSA, sold
1,100 tickets. It was held
in Alumni Hall under the
arches of blue and white
spiraled balloons. The
"Heavenly Harvest" theme
transcended the event, with stu-dents
singing and dancing from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The Harvest
dance had
some compe-tition
from
the Yankee's
World Se-ries
game,
but the
dance was
, stillasuc-t
cess,
with
Cipriano
calling
| t h e
WJ?k crowd
Cast\YVo a t
Har-
Drinan speaks of
" Global
community"
Theresa Vitello
Staff Writer
This year's Rev. Christopher
J. Mooney, S.J. lecture series
featured a talk on human rights
given by the Rev. Robert Drinan,
S.J., in memory of the humani-tarian
visions of Mooney. The
lecture took place on Wednes-day,
Oct. 23.
The Quick Center's Kelley
Theater was only a quarter full,
as students staggered in through-out
the first 20 minutes of the
lecture. For many, it seemed that
a class requirement had brought
them there, as they listened atten-tively
with open notebooks and
poised pens. The less studious
used their open notebooks as a
cover as they listened to the Yan-kee
game rather than Drinan's
speech. Yet for many, students,
professors and faculty members
alike, the draw was their genuine
interest in the important message
Drinan delivered: "a solemn
pledge to live up to human rights
to which we all agree" is essen-tial
to the global community.
Drinan spoke for about an
hour, addressing humanitarian
issues which included the rights
of women, children, racial mi-norities,
religious groups, and
the press. Drinan expressed the
hope that "the scene 20 years
from now will bring about greater
knowledge and enforcement of
these (human) rights."
He continued, stating that in
order for this to occur, the na-tions
of the world need to coop-erate
to create the "effective ma-chinery
in which malefactors will
be brought to trial." These "male-factors"
being the government
officials who suppress their citi-zens
with a blatant disregard for
human rights. Although Am-nesty
International does a great
deal to correct these breaches in
human rights, Drinan still
stressed the necessity of global
cooperation.
Hitting closer to home, Drinan
discussed America's role in the
sustenance and enactment ofhu-man
rights. From writing sev-eral
articles, and from his term
as a United Nations delegate,
Drinan found that the United
States has done more for human
rights around the world than any
Continued on page 4
vest, "the largest turnout" in
years.
The Har-vest
Dance
was part of
t h e
University's
celebration
of Harvest
Weekend,
which was
high-lighted
by
t h e
Mighty
Mighty
Bosstones
concert,
t h e
dance, and
a Harvest mass. Cipriano said
Photo: Ron Castillo
that Harvest Weekend was "a
complete weekend all the way
around with no
major prob-lems."
The dance is
usually largely at-tended
by fresh-men
and sopho-mores,
as was the
case this year.
Males dressed in
shirts, dress pants
and ties and females
attired in various col-ors
and styles of
gowns danced line-danced
to the
"Macarena" and then
slow danced to "I Will
Always Love You."
Class of 2000
profile shows
leadership
Christine Hamel
Managing Editor
Comprised of 875 students,
the Class of 2000 is the largest
class ever at Fairfield. Members
come from 32 states, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and
eight foreign countries.
The class was chosen from
5,238 applicants, and is almost
equally split by gender, with
50.16 percent being female, and
49.83 percent male. The
multicultural enrollment of the
class is 11.4 percent African-
American, Hispanic, Asian, and
Native American. This is the
second consecutive year that this
figure has exceeded 11 percent.
One hundred three freshmen
graduated in the top 10 percent
of their high school class, and
the average student was in the
top third of the class. According
to the class profile, 60 of the
students attended Jesuit high
schools and 24 were awarded
Fairfield University Presidential
Scholarships, non-need tuition
assistance of $7,000 per year.
The average SAT score for the
Class of 2000 is 1107.
The leading major chosen by
freshmen was biology, selected
by 91 students. Other majors in
the College of Arts and Sciences
with significant enrollmentnum-bers
are psychology, 51; com-munications,
35; English, 31; his-tory,
18; politics, 17; and chem-istry
and computer science, 10
each.
Thirteen students are enrolled
in the Cooperative Engineering
program and will attend Fairfield
for three years followed by two
years of specialized engineering
courses at Columbia University,
Renssalaear Polytechnic Insti-tute,
or the University of Con-necticut.
These students will re-ceive
two bachelor's degrees
when they complete the five year
program
In the School of Business,
the leading majors are account-ing,
44; management, 31; mar-keting,
23; and finance, 19. With
an expected enrollment of 263,
the School of Business will have
one of its largest freshman
classes. Students appear to have
been influenced by changes in
the curriculum of the School,
Continued on page 4'
Inside
This
Week
fr A look at
the candi-dates:
Dole vs.
Clinton.
p.5
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Tire
slashing
outrages
student.
p.9
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FUSA con-cert
re-ceives
rave
reviews,
p. 11
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Men's Soc-cer
gets bid
to MAACs.
p. 16
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