Mirror - Vol. 21, No. 10 - December 12, 1996

              FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
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Budget Committee hears requests
for upgraded library, Security office
Kristen Sullivan
Assistant News Editor
At a Fairfield University Bud-get
Committee Forum held re-cently,
a number of varied mon-etary
requests were made, all of
which related directly to a con-cern
for the betterment of the
University community.
Irene Mulvey, Chair of the
Academic Council, spoke on
behalf of that group for improve-ments
in four areas. The Council
would like funding for diversity
programs and the ability to get an
AHANA Scholar on campus an-nually.
Mulvey also addressed
the issue of academic comput-ing,
whereby the computing bud-get
would be increased to keep
the University "current in soft-ware
and hardware resources."
The Academic Council would
also like to fund a process to
carry out a three-year global
upgrade of computers.
In addition, the Council seeks
to increase library funding so
that additional money can be set
aside for the expansion of col-lections,
technology, and pos-sible
expansion of the library
facilities themselves. Mulvey
also said that with the additional
200 students due to the football-related
expansion program, many
classes are overcrowded. She said
that the football program has re-sulted
in "larger classes, with
more classes being taught be ad-juncts.
No matter how you look
at it, this diminishes the quality
of education for all."
Finally, the Academic Coun-cil
is asking for a five percent
increase in the tutoring budget
over the next four years, so that
more students can benefit from
tutoring while increased wages
will encourage more students to
become peer tutors.
Todd Pelazza, Director of Se-curity,
requested a one percent
increase in the Security
Department's budget, which
would be the first increase to that
budget since the 1993-1994 fis-cal
year. The increased budget
would cover expenses such as
gasoline and printing. Pelazza
said that the increase will help
the department to run more effi-ciently.
The Security Department
would also like to renovate its
offices, located in the basement
of Loyola Hall. The $100,000
renovation would completely
Continued on page 3
Former Baseball Commissioner
gives Fairfield $2 million aid fund
Maura Parsons
Staff Writer
Fay Vincent, former commis-sioner
of Major League Base-ball,
recently announced that he
will donate two million dollars
to Fairfield University. Vincent's
gift, the largest Single gift in
Fairfield's history, will be used
to augment student financial aid.
The University will receive a
lump-sum direct gift of one mil-lion
dollars initially, with the re-maining
one million dollars to be
bequeathed to the University in
Vincent's will. At Vincent's re-quest,
the money will be used to
establish a scholarship in
memory of his mother, Alice
Lynch Vincent. Vincent previ-ously
established scholarships
in his mother's memory at two
other colleges, including her
alma mater, Central Connecti-cut
State University.
Mrs. Vincent was a teacher
in several Connecticut School
Districts, including Waterbury
and Southington. Because of
this, Vincent specified that the
Alice Lynch Vincent Scholar-ship
be awarded to Connecticut
residents.
Vincent himselfis no stranger
to financial aid. The aid that he
received while a student at Wil-liams
College enabled him to
earn his degree in 1960.
That aid is now being repaid
and augmented through
Vincent's contributions to vari-ous
colleges. His gift to Fairfield
University will give many stu-dents
the opportunity to attend a
distinguished and pricey univer-sity.
The Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley,
S.J., President of Fairfield Uni-versity,
expressed his gratitude
to Vincent in a released state-ment,
saying, "Never before in
Fairfield's history has the need
for financial aid been more press-ing
or more important. For many
students today, the key factor in
selecting a college- and being
able to graduate from it- is the
availability of financial aid."
Kelley also said that increas-ing
Fairfield's financial aid pro-
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