Mirror - Vol. 03, No. 16 - December 6, 1979

              Student's House Robbed
Over Thanksgiving
By Dorothy Hawkins
Trish O'Connor returned to her
beach house at 732 South Benson
Road on November twenty-sixth only
to find it ransacked & robbed. Ms.
O'Connor states, "I walked in with
my mother and the whole house was
ransacked. At first I just thought,
geez this is really weird. When I saw
everything thrown around in Lisa's
room I realized we'd been robbed
and I called the police.
The other resident of the house ar-rived
later in the day. Five girls, Trish
O'Connor, Liz Scully, Helen Nayden,
Lisa Craig and Jane Wagner, live in
the four bedroom house in the resi-dential
area near Jennings Beach.
Ms. Craig states, "We all left on
Wednesday morning." The perpetra-ters
apparently came through Ms.
Craig's window at the back of the
house. The window frame was torn
from the side of the house and the
window pushed up. Ms. Scully states,
~"We figure there had to be a girl in-volved
because the window is really
small."
A police officer came to the house
that Sunday afternoon who Ms.
O'Connor described as "really
unhelpful" They have been called by
one detective but no other officers
have visited their home. The girls
said the detective asked them about
any boyfriend problems, big parties
or friends or neighbors who might be
angry with them, apparently looking
for suspects. The girls stated that
they had no suspects. Lieutenant
Ron Sullivan of the Fairfield Police
Department could not comment on
the responding officer's action be-cause
he was from another divi-sion
I hope. We usually have a
detective respond to robbery but
there is only one on duty on Sundays.
I guess he was involved in something
else at the time. The detective de-partment
then follows up on the
case. The Fairfield police depart-ment
requested an inventory list- of
all things missing from the house.
Ms. Wagner brought the list to the
police department. "The officer I
spoke to couldn't find the file, We're
all going to go back together with our
lists.
The realtor, William Ravies and
Associates, required a list of all
physical damage done to the house.
The girls are now trying to get ade-quate
locks for the doors and win-dows
from the realtor.
A three page inventory of stolen
objects includes one complete
stereo system with the Billy Joel
record on the turntable, the amplifier
to another stereo system, a lamp,
two backgammon boards, check
books and a large assortment of
jewelry including an antique pocket
watch, a fourth generation heirloom
ruby ring, and all of their high school
rings.
Ms. O'Conner states""They really
did a number on us. They opened
every closet, every drawer, every
box, even letters that hadn't been
opened. They even looked in jars and
the teapot in the kitchen. I guess
looking for cash" Ms. Scully claimed,
"It's really eery knowing that some
stranger has rummaged through
everything you own."
Ms. Craig wondered "how they
chose the things they took. They
rummaged through everyone's
jewelry and were very selective. But
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The house at 732 South Benson Road was robbed over Thanksgiving
break. Police found one stolen item, the house checkbook, in Stratford.
(Bob Schumm Photo)
THE
FAIRFIELD Volume 3, No. 16, December 6,1979
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY. FAIRFIELD, CONN. MIRRORIncorporated
38 Seniors Receive
Who's Who Award
The 1979-80 edition of Who's Who
Among Students In American Univer-sities
And Colleges will list 38 stu-dents
from Fairfield University as
among the .country's outstanding
campus leaders.
The Fairfield students join a select
group of students from more than
1,200 institutions of higher learning
in the 50 states, the District of Col-umbia
and several foreign countries.
"Campus nominating committees
and editors of the annual directory
have included the names of these
students based on academic
achievement, service to the com-munity,
leadership in .extracurricular
activities and future potential," ac-cording
to Pettus Randall, director of
Who's Who.
Students named this year are:
Terrance S. Aloise
White Plains, NY.
Aothony M. Amarante
New Haven, CT.
Elizabeth T. Baer
Enfield, CT.
John R. Bello
Naples, Fl.
Gregory R. Blair
Franklin Square, NY.
Timothy J. Buckley
West Hartford, CT.
Jeanann (Gigi) Byron
Brookeville, MD.
Stephen D. Chessare
Lenox, MA.
Sherwin F. Collins
Wallingford, CT.
James G. Connolly
Flushing, NY.
Bernadette S. Curry
Hillsdale, NJ.
Michael A. Dispirito
Moorestown, NJ.
Kenneth M. Donovan
Short Hills, NJ.
Denise M. Dzurec
Rockey River, Ohio
Mark J. Entwistle
Dennis, MA.
Carolen Fette
Wayne, N.J.
Anthony Gee
Bridgeport, CT.
Mary C. Kapp
Silver Spring, MD.
David G. Klim
Enfield, CT.
William A. Malloy
New Providence, NJ.
Gregory J. Martin
Huntington Vly, PA.
Thecla C. Massad
New London, CT.
Patrick E. McCabe
New Britain, CT.
John M. Norris
Claudia M. Napp
Middletown, NY.
Michael R. Navarro
Staten Island, NY.
Biff J. O'Reilly
Kensington, CT.
Ann D. Rice
Oyster Bay, NY.
Gregory E. Riedel
Floral Park, NY.
Charles B. Rose
New Haven, CT.
Mary (M.J.) Schratwieser
San Diego, CA.
Robert J. Schumm
Fairfield, CT.
John J. Smith
Lyndhurst, OH.
Robert A. Stall
Kingston, NY.
Anthony E. Tarnell
Upper Montclair, NJ.
Joseph G. Timpone
Staten Island, NY.
Debra M. Watts
New Haven, CT.
Jerome F. Williams Jr.
Neptune, NJ.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
The following are the disciplinary decisions made by Judicial Board, Student
Court, and the Associate Dean of Students, from November 11 thru 30.
Judicial Board:
1. Charge: disorderly conduct and physical assault.
Decision: guilty of first offense, not guilty of second offense.
Sanction: probation for remainder of fall semester.
2. Charge: disorderly conduct and destruction of personal property:
Decision: guilty on both counts.
Sanction: placed on resident hall probation for 79-80 year, and restitu-tion.
Student Court
1. Charge: disorderly conduct.
Decision: guilty.
Sanction: issued a warning.
Associate Dean of Students
1. Charge: damage to university property.
Decision: guilty.
Sanction: disciplinary warning and restitution.
2. Charge: disorderly conduct.
Decision: guilty.
Sanction: residence hall probation through February 22, 1980.
3. Charge: disorderly conduct (involves two people).
Decision: both students found guilty.
Sanction: probation through fall semester.
4. Charge: disorderly conduct.
Decision: guilty.
Sanction: disciplinary warning issued..
5. Charge: disorderly conduct.
Decision: guilty.
Sanction: disciplinary warning-issued.
6. Charge: misuse of fire equipment.
Decision: guilty.
Sanction: residence hall probation through February 21, 1980.
7. Charge: disorderly conduct.
Decision: guilty.
Sanction: disciplinary warning issued and cost of clean-up.
Arts & Sciences Award
Competition Begins
Salt II Debate Slated
For December 12
The national debate between
those who are skeptical of the Rus-sians
and would defeat the Strategic
Arms Limitation Treaty, and those
who view the treaty as the last
chance for salvation, will come to
Fairfield University on Dec. 12th
when two top ranking experts take
up the question in the People's
Forum, the university series on im-portant
issues.
In favor of the Carter administra-tion's
push to ratify the treaty is
Everett I. Mendelsohn, Harvard pro-fessor
of the History of Science who
this fall led a delegation of persons
interested in arms control to the
Soviet Union. He has since been
touring Europe to discuss with politi-cal
figures and scientists the
development of nuclear missies in
the NATO countries.
Opposing him in the debate which
will take place at 8 PM in the Fairfield
University Campus Center, is Donald
G. Brennan, the director of National
Security Studies of the Hudson In-stitute,
one of the nation's leading
policy advisory organizations.
"I oppose SALT II because it is
bad arms control," Brennan asserts.
"The traditional major objectives of
arms control have long been under-stood
to be to reduce the likelihood
of war, and to reduce the scope and
violence of war if it occurs. I judge
that SALT II is more likely to increase
the chance of war than to reduce it."
One point of contention centers on
the Soviet Backfire missile. By the
projected expiration date of SALT II,
Brennan says the Soviets could put
30 per cent or more of their total
strategic payload in Backfire mis-siles,
which he describes to be a
superior weapon to the American
B-52D.
"They have said that they do not
intend to use Backfire in a strategic
nuclear role against the American
homeland, but there are no assur-ances,"
he says.
Professor Mendelsohn, who fav-ors
the treaty which has gained ap-proval
of the SEnate Foreign Rela-tions
Committee, is a commentator
on science as a social phenomenon,
and an authority on biological
sciences. Like Brennan he has con-ducted
intense discussions with
members of the U.S. Senate and the
State Department about the pros-pects
for SALT II ratification, and
Eurostrategic weapons. During his
recent visit to the Soviet he met with
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As announced recently by Dean
Stephen Weber, the Arts' and
Sciences Awards competition begins
its second year. The competition is
open to all undergraduates. The pur-pose
of the awards is to recognize
unusual student achievement in both
the Arts and Sciences divisions of
the college and to promote the im-portance
of liberal studies at Fair-field.
Although the Awards committees
received submissions of high quality
last year, problems associated with
the inaugural year of the awards
(notably publicity and uncertainty
about the nature of the awards) were
responsible for a small number of
submissions. The modest, though
significant, experience and success
of the year past should remedy those
difficulties.
Eligible are all projects, papers,
and performances, whether academ-ic
or artistic, which represent original
and creative accomplishment. Sub-missions
for the Arts (or Humanities)
Award might include a paper on the
Reformation or the Enlightenment, a
painting or sculpture, a dance or
piano recital, a poem or short story
written in any modern or classical
language. Submissions for the
Sciences Award might include ah
essay on various interpretations of
the theory of evolution, a chemistry
experiment, the results of sociolo-gical
or psychological research, or a
paper weighting the merits and dan-gers
of nuclear energy. These, of
course, are examples and their cita-tion
only intends to indicate the wide
range of acceptable submissions.
Among last year's winners were a
performance of Plautus' play Mostel-laria
by the Classics Club and an es-say
entitled "Matrix Representation
of Optical Components and Polarized
Light." The limits of possible submis-sions
are defined only by the imagin-ative
and creative resources of the
student body. Students are strongly
encouraged to direct specific in-quiries
to the chairpersons of the
Awards committees, Dr. Thiel (Arts)
and Dr. Schlichting (Sciences). The
deadline for consideration for the
1979/80 Awards is March 28, 1°'