Mirror - Vol. 23, No. 06 - October 30, 1997

              FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
IRROR
Volume 23 Number 6 7 The Image of Fairfield
RTMelection nears
John Griffith
Assistant News Editor
In the upcoming election,
nine candidates are running for
the five spots in the district four
RTM election. Five candidates
have direct ties to Fairfield Uni-versity.
Four students, Republicans;
Jerry Schlichting '00 and Chad
Peddicord '99, and Democrats;
Domenic Paniccia '98 and
Michael Franz '99 are running
along with Henry Humphreys,
Director of Residence Life; now
who is up for reelection. This
election marks the first time stu-dents
will run on opposite tickets.
The election for Representa-tive
Town Meeting, or RTM, will
be held on Nov.4. RTM is the
legislative body in town govern-ment
that is responsible for enact-ing
ordinances and has the final
approval over town spending.
Much of this legislation di-rectly
affects students at
Fairfield University. RTM is
responsible for the town ordi-nance
which limits the number
of unrelated people living
under one roof to four, as well
as the town ordinance which
stipulates that all parties must
end by 11 p.m.
Fairfield is a town divided
into ten voting districts. Each
voting district gets five repre-sentatives
on the RTM.
Fairfield University is situated
in district four, and the student
beach area is in district ten.
There have been questions
raised across the campus as to
why the students do not com-bine
forces and run as a four-man
unit to strengthen the
voice of Fairfield University
on the RTM. District four has
never had more than three stu-dent
representatives on the
RTM.
"We have not coordinated
our efforts with Paniccia and
Franz. Decisions we would
have to make as RTM extends
far beyond the walls of cam-pus.
"If all four run together
we cannot fairly represent
those constituents who are not
on campus," Schlichting said.
Franz, a democratic candi-date,
does not believe that town
residents wouldreactnegatively
if four candidates from the uni-versity
winnextTuesday. "The
fact that we are students won't
be exclusive to how we operate
on RTM," Franz said. "We are
an integral part of the commu-nity.
It is very, very important
to have representation on the
RTM," he said.
Mike Franz Domenic Pannicia
Jerry Schlichting
Republican candidate Ped-dicord
urges students to vote
in next week's election. "It's
important that students vote
because RTM deals with the
students," he said. "We are a
part ofdistrict four. We should
have a say in what goes on."
"All four candidates are
qualified. I hope that students
go out and vote," Democratic
candidate Domenic Paniccia
Chad Peddicord
photos: Mirror archives
said. "A way that students will
get representation is if they vote
for any of the four candidates,"
he said.
Students can vote for all of
the student candidates in
Tuesday's election because vot-ers,
are allowed to vote for five
candidates. A shuttle, sponsored
by FUSA will transport students
to and from the polling station on
Nov. 4.
When did the Quad become an orchard?
Kristen Sullivan
A &EEditor
Thinking about giving
your professor an apple? Think
again. Fairfield students say that
the apples you find in the cafeteria
may actually be coming from
"QuadOrchards," that is, the Quad.
Sodexho workers have
been spotted picking apples from
the tree behind Loyola Hall,
which has led students to ques-tion
the origin of the apples
served in the cafeteria.
Even security officers
were spotted picking apples last
week in the Quad. One officer
stood on a ladder, while the other
held open the bag to collect the
apples.
"We're not picking
them off the trees," James
Vecello, a manager for
Sodexho, said. He added that if
Sodexho workers have been
seen picking apples off of the
tree behind Loyola, that the
apples were not for use by
was a fluke and not the stan-dard
apple found in the cafete-ria.
But moments after Loman
denied that the apple quality
was poor, 10 mushy, hole-rid-den,
bruised apples were taken
"I didn'tcome to school
to eat off the farm."
Sodexho.
Another Sodexho
manager, Johanna Loman
agreed: "They're not from the
Quad," said Loman.
When a student
showed a dented, cut apple to
Loman, she said that the apple
from the fruit basket in the caf-eteria.
Students have noticed
the increased amount of apple
products in the cafeteria as well.
These include the stuffing in
the special dinner chicken,
apple cobbler, apple turnovers
and the Fairfield punch, which
contains apple extracts.
Sean Sullivan '98, a
former orchard employee, said
that the apple trees in the Quad
are not maintained, which results
in a poor apple harvest.
"When you have trees in
an orchard, the trees are main-,
tained and sprayed for bugs. The
trees in the Quad are not main-tained
like an orchard and that
means lousy apple quality,"
Sullivan said.
Students question
whether or not they are receiving
the highest quality fruit and won-der
why they may be eating fruit
from the school grounds, when
their tuition covers the purchase
of quality foods.
"I didn't come to school
Continued on page 3
Thursday, October 30, 1997
Inside
this week
Fullbrights
fellowships
announced
McFadden & Chepaitis
receive, see p.3
Male feminist?
A male student declares
himself, seep.5
Go costume
crazy! Hallow-een
is here!
Get your costume ready,
seep. 7
Where's the
bus?
Staff writer address
the unreliable shuttle
system, seep. 9
Estrada
defends the
library
A response to the
attacks, see p. 11
The perfect
bagel?
Find out what Melvyn
and Elmo have to offer,
see p.14
See how you
can have a
Capital
experience
Find out about it,
seep. 15
Read all
about Page
Page Driscoll
interviewed, seep. 17