Mirror - Vol. 03, No. 18 - February 15, 1980

              INDEX
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WEEK IN REVIEW 2
EDITORIALS 4
FEATURES 6
CROSS SECTIONS 8
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT9
CAMPUS NOTES .11
CLASSIFIEDS 12
COMICS 13
CROSSWORD 13
SPORTS 14
THE
FAIRFIELD Volume3, No. 18, February 14,1980
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY. FAIRFIELD. CONN. 064.50 MIRRORIncorporated 1977
Andy McGowan
Senior Week
Chairmen Chosen
By Philip McGinty
Recently two members of the
Junior class were chosen by Mrs.
Samway, Associate Dean-of Student
Activities, to head Senior Week
1980. Justin Walsleben, a junior
Marketing major, and Betsy Hannon,
a junior English major, will act as Co-
Chairmen of Senior Week 1980
which will be held from Wednesday,
May 21 to Sunday, May 25.
Walsleben and Hannon were selec-ted
from a group of fifteen applicants
after a presentation of their qualifica-tions,
an essay, and an interview.
The events for Senior Week 1980
are quite structured, as they are bas-ed
on the events of previous senior
weeks. The activities for the week
will commence with a faculty-student
brunch which will be held on Wed-nesday
afternoon, May 21.
On the following day, Thursday,
the seniors will be entertained by a
band, probably bluegrass, in addition
to beer and food at a picnic which
will take place at Alumni Field during
the day. The event for Thursday night
is undecided although a casino night
is being considered.
The traditional Semi-Formal
Dance will be held on Friday night in
the cafeteria. The week's events will
culminate on Saturday night with a
student-parents dance. Because the
Oakroom cannot accommodate all
the participating students and their
parents, the gym will serve as an ad-ditional
site where a Big Band will be
performing. To insure that no senior
feels uneasy about attending an
event without a date, Walsleben in-formed,
"We'd like to create an at-mosphere
throughout the week
where the ones who want to go alone
may do so."
In addition to Walsleben and Han-non
as Co-Chairmen, there will be
twenty four chairmen who will handle
the individual events in terms of
publicity, tickets, etc. When asked
how the responsibilities of the Co-
Chairmen relate to the duties of the
events chairmen, Hannon answered,
"We will be there for each event, to
oversee the decisions that are made
and to offer general assistance." A
total of seventy five workers, most of
whom are juniors, were s/slected by
the Co-Chairmen to assist.
In past years the workers were
provided rooms but denied meals
during the week. This year, however,
the workers will probably be granted
both. When asked if the Co-Chairmen
are trying to secure room and board
for all the workers, Hannon replied,
''Yes. We think it is fair to offer them
meals as well as housing. They work
hard and they deserve it."
Because the Co-Chairmen know
that all the seniors want their Senior
Week to be previously unequalled,
Walsleben and Hannon expressed
confidence that Senior Week 1980
will be as good, if not better, than any
of the preceding. Walsleben express^
ed his assurance by saying, "We
have chosen a cross section of peo-ple
for workers which will make it the
best possible. Hard work will make
all the.difference", he added. In an
attempt to erase any doubts that the
seniors may have, Hannon conclud-ed,
"We have learned from past
years' mistakes."
McGowan In Landslide
Ricci Derailed
By Ginny Mahoney and
Amy Sleeper
Andy McGowan has been elected
as President of the Fairfield Universi-ty
Student Association. McGowan
carried the vote for every dorm on
campus and also grabbed the beach
and commuter vote in the election
held Tuesday. McGowan accumula-ted
the most votes by a 69% to 28%
margin. This year waiting for the final
tally Jim Connolly quieted down the
excited people in the FUSA office by
saying, "Hush, it sounds sweet the
second time."
This year the turnout was less
than half of the entire student
population. Out of 2700 students,
1267 turned out to vote. The voter
turnout was below the 50th percen-tile
however McGowan carried a sub-stantial
majority.
A dissppointed Ron Ricci whole-heartedly
congratulated McGowan
and would like to "extend by sincere
thanks to those who worked so hard
for me."
McGowan thanked all those that
helped in the successful campaign.
When asked about his immediate
plans McGowan stated, "Before the
end of the year, I would like to see
my proposal of the extra reading day
and the additional day following Jan-uary
break to be presented to the
University Council." In addition, he
would like to see OJUNE, Organiza-tion
of Jesuit Universities of the
North East, setup before the fall of
1980.
Many of the other candidated
were present to share in his victory.
John "Sogi" Sohigan commented,
"The best man got in and he can do
more for this school than any other
candidate."
Alison DeGroot exuberately add-ed,
"The beach which I carried in the
primaries, was behind McGowan."
Jamie Giangarra, passing by and
interested in the ultimate outcome,
said, "Some of the candidate ridicul-ed
the election right from the start.
Some even put graffitti on the side-walks
to get a smile but enough ser-ious
people came out to elect the
right man."
Dave Klim, Chairman of the Elec-tions
Commission stated, "Andy has
the biggest margin of votes in the
past six years."
One political observer noted,
"Since McGowan has so much stu-dent
support, Student Services and
the Administration will have to take
him very seriously."
Outgoing President Connolly re-marked,
"Both candidates gave a
good try. You must consider them
both winners. My cabinet and I will
make sure for a smooth transition of
this office.
ELECTION RESULTS
McGowan Ricci Invalid Write-in Total
GONZAGA 79 51 0 4 134
REGIS 160 21 0 3 184
JULIE HALL 17 15 0 0 32
LOYOLA 76 32 0 0 108
NORTHWEST 109 80 1 4 194
CAMPION 106 31 0 3 140
FAREAST 51 32 1 8 92
SOUTHEAST 89 22 1 0 112
OFF CAMPUS BOARDERS 150 36 3 8 197
COMMUTERS 39 34 0 1 74
TOTAL 876 354 6 31 1267
Samway Resigns Post
As Associate Dean
By Jean Leber
Mrs Samway, Associate Dean for
University Activities, has informed
the University that she will be leaving
Fairfield at the end of the academic
year. This is because her husband
has been promoted to president of
the company he works for, a promo-tion
which will require them to move
out of the Fairfield area.
Mrs. Samway, who has been with
the University for ten years, has
been supervisor to athletic activities,
freshman orientation, volunteer pro-grams,
all club organizations, the
campus center, and has been an ad-visor
to SEC and FUSA. She says
that she "regrets leaving very
much" and at the present time is not
looking for a new job but "will keep
her options open." The move will
. take her to the area of Portsmouth,
New Hampshire.
At the present time, the question
as to who will fill Mrs. Samway's pos-tion
has not been dealt with. Accor-ding
to dean Schimpf, Dean of Stu-dent
Services, "it is premature to say.
that anyone here is most qualified for
the job" and that since Mrs. Sam-way's
notice of leaving has been well
over the required thiry days, "there
is no rush to fill the position." Dean
Schimpf also said that the University
has state hiring laws which it must
follow and that it may advertise in
professional journals in order to find
the most qualified candidate.
The possibility of restructuring
Student Services in order to continue
meeting the starting objective of the
department is also being considered.
There is, however, no committment
for this restructuring.
University Revises
Parking Plans
Betsy Hannon and Justin Walsleben
By Stephen Banbury
Provost Dr. John Barrone and the
University Council are currently
weighing recent proposals on how to
deal with the new parking lot situa-tion.
These new lots are a necessary
result of present plans to build an of-fice
and classroom building on the
land near Canisius.
Instead of one large lot, which
would have been situated below
Bellarmine Hall, and expanded park-ing
in the lot behind Canisius, and
alternate plan has been drawn up.
Dr. Barrone says, "For the sake of
beauty, three smaller lots have been
designed to be tucked away within
the Bellarmine grounds. Also, a re-vised
Canisius lot expansion would
not allow for any cars lo face the
campus." Even though this new pro-posal
allows for about half of the
spaces which would have been gain-ed
originally, Dr. Barrone points out,
"It's forty spaces we didn't have
before and I think we can get by with
this addition." It must be noted that
nothing proposed here is definite.
Another project being taken into
consideration is the forming of three
large planting areas in each of the
two largest parking lots on campus.
Dr. Barrone says, "Even though this
would also take away a few parking
spaces, the natural beauty that
would result would surely break up
the monotony of these areas."
This whole project is being under-taken
for three main reasons: 1. To
anow trie Prep lo make fuller use of
Xavier Hall thus abandoning faltering
McAuliffe Hall; 2. To centralize the
University campus and at the same
time creating seperate campuses for
the two schools; 3. To make essen-tial
office space available to the
University staff.
The final financial plans for the
building will be presented before the
University Council for approval, at a
meeting on Friday February 15. The
present goal for completion of the
new building is set for the fall of
1980.
As a final note, Dr. Barrone asks
that all people park in their assigned
lots, "especially those who are sup-posed
to park at Northwest."