Mirror - Vol. 03, No. 19 -February 22, 1980

              INDEX
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WEEK IN REVIEW ... ....2
EDITORIALS ...A
FEATURES ....6
CROSS SECTIONS .. ....8
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT9
LETTERS ...11
CAMPUS NOTES.... ....3
CLASSIFIEDS ...12
COMICS ...13
CROSSWORD ...13
POLITICS ...14
SPORTS ...15
THE
FAIRFIELD Volume 3, No. 19, February 22,1980
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD. CONN. 064 U) MIRROR ^^ Incorporated 1977
John Hennessey '64, Patrick McCabe '80, Anne Barfuss '79, D'arcy Clark '81, Mike Navarro '80, Robert
Brennan, Jr. '65, Jim Connolly '80, Chris Jemapete '78.
Teacher Evaluations
Out By March 1st
By Thomas J. Gavula
Results of this fall's "Teacher Self-improvement
Survey" are now com-plete.
FUSA Administrative Coordin-ator
Mike Navarro expects to have
this information, along with an ex-planation
of how to use it, printed in
booklet form, and available to stu-dents
by March first. The purpose of
this survey is two-fold; to help stu-dents
in course selection by giving
them an indication of what the pro-fessor
is like before taking his class
and to give professors valuable in-sights
on how the students percieve
their teaching. Through the use of
this data a professor may become
more awaree of areas where he is
most effective and those which he
might want to change.
The raw information for this report
was gathered through the use of
evaluation questionaires. Students
may remember -filling these out in
classes last semester. The form as-ed
the student to rank the professor
on a scale of one to four in sixteen
catagories ranging from how well the
student thinks the professor knows
the subject to how relevant the read-ings
were to class discussion.
These scores are averaged by
computer and stated twice; separat-ing
responses off majors in that
course from those of non-majors tak-ing
the class.
A similar survey was taken in the
spring semester of 1979 but the re-sults
were greatly delayed due to
technical problems which Mike Nav-arro
indicated were inherent in the
start-up of any program this size. The
spring survey covered 68 individual
courses, which will be included with
the fall results in the pending report.
The fall survey, which was basically
a refined version of the spring one,
covers 160 courses bringing the total
number to about 220 (allowing for
some duplication).
"This is the first survey of its kind
at Fairfield in five years" Mike Nav-arro
said. "That survey wasn't as
complete as this and the results
weren't as easily available. Only a
few copies of the report were made
and you had to go to the library to
see it."
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Connolly Meets
With Carter
By Ken Vaugh
Fairfield University Student Asso-ciation
President Jim Connolly at-tended
a meeting on foreign and do-mestic
policy issues at the request of
President Jimmy Carter February 15.
between 100 and 200 student legisla-ture
presidents from around the
country were invited to meet with
Senior White House staff members
and the National Security Council.
In a mailgram from the White
House, Connolly was invited to a
would discuss the current position of
the United States in world affairs. Ad-ditional
discussions, centered
around national affairs, including
energy. Afterwards, Connolly and
other student representatives met
with Carter at a reception.
Connolly said that he was one of
approximately 250 student govern-ment
presidents chosen from
schools around the country. Five
schools from each state were cho-sen,
with care being taken to ensure
that the school's picked were a cross
Connolly added that the invitation
was a big surprise and that it was
more than difficult in convincing
himself and others the invitation was
for real. "It's not something you ex-cept.
I had to read it twice to believe
it."
Connolly said he hopes to be able
to find out what is really going on as
far as the situation in Iran and' Af-ghanistan.
He also expressed in in-terest
in finding out what other areas
of the country are doing through the
student representatives.
seven and one-half hour meeting that section of the ones in that state. Kennedy Coordinator
Visits Young Dems
By Jim Gilbert
Trish Kattelwell, Connecticut Col-lege
Coordinator for the Kennedy for
President Committee, spoke to the
University Young Democrats last
Monday evening. Kattelwell fielded
questions from the students and ex-plained
her role as College Coordina-tor.
The students showed concern
about such issues as the draft, the
economy, foreign policy, and the Ira-nian
crisis. Speaking on behalf of
Senator Kennedy, Kattelwell stated
that Carter's foreign policy, "is in a
shambles we just react to a crisis
instead of acting to prevent it."
On why she chose to support Sen-ator
Kennedy, Kattelwell said, "I
want someone who will put his fist
down and people will listen." She
stated that Carter's failure to stick
with one line on the Soviets has cau-sed
other nations to question our
credibility and has therefore weaken-ed
our image abroad.
When asked to account for Kenne-dy's
image as a big spender, Kattel-well
pointed out that, "Kennedy has
not voted to spend money, he has vo-ted,
to reallicate funds that have al-ready
been appropriated." She sug-gested
that the students look at Sen-ator
Kennedy's record in the Senate
to verify this fact.
Kattelwell also discussed the Ira-nian
crisis. Referring to President
Carter's state visit to Iran before the
fall of the Shah, Kattelwell pointed
out that Carter, "hugged and kissed
the Shah. The Iranian people ?saw
this action as United States support
for the Shah's bloody regime." Car-ter
had been told of the atrocities of
the Shah prior to leaving for Iran.
Continued on Page 2
Liaison
Committee Set
By Kathie Donovan
The University Alumni Association
has developed a serie of new pro-grams
designed to create a broader
interaction between the entire stu-dent
body and the Association. Rich-ard
Popilowski, director of the Alum-ni
Association, is pleased to an-nounce
the availability of funds to
sponsor the programs. According to
Popilowski, "We'd like to become
better acquainted with the students,
and they with us. We already do a lot
with sports; now it's time for
academics."
The newly developed University
Alumni Association Student Re-search
and Academic Studies Pro-gram
demonstrates a serious at-tempt
to support the university's con-tinued
effort to achieve academic ex-cellence
through research and en-richment
programs. Proposals re-garding
research projects will be
reviewed by the recently formed Stu-dent
Research Advisory and Aca-demic
Studies Committee. Based
upon the recommendations of the
Committee,' funds will be granted.
The amount of money allocated to
this program from the Alumni Associ-ation
budget is $1000 dollars.
The Student Research Advisory
and Academic Studies Committee
will be comprised of 6 members: 5
students and 1 faculty member, not
yet selected. Two students from the
College of Arts and Sciences, one
each from the School of Business
and the School of Nursing, and one
additional student will be chosen to
serve on the committee. The faculty
member will actually serve as as ad-visor.
He will have no voting power;
the final decisions rest with the
students.
All proposals presented to the
committee will be evaluated upon the
significance of the project to the
growth of the applicant, the feasibili-ty
of the project, and the potential im-pact
of the project on the academic
excellence of the University. All stu-dents
are invited to submit applica-tions
for conducting research and
other projects by March 3, 1980. Ap-plications
may be picked up in the
Alumni Relations Office, Loyola 10-A.
Although developed by Tony
Merola. class of '74, one of the pro-gram's
strongest supporters was
Dean Weber. He cited it as "a great
learning experience for the stu-dents."
Also new this year is the Student
Alumni Liaison Committee, proposed
by Bob Brennan ('65), President of
the Alumni Association. Student
members of this committee are Pat
McCabe('80), and Darcy Clark ('81),
who were selected by seniors Mike
Navarro and Jim Connolly. "In other
words," stated Popilowski, "a stu-dent
government by a student gov-ernment."
V.
Pat's and Darcy's function will be
to serve as representatives between
the student body and the alumni.
Popilowski, remarked, "We hope that
the closer involvement of. the stu-dents
in the actual mechanics of the
Association will generate enthusi-asm
among the students. We'd like
to get some positive feedback from
the student body, thus enabling us to
create more mutually beneficial pro-grams."
The alumni serving on the
committee are Anne Barfuss (79),
Chris Jemapete (78), and John Hen-nessey
('64).
Programs oMhis kind also benefit
the University students once they
graduate, "Once a student becomes
an Alumnus, the first mailing that
comes is one asking for funds. With
programs such as the Liaison Com-mittee
and the Student Research
Program, the student will know more
about what his money is being used
for. The transition from student to
alumnus can be made while still at-tending
school."
Popilowski says that the foresee-able
future holds a great many
things—"The sky's the limit, as long
as the money hold sout." Among the
future possibilities are concerts, col-lege
nights, and students to serve as
ambassadors at receptions and
guest speakers at alumni clubs in
various locations throughout the
country. "In general, we hope to br-ing
alumni news of what's happening
at Fairfield now."
With expansions such as these to
the Alumni Association's current pro-grams,
Mr. Popilowski hopes that
everyone realizes that the Associa-tion
can be of vvaluable assistance
not only to alumni and their families,
but to the entire student body of F.U.
However, he adds, "The effort is only
as strong as the students make it.
Student participation is the key to
success."
February, which has always been known as suicide month because of
its dreary weather and long interval between vacatiorfs, has depressed
Fairfield once again. (Photo by Tom Gavula)