Mirror - Vol. 03, No. 20 -February 29, 1980

              INDEX
Page
WEEK IN REVIEW 2
EDITORIALS ...4
FEATURES 6
CROSS SECTIONS 8
ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT9
OPINION & COMMENT.. 11
CAMPUS NOTES 3
CLASSIFIEDS 11
COMICS 12
CROSSWORD 12
POLITICS 13
SPORTS 14-16
THE
FAIRFIELD Volume 3, No. 20, February 29,1980
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY. FAIRFIELD, CONN. 064 50 MIRROR ^^__ - Incorporated 1977
Orientation Committee
Co-Chairman Selected
By Amy Sleeper
On Tuesday, February 19, Janet
Canepa and Gerald Sargent assum-ed
the role of Charimen for Orienta-tion
'80. Dean Samway of Univer-sities
Activites made the decision in
which she exclaimed, "It was not
easy, and it gets more difficult every
year. The Interest increases."
There were 30 applicants this year
who were described as, "enthusi-astic
and super." All those who wish-ed
to apply had to hand in an applica-tion
along with their recommenda-tions
from university personnel. Then
Mrs. Samway circulates the list of
candidates around campus in hopes
of getting some more information on
the applicants. Mrs. Samway added,
"The R.A.'s are very helpful." Finally
the most important part of the deci-sion
is the interview.
When asked what she based her
decision on Samway replied, "I
chose two people that I felt would
work well together. The feedback I
get from those who know the can-didates
helps alot too and most im-portantly
I go on a gut feeling."
Jerry Sargent and Janet Canepa
had their first of many meetings with
Mrs. Samway last Wednesday. Mrs.
Samway stated, "They're just star-ting
out, now is the time they become
familar with the job."
Sargent is a Biology major. He is
'Head Guard at the university pool
and a member of the Glee Club.
Canepa is a Marketing major. Her ac-tivities
include: Tour Guide for Ad-missions
and Intramural sports. Both
are very involved and have many
ideals concerning Orientation.
There are 33 positions open to
sub-chairmen who the co-chairmen
select themselves. "These chairmen
will be chosen from the class of '82
based on our experiences with peo-ple
who we know can be trusted to
do a responsible job," commented
Sargent. Canepa added, "Neither of
us knew each other before so we
should be able to draw Chairmen
from all aspects of campus life.
Sargent remaked, "The people
selected must be willing to work
hard. They will have total respon-sibility
for their committee. In about
two weeks from now after the 33
chairmen are chosen, we will be in
the Campus Center for committee
staff sign-ups."
There will be some changes based
on what happened last year. "Again,
there will be no alcohol at university
sponsored events. This worked well
last year, no one felt excluded, "Mrs.
Samway commented. Another new
Richard Marano, Rosalyn Carter and Gov. Ella Grasso at Carter-
Mondale Dinner.
Young Dems
Plan Event
. By Samuel L. Coury
The University Young Democrats
offer a full slate of political activities
this semester to the students of the
university. The club presents oppor-tunities
to do volunteer work for the
three leading Democratic presiden-tial
hopefuls, President Jimmy
Carter, Senator Edward "Ted" Ken-nedy,
and California Governor Ed-mund
G. Brown, Jr.
The club is sponsoring a voter
registration drive on Friday,
February 29. All are invited to
register with a party and participate
in the- state primaries and the na-tional
elections. The registration is
tentatively scheduled to take place in
the Campus Center.
The Young Dems are currently
planning to work in conjunction with
the F2.',r?ifi|d Young Democrats in
sponsoring a Robert t. KSSSSdY
Memorial Banquet, now scheduled
for May 16.
Recently, representatives of the
Young Dems attended the first or-ganizational
meeting of the Brown
for President Committee in Connec-ticut.
They met with Colleen Cross-land,
a representative from the
Brown for President National Head-quaters,
located in Boston, to
discuss Brown's campaign in Ct.
'The Young Dems will send repre-sentatives
to the Northeast College
Democrats Convention on March 14
and 15 at the Fordham University
Rose Hill Campus. Addressing this
convention will be prominent
Democratic Party politicians. Among
the activities will be seminars,
.strategy sessions.
On February 15, The Young Dems
sent president Richard Marano to the
Carter-Mondale 1980 Dinner at the
University of Bridgeport to meet with
First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Mrs
Carter reiterated the latest an-nouncements
from her husband's of-fice:
that there would be no draft and
that the registration was only in the
interests of national security; that
every action was being taken to ef-fect
the safe release of the Ameri-cans
held in Iran.
idea that worked well last year was
the Orientation Assistants who are
chosen by Mrs. Samway. "These 55
juniors and seniors act as Big
Brothers and Big Sisters. The pur-pose
of the program is to give new
freshman more individualized atten-tion
in a now threatening peer group
situation, "said Samway. "This
makes for a total of 260 people work-ing
for Orientation in some
capacity."
IN closing, Mrs. Samway ex-presses
her enthusiasm for this
year's Orientations, "I'm looking for-ward
to working with Janet and Jerry.
The Class of '82 is an outstanding
group to work with." Janet Canepa and Gerald Sargent chosen Co-Chairmen.
(Photo by Patty Lanza)
General Haig To Address
1980 Graduates
By Janet O'Connor
Alexander Haig, former Secretary
of Defense under Richard Nixon will
be the quest speaker for commence-ment
exercises this spring.
Lisa Craig, who is a co-chairman
of the Committee for Commence-ment,
along with John J. Smith and
Ken Donovan said that Father Kelly
is primarily responsible for choosing
the guest speaker. However, the
Committee, is now in the process of
writing all seniors a letter asking
them to submit as speech from
which one will be chosen to be
delivered on graduation day. Lisa
detailed this process as one of
elimination according to the written
merits of each speech. Once a group
of finalists speeches are chosen the
committee will ask the writers to
deliver them before the committee.
This presentation will form the basis
for the Committee's decision on
which speech will be heard on the
day of commencement..
The student run committee serves
as an advisory board only and offers
suggestions to Father Kelly regar-ding
particular graduation pro-ceedures.
Lisa has found the faculty
and administration very receptive to
her committee's suggestions.
Among these ideas are a plan to
house commuters who are within 15
minutes of compus in campus hous-ing
dwing senior week and offering
preferred seating for parents on
graduation day. Working with Lisa
and her co-chariman on the commit-tee
are: Greg Martin, Deborah
Hilgers, Heidi Keefe, Jane Wagner,
Kathy Schmidt, Loretta Lyon and
Peggy Brogan.
Dorm Damages Decrease
Co-Ed Dorms Cited
By Philip McGinty
A recent set of statistics concern-ing
dormitory damages which occur-red
between September 1 and Nov-ember
5, 1979 indicates a substan-tial
decrease in damages compared
to that same time period in 1978. A
total of $5,027.84 in dorm damages
from the fall of 1978 was reduced to
$3,562.96 in the fall of 1979.
Although the decrease may not
seem greatly significant, Phyllis
Rogge, Director of Student Resi-dences,
explained, "Due to inflation,
damages of $3,500 in 1979 may only
have been $2,500 in 1978."
Where the damage in four of the
eight dorms on campus remained
the same or went down, the damage
in the remaining four increased. Gon-zaga,
Fareast, Southeast and esp-ecially
Regis experienced a reduc-tion
in damage fees, yet damage ex-penses
in Loyola, Northwest, Julie
Hall and particularly Campion rose.
The most drastic changes in dorm
damage rates took place in Regis
and Campion, the buildings which
turned co-ed at the beginning of the
1979-1980 academic year. Regis,
whose bill for the fall of 1978 was
$2,853-20, managed to hold down
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