Mirror - Vol. 01, No. 04 - October 20, 1977

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Coming Here
Monday
As a climax to the nine-dayl
celebration of U.N. Day 1977, an
all day conference will be held at
Fairfield University's Gonzaga
Hall this Monday, October 24. The
conference, entitled "Swords into
Plowshares" takes its name from
the biblical inscription on the side
of the United Nations Building in
New York: "They shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against na-tion,
neither shall they learn war
anymore." To visually dramatize
the event, during the afternoon
there will be a portable anvil and
Robert Ruhloff, a blacksmith, will
actually turn a sword info a plow-share.
The conference will run from
10:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. and will
include many talks by various
people including Anthony Samp-son,
an English author who has
done much research and writing
on world peace and the Military-
Industrial Complex and is travel-ling
from England specifically to
address this conference. There
will also be various workshops on
the subject of "What Can We
Do?", two of which will be led by
Dr. Ed Dew and Dr. Abbas Khad-javi
of Fairfield University. The
Dancers of Faith, a professional
dance group, will perform a dance
commissioned by Mrs. Rose Marie
Barone, wife of Fairfield U.'s pro-vost,
especially for this occasion.
They will perform at the Campus
Center at 3:30 P.M. on Monday.
The scope of this program is
enormous and it will no doubt
prove to be an exciting as well as
informative event. Many interest-ing
and important speakers will be
present including an official from
the Office of Secretary Ceneral of
the U.N., Kurt Waldheim, who will
close the conference that evening.
Admission to the entire day's ac-tivities
is free so stop off to one or
more-of these workshops and
learn more about a subject which
concerns us all, world peace, and
what you can do as well as what
the UN.N. is doing to make world
peace a reality.
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FAIRFIELD Vol. 1 No. 4 October 20,1977
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 06430 MIRRORIncorporated 1977
Faculty Knocks Down Core Changes;
Kills Any Further Consideration
by Gerry Gunning
An entrenched faculty gave an
emphatic "no" to any considera-tion
to revise the core curriculum
now or in the near future. At the
general faculty meeting on Tues-day,
the faculty not only voted
down the Curriculum Committee's
proposal to alter the core, but also
voted down a motion that would
have directed the Curriculum
Committee to submit an alternate
plan to revise the core.
Citing the small attendance and
large number of votes by proxy,
Professor Rosivach stated that,
"Minds have been made up and
lines have been drawn." Professor
Rosivach, realizing that the pro-posal
was dead, called for an im-mediate
vote on the plan, which
was soundly defeated 86 to 12.
Only fifty-seven members of the
entire University faculty attended
the meeting, however forty-one of
the eighty-six votes opposed were
by proxy from faculty members
not present.
In an effort to keep alive the
idea of revising the core, Professor
Humphrey made a motion for the
Curriculum Committee to come
up with an alternate plan. The mo-
Accredidation Committee
Evaluates University
by Marianne O'Connell
An evaluating committee from
the New England Association of
Schools and Colleges, the major
accrediting body in this region,
visited Fairfield from Sunday af-ternoon
to midday Tuesday. Per-iodically,
the association sends a
visiting delegation, comprised of
experts on different levels of col-lege
administration, to evaluate
the various areas of a university.
This committee was sent specifi-cally
to determine the accuracy of
a Self Study Report compiled by
the University last June.
The chief aim of the Self Study
Parachuter floats to earth from above alumni field during festivities
last Saturday. Parachute jumpers and a run from New York City were
the highlights of the football club's Marathon Day. Unfortunately the
team could not go the distance losing 23-0. (Wally Gantley Photo)
was to sensitize the University to
its strengths and weaknesses. Dr.
Daniel Felicetti, formerly a mem-ber
of the Politics Department,
served as director for the pro-gram.
The committee consisted of
approximately ninety members,
representing faculty, students and
administration. Dr. Felicetti feels
that the study "was a very honest
one, not an attempt to sell Fair-field."
He anticipates the visiting
committee's reaction because "I
am looking forward to what out-siders
say about insiders percep-tions."
The purpose of the visiting com-mittee
according to its chairman,
Dr. Frank E. Marsh, Dean of Edu-cation
at Northeastern University,
"is to observe Fairfield at work,
constructively criticize, and then
return to the New England Asso-ciation
with recommendations for
improvement. Dr. Marsh does not
feel that Fairfield is in jeopardy of
losing its accreditation, but in-stead
is concerned with the degree
to which the University remains
consistent to its goals. "We are
not formulating policy," he states,
"we are observing the manner in
which these goals are followed
through."
Dr. Marsh feels that one of Fair-field's
weaknesses may be its posi-tion
towards women & certain
minorities. After speaking with
several administrative officers, he
stated that although Fairfield's at-titudes
towards women and mi-norities
are admirable, he is not
certain that these objectives are
being successfully carried out.
The New England Association
of Schools and Colleges has not
evaluated Fairfield in ten years.
During this time there have been
major changes in the academic
structure of the university, most
significantly the establishment of
programs for Continuing Educa-tion
and the School of Nursing.
Dr. Phyllis Porter, Dean of Nurs-ing,
states that besides nursing,
"there is no other subdivision on
the Undergraduate level. The
School of Nursing has added to
Fairfield in that it is a university
now, not merely a College of Arts
and Sciences."
Ms. Eleanor Voorhies, chair-woman
of the Nursing Depart-ment
at Fitchberg College and a
member of the visiting committee,
added that "the level of students
coming into Nursing is higher, thus
raising the total level of students
in the university."
Dr. Marsh states that "the most
important change has been that
the university has developed an
outreach into the community
which surrounds the institution."
Having completed its tour of
Fairfield, the visiting committee
will proceed to evalute the accu-racy
of the Self Study Report, and
offer criticism and recommenda-tions
which will be compiled in a
report written by Dr. Marsh. This
report will be submitted to the
New England Association of
Schools and Colleges, who will
then decide if Fairfield's accredi-tation
is valid.
tion suffered a 52 to 37 defeat.
A surprised Dr. Rosivach re-marked,
"The faculty, in defeating
this motion, is saying that we have
the best of all possible curricu-lums
in the best of all possible
worlds."
The Fairfield University Student
Association President, Mark Dor-rigan,
stated, "I was not surprised
that the Rosivach proposal was
turned down, but I was shocked
that the faculty has refused to
seek other alternatives to the pres-ent
core." He added that, "The
faculty has acknowledged the in-adequacy
of the present core by
holding these meetings, yet it's
shocking that they vote to do
nothing about it."
The Curriculum Committees
proposal to alter the core so fresh-men
would be taking ten core
courses faced opposition from
many different segments of the
faculty. The Philosophy professors
were opposed to the idea of
changing the Philosophy require-ments,
the Language and Science
professors were against the idea of
splitting up sequential courses,
and the History professors were
upset that Western Civ was elimi-nated
as a core requirement. The
proposal had too many flaws to be
passed as it stood. However, no
effort was made to amend the
proposal, and when a motion was
made to have the Committee
come up with a new proposal, the
battle lines were still evident and
even that motion was defeated.
In The Mirror
Thirty years of harmony. The
glee club is celebrating their 30th
anniversary this year. Read about
the clubs long and colorful
history and its present persona-lity....
On page 15.
'%+=4 #, the car won't start."
Ever walk out when its cold, or
raining, or your in a hurry, or all
the above and then your car
won't start. A special report on
what to do to get your car
running....On page 11.
A grave story. New features
editor Lynn Lomaglio has written
a unique account of a 300 year
old graveyard right in the heart of
Fairfield. Take a visit into the
past...On page 14.
Rotten to the Core. Recent
proposals to revise the core
curriculum have ignited hot fires.
Two faculty members write
lengthly articles on why they
opposed the revisions....On page
4.
All My Sons flawed. All My
Sons, a powerful Arthur Miller
drama, plays this weekend at the
University playhouse. A review
appears....On page 8.
Nils steals show. Pure Prarie
Leauge just couldn't cut at the
harvest weekend concert. The
warm up performer stole the
show....On page 6.
Again suspended. The rugby
club once again has been
suspended for illegal expenses of
its allocated funds. Doc Dough-erty
checks it out....On page 19.
Rain, rain, rain. Day in, day out
it rains at this place. Read an
amusing account on just how
much it rains and what to do
when it does....On page 14.