Mirror - Vol. 25, No. 12 - February 03, 2000

              The Mirror
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
Volume 25, Number 12 The Image of Fairfield Thursday, February 3, 2000
Kevin Hayes wins FUSA election
By Paul Pennelli
MANAGING EDITOR
Tall bulletin boards stood indif-ferently
in the Barone Campus Center,
creating a long white wall running down
the length of the lobby. On either side
of this wall stood two groups of hopeful
students, their polarized opinions on the
Fairfield University Student Association
(FUSA) Presidential election mirroring
the barrier that separated them.
Only one of these two groups,
and one candidate, would taste victory
on this night. Kevin Hayes '01 defeated
Felipe Polanco '01, in a well-attended
and relatively tight FUSA electoral race.
Two
Photo: Nick Ouimet
FUSA President-Elect Kevin Hayes, '01, celebrates victory
When the results were announced in front
of a crowd of curious on-lookers and a live
television audience, emotions ran to their
highest.
On one side of the seemingly
larger white wall, eruptions of screams
could be heard, while friends and support-ers
mobbed the victor, Hayes. On the other
See "FUSA" on p. 3
essors
disgrace university
Stopped short by cocaine
By Karen Affinito
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
While the majority of the
Fairfield University community was still
enjoying their semester break and pre-paring
for the new year, part-tim^ ac-counting
continuing education professor
and Guilford, CT resident, Ruth McAfee,
51, and her husband David were charged
with possession of cocaine, possession
of cocaine with intent to sell, possession
of drug paraphernalia, possession of
drugs within 1,500 feet of a school and
operating a drug factory.
According to the New Haven
Register, on Thursday December 30, the
couple was arrested and held over the
holiday weekend with bail set at
$100,000 each. They were released on
January 3 because the bail was not avail-able.
Their tenant, David Jones, 42, was
also arrested and charged with posses-sion
of marijuana and driving under the
influence. He was released on a $500
bond.
Police told the New Haven Reg-ister
that during a search of the McAfee
home, they confiscated over an ounce of
uncut cocaine, cutting agents, scales,
packing materials, a .22-caliber hand-gun,
and more than $1400 in cash.
McAfee, a certified public ac-countant,
was scheduled to teach two
classes (accounting and management)
this semester, but did not have her con-tract
renewed by the university due to
her arrest. Associate Vice President
for Public Relations Doug Whiting
told the New Haven Register, that "ob-viously,
this is in light of her arrest."
The McAfees live in close
proximity to Abraham Baldwin
Middle school and police believe that
neighborhood problems have evolved
due to the couple's drug involvement.
"Obviously it's disturbing to
find out that cocaine is being sold near
my house as well as a middle school,"
Guilford resident Anne Kennedy, '00
said. "It's also even more disturbing
to know that it was being done by a
Fairfield professor."
Although the incident was
outside of Fairfield University's pe-rimeters,
some feel it jeopardizes
Fairfield's name and reputation. "It
doesn't look good for Fairfield to have
something like this happen to one of
our professors," Billy Corrigan, '00
said. "It's astonishing that an indi-vidual
that students look up to is in-volved
in a situation like this one. "
"While it is true that this ac-tion
took place off campus and doesn't
directly affect Fairfield, I do feel that
it is beneficial that she no longer
teaches here," Rob Baker '00 said.
"Fairfield doesn't need to be associ-ated
with such a negative situation."
Princess, professor or neither?
By Lori Rizzo
NEWS EDITOR
The plot of the story is better
than fiction. The heroin is a woman
who claims to have a doctoral degree
to gain a teaching job here at Fairfield.
During her short stay, she tells tales
of being a Saudi Arabian princess,
with access to millions of dollars and
world famous people.
After attempting to use this sup-posed
wealth to bid on a professional
basketball team and arena, her tangled
web at last began to unravel. Report-ers
began to investigate her Ph. D.,
royal heritage and bank accounts, con-cluding
that they were merely props
in her dramatic performance.
"She apparently was quite an
operator," said acting Vice President
Orin Grossman. With seven social
security numbers and over seven
names, it was not easy to pin her
down. "She fooled some interesting
people but yes, she fooled us, abso-lutely,"
conceded Grossman.
In 1995, Fairfield hired the Af-rican-
American woman by the name
of Terisa Day-Hollander as an adjunct
professor. According to Mary Francis
Malone, who played a role in the hir-ing
process, professor Day-Hollander
was brought to Fairfield through a
"Visiting Black Scholar Program,"
which is usually reserved to bring speak-ers
to campus for one or two days. Soon,
she transferred to the Business School.
According to The Denver Post,
what Fairfield did not know was that Day-
Hollander was using the credentials of a
Terisa Turner, a Canadian resident who
was completely unaware that her identity
was being misused.
Day-Hollander claimed that
"Turner" was her maiden name, and her
identity was difficult for Fairfield to dis-
"She fooled some
interesting people,
but yes, she fooled
us, absolutely."
-Orin Grossman
pute. "She had claimed that she had got-ten
the degree under her maiden name,"
confirmed Grossman. " It would take ex-tensive
suspicion to go to that next level."
Although, Day-Hollander told The Den-ver
Post that she had used her boyfriend's
last name while applying for the position
because she felt that their current relation-
See "Adjunct" on p. 3
This Week ... Campus Life:
Winter activity
suggestions
see pg. 7
Commentary:
Get over Y2K,
letter to Mirror staff
see pg. 13
A&E:
Top ten
grossing films
see pg. 150
Sports:
Men's basketball
lose two in a row
see pg. 18