Mirror - Vol. 04, No. 09 - October 17, 1980

              SEC Spokesman Explains Fairfest Loss
by Philip McGlnty
In response to the article en-titled
"$5,000 Loss Incurred for
Fairfest Party" which appeared in
the Mirror October 2, SEC Co-Di-rector
Danny Allen spoke with the
Mirror this week to clarify the ex-.
act reasons for the Fairfest fi-nancial
loss. Allen stated that the
loss was a direct result of "first,
lack of attendance and second,
the noise level."
Allen restated that SEC and
FUSA were expecting at least
Oxfam Fast
Approaches
Organizers of Oxfam America,
the Boston-based international re-lief
and development agency, ex-pect
unp'recedent support for the
agency's annual Fast for a World
Harvest on November 20.
"Responses to our announce-ments
about the Fast so far indi-cate
that as many as 500,000 indi-viduals,
especially college stu-dents,
throughout the country will
participate this year," said this
year's Fast Coordinator, Nancy
Smith.
As Fairfield students who have
fasted before know, the annual
Fast is held on the Thursday be-fore
Thanksgiving. "Fasting is a
symbolic act," explains Oxfam Di-rector,
Joe Short. "It is a state-ment
against the inequities that
contribute to the misery of the mil-lions
of people around the world
who never have enough to eat."
By contributing the dollars they
would have spent on food that
day, Fast participants also play a
major role in supporting Oxfam's
development projects in some of
1,500 students to turnout for Fair-fest.
Moreover, they were hoping
for as big a turnout as 1,700 to
2,000 students. However, their
wishes went unfulfilled when only
500 to 700 students showed up for
the event.
Allen noted that of the thirty
kegs that Gary Beer Company sup-plied
for Fairfest, only fifteen kegs
were empty before the event was
shut down. With only half the total
quantity of beer sold, a financial
loss was inevitable, informed
Allen.
Allen cited the high noise level
as another factor in the financial
loss. He commented that the
bands' music was, indeed, much
louder than the average bands'
music at outdoor events. Allen
also suggested that the Jewish
holiday which may have caused
more Fairfield residents to be at
home that day than normal prob-ably
had an effect.
The excessive noise level re-sulted
in numerous calls from the
townspeople to the university, the
Fairfield Police and Dean Schimpf.
Fairfest received two warnings
from the Fairfield Police based on
formal complaints by local resi-dents.
Before a third warning was
issued by the police, Dean
Schimpf ordered the shutdown of
the function between 5:15 and 5:30
p.m.
Considering the recent prob-lems
on the beach and at the con-dominiums,
Allen emphasized that
Dean Schimpf's decision to close
Fairfest was in the best interest of
the university. "The accumulation
of off-campus events plus Fairfest
have affected the relationship be-tween
the university and the town
of Fairfield," remarked Allen. He
continued to say that if Dean
Schimpf had allowed Fairfest to
continue, the event would have
jeopardized future relations and
endeavors for the university.
Allen concluded by saying that
FUSA and SEC do have intentions
of sponsoring May Day and Fair-fest
in the future. He added, how-ever,
that the events would have to
be on a "lower key" as far as noise
is concerned.
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the poorest areas of Asia, Africa
and Latin America. "Our projects
are aimed not only at meeting the
immediate needs of starving peo-ples,
but at helping people im-prove
their lives, grow more food,
and break the cycle of poverty and
hunger," Short says. Since the
agency's first Fast in 1974, partic-ipants
have raised nearly $1.5 mil-lion
to fund projects in poor coun-tries.
Short believes that support for
the Fast is growing in part be-cause
of the increased public
awareness about the problem of
world hunger. "It is increasingly
difficult for those who live in de-veloped
countries to close their
eyes to the plight of those living in
the poor regions of the world," he
commented.
The university will again spon-sor
a program of fasting on the
day of the Oxfam Fast. Students
will be asked to give up their lunch
on that day, and the money saved
by Macke will be turned over to
Oxfam. All students are urged to
participate in this fast which, will
aid those of less fortunate back-grounds.
Groundstar Seeks Student Aid
by Ken Vaughn
"Groundstar," the campus lit-erary
publication, is currently
seeking editors, writers and pho-tographers
for this year's edition,
according to the Chief Editors Joy
Borzencki and Elisa Manalo.
Due to the loss of senior editors
last spring, the editorial staff has
diminished to four members —
Steve Banbury, Jim Ball, Joe Ric-ciardi
and Joe Zannella. The staff
is now encouraging any students
who know how to critique poetry
and short stories to contact them.
The editors are also welcoming
all forms of poetry and short
stories, in addition to photos and
sketches to accompany the lit-erary
pieces in the publication.
Manalo explained that although
students have done good work on
their own, they "are afraid to sub-mit
their work because they feel it
is not good enough." She and the
other editors would like to change
that feeling among students.
The editors began to advertise
last week because they believe
that a lack of publicity hurt
"Groundstar" last year. The staff
has been busy putting up posters
and stuffing students' mailboxes.
Manalo informed that the staff
is hoping to distribute "Ground-star"
gratis this year to students,
alumni and the administration.
She explained that this would be
possible only after securing funds
from FUSA.
Last year, the majority of the
submissions came in during the
second semester. Manalo stated
that the editors want to change
that situation. Therefore, this
year's deadline for submissions is
November 28. Manalo informed
that an early deadline makes it
easier to criticize the works and
decide which ones will be
selected for publication. An early
deadline will also enable the staff
to start circulating the completed
"Groundstar" in April.
The editors ask that any student'
interested in an editor's position,
layout, photography or graphics
write to Box N. Interested writers
are also requested to send their
work to Box N before November
28.
Construction of the Jesuit residence, another phase of the $4.8 million cam-pus
project, progresses rapidly. [Photo by Linda Capello]
Alumni Honors
Outstanding Jesuits
Two Jesuit educators will be
honored at the Annual Awards
Dinner of the Fairfield University
Alumni Association on November
1. The Rev. Thomas A. McGrath,
S.J., will receive the association's
Distinguished Faculty Service
award, and the Rev. George S.
Mahan, S.J., will be named an
Honorary alumnus.
Fr. McGrath is a professor of
Psychology in the College of Arts
and Sciences and the Graduate
School of Education at Fairfield
University. He is a licensed
psychologist and past president
of the Connecticut Psychological
Association.
He was appointed to the Fair-field
University faculty in 1957 and
was chairman of the Psychology
Department from 1962 to 1970,
and from 1973 to 1976. He served
previously on the faculties of Bos-ton
College High School and
Nepa Holds Meeting
Falling leaves and brisk temperatures descend upon campus to remind
students that autumn is here. [Photo by MIRROR Staff]
NEPA (New England Psycho-logical
Association) will hold its
annual meeting this year on Oc-tober
25 at the University of Mas-sachusetts,
Boston.
The NEPA offers a wide range of
psychological presentations,
many geared to the psych major
undergraduate level. This years
presentation will include such cur-rent
topics as Psychobiology and
Sex Differences, We're Running
Out of Gas (psychological implica-tions
of energy issues) and New
Directions in Developmental
Psychology. There will also be
Poster Sessions which will in-clude
a varied presentation of cur-rent
research topics. Specific in-formation
about the program can
be obtained on the psych bulletin
board — 2nd floor Bannow.
This year two Fairfield Univer-sity
students have been nomi-nated
for the NEPA Honorary Stu-dent
Fellowship. The nominees
are Robin Whitely (nominated by
Drs. McCarthy and Braginsky) and
Sandy Franco (nominated by Drs.
Braginsky and Salafia). Fairfield
University students have the dis-tinction
of receiving more NEPA
designations than the students of
any other New England College.
The present nominations have yet
to be selected.
There are presently a number of
students interested in attending
this years program. If anyone is in-terested
in attending, there will be
a car pooling system set up. Psi-
Chi will coordinate the car pool
and has set up a box in the
psychology office, requesting that
the following information be sub-mitted:
Name, box #, phone # and
whether or not you would like to
take advantage of the car pool or
possibly be a driver. If you would
like any more information please
contact the Psychology office,
Bannow 305.
Georgetown University.
Fr. McGrath has lectured exten-sively
on management issues in
banking and industry and was on
the faculty of the National Asso-ciation
of Mutual Savings Banks'
(NAMSB) Graduate School of
Banking at Brown University for 14
years. He is now on the board of
directors for the Center for Finan-cial
Studies at Fairfield University,
the new educational center for
NAMSB.
A native of Quincy, Mass., Fr.
McGrath received A.B. and M.A.
degrees from Boston College; a
master's in Psychology from
Catholic University, Washington,
D.C.; and a Ph.D. in Psychology
from Fordham University.
Fr. Mahan retired in June after
30 years at Fairfield, beginning as
assistant principal at Fairfield
Prep, then as assistant dean and
director of Admissions for the uni-versity,
and finally as executive
assistant to the president. Since
1972 he was also director of devel-opment
for the Prep. Fr. Mahan
now guides development for
Bishop Connolly High School in
Fall River, Mass.
While at Fairfield, Fr. Mahan
was active with the United Way,
the American Red Cross, the Con-necticut
Commission for Higher
Education and the Diocese of
Bridgeport. Last spring at the uni-versity's
commencement Fr.
Mahan was awarded an honorary
doctor of humane letters in
recognition of his service to the
university, Fairfield Prep and the
community.
He was educated at Weston
(Mass.) College, the Pontifical
Biblical Institute in Jerusalem and
the Oriental Institute at the Univer-sity
of Chicago. He was a member
of the 1937 Boston College ex-pedition
at Skar Akil, Lebanon,
near the Dead Sea.
Tickets for the Annual Awards
Dinner may be reserved through
Fairfield University's Alumni Of-fice.