Mirror - Vol. 01, No. 10a - February 9, 1978

              Connolly, Navarro
Win FUSA Primary
Election Set for Tuesday
By Tony Tarnell
The field of seven candidates for
the F.U.S.A. chief spot has been nar-rowed
down to Jim Connolly and
Mike Navarro in what has been the
tightest F.U.S.A. election in several
years.
Of the 1388 votes cast, Connolly
received 317, and Navarro captured
277. The rest of the votes fell as
follows; Bob Stall, 267; George
Schietinger, 202; Steve Ciardiello,
1-54; Trudy Neuhaus, 104; Unknown
candidate 24, and 43 write in votes.
"I am very proud of all the people
who helped out on my campaign,"
detailed Connolly. He continued that
"My campaign was based on solid
ideas all revolving around the stu-dent
as an individual. I plant to alter
nothing in my bid for the presidency.
I guess the students just liked what I
stood for.," Connolly noted that "I
have the utmost respect for Mike,
However, I feel that my experience
with the Legislature is a stronger
U. Council
Discusses
Current
Problems
by Karen Erdos
The University Council of Fairfield,
a task force comprised of adminis-tration,
faculty and student represen-tatives,
met this past Thursday to
discuss current campus business.
The topic of the faculty service of the
Stag-her snack bar to night students
which had been investigated last
month, has now been remedied, ac-cording
to faculty representative
Paul Davis. Food, which had not
been put out in time to meet the de-mand
of these students, is now being
provided at the appropriate times.
Discussion on this subject led to the
question of whether night students
and graduate students should also
have representation on the Univer-sity
Council and this proposal was
forwarded to the Operations Commit-tee
of the Council.
Dr.-Edward Dew gave a follow-up
report on the council's monitoring of
the library. He noted that the library
was.extending its hours on a trial
basis this semester, by opening at 12
o'clock on Sundays and remaining
open on Saturday evenings until 8
o'clock to better fulfill the needs of
the students. He also suggested the
possibility of extending the library
hours during exams, and suggested
this matter be referred to the Student
Legislature.
Student representative Mary Ann
Daily proposed that the University
Council should meet every three
weeks instead of every four weeks,
and the measure was adopted on a
unanimous vote.
The subject of reduced rates for
courses for Senior Citizens was in-troduced
by Dr. Patricia Jenkins,
who noted that other local colleges
such as Sacred Heart University and
the University of Bridgeport provide
such services. Much debate followed
the proposal, including discussion on
the discount rate as a form of finan-cial
aid, the size of existing classes,
and whether the reduced rate should
apply to regular classes, night
classes, and/or continuing education
classes. The question was sent on to
the Academics Committee for fur-ther
investigation.
On the suggestion of the Com-munity
Life Committee of the Univer-sity
Council, a measure to establish
"an educational committee to de-velop
and propagate programs deal-ing
with the use of alcohol within the
University structure" was adopted. A
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foundation to build a F.U.S.A. presi-dent."
"I think the turn out this year was
fantastic," commented Navarro. He
continued that, "Thanks to a total
team effort, I am where I am right
now." Navarro expressed his
sincere thanks to all the candidates
for providing what he termed an "ex-citing
and fair election." "Now it is
time to start all over again," detailed
Navarro. He continued that "There
are 600 votes now available for the
taking; I'll be going around for the
rest of the week dorm to dorm to
make certain that the students know
all the issues."
In the past few years, election
turnout has hovered around the
47-49 percent figure. This years
primary election showed a marginal
increase in voting activity at slightly
over 51 percent.
Although the other candidates
could not be reached for comment
on the election results, it is
suspected that each will publicly
back one of the two primary winners.
The crucial phase leading to Tues-day's
election is seen by both can-didates
to be the radio debate. This
they feel will give them optimum
coverage to the students still
deciding who should be the next
F.U.S.A. president.
The best voting turnouts came
from Northwest with 233 votes cast
and the Off Campus Boarders with
189 votes cast.
One of the most disappointing
aspects of the election was the turn-out
in the commuter vote. Out of ap-proximately
850 commuters, only
102 cast their ballots. This works out
to be 12 percent of the commuter
population. One commuter felt that
this was because "the candidates
really did not address themselves to
any issues that affect commuters.
Most ofxis are not looking for a social
life, but rather we have that at home.
My main concern is parking."
The final election will be Tuesday,
from the hours of 9 to 5. Mike Navarro
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ELECTION RESULTS
Commuter! O.C.B's Gonzaga Northwest Julie Hall Loyola Regis Fareast Campion Southeast Totals
Jim Connolly 17 68 43 30 5 39 49 8 37 21 317
Mike Navarro 15 73 32 39 0 26 23 28 18 23 277
Bob Stall 20 13 .30 76 17 25 21 21 20 24 267
George Schietinger 16 8 25 35 4 17 41 10 37 9 202
Steve Ciardiello . 8 7 34 41 3 6 23 8 16 6 152
Trudy Neuhaus 13 17 4 7 7 6 9 16 8 17 104
Write-in 10 8 3 3 0 5 10 2 0 2 43
Invalid 3 5 0 2 0 2 0 4 4 6 26
Total for Area 102 189 171 233 36 126 176 97 140 108 1388
WVOF Hits Snag with Power Boost
by Tucker Forman
A Federal Communications Com-mission
(FCC) ruling that all noncom-mercial
or ten watt stations must go
100 watts by their 1980 license re-newal
is presenting the Fairfield-campus
radio station, WVOF, with a
few problems in deciding which op-tions
they can take.
According to station manager,
Brian Beusse, a frequency search
made by A. D. Ring and Associates
was made recently to determine
what the consequences would be if
the wattage would be increased to
200. The search checked all stations
in the area to see if the increase
would interfere with other stations.
It seems that in order to get the af-firmation
from the FCC, it must be
proved that the increase will not
block signals from other area sta-tions.
Beusse states "This is where
the problem is. A. D. Ring and Asso-ciates
calculated, on an average
height and average power basis, the.
statistics of the other area stations,
for the preliminary report. A detailed
study has resulted in figures compil-ed
by A. D. Ring which the FCC inter-prets
as three stations being higher
than the average previously stated."
Beusse adds "The facts now state
that we would not be able to protect
the following three stations from us
interfering with their primary
coverage area: WNHU of New
Haven at 88.7, WMNR of Monroe,
CT. at 88.1, and WFCR or Amherst,
Mass. at 88.5."
"We could try to increase our
power to 100 watts on our present
frequency buy prevent interference
to other stations by using a direc-tional
antenna system. If we are not
able to do that, then we will look for a
space on the non-commercial band
where we could run at 10 watts. The
last option is to remain at 10 watts on
the present frequency and show the
FCC that we are on the least preclu-sionary
channel in the area. Further
research is being done on this by A.
D. Ring.
Beusse adds that WVOF will try to
adhere to the directional antenna
system. This system gives a signal of
200 watts away from the stations
that you are blocking.
Beusse also credits the work of
Stan Hiriak, radio consultant for
WVOF and Mick McCullough, chair-man
of the board of directors for be-ing
his contacts with A. D. Ring and
Associates.
In trying to show "least preclu-sionary"
station, Beusse proposes
his arguments for the increasing
diversification of the station.
"Presently, we have two sports
shows, a public affairs program, our
Sunday mbrning Polish broadcast,
an Old Time radio show, various
classical shows, our all fifties Juke
Box Program on Saturday night, and
Gospel shows. Also, we are hoping to
arrange for ABC National News
broadcasts later in the spring. They
would handle national news and we
the local. All of these, plus Full
House and various broadcast of
hockey and basketball games add up
to a variety of programs offered by
WVOF."
In a nonrelated but important item,
Beusse announced the nominees fOT
station manager for next year. They
are: John Bello, junior and AM direc-tor
for the first semester and assis-tant
program director; Orlando
Carvalho, junior and program direc-tor;
Stever Chessare, junior, sports
director and basketball announcer;
John Chester, junior and news direc-tor;
and Frank Marocco, sophomore
and present AM director.
The election will take place on
Monday, February 12th. A secret
ballot takes place with each nominee
choosing another member to go out
with Beusse to count the votes. After
the votes are counted, if someone
gets 50 percent'1 votes the election
is over. If not, the two top vote get-ters
are in a run off with the same
procedures.
The only voting requirement is that
you have been a member of the radio
station since January 1, 1979. By a
change in the constitution, student
and non-student members will now
get votes.