Mirror - Vol. 07, No. 04 - September 7, 1983

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F.U.S.A. Encounters Deficit
by Thomas P. Moore
Three issues have kept F.U.S.A. president Fran
Kenneally and his cabinet members extremely
busy considering the fact that the school year is
not a week old yet. A carry-over deficit that orig-inally
amounted to over $20,000 from last year's
F.U.S.A. administration under the direction of
Robert Sullivan, increased tension regarding the
university's students who live at the Beach and
problems with last spring's commencement
ceremonies glared as the big questions that must
be answered before the 84-85 term gets any older.
At press time, the Kenneally administration had
reduced the deficit to around $15,000 by double
checking the report they received from the univer-sity
accounting office. A considerable part of the
debt involves an $8,000 loss on the Senior Week
'84 activities, a separate program from F.U.S.A.
Tradtionally it was understood that F.U.S.A. would
pick up any profit or loss from that event. This
concept evolved from the fact that a $2,000
F.U.S.A. loan is used to start of the planning and
events included in Senior Week. Never before had
a problem of this magnitude been encountered
with the week long series of programmed events
that are designed to give the graduating class a
special last week at the university before com-mencement.
F.U.S.A. itself has experienced
deficits in the area of $5,000 in previous years.
When asked what plans were being made to
solve the university's student governmental
finance problems, two plans were being ex-amined.
One way of handling the debt would be
to pay it off immediately, $75000 per semester.
The cost of this option weighing heavily on the
amount of money F.U.S.A. would have available
for its various student oriented functions. The
other plan being considered is one that spreads
the overspent funds over the next three years.
Commenting on this mo~3 of paying the money
back to the university, F.U.S.A. president Fran Ken-neally
said that he would meet with representa-tives
of the future classes that would be affected
by the gradual paying of the debt.
For beach residents, the atmosphere welcom-ming
them back to school is a tense one. Over
the summer a successful lobby has been mount-ed
by the Fairfield Beach Road Association un-der
the direction of Mr. Robert Werner.
Year round residents in the area that is shared
by Fairfield students during the school term have
been speaking out more intensively about their
feelings toward the Fairfield students supposed
lack of concern for the other resident in the area.
Accusations were made by various people that
the university sponsors the loud parties held in
the area by advertising them on campus and pro-
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F.U.S.A. president Fran Kenneally and Treasurer Chuck Hacker go over some figures as they
contend with the F.U.S.A. budget. [Photo by Thomas P. Moore]
Fr. Keegan Heads Housing Office
by Stephen J. Humes
A Jesuit Priest was appointed Director of Stu-dent
Residences this summer following a three
week vacancy period when the assistant direc-tor
was handling all the responsibilities of the job.
Rev. John W. Keegan, S.J. arrived in Farifield
August 1 to assume the responsibilities of the po-sition
after Phyllis A. Fitzpatrick transfered from
Student Services to University Resources Divi-sion
as director of management information.
Fr. Keegan was President of Cheverus High
School in Portland, Maine for four years. Prior to
that, he worked at a Cranwell School. The.'59
Mrs. Fitzpatrick Changes Post
by Thomas P. Moore
In a summer that was filled with a myriad of personnel changes, one university administrator moved
from Loyola to Bellarmine. More than location changed for Phyllis A. Fitzpatrick. The director of stu-dent
residences for seven years shifted her duties to those concerned with the offices of the provost,
a change of scene from Student Services where she started in 1976 as assistant director of student
residences.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick jumps over to the University Resouces Division as director of management infor-mation.
Her new post entails tabulating and making available various information about the university.
The job was previously held by Robert Russo, now Registrar, and then Linda M. Trabka who left
her position earlier this year.
The main responsibilities of the post include the publishing the univesity fact book, an internal
publication that contains many of the vital statistics of this institution. Filing reports to the Board
of Higher Education every six weeks is also a major job task.
A graduate of the University of Dayton with both a bachelor's degree in English and a master's
degree in student personnel services, Mrs. Fitzpatrick commented on the new position by saying
that she still will be working with students since many of the statistics she manages deal directly
with data concerning the student body. She continued by saying that after eight year's it was time
to move on, "When the position was made available it looked attractive to me. My move was unex-pected.
She expressed the feeling that she was glad that Mr. William P. Schimpf permitted her to-make
the job change. Commenting on the change of job she said, "It reminds you that you are not
indispensable."
Talking about the change in job duties she said "I went from people to things." "I was flat, after
eight years I was ready for a move. I wanted something on the business side of things."
Mrs. Fitzpatrick's replacement is Rev. John W. Keegan, S.J., who along with Mr. Daniel Remly,
the new assistant director of student residences who replaces Leigh Cromey, (the former assistant
director) will manage the resident hall population of Fairfield University.
graduate of Boston College entered the Society
of Jesus that same year. He holds degrees in the-ology
and philosophy from Weston and a M.A.L.S.
in math From Wesleyan.
"I've been working with High School students
for fifteen years. I felt this would be taking my ex-periences
with students a step further. I was in-terested
in working with college students for a
change."
Fr. Keegan stepped up to Loyola 3 as a House-master,
making his home only three floors above
his office. He said he didn't mind living so close
to his work. He added that he is looking forward
to living and working with the students.
Fr. Keegan cited Daniel C. Remley, his assis-tant
director, as very helpful. Remley was hired
in June to replace Leigh Cromey. Keegan thinks
he will work well with Remley and the head resi-dents
and expects the new team will succeed in
handling the challenging task.
Keegan said he was pleased the Townhouse
project was completed on time.
Regarding the crowding of the dorms, Keegan
was pleased that as of August 28, only 26 fresh-men
would live in lounges. He said he expected
that number to drop a few by the first week of
school due to"no shows". Fr. Keegan reported that
the lounges affected this year are Claver 1-4, Cam-pion
3, Gonzaga 1, and Loyola 3. The situation
is not nearly as significiant as it was last year when
80 freshmen were housed in lounges and triples.
Fr. Keegan discussed meetings with the cam-pus
Housemasters. He hopes to see good com-munications
among the priests regarding their
ministry with the students.
"My strongest asset is-that I'm a Jesuit," Fr.
Keegan said. "I see myself as contributing to the
non-academic side of the students' life at Fair:
field." He added, "the living situation should be
considered a part of the education, especially in
terms of values and expectations."
Fr. Keegan described himself as "relaxed and
ready" to handle the challenges of the job. He
gratefully acknowledged that Dan Remley and the
secretaries were doing a good job especially in
orientating him with his duties.
"Student Services will be a Jesuit vision of edu-cation,"
He added, "while the academics are the
real reason why the students are here, growth and
education socially are very important also."
Registration Process Develops
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The Bellarmine Pond dredging operations slowly make progress towards the goal of deepen-ing
its bottom. The body of water was gradually sedimenting or filing up with dirt. Comple-tion
dates for the project are still uncertain. [Photo by Gerry McPartland and Karen Haney]
by Stephen J. Humes
If you had a "good number" last spring in the
university's lottery system for registration, you
probably thought you would get any class you
wanted.
Not necessarily so.
If you had a "bad number" in the lottery you
may have thought you didn't stand a chance to
get a class of your choice.
Not necessarily so.
Both of these conditions exist because of the
way the University Registrar and the Deans have
designed the registration system.
"We have developed a priority system," said
Robert C. Russo, University Registrar. "The goal
of the system is that each student be able to
choose courses for his/her major first, and then
choose the second major, minor, core courses and
finally electives."
Russo explained that the computer starts with
senior with lottery #1 and runs through only as-signing
the major. After the last in the freshman
class has been assigned major courses, the com-puter
returns to senior #1 and reads his second
major or minor in the same way. The process con-tinues
until the end in this way.
This is the priority system. The Deans feel that
students should always be able to select a course
in their major. At the same time they recognized
that seniors should have first choice of electives.
This system tries to suit both needs," said Russo.
"We just bought a new reader machine which
will be able to handle the demand accurately,"
said Russo. He added, "the error rate is now very
low."
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