Mirror - Vol. 08, No. 09 - October 11, 1984

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Robberies Plague Beach Residents
by Kathryn King
Four Fairfield student residences on Fairfield
Beach Road were burglarized on Friday, October
5, between eleven p.m. and three a.m.
Lt. Eggers of the Fairfield Police Department
said that the suspect in these burglaries is
"responsible for other burglaries in the past. We
are looking for an individual who was seen."
The suspect is described as a white male who
is about five feet ten inches and stocky. He is 35
to 40 years old and clean shaven. He was seen
wearing a black thigh length leather coat and a
black Irish-like cap. Lt. Eggers stressed that if any-one
sees a man of this description on Fairfield
Beach Road, you should immediately call the
Police and ask for the Detective Bureau.
Apparently, someone is sneaking around look-ing
for unlocked doors and windows. There is evi-dence
that he walks along the beach. He has
been burglarizing houses since late August. He
probably burglarized many homes in one night
because many Fairfield students go home over
the Columbus Day weekend.
At 885 Fairfield Beach Road, Kathy Schuh said
that she was sleeping and "all of a sudden I heard
glass break." She thought it was her housemate
returning home. However, the burglar had broken
the window in the door, stuck his hand in, un-locked
it, and loosened the chain lock.
The burglar opened Kathy's door and walked
in. He seemed surprised to see her there and only
looked at her and left. Nothing was taken. Kathy
Schuh said that they were going to get deadbolts
on the doors.
After this burglary, friends that heard about it
visited her and joked that they should go home
and see if their house was all right. When they
went home at 2:00 a.m., they found the burglar
had broken in through their back window.
One of the girls said, "I think we walked in on
him. He was definitely frightened off by someone."
Two of the three bedrooms were ransacked. He
had rummaged through the dresser drawers and
had picked through the jewelry. A good deal of
jewelry and twenty dollars in cash were stolen.
Money on the kitchen table wasn't stolen because
he was probably scared off.
When Megan Sangster of 555 Fairfield Beach
Road came home at 3:00 a.m., she found that
the burglar had "made a mess" at her house. The
burglar went through the back window. He ran-sacked
jewelry boxes and dumped everything out.
The only things stolen were a string of pearls and
a set of spare car keys with the description of the
car attached. New Locks will have to be made for
the car. Megan Sangster commented, "It wasn't
exactly fun and it makes me not want to live here."
UniversityAcquires
Naval Commission
by Chris Tyler
Fairfield University in conjunction with the Unit-ed
States Navy will be offering a program to Bus-iness
majors that would offer them a commission
into the United States Naval Reserve Supply
Corps. There is also a tentative plan to try and
institute a Naval Reserve Officer Training Com-mission
(NROTC) in conjunction with Maritime
College and Fordham University.
The Program, which is offered to Business
majors, would allow them to be commissioned
as an Ensign in the Navy. To qualify for the pro-gram
any individual with a major in Accounting,
Finance, Management, Marketing, Information
Systems, or Economics can apply provided that
they meet certain criteria. The student must have
a 3.0 grade point average, receive a recommen-dation
from the Dean of the Business School, Dr.
R. Keith Martin and the head of the department
of their major field, and score above a 75 on the
Officers Aptitude Rating.
The Commissioning program for Business
majors offers many opportunities as well, accord-ing
to a Navy spokesperson, Lt. Dick Goldner. The
program offers job experience, job training, and
a high degree of responsibility. Said Lf. Goldner,
"At age twenty five or so you can leave the navy
and enter the job market with some really impres-sive
data on a resume."
Fairfield University is the first school to offer
this type of program according to Lt. Goldner.
"Fairfield was chosen because of the excellence
of its Business School." He concluded "This is
a pilot program, and we hope it works out well."
The purpose of the NROTC program would be
to solely offer the opportunities associated with
such a program. Financial benefits are the
primary source of those opportunities. Accord-ing
to Kempton Baldridge, Director of Corporate
and Foundation Relations, there is no plan to es-tablish
any form of an ROTC program on the Fair-field
University Campus. There is a program for
Army ROTC with the University of Bridgeport and
the Navy is desirous of establishing a similar
program.
Beach thefts continue to harass off-campus boarders making life at the beach anything
but secure. [Photo by Gerry McPartland]
At 505 Fairfield Beach Road, a camera, money,
jewelry and a bike were stolen. Kathy Quinn said
that they're not sure exactly what was missing be-cause
some of the girls went home for the
weekend.
The burglar had broken through the back win-dow.
Every room was ransacked. Two wallets he
stole were found behind the Naut with the money
missing. He also took a clock and while ransack-ing
the house, he turned a television on and
turned it upside down.
Earlier in September a car parked in front of
the house had a jacket and other things stolen
from it and a box sitting outside was stolen. Anne
Farrell, one of the girls living there, commented,
"We're quite embittered and feei we've been in-truded
upon. It's terrible to think we're not safe
in our own house."
Print Shop Loses Staff
by Thomas P. Moore
Numerous resignations hit the university print
shop simultaneously as the source of a large per-centage
of the printed matter on campus was
forced to send out their printing work. The direc-tor
of the shop, Mr. Joseph J. Golia, who is part
of the rash of full time long service employees
who have found other places to work, said, "As
soon as possible the positions will be filled and
things will be back to normal. Everything hap-pened
at once; everyone is looking to advance."
He added that there is a traditional problem with
the private sector being able to offer more money
in the way of wages because of the financial limi-tations
that tuition puts on an academic organi-zation.
Mr. Golia, who would have worked at the univer-sity
for 14 years this April, is leaving this month
to begin work at a manufacturing firm in Stam-ford.
He commented on the career move by say-ing
"I did not seek the position, they came to me.
I have nothing bad to say about the university,
it has all been good for me." Explaining the job
change, he said, "I feel at some time you have
to do something else than what you like" refer-ring
to the fact that his employement at Fairfield
was a good experience for him, but the offer from
Stamford was too tempting.
Last March two of the print shops long service
employees left to start their own firm in Trumbull.
Another employee the Reproductions Clerk,
Susan Griffith, who worked at the shop for a num-ber
of years, received her Master's degree from
the university last spring and decided to move
on and away from the university.
The employees leaving the print shop in such
a large number prompted the administration to
take action. The first reaction to the flight of
workers was to do a survey and examine the
merits of sending out the work that the shop did
in the past.
The number of the work study students who
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F.U.S.A. Works On Financial Gaps
Chuck Hacker, F.U.S.A. treasurer, contends with an $18,000 deficit, among other financial
difficulties. [Photo by Karen Haney]
by Dana Agnello
F.U.S.A. has been hard at work this year plan-ning
on how to get rid of the deficit of $18,000.
Chuck Hacker, the treasurer, said their first step
was to reduce this year's spending. Fran Kenneal-ly
is also going to appeal to the student legisla-tion
to see if the deficit can be spread out over
3 years. This means each consecutive F.U.S.A.
administration for the next three years would be
responsible for paying $6,000. This would make
it much easier to pay back the deficit without "cut-ting
any student activities, such as formal
dances", stated Fran.
When asked why the deficit is so high, Chuck
Hacker replied that it is, in part, from under-estimating
F.U.S.A. expenses. To remedy this
Hacker said they are "putting a tighter control on
money" the exact amount of an item purchased
or an event will be entered in their books, instead
of an estimate which could turn out to be way off.
Hacker stated that this will ensure against over
spending and keep the books properly balanced.
Chuch commented that they have also ar-ranged
to get itemized lists of expenses as money
is withdrawn. Previously, they would get reports
from Bellarmine on their balance as much as four
months later. Chuck stated that because of this
they "were not told (they're) over budget".
Hacker said that the purpose of F.U.S.A. is "to
provide entertainment for students at a reasona-ble
price." Their goal is not to make a profit for
themselves, but to "end the year with zero
money." Hacker further stated that in many in-stances,
such as Stag-Her Inn activities and lec-tures,
F.U.S.A. often loses money. It does not have
"an endless supply of money," as many students
think. Most of the money is made through sell-out
dances like Motown last week, Hacker com-mented.
Fran said that unless they can make money on
activities, or spread out the deficit, "the level of
student activities will be jeopardized" Chuck com-mented
that, at worst, they would have to cut out
some of the formal dances because of lack of
funds due to the deficit. "Through knowledge of
what we're doing (planning expenses better) we
will end the deficit", Chuck stated. He says that
their plan has been working" so far. In events we
have broken even or made a small profit... we
cannot run aother deficit."