Mirror - Vol. 09, No. 09 - September 19, 1985

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Volume 9, No. 9 MIRRORY Thursday, September 19, 1985 The Image of Fairfield
New dean begins work
College of Arts & Sciences, Dean David Danaher. [Photo by Kevin Wolfthal]
Special Events plans schedule
by Kathryn King
Among the many new faces at Fairfield
is the new Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dr.
David Danaher. He assumed his new posi-tion
on July first.
Danaher has not yet made any plans for
changes in the College of Arts and Sciences.
"I have a lot of learning to do,"he said, be-fore
he makes any changes. In the begin-ning,
he says that he is trying to familiarize
himself with Fairfield. jTm looking for as
many opportunities to meet with as many
people as I can," said Dr. Danaher.
The first chance he had to meet with Fair-field
people was in November when he was
invited to be interviewed by the search com-mittee.
He had an additional interview with
Father Kelley and other administrators. He
liked Fairfield very much."If I was fortunate
to be offered the job, I'd be delighted to as-sume
the position." After careful screen-ing,
Dr. Danaher was chosen to succeed
Dr. Stephen Weber as Dean of Arts and
Sciences.
by Connie McKenna
The Special Events committee, the fund-raisinj;
branch of FUSA, begins its
programming on September 25 with a day-time
promo of Video Rock Night, which
occurs on September 28. According to Spe-cial
Events chairperson Gina Zarlengo, the
committee will be making "a special effort
to make Video Rock Night extremely visi-ble
and to get people really excited about
it." The promo will feature a large screen
set up in the Campus Center lobby upon
which rock videos will be shown. Zarlen-go
and her committee are hoping to make
Video Rock Night a "zany black-tie affair",
to add zest to the evening's festivities.
Also on the Special Events calendar is a
career spectrum, for which more than fifty
representatives from corporations and or-ganizations
will be present to answer stu-dent's
questions. The career spectrum will
take place on October 10, during Career
Week, and is being produced in conjunc-tion
with the Career Planning Center.
Planned for November 1 is a Halloween
Bash, which traditionally includes a band
and dance in the Oakroom, costume con-tests
and the showing of a horror film in
the Mezzanine. This year the band will be
'The Touch',
As in the past, the proceeds from the Hal-loween
Bash as well as those from Video
Rock Night will be donated to the United
Way Foundation.
There are two charitable sub-committees
of Special Events, which are United Way
and Drive-for-Five, co-chaired by Eileen
Ellis and Tina Machiag. "Because of the
worthy causes behind Special Events",
states Zarlengo, "its important that we sell
out and make money, but its just as impor-tant
to offer quality events where students
can have lots of fun."
Dr. Danaher, a native of the Bronx and
Westchester area, was director of general
education at SUNY at Oswego and also
taught history there. He has taught and lec-tured
at the University of Pisa, University
of Parma, Vienna, and Trinity at Dublin.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Manhattan College and a Master of Arts
from the University of Vienna, Oxford
University, and the University of Mas-sachusetts.
After such a varied background, what in
Fairfield attracted him? He said that he was
interested in a commitment to the develop-ment
in liberal arts.
He cited many factors that he liked about
Fairfield such as the nature of the position
of the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the
thoughtful reception he received. "The ob-vious
care in the whole process of recruit-ing
heightened my interest," Dr. Danaher
said. He liked the strong undergraduate
population, the commitment to the enhance-ment
of the humanities, and the "marvelous
location" of the school.
F.U.S.A. debt erased
due to budgeting
Approximately $28,000 has been carried
forward from last year's F.U.S.A. Budget.
According to Kim hale. Director of, the
sum of money is being used to pay for the
F.U.S.A. debt that accrued over previous
years. Under former F.U.S.A. President
Fran Kenneally '85, a resolution was adopt-ed
to pay off the debt over a three year peri-od.
The resolution prescribed that
approximately $6,000 be paid each year.
Last year the first payment was made, and
this left a balance of $12,000 that had not
yet been paid. The budget surplus,
however, allows the debt o be eradicated
from the books, and allows an additional
$16,000 to be added to this year's budget.
Presently, the F.U.S.A. budget is ap-proximately
$96,000, and is arrived at from
the $35 fee that all students pay. This year,
however, the student association will have
a working budget of roughly $112.000.
The budget surplus is the result of a vari-ety
of sources. First, money returned from
club allocations and the money saved from
the Mayday event contributed to the carry
over. In addition, the lack of a major fall
concert and unused purchase order funds
also add to the budget excess.
Hale also added that an additional
$23,000 was lost on various scheduled
events. Had any of these broken even, the
busget surplus would be much more
sizable.
Hale also stressed that better financing
and more lucrative spending on the part of
F.U.S.A. was also a major contributor to
the surplus.
For more information, and a related ar-ticle
see FUNDS, on page seven.
Jesuit scholar to speak
Rev. David Hollenbeck will speak on the Catholic Bishops' pastoral letter.
[Photo Courtesy Public Relations]
Almost a year ago, the Catholic bishops
in the United States stimulated a debate and
controversy with a pastoral letter that at-tacked
what they believed to be unjust eco-nomic
policies that affected the poor in this
country and overseas. With the issues still
simmering, the Rev. David Hollenbeck,
S.J., consultant to the bishops will come
to Fairfield University on Thursday, Sept.
26, to discuss The Bishops' Letter: Capital-ism
and Communism."
The pastoral letter was entitled "Cathol-ic
Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy"
and when it was released shortly after Presi-dent
Reagans's re-election, it was criticized
by conservatives as critical of the national
government. However, the bishops defend-ed
the document as non-political and intend-ed
to support social programs that would
combat poverty and unemployment.
Father Hollenbeck will speak in the
University's Campus Center at 8 p.m. in
the continuing Bellarmine Lecture Series
by Distinguised Jesuit Scholars. Admission
is free.
Father Hollenbeck is an associate profes-sor
of theological ethics at the Weston
School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass.,
and was a consultant to the National Con-ference
of Catholic Bishops Committee on
Catholic Teaching and the American
Economy.
Concerned with Christian social ethics
and social ministry, he is the author of two
books,. Claims in Conflict: Retrieving and
Renewing the Catholic Human Rights Tra-ditions
and Nuclear Ethics: A Christian
Moral Argument. Father Hollenbeck is also
a member of the Justice and Peace Com-mission
of the Archdiocese of Boston.
He has also been a research associate at
The Woodstock Theological Center in
Washington , D.C.; a teaching assistant at
the Yale Divinity School and an instructor
in philosophy at Georgetown University.