Mirror - Vol. 09, No. 28 - March 20, 1986

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FairfieldMIRRORv Volume 9, No. 28 Thursday, March 20, 1986 The Image of Fairfield
Loyola medalist, student achievement winners announced
Student achievement award winners are John Habetz, Tony George, Gina Zarlengo, Steve
Humes, and Brian Sutton. Missing is Barbara Valentine. [Photo by Karen Haney]
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Loyola medalist John Mancini
[Photo by Karen Haney]
BC seeks coach, Mitch considered
by David Wunsch
Mitch Buonaguro is reportedly being
considered for the head coaching job at
Boston College.
Articles in Tlw Boston Globe and local
Connecticut newspapers say that along with
Buonaguro, two other B.C. alumni are also
up for the position. The coaching job was
made available when former head coach
Gary Williams announced his resignation.
Robert Dukiet 70, now the head coach
of St. Peters in Jersey City, and St.
Bonaventure's head coach, James O'Brien
71 are also being considered.
Mitch Buonaguro said, "They haven't ap-proached
me. All I know is what's been
written in the papers." He declined further
comment.
Buonaguro was Rollie Massimino's top
assistant coach for eight seasons before en-gineering
Fairfield's dramatic turnaround
this past season. The Stags finished the sea-son
at 24 and 7, and made its first appear-ance
in the NCAA Tournament. A 1975
graduate of Boston College, Buonaguro
played for the B.C. Eagles for four years
and continued as an assistant coach for two
more years.
Bob Dukiet coached MAAC rival St.
Peters to a 16-12 record this season and an
overall record for seven seasons of 135-64.
He responded to the reports by saying, "I'm
working hard recruiting for St. Peters. I
have no time to worry about hearsay." He
also refused to comment further.
St. Bonaventure's O'Brien would not
comment on whether or not he was up for
consideration. He is in his fourth year of
coaching for the Bonnies. O'Brien was cap-tain
of his B.C. squad and was the leading
scorer in his day.
The Boston College Athletic Department
responded to the articles by saying, "What
you see in the newspapers, is what every-one
knows at Boston College." When asked
who had the edge of the three candidates,
they responded, "We have no information
at this time."
Sources say the interviews are being held
this week and a decision should be an-nounced
within the next two weeks.
by Denise Murphy
Six Fairfield University seniors have
been chosen as recipients of Student
Achievement Awards. In addition, John
Mancini has been announced as the winner
of the Loyola medal, the highest honor to
be bestowed upon a graduate.
According to Steve Jacobs, Assistant
Provost and Chairman of the 13 member
Awards Committee, the nominees are
reviewed based on two elements: academ-ics
and extracurricular involvement. Jacobs
commented, "The goal of the committee
was to select the students who are truly
representative of the outstanding students
at Fairfield." He also remarked, "Tradition-ally,
only four students have been chosen.
However, this year we had such a quali-fied
pool that we increased the number.
Jacobs described the selection process as
a "spirited review, one in which there was
a great deal of give and take". He said that
several members of the administration in-cluding
Fr. William Cullen, Chaplain, Fr.
Higgins, Executive Assistant to the Presi-dent,
and Mr. Fitzpatrick, Dean of Univer-sity
Activities, were involved with the
process. "Because these people interact with
the students on a daily basis," he stated,
"their input was very helpful."
The winners of the Student Achievement
Awards are as follows: Tony George,
Basketball; Stephen Humes, The Mirror;
John Habitz, Campus Ministry; Brian Sut-ton,
Resident Advisors; Barbara Valentine,
Accounting; and Gina Zarlenga, F.U.S.A.
The Student Achievement Awards will
be presented at an invitation dinner to be
held on Friday, April 25, in the Oak Room.
The Loyola Medal will be given to John
Mancini by Rev. Aloysius P. Kelly, Presi-dent
on graduation day. May 18.
Stags end season
Byron lectures on poverty
by Connie McKenna
The second in a series of lectures on the
theme of the American economy was
presented Tuesday night by Fr. William
J.Byron, S.J. The lecture, entitled "Poverty
and Power" was held in the Oakroom and
was presented to a large crowd of mostly
non-student adults.
Byron, the author of the book Toward
Stewardship and of over eighty articles in
the past twenty-five years began his lecture
by discussing what economist Galbraith
labels as one of the two types of poverty ;that
which affects only minorities.
Byron stated that blacks and hispanics
suffer poverty disproportionate to that
which whites suffer, and that poverty
among children is increasing rapidly, cit-ing
that while 47 percent of black children
live in poverty, only 15 percent of non-minority
children live in such condi-tions.
Children's poverty is "linked to such
factors as divorce, teen-age pregnancies,
and the ease in which fathers are able to
physically and financially able to abandon
their families,"stated Byron.He asserted
that education is an "extraordinarily effec-tive
poverty fighting device," but added that
the child must be rooted in a stable family
environment in order for education to be
the most effective.
A 73 percent decline in standard of liv-ing
is what mosl women experience their
first year after divorce, while their hus-bands
usually experience a 42 percent in-crease
in their standard of living. Since most
women obtain custody of their children,
stated Byron, "this creates an economic
difficulty." To prevent teen-age pregnan-cies,
Byron asserted that education must
"foster the life of the mind of the young and
sway their decisions away from instant
gratification."
To help impoverished minority children,
stated Byron, communities must have a
genuine regard for the improvement of edu-cation,
and must "believe, again, that
schools can make a difference."What By-ron
believes is an integral part of this pro-gram
is the power on behalf of teachers to
remove students who have the ability but
lack motivation."Students who want to learn
must be protected from those who don't."
In recognizing education as one of the
most powerful weapons with which to com-bat
poverty, Byron acknowledged, "Chil-dren,
now poor, have no hope of
overcoming poverty without mastery of
words and numbers, which are the qualita-tive
and quantitative measures of our
society."
by Donna Savarese
Making it to the NCAAs meant a finan-cial
reward for the team and a chance to
compete on a level with the country's best
basketball teams in the NCAA Tournament.
Each playoff level that a school is able
to advance to means a certain amount of
money for that school. The further the
school goes, the more money is made ac-cording
to reports. For making it to the first
round, Fairfield will make a projected
amount of $167,000 according to the
NCAAs. However, the university actually
keeps forty percent of this. The remaining
sixty percent is distributed among the other
teams in the MAAC. The forty percent is
institutional income and the university de-cides
what it will do with the money based
on its priorities.
According to Mitch Buonaguro, head
coach of the Stags, the school made no
money from NCAA tournament ticket
sales. The NCAA makes every school in
the tournament buy a certain number of
tickets for the games from them. This along
with TV rights and other money-making
plans allows them to make millions of dol-lars
every year. Buonaguro compares the
NCAA to a "big business operation."
This was the most successful year in Stag
history. For the first time they were able
to break into the NCAAs. "That's what
made the whole thing so exciting and spe-cial,"
says Buonaguro.
Fr. William J. Byron, S.J. [Photo by Karen Haney]