Mirror - Vol. 10, No. 09 - September 25, 1986

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FairfieldMIRRORv Volume 10, No. 9 Our Tenth Year Thursday, September 25, 1986 The Image of Fairfield
Father Mooney retiring
Rev. Christopher F. Mooney, S.J. announces his retirement after seven years as Aca-demic
Vice-President. [Photo by Andrea Whitehouse]
By Connie McKenna
News Editor
The Rev. Christopher F. Mooney, S.J.,
has announced his intention to retire as
Fairfield University's first Academic Vice-
President. He will remain in his position,
however, until the end of the academic
year.
Mooney will have completed seven years
as Academic Vice-President, during which
time he helped co-ordinate such develop-ments
as a graduate program in business,
new undergraduate majors and minors, and
the reorganization of the Graduate School
of Communication.
The position of Academic Vice-President
was created in 1980, and was, says
Mooney, "an index of the change and
growth that was going on within the
University at that time." Until 1980, vari-ous
administrators shared the duties which
Mooney eventually undertook.
After his retirement, Mooney will be on
a one year sabbatical, during which time he
plans to do some writing. He will return to
Fairfield University the following year to
resume teaching in the Religious Studies
Department.
A committee is presently being formed
to search for Father Mooney's successor.
Mirror celebrates Tenth Anniversary
By Joseph Draper
Friday, September 19 the Mirror held a
reception in conjunction with its tenth an-niversary.
The event attracted over 100
alumni who had contributed to student
newspapers at Fairfield. Those in atten-dance
spanned from the first newspapers
printed at Fairfield to this year's staff.
The evening began with a benediction
from Rev. Peter A. DeMarco, '56 and now
Pastor at St. Charles of Bridgeport. Stephen
Humes, Editor-in-Chief from 1986 served
as the Master of Ceremonies. CBS News
Correspondent Douglas Edwards gave the
keynote address.
"We need all the newspapers we can pub-lish,"
said Edwards, "including your splen-did
Mirror to keep us abreast of the world's
swift and complex developments." Edwards
went on to discuss the current situation at
CBS where Lawrence Tish took over in a
well publicized overthrow of CEO and
Chairman William Wyman. "If nothing else
CBS has very definitly washed its linen in
public."
• Edwards closed by encouraging the paper
to always remember "the importance of
striving towards excellence. If you strive
toward greatness, you will constantly move
forward to something ever beyond, not yet
reached, to do more and to do it better."
The evening's affairs continued with
several former editors recalling what was
going while they were at Fairfield.
Dr. Frank Malyszka described what it
was like to be the first editor at Fairfield.
"We started the Tentative in 1948 and that's
exactly what it was. After that first year we
had a contest to name the paper. I won't tell
you some of the names students offered."
The second paper was the Fulcrum.
In our third year I picked the name the
Stag. We got to the stage where it was go-ing
to be printed instead of mimeographed."
Malyszka described his first few issues. "In
those days the paper came out on Monday
mornings. Sure enough each Monday I
would have a note in my box calling me in
to see the President. Someone always had
something they didn't like. After the first
few meetings I actually enjoyed debating
with the President." Malyszka is the origi-nal
Editor-in-Chief of the Stag.
Richard Lawless, '64, gave some impres-sions
of his time on the paper. "The very
first piece I ever got in the University paper
which was in December 1962 was an abso-lutely
atrocious review of a poetry reading.
I look back sometimes in horror. But I have
to admit that everytime I saw my name in
print I glowed."
"We were very much under University
Continued on page 8
Some members of last year's staff enjoy a light moment at F.U. Mirror reception L. to R.
Denise Murphy, Dave DeFusco, Andrea Whitehouse, Scott Towers, Kathryn King Jeanne
Burke. [Photo by Mark Belanger]
STAG-HER POLICY
TEMPORARY
Road Construction Continues
Construction crews are working to build a new road connecting Bellarmine Pond to Nyselius
Library. A new parking lot is also being added.
[Photo by Andrea Whitehouse]
by Joseph T. Draper
This afternoon at 3:30 the University
Council will meet to discuss the fate of
weeknight programming in the Stag-her
Inn. The Council consists of three faculty
members, four administrative members and
four students. The hearing will take place
in the Faculty Dining Room and the
University public is invited.
As a temporary step Mr. James Fitz-patrick
has agreed to allow FUSA to sched-ule
one weeknight per month for scheduling
under the former system. This permits
FUSA to schedule entertainment as was
done last year at least once during Sep-tember.
Prior to this decision Michael Miller,
FUSA President, had sent a letter to Fitz-patrick
indicating that the initial Stag-her
Inn program with "Broken Bottles" was a
failure. After seeing a crowd of 20 at 8:00
PM he wrote the following: "It was at this
point that I realized that the proposal I had
written in early August would not work -
I had hoped that it would have."
Miller went on to address the problems
with the current schedule and his resolve to
see the policy changed. "I must request that
FUSA be allowed to program musical
bands for those students who are of legal
age on Thursday nights during the semester
from 9:00 PM until Midnight in the Stag-her
Inn."
The following people are on the Univer-sity
Council for 1986-87 : James D. Fitz-patrick,
Assistant Dean/University
Activities; Stephen P. Jakab, Associate
Provost; Phyllis Porter, Dean/School of
Nursing; William Schimpf, Vice President
for Student Services; James Farnham,
Professor of English; Philip Lane, Assis-tant
Professor of Economics; Suzanne Lyn-gaas,
Assistant Professor of Accounting;
Ken Caisse '88; Gina Carbone '89; Kathy
Demeri '87 and Kristen Dodge '87.
All individuals interested are urged to
attend.
INSIDE THIS WEEK
News 1,2
Boos and Cheers 2
Editorials 3
Financial 4
Features 5
Hooters Spread 6, 7
Crossword 8
Arts & Entertainment .. 9, 10
Sports 11, 12