Mirror - Vol. 14, No. 02 - September 21, 1989

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FUSA Continues "Drive For Five"
Diglio and Gonzalez Scholarship Recipients
Tom Rhatigan
Assistant News Editor
Senior Kristin Diglio and
Sophmore Patricia Gonzalez are
this year's winners of the "Drive
For Five" Scholarship. Both
students were presented the $500
award at a dinner last Friday
sponsored by FUSA.
In 1985, Chris Ritchie,
then President ofFUSA, formed
the scholarship. It was to be given
to people who displayed out-standing
leadership ability,
strong background in extra-cur-ricular
activities, and financial
need.
Diglio, a resident of
Monroe, New York, is a psy-chology
major. She has been a
Peer Counselor for one and half
Jears as well as being the Chief
ustice of the Student Court.i
She was also the Senior Week
Sub-Chair and worked on Ori-entation
'89.
Gonzalez is from
Hatorey, Puerto Rico and does
not have a declared major at this
time. Not only is she a member
of FUSA, but she belongs to
SA.SA (Spanish American Latin
Student Association), and the
Campus Ministry, as well as Am-nesty
International.
FUSA Co-Chair of Spe-cial
Events, Joanne Lewers, said the
money for the scholarship comes
from the interest collected from an
endowment fund.
"This year we raised $ 1,000
in interest from FUSA's trust fund,"
Lewers said. "By the end of the year
we hope to collect $5,000."
The money raised for this
trust fund came about through such
events as last year's dunking booth
and air bands concert. This year,
FUSA expects another successful
calendar of events, hoping to
achieve the "Drive for Five."
Lewers also stated that the
scholarship shows that FUSA is
recognizing students for their ex-tra-
curricular work and leadership
ability.
"Some people should be
able to benefit from all the work
they have done for Fairfield," con-tinued
Lewers. "It is students help-ing
students."
By the year 1990, FUSA
hopes to have enough money in the
fund to pay for tuition for a semes-ter.
"Hopefully, year by year,
the interest collected in the fund
will get better," Lewers said.
Kristin Diglio Photo: Rich Nunziante Patricia Gonzales Photo: Rich Nunziante
Legislature Focuses On New Government
Tom Rhatigan
Assistant News Editor
Fairfield University's
Student Legislature kicked off
the 1989 Fall semester with their
first meeting of the year last
Tuesday.
The session began with
opening remarks about the prog-ress
made over the summer.
President ofF.U.S.L., TomPelle-grino,
stated, "It was a produc-tive
summer and we have a lot
things planned for the year."
One of the more impor-tant
topics discussed at the ses-sion
was the proposed new gov-ernment
at Fairfield known as
the Inter-Residence Hall Gov-ernment,
or I.R.H.G.
I.R.H.G. was formed
seven monthes ago by Patrick
Rombolski, Assistant Director
of Student Services. It will be
designed to meet the needs of
residence hall students. The
purpose of the I.R.H.G. is so the
students living in residence halls
can have a stronger voice at
Fairfield.
"It is a student run gov-ernment
for the residence halls,"
said Rombolsku "It will go
beyond the old format of just
programming events for the
dorms and it will cover the is-sues
that concern our residence
halls."
Matt Gallagher, President
of I.R.H.G., added that the gov-ernment
will also bring the halls
together. "There will be more
unification in the halls," he said.
"It is a voice in student life as
well."
I.R.H.G. is presently
awaiting the approval of FUSA
legislature. Carlo Camporeale, Sec-retary
of the Judiciary Committee,
said that the committee is currently
meeting with Rombolski on the
Constitution. "I believe when every-thing
is worked out the Constitution
should be passed within the week,"
said Camporeale. "I think it
(I.R.H.G.) is a good idea and in the
long run both the students and the
University will benefit from this new
government."
During the legislature meet-ing,
questions were brought up over
how this new government will affect
the integrity ofFUSA, as well as how
much power the I.R.H.G. will have.
To these questions, Rombolski re-plied,
"This is not another FUSA. It
is a democratic structure that is a
separate entity to FUSA, although
we will work closely with them."
In other business, Warren
DiDonato, FUSA President, spoke
on the fall concert opportunities. "We
put in a bid for 10,000 Maniacs and
we got approved, but due to schedul-ing
problems, we could not get them,"
stated DiDonato. "If we do not get a
band for the fall, we might consider
using the money for a major concert
in the spring."
Also discussed were the elec-tions
for freshmen representatives.
There are ten openings available for
freshmen and the elections are being
held today. Pellegrino spoke on this
issue, "As ofnow we only have about
six applicants for freshmen repre-sentatives.
The interest is there, but
many freshmen are tentative and
timid at this point to join." Because
of this, F.U.S.L. has sent out legisla-tive
representatives to go to an as-signed
dorm and recruit freshmen.
Other topics included the for-mation
of a committee to investigate
the possible approval for a Minority
Relations organization. Right now
F.U.S.L. is in the process of form-ing
that committee.
In addition, the legislature
discussed the decision by the Uni-versity
to prohibit bands at
townhouses due to auditory rea-sons.
This controversy will be
discussed at later meetings.
The legislature also wel-comed
Chris Darcy and Denise
Sutphin, two new graduate stu-dents
who will assist in the opera-tions
of the legislature. "I look
forward to working with FUSA
and especially the students, be-cause
they are the heart and soul of
the school," replied Darcy.
University Enforces No Band Rule
AnnMarie Puckhaber
News Editor
There will be no live
bands in the townhouses this year
and kegs may be the next to go,
according to Patty Christiano,
Townhouse Director.
Despite what many
may think, not allowing bands in
the townhouses is not a new
University regulation, Christiano
said. "People think this is new,
but in fact it was always there."
The townhouse con-tract,
which each resident signs
in the Spring with the Univer-sity,
states and always has stated
that "musical instruments" are
prohibited.
Bands have played in
the townhouses in past years,
however, despite this rule. Chris-tiano
said there were problems
with the bands in the townhouses
last year and many had to be
"shut down" by University Se-curity.
Noise complaints were
received by the University due
to the bands and that is why it is
"telling people from the start"
that bands are not permitted, she
said.
"It's nothing new,
we're just enforcing it more,"
Christiano said. "The same goes
for the townhouses as the resi-dent
halls."
The idea of forbidding
kegs in the townhouses has "al-ways
been thrown around," ac-cording
to Christiano, but nothing
is presently "in the works" to do
so.
Fairfield is one ofthe only
colleges that permits kegs any-where
on campus, Christiano said.
"Kegs are a really big privilege,"
she added.
Christiano said students
abuse this privilege by having over-crowded
parties and serving to mi-nors.
The University requires at
least one person from every
townhouse to go to an alcohol lia-bility
session before being able to
register their townhouse for a party.
These sessions, which were started
last year, are run by Christiano and
Barry Vesciglio, Substance Abuse
Counselor. ,
Students have a "killer
keg reality where they think they
need a lot of people at their parties
to finish the keg," Christian said.
"This results in out-of-hand par-ties.
"
"If students continue to
abuse this privilege it will only be
a matter of time for the kegs to be
removed," according to Chris-tiano.
She said the University is
not saying students cannot have
fun or drink in the townhouses if
they are of legal age, but it must be
done within the guedelines.
The decision of whether
kegs willcontinue to be a privilege
in the townhouses is "all in the
hands of the students," Christiano
said.
The townhouses are con-sidered
on-campus housing and
students are renting them from the
University.
"Although we try to give
the townhouses more independ-ence,
they do come under Univer-sity
jurisdiction and can be treated
just like a residence hall," Chris-tiano
said.
Inside...
2 Newsreel
5 Recipe Corner
7 The Sounds of
Silence
10 Sex, Lies and
Video Tape Re-view
12 Press Box