Mirror - Vol. 27, No. 24 - April 18, 2002

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April 18. 2002 MIRROR University
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FUSA constitution incomplete
BY CHRIS WOOD
There are amendments that were
passed by Fairfield University Students
Association's Senate over a year ago that
are not included in any version of the
organization's constitution, according to
several students active in FUSA,. The
students also question the legitimacy of
any version of the constitution.
"It seems like it could very well be
an accident," Marini said. "It is a dan-gerous
oversight. It was official senate
business and an official senate vote. But
an official record of this business doesn't
exist."
According to John Paul Marini '02,
Jason Cummings '02, Kevin Bennett '02
and Vincent Farisello '03 there are sev-eral
amendments that were passed by the
Senate previous to its ratification by the
student body on Dec. 12, 2000.
However, according to these people,
a copy of the constitution with these
amendments included does not exist to
the best of their knowledge.
The Mirror reported in Dec. 2000
that four amendments were passed by
Senate on Sunday December 10, two
days before the student body approved
the Constitution.
One of the amendments subjected
FUSA to student referendum if half of
the student body signed a petition, ac-cording
to these students.
"It's pretty essential in case the
voice of the student body was circum-vented
in some way," said JP Marini, Co-
Chairman of the Board of Governors.
"Referendums are important because
they mean the ability to have a direct
appeal to the student body."
Another amendment outlined the
Board of Governors section of FUSA.
There is a section in the constitution that
refers to Board of Governors, but Marini
says that the amendment passed has a
more detailed description of governing
structure behind the Board of Governors.
The third amendment, according to
Marini, calls a constitutional convention
every five years. The fourth states that
all undergraduates at Fairfield are offi-cial
members of FUSA.
These students say that the FUSA
Senate approved the constitution in 2000
with these sections of the constitution
omitted. Then they were passed in time
for a revised version of the constitution
to be approved by a student vote.
Since that vote, the amendments
have reportedly not been seen.
According to Marini, the final step
in legitimizing a FUSA constitution is
SEE "FUSA" ON P. 8
Amanda I.
Vice President
Kenneth R. Dunaj
Senator 2002
Molly Houlihan
President of Senate
ayes
President
Timothy Healy
ChiefJustice
Photo Illustration: Joshua O'Connell
Alum to speak at commencement
DouglasPerlitz to offer his story following Jesuit ideals by building school in Haiti
Courtesy of Public Relations
Douglas C. Perlitz will be this year's commencement speaker.
Above right, George W. Bur, SJ., Loretta Brennan Glucksman,
and John P. Sachs will be receiving honorary degrees.
MIRROR STAFF REPORTS
Douglas C. Perlitz, who
just ten years ago received his
diploma from Fairfield Univer-sity,
will speak to this year's
graduates on Sunday, May 19,
at 10 a.m. as this year's com-mencement
speaker.
He will talk about his ex-periences
in Haiti where he has
established and runs a school
and residence for former street
children in Cap Haitien. Fair-field
officials feel he is the per-fect
choice for this year's gradu-ation
ceremony.
"Jesuit education encour-ages
students to be 'men and
women for other,' to share their
God-given gifts to help those
less fortunate," said Rev.
Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., presi-dent
of Fairfield University, in
making the announcement.
"Doug's extraoridnary work
with poor children in Haiti is an
inspiration to people of all ages,
but particularly to our own stu-dents
who will be looking for
ways to incorporate the commu-
BUR GLUCKSMAN SACHS
nity service they had been in- land Fund, and the Rev. George
volved in at Fairfield into their
lives as they begin their ca-reers."
James Fitzpatrick of Stu-dent
Services agrees and de-scribes
Perlitz as "one of our
own."
"Doug has had, in a very
short period of time, an amaz-ing
impact on one of the poor-est
countries in the world," said
Fitzpatrick. "He really personi-fies
what a Fairfield education
can do and how it can change
the world."
Doug will receive an hon-orary
doctor of laws degree.
Fairfield will also confer hon-orary
doctor of laws degrees on
Loretta Brennan Glucksman,
chairman of The American Ire-
W. Bur, S.J., president of the
Gesu School in Philadelphia;
and an honorary doctor of sci-ence
degree on John P. Sachs,
PhD., a former trustee of Fair-field
University and former
president and CEO of Great
Lakes Carbon Corporation.
Doug Perlitz first visited
Haiti on a Campus Ministry
Mission Volunteer trip during
his junior year. His question to
University Chaplain Paul E.
Carrier, S.J., "When will some
of us stay?" became prophetic
when he returned to Haiti five
years later to work as a pastoral
minister at Sacre Coeur Hospi-tal
in Milot. The following year
SEE "SPEAKER" ON P. 6