Pub Hits Hard Times

Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Bronx, New York Permit No. 7608 Journalistic Artistry Fordham University, New York —sec centerfold All tapped out? Pub Hits Hard Times by Matthew Browne and Tom DiLenge ing on weekends instead of four, and some- Due to a sharp decline in business this times one during the week instead of two. semester, the Student Pub may close its doors SAGA Dining Services used to mop the area within a couple of weeks, according to Pub once each day at the Pub's expense, but Manager Jim Walsh, FC'86. Walsh discontinued that service, he said. According to Walsh, the Pub has lost 60 Security is another area in which Walsh percent of its business since December 1, said that he would like to reduce spending. when the legal drinking age in New York Walsh said that the Pub spent $5,000 in State was raised to 21. Last weekend alone the Pub had a net loss of $700, he said. "If things continue like they did last "If things continue, weekend, I give it a matter of weeks before we close," Walsh said. "We can't continu- I give it a matter ! ally operate on net losses." Michael Sullivan, assistant dean of stu- of weeks before | dents, said that other colleges are j experiencing similar problems. we close." "From a business point of view, the Pub | is faced with a problem that every university —Jim Walsh [ has faced where the drinking age has gone 'from 19 to 21," Sullivan said. "They are I.B.I, bills last month. "I'm trying to con- The Pub is presently open from 3 p.m. to 1 Pub used to average $1000 in beer sales dur- } faced with two-thirds to three-fourths of vince them (security) to cut back on I.B.I.," a.m. on Monday through Thursday and from ing mixers, but now only manages to take in [ their potential customers not being able to he said. 3 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday about $350. consume alcohol." According to Sullivan, The mixers on weekend nights have nights. "There's only one real solution since | only 1,200 Fordham students are of legal recently been drawing only about 100 people, The decline in attendance at the mixers | drinking age. yet five I.B.I, guards are on duty, Walsh has also hurt the Pub. Walsh said that the Continued on page 16 Walsh said that he has recently made said. On the weekdays, one guard is always I changes in the Pub aimed at increasing working. "We don't need five of them, and I revenue and cutting costs. we don't need one during the week," he said. Because the senior class is responsible One possible solution, according to CLC Enrollment for about 80 percent of its business, he said Sullivan, would be to train students as guards [ that the Pub would try to attract more sen- for the Pub. Sullivan said he would meet with j iors through creative advertising. Many Director of Security Tom Courtney this Fri- Strikes up Debate I seniors were happy with the rise in the drink- day to discuss cutting down on security. I ing age because they thought the Pub would "I have no basic objection to it (hiring by Tom DiLenge uate enrollment at Lincoln Center has | become an "elitist club," Walsh added, "but students as guards) if we got the right stu- Serious declines in enrollment at the dropped 23 percent over the last five years. j we need people in numbers if we're going to dents, but you couldn't just let any student College at Lincoln Center have prompted a Dean William Tanksley of the College at j stay open." do the job," Courtney said. debate between the two campuses over what Lincoln Center attributed the decline to a Walsh said that he has cut back on labor If efforts to cut costs prove to be needs to be done to correct the current situa- change in population concentration, ineffec- i in order to reduce expenses. "Our biggest ineffective, Walsh said they will have to re- tion. tive recruiting and advertising, and increased j challenge is cutting costs," he said. duce their hours. "Our next step is to cut According to figures provided by the competition. The Pub now has three bartenders work- weekends, and then afternoons," he said. University Budget Committee, undergrad- "The major cause (of the decline) has something to do with demographics," he said. "But, more importantly, we have to do advertising and recruiting for this campus. A trip to the hot spot We have to define what is distinct about the campus here." Tanksley said that he strongly supports the memorandum submitted by Margaret Lamb, director of the media studies O'Hare Visits program at the College at Lincoln Center, to the University Budget Committee last December calling for an autonomous admis- the Philippines sions, recruiting, and marketing operation. "If we are going to be chastised for declining enrollments, then we have to have U.S. Naval Operations Thomas Hayward, by KieranO'Dwyer the responsibility for recruiting and ad- former Chairman of the Board of NBC and University President Joseph O'Hare, missions...we have to take our fate into our Vice President of IBM Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, , traveled with an American legation to own hands," Tanksley said. Philippines January 15 as part of a Chairman of the Executive Committee of Tanksley, who replaced George Shea as two-week study mission intended to deepen Chemical Bank Donald Platten, and dean last year, said that the past marketing American understanding of that country and President of the League of Women Voters strategy was ineffective, since it did not stress its present problems, according to Dr. Joseph Dorothy Ridings. the differences between the two campuses. Cammarosano, executive vice president. "This visit is an exercise to inform the "Advertising as just another college of Ford- Canimarosano said that O'Hare was American people what is going on in the ham University is a very ineffective way of invited on the mission by the Asia Society, an Philippines concerning their culture and rela- projecting our image," he said. He added independent, non-partisan educational tions with the U.S. It is a very global mission that the Rose Hill campus and the Lincoln organization with headquarters in New York which hopes to learn more about the ongoing Center campus have two separate markets City. Nine other influential members of human concerns in the Philippines," Cam- and that the distinctions of the down-town American society were also invited on the marosano said. campus need to be emphasized. mission, including former Assistant Secretary According to a memorandum issued by But, the Rose Hill Administration seems of State William Bundy, former President of the Asia Society, the visit will center around reluctant to give up control over the process. Princeton University and U.S. Ambassador to India Robert ,C>°rie.en, former Chief of Qontir[uedfon page 7 continued on page 15 2/THE RAM/THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1986 ~t •> V , THE CAB CALENDAR Friday, Monday, January 31 u February 1st February 3 Higher Education Opportunity through 7th Senior portraits in McGinley Rm. 235 Program (H.E.O.P.) presents continues through Friday, February 7. Hawaiian Nite in 234-235 McGinley Center Second Floor. 8:00 p.m.. Small admission fee. All are welcome. Saturday, Tuesday, February 1 February 4 Wellness Week presents The Little Campus Ministries presents Alfons Boozer in Me with Mr. Michael Green, Deeken, S.J., speaking on Grief as a M.ED.. 8:00 p.m. in the Ramskellar Growth Process. 1:00 p.m.. McGinley Center Ballroom. The Hunger Cleanup — Mary McCulloch, U.S.G. V.P. for Student Sunday, "Well..." Life, sponsors a meeting to inform students about a program to raise February 2 money for hunger through cleaning up our community. 6:30 p.m. in the Music Ground hog Day!!! Get up and watch WELLNESS WEEK iRoom, Second Floor McGinley for the little guy's shadow. Watch for and take part In a whole range of activities and events geared toward total wellness of your mind, Thursday, body and soul!-) February 6 Wednesday, Cinevents presents St. Elmo's Fire 10:30 a.m., 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. February 5 Keating 1st. Friday, Cinevents Classical Movies Series Ateneo Alumni Association presents February 7 presents Bringing Up Baby. 8:00 p.m. Raul Winglapus of The Harvard Keating 1st. Admission free. Center for International Affairs Campus Ministries—A Retreat for speaking on Prospects For Fordham Students by Fordham T.O.P. presents Don McClean. 9:00 Democracy and the Future of Students. $35.00. Sign up in Campus p.m. in the Ramskellar. Admission American Interests in the Philippines. Ministries or the McGinley Center. $4.00 with Student I.D. •n't1 '• Use this form to list events in the CAB Calendar Sponsoring Group Address Description of Event Date:. _Place Tlme_ .Admission Requirements, Of Interest To: DEADLINE: Monday at 4 PM • College D CBA • General Public Upon completion of this form, please return to: D Grad Students CALENDAR COMMITTEE D Members of Fordham University Only Campus Center Director's Office THE RAM/THURSDAY.JANUARY 30,1986/3 Law Dean Dies by Nick Kal.soris Joseph Crowley, associate dean of Fordham Law School, died on Tuesday, December 3, 1985, He was 66 years old. "In the history of our school, very few people have had the kind of impact on the school that he did," said John D.

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