Mirror - Vol. 28, No. 20 - March 06, 2003

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100 sophs to lose housing choice next year
BY CHRISTOPHER DONATO
The year is almost over and
most sophomores are looking for-ward
to next year, a year in which
the sophomore class has tradition-ally
been given a number of cer-tain
privileges, including the op-portunity
to choose what specific
room in a residence hall and with
whom they would like to live.
Next year, with Regis and
Jogues both becoming all-Fresh-man
dorms, things are going to be
different for a percentage of the
class of 2006.
"We used to save only 500
spots in housing for the freshmen,"
said Fran Koerting, director of
Residence Life, "but because
Jogues and Regis are going all
Freshmen we have to save 830
spots instead." This means that
more rising sophomores will have
to wait until the summer to find out
their specific housing assignments.
Rising sophomores with the
100 worst lottery numbers will
only be asked their housing pref-erence
(suite or traditional resi-dence
hall) and their roommate
choice. "During the summer some
students transfer, others get ac-cepted
into abroad programs while
others decide not to return," said
Koerting. When these spots open
up during the summer, rising
sophomores will be placed in those
rooms according to lottery num-ber
and request.
Some current freshmen are
upset that incoming freshmen are
SEE "OFFICIALS" ON P. 4
Election recount forces drastic change in results
BY ETHAN FRY
& KEITH WHAMOND
The Fairfield University Stu-dent
Association was rocked by a
recount last week when the results
of the Vice President of Senate and
Vice President of Programming
races were overturned.
After the initial results were
tallied, Jillian Grant, '05, then the
losing candidate for VP of Pro-gramming,
sent an appeal of the
results via e-mail. "At around mid-night,
I e-mailed Brian [Leverone]
to say I was appealing the elec-tion,"
she said.
According to Election Com-missioner
Brian Leverone, '03, a
discrepancy in the ballots ordered
by FUSA from the town of
Fairfield caused the vote totals for
both the VP of Senate and VP of
Programming to be switched.
In the actual voting machines
used, the offices listed from left to
right were: FUSA President, VP of
Programming, and VP of Senate.
However, the tally sheets used by
FUSA reversed both VP spots.
Because of this, the votes for these
positions were incorrectly tabu-lated.
As a result, instead of Ryan
Cantor, '04 and Jeff Holland, '04
winning those respective races,
Geoff Cook, '05 and Jillian Grant
won.
Roger Auturoi, who works in
the office of the Registrar of Vot-ers
in Fairfield and helps FUSA set
up the voting booths, said that the
problem was simply human error.
"Someone read the votes too
fast probably looking to get out at
a reasonable hour," Auturoi said.
"The machines are fine, it's a mat-ter
of human error."
After a recount was started at
10:20 a.m. Wednesday, Leverone
met with candidates at 11:30 a.m.
in the Student Activities Office on
the second floor of the Campus
Center to tell them the results.
The results of all other races,
including the FUSA presidential
race, remained the same. The can-didates
impacted by the recount
had mixed reactions.
"Generally, I feel badly," said
Grant, '05, VP-elect of Program-ming.
"The results were mislead-ing.
The reason I raised the ap-peal
was because Kevin
[Neubauer] and I ran together and
we had a lot of the same support-ers."
Jeff Holland, '04, who ran
SEE "CANDIDATES" ON P. 6
Chris Donato/The Mirror
Election mix-up: While the booths counted the votes correctly, a
computer tally error caused the elections to be incorrectly reported.
Howie Day
chosen as
spring concert
BY ZACK FINLEY
It is less than a month until
April 5, the date set for the spring
concert, and FUSA has finally
named 21-year-old Howie Day as
the headlining act for the show.
The concert will be at Alumni Hall
and will cost between $5 and $15
for students according to FUSA
president Karen Donoghue.
Donoghue
blames the bands
who FUSA bid on
for the late accep-tance
from Howie
Day, who will be
playing with an
English band
whose name was
not available at
press time.
"All the bands we bid on
pulled out," said Donoghue. "We
consider ourselves lucky to even
have a band because apparently a
lot of other colleges in the north-east
are being left in the dust."
Simple Plan and Sum-41, the
previous bands who were bid on
by FUSA, both decided that they
were not touring and backed out.
The bid FUSA put in for the Dave
Matthews Band for $75,000 was
rejected in December but was ac-cepted
by the University of Rhode
Island. URI will pay $275,000 and
will charge students $50 per ticket,
according to Donoghue.
Donoghue said that FUSA
will begin promoting the show by
using advertising campaigns and
giving out CDs to get the word out
about Day. According to
SEE "COMEDIAN" ON P. 6
DAY
More money, more problems: Fairfield spends most in athletics
BY MIKE PIGNATARO
Considering that wealth and
prestige are not new concepts at
Fairfield, would it be surprising
that the university has the wealthi-est
institutional and athletic bud-gets
amongst Metro Atlantic Ath-letic
Conference (MAAC)
schools?
According to the 2001-2002
Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act
(EADA), Fairfield spent
$8,241,475 on athletics last year.
Loyola College came the closest
to Fairfield in the MAAC, spend-ing
$6,705,730 for its athletic pro-grams.
However, Fairfield also had
the highest overall institutional
budget in the MAAC, after spend-ing
$114,330,637 last year.
Director of Athletics Eugene
Doris said there are a number of
factors why Fairfield has the high-est
expenditures in the MAAC.
"Aside from Loyola, our ath-letic
scholarship actual dollars
spent per capita [athlete] is higher
than any other MAAC institution,"
Doris said. "We may have less
scholarships in number than some
of the MAAC institutions, but we
are spending more money."
Doris gave the example that
Iona College may offer a scholar-ship
for approximately $27,000
compared to one that Fairfield
would provide for approximately
$35,000.
SEE "ATHLETICS" ON P. 19
m|The Athletes: a big business
lyiimCvllV Fairfield spends more on athletics
SNAPSHOT than anyone else in the MAAC.
Spending on athletics by school:
|$8,241,475
|$6,705,730
|S6,005,875
($5,915,915
|S5,655,460
|f$5,631,109
55,186,638
ii$4,982,142
T$4,661,514
'$4,655,460
Loyola
Siena
Rider
Marist
iona
Niagara
Manhattan
St. Peter's
Canisius
Source: 2001-2002 Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act
Compiled by Mike Pignataro
Graphic by Joshua O'Connell/The Mirror