Mirror - Vol. 28, No. 27 - May 08, 2003

              Most likely to be read by the class of '03: Senior Issue. Pages 11-16.
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May 8, 2003 Vol. 28, Us. Z Fairfield University's Student Newspaper
Fr. Regan bids farewell to Fairfield after two decades
BY EILEEN ARNOLD
Fairfield's favorite racquetball-playing,
cigar-smoking, gourmet-cooking and
philosophy-teaching priest is leaving the
University for a six year term as Provincial
Superior for the New England Province of
the Jesuit order.
Rev. Thomas J. Regan, S.J., who has
been involved with the Fairfield community
in various ways for the past two decades,
was appointed to the post by Very Rever-end
Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Superior
General of the Society of Jesus.
Regan will be reporting directly to
Kolvenbach when he begins his new role in
the order.
"It's like a spiritual father slash CEO,"
said Regan of his new position.
Regan will be supervising more than
400 Jesuit priests, brothers and
seminarians in New England with
the intent of fostering Jesuit and
Catholic identity in the institutions
that the Jesuits sponsor.
On leaving Fairfield, Regan
said, "It's a mixed blessing, I've been here
on and off since 1980. My entire profes-sional
life has been spent here. I'm inte-grated
into pretty much every facet of the
university."
Students are saddened by Regan's de-parture
from Fairfield University.
"It sucks that he's leaving, because I
heard he was going to replace APK and
bring back football. Father Regan cares
about the students and interacts with them,
and he was genuinely upset at the cutting of
football and hockey," said Liz Collins, '05.
Besides interacting with the students,
EDITORIAL
Regan and
Grovenburg
will be missed
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Regan has had the chance to play
a number of different roles at Fair-field.
He first came to Fairfield
as an adjunct in 1980 and returned
in 1993 when he was promoted to
associate professor and the head
of the Department of Philosophy.
From 2000-2002 he was the associate
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
and this year was one of the co-directors of
the University's new Ignatian Residential
College.
"I'm pleased that the last year I could
be here was the beginning of the Ignatian
Residential College," Regan said, "If I could
choose a program to remember leaving with
that was it."
Joe Defeo, co-director of the Ignatian
SEE "REGAN'S" ON P. 4
Chris DonatoAThe Mirror
FR. TOM REGAN
Students willing to spend
a lot to burn their bucks
BY ASHLEIGH EGAN
A 12 pack of soda, a dozen
Pop Tarts, 20 rolls of Life Savers
and two dozen bottles of Dasani
would cost $20.52 at Stop and
Shop on Post Road.
At the Stag Diner, the price
would be $55.75.
The availability of items in
bulk at the Stag is intended for stu-dents
to purchase something before
the end of the academic year results
in the end of their dining dollars.
Although much higher than
Stop and Shop prices, these bulk
prices are in fact bargains when
one takes into account the normal
individual prices at the diner.
For example, a single Dasani
water costs $1.25 at the diner, so
24 of these individual purchases
would cost a student $30.00.
Therefore, in this situation, stu-dents
would save $5 from buying
the case of water.
Steve Schliefer, the director of
food services, defended the prices
at the diner.
"We are a retail operation, not
a grocery store," he said. There-fore,
according to Schliefer, the
Chris Donato/The Mirror
Coke run: Chloe Tonini, '04, stocks up on some soda, nonplussed by the price of the $10 cases.
Stag cannot sell the items at the
diner at comparable prices to such
large operations as Stop and Shop.
This is the first year that
Fairfield's food service provider,
Sodexho, has offered to sell stu-dents
food items in bulk.
Schliefer also pointed out that
there are many items for sale
which are not usually for sale at
the diner, and that they were or-dered
so students could bring them
home for use after the end of the
SEE "SODA" ON P. 6
FUSA Senate may take teacher evaluations to the Internet
BY ZACK FINLEY
"Hey have you taken profes-sor
so and so for philosophy ? "
"No, but I heard he was easy."
"Good enough for me, I'm
taking him."
Conversations like this are
heard all over campus during reg-istration
time. However, Fairfield
may begin to implement a new
way of getting information avail-able
about professors to the stu-dents.
Driven by the platform of
FUSA President Kevin Neubauer,
'05, Vice President of Senate Geoff
Cook, '05, is attempting to make
evaluations of professors by stu-dents
available online.
"We want to put evaluations
online so students can have a bet-ter
way of picking teachers for
their classes during registration,"
said Cook.
At press time, over 250 teach-ers
at Fairfield had been evaluated
on a Web site called Rate My
Professor.com. Here, anyone can
evaluate any teacher, even if he or
she did not take a class with that
professor.
"We don't want to attack the
faculty," said Cook. "We do not
need the faculty's approval, but we
want them to know what we are
planning to do."
SEE "KATZ" ON P. 6
Arts & Sciences
proposes four
course system
BY ZACK FINLEY .
When Dr. Kurt Schlichting of
the Sociology department visited
potential colleges with his daugh-ters
last fall, he knew that his
daughters wanted a school like
Fairfield.
Of the schools they visited,
Schlichting noticed a common
theme: almost all of the schools
were using some form of a four
class per semester system in their
academic curriculum.
"I talked to the faculty when I
was visiting the colleges and they
all said that they used this form of
teaching," Schlichting said. "It
seems as though in speaking of
other schools that we associate with,
we are the odd institution out."
Fairfield students may soon
study under the same system.
Sixty-seven faculty members of
the College of Arts and Sciences
voted almost unanimously on a
long-range plan that would change
the amount of classes each student
will take per semester.
According to the proposed
plan, the university would imple-ment
a 4/4 system, meaning that
students would take four, four-credit
courses per semester instead
of the traditional five, three-credit
courses. The total amount of
courses needed to graduate would
reduce from 40 courses to 32.
The proposal remains in the
SEE "CORE" ON P. 4