Mirror - Vol. 29, No. 04 - September 25, 2003

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Crime spikes 37% in 2002
BY EILEEN ARNOLD
Spiked by increases in burglaries and larcenies,
major crimes at Fairfield increased 37 percent in the
calendar year 2002 compared to a year earlier, ac-cording
to the university's annual crime report set
for release Oct. 1.
In the major crime categories, there were a total
of 141 incidents reported in 2002, up from 103 in
2001. Burglaries totaled 36 in 2002, double what
they were in 2001, and larcenies totaled 96, up from
73.
Looking at those two categories, Associate Di-rector
of Security Frank Ficko said, "That's where
the difference is."
Ficko downplayed the 37 percent overall in-crease,
saying the numbers fluctuate from year to
year, which could explain the increase, even one as
large as presented within the last two years.
"To me those numbers are pretty consistent," said
Ficko, "I don't see that large of a gap."
The 141 incidents in 2002 were consistent with
longer term trends on campus. In 1999 there were 151
reported crimes and 168 in 2000. The four-year aver-age
was 140.75, consistent with this year's total.
In the other major categories for 2002, there were
four forcible sexual offenses, one robbery, one ag-gravated
assault, one case of arson, and two weapons
possessions, one of which was when Patrick Arbelo
'01 took a class in Canisius hostage.
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ANOTHER SWIPE FOR STUDJ
Robyn Atkachunas/The Mirror
Card counting: Dee Burdic, '04, swipes her card in the library to print papers. StagPrint was implemented Monday to curb excess use.
StagPrint implemented to curb printer costs
BY HEATHER MANNING
Students were in for a surprise Monday
morning when the previously free printing in
campus computer labs became a thing of the
past.
The university implemented StagPrint, a
debit-card printing system that works through
students' StagCards. The system allows full-time
students to print 200 pages and additional
printing beyond this would costs student ten
cents per page.
"I think this is ridiculous," said Kerri Rose
'05, " I pay 34,000 dollars a year, you would
think at least the paper would be free."
StagPrint claims to be an "effort to pro-mote
responsible printing and to conserve
resources by controlling laser-printing use,
waste, and rising costs," according to the
library's website.
Last year alone, Fairfield University con-sumed
2,250,000 sheets of paper, and over
400 toner cartridges. This cost the University
$30,000.
Many students are less than pleased.
"I don't understand how our university can
be charging money for things when every year
our tuition goes up and the lodging and food
quality goes down," said Brian Clark '05.
Joan Overfield, director of library ser-vices,
said that the library has been trying
to put the StagPrint system into practice for
two and half years. The library has been con-cerned
with the growing problem of wasted
paper from printing, which Overfield said
has become "a problem at college campuses
all over."
SEE "PRINTING" ON P. 6
Student evals
may influence
professors' pay
BY KEITH WHAMOND
Student course evaluations—
those pesky white and yellow
sheets you fill out at the end of
the semester—are seen only by
professors. Soon, however, that
system may change.
"Professor
evaluations are
only seen by fac-ulty
— period,"
said Academic
Vice President
Dr. Orin Gross-man.
"It's a very
bad situation,
one that I think
will change this
year."
According
to Grossman,
evaluations
may be used
in determining
pay raises for
faculty members in accordance
with a new pay system instituted
last year.
"With merit pay especially,
portions of a faculty member's
salary will be determined by class
performance, and professor evalu-ations
written by the students will
be a factor in the merit pay," said
Grossman.
Merit pay is a form ofcompen-sation
that-in theory-rewards the
best and brightest faculty members
for various forms of achievement,
such as publication in scholarly
journals or speaking at academic
conferences.
SEE "FUSA" ON P. 4
GROSSMAN
EDITORIAL
Evaluations
need to be
available
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