Mirror - Vol. 29, No. 06 - October 09, 2003

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The face of Fairfield: Fr. Kelley during an event at the Arena at Harbor Yard last year.
Mirror file photo
Fr. Kelley to retire in May
BY ETHAN FRY
& ZACK FINLEY
Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J. an-nounced
last Friday he will step down
as president of Fairfield University in
June.
Most students interviewed by The
Mirror were indifferent to the news but
thought that Kelley has done a goodjob
as president.
"I think for the most part he's done
a good job at making sure the university
is a place students can really enjoy," said
Ann Cavallaro '06. "It's a shame we
don't see him more, but I wish him a
happy retirement and the best of luck in
the future."
SEE "UNIVERSITY" ON P. 6
MORE COVERAGE
Editorial: We hardly
knew ye, but thank you.
Page 13
Question of the Week:
How do you feel?
Page 14
Could the StagCard
raise identity theft risk?
BY TARA LYNCH
At Fairfield, your student
ID is your life. You use it to get
into dorms, to buy books at the
bookstore, to print at the library,
and to buy meals at the Stag.
But as useful as the StagCard
is, it and other student IDs at uni-versities
around the country pose
a serious danger: identity theft.
Many universities - includ-ing
Fairfield - use social security
numbers as the student ID num-ber
for most US residents that are
registered with the university.
These numbers are featured on
the cards, posing a serious risk
if they are lost or stolen.
"I think the university's con-cern
is the same as that shared by
both individuals and institutions
elsewhere," said Dean Mark
Reed. "Life has risks, and you try
to minimize those. However, it is
not a perfect world and mistakes
or problems can occur."
That's exactly what hap-pened
at Boston College last
spring when Douglas Boudreau,
22, of Warwick, R.I. was found
guilty of identity fraud after in-stalling
keystroke software into
more than 100 computers around
the BC campus.
Using the software, Bou-dreau,
a junior computer sci-ence
major, was able to secretly
monitor every keystroke entered
on those computers. As a result
he obtained the personal infor-mation
of approximately 4,800
members of the BC community,
including the Social Security
numbers of 685.
Boudreau then used the in-formation
to steal over $2,000 in
goods books using the computer
information he gathered.
A similar incident occurred
at the University of Texas last
March when a 20-year-old UT
student hacked into the school's
computer system and stole
55,000 social security numbers.
Sophomore Jenna LoGiu-dice
believes that the use of So-cial
Security numbers as student
ID numbers can be problematic.
"I think it's definitely an
issue," said LoGiudice. "When
you're growing up your parents
always tell you not to give out
your Social Security number,
then you come to college and
it's everywhere."
According to Steve Dailey,
Academic Support Manager with
Computer and Network Services,
the university takes every precau-tion
to prevent events like those
that occurred at BC and UT from
happening at Fairfield:
"The possibility of some-one
installing such software
on a public machine definitely
exists, however Computing and
Network Services does intermit-tently
check for illegally installed
software or hardware," he said.
"However, with close
to 200 public lab machines
in twelve different locations, we
cannot guarantee that these lab
machines have not had this type
of software installed," Dailey
added. "We do try to limit what
can be installed or changed on
these public lab workstations,
but nothing is full proof."
SEE "STAGCARD" ON P. 4
Fairfield grad spreads word on Lou Gehrig's disease
BY STEVEN ANDREWS
Michael Donnelly may no
longer be able to talk, but that has
not prevented him from speaking
out.
When Donnelly gradu-ated
from Fairfield University in
1981, he was healthy and in great
athletic shape, a former football
player. When he enlisted in the
Air Force and fought in the Gulf
War, he had no idea it would be
the catalyst to a series of events
that would leave him immobile
and unable to talk.
Now, he hopes to spread
the word and prevent other
young people from suffering his
fate.
"Michael's appearances on
television and in magazines has
sparked an interest in amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) and caused
researchers to finally spend more
time studying the condition," said
Tom Donnelly '57, Michael's
father.
SEE "STUDY" ON P. 4 Contributed photo
Rising above the rhetoric:
Michael Donnelly, '81, left,
and his father, Tom, '57,
are telling their story about
Michael's fight with ALS,
also known as Lou Gehrig's
disease. The government
has denied a link to the Gulf
War, but two recent studies
have strengthened the link.