Mirror - Vol. 29, No. 08 - October 23, 2003

              PET PROJECT
Fairfield's attempt to become an animal
house stumped by ban on small pets
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MORE STROKES1
The second album by The Strokes has
arrived - is it worthy of your money?
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The
Community gathers to remember Mark Fisher
BY JESSICA HOLMBERG
& JAKE PIERSON
As the university community
copes with the death of Mark Fisher
'06, students have come together
in remembrance and celebration of
Fisher's life here at Fairfield.
Laid to rest on Oct. 17 at Our
Lady of the Lake Church in Sparta,
N.J., Fisher is remembered as a "lov-ing
person who always made people
smile."
A passage read by Monsignor
Paul Knauer from the Bible's Book
of Wisdom at the liturgy on Oct. 17
: illustrated that a full life is not dem-onstrated
by one's age.
Reflecting on Fisher's life,
Knauer read, "...the righteous,
though they die early, will be at rest.
For old age is not honored for length
of time, or measured by number of
years; but understanding is gray hair
for anyone, and a blameless life is
ripe old age."
Fisher's father and brother re-membered
Fisher's childhood days.
"He always said how much he
loved his friends," said Fisher's fa-ther,
Michael. "He enjoyed life."
Fisher's brother, Michael, re-membered
childhood holidays spent
with his family.
SEE "FISHER" ON P. 6
RELATED STORY
More developments in
the Mark Fisher
investigation
online today at
fairfieldmirror.com
G00DE VIBRATIONS
Mirror file photo
Charging again: Tyquawn Goode '04 heads for the hoop during a game at the Arena at Harbor Yard last year. After last
year's winning season, the Stags aim to achieve the goal of making the NCAA tournament. For more, see page 20.
Apartment residents continue to deal with side effects of mold
BY JEN MALCOM
The failure of housing to remove the
locks on the windows of the Apartment Village
has left residents confused and angry.
"Housing has never effectively commu-nicated
with us what's going on with the situ-ation,"
said Chris Karch, '04. "Instead every
time you call housing you get a run around
and no straight answers."
Karch is not the only student to complain
about difficulty obtaining information about
the situation in the apartments.
Jennifer Barrett, '04, said, "I called hous-ing
so many times to find out what was going
on and I got a different answer every time. I'm
so frustrated with the whole situation."
When the heat was turned on in the
building, residents requested that the locks be
removed from the windows. Students were
told that housing was looking into the matter
and as long as there was no impact on mold
growth in the apartments the locks would be
removed.
"Since we moved into the building we
have been told that the locks would be coming
off soon," said Lauren Helfrich, '04. "Now
we are at the end of October and still nothing
has been done. What is going on?"
Housing now has an answer to that ques-tion.
SEE "MOLD" ON P. 4
Former CEO
ofAndersen
on F.U. president
search committee
BY STEVEN ANDREWS
With the retirement of Presi-dent
Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., at
the end of this academic year, the
search for a new president is be-ing
conducted by a committee in-cluding
Joseph Berardino, '72, the
embattled former Chief Executive
Officer of Arthur
Andersen.
It was un-der
Berardino's
watch that the
accounting
scandal involv-ing
Andersen
and its client,
Enron, resulted
in a tumultuous
period for the
industry. Be-rardino
had not
been CEO of
Andersen dur-ing
the majority
of the time the scandal was per-petrated.
Berardino is a member of the
Board of Trustees. Faculty, stu-dents,
administration and alumni
join this board in the search for a
new president for Fairfield Uni-versity.
Many shareholders of Enron
stock lost their entire savings when
the company collapsed and hold
Berardino responsible for their
loss since he was at the helm when
the crisis became public.
The former CEO of Ander
sen was never charged with any
involvement in the scandals that
undid his company.
SEE "DESPITE" ON P. 4
BERARDINO
EDITORIAL
Berardino a
bad choice
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