Mirror - Vol. 29, No. 15 - January 29, 2004

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Triple resignation hits FUSA
BY STEVEN ANDREWS
Three members of FUSA's
Executive Board resigned last
week after an encounter with a
university official last December
left them feeling threatened and
their rights allegedly violated.
With Malu Gonzalez '04, Erin
Fredericks '04 and Chris McGee
'05 gone, FUSA President Kevin
University official "lost control"
Neubauer '05 is left with only one
Cabinet member and a severely di-minished
Executive Board.
The students said they de-cided
to leave after an incident
in which Assistant Dean of Stu-dents
Matt Dinnan "lost control"
and engaged in a yelling match
with them in the Barone Campus
Center. The incident in ques-tion
surrounded the dismissal of
Donna Schmidt, formerly director
of student activities.
Last August, Fairfield hired
Schmidt, when the previous di-rector
left the position after two
SEE "FUSA" ON P. 4
ROOF COLLAPSE AT THE BEACH
Life's a beach: Damage abounds at the beach house "The Blue Balls.'
read "Beach" on page 3.
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A formal introduction: Rev. Jeffrey von Arx speaks to students, fac-ulty
and press during the announcement last week.
New president outlines
goals for the years ahead
BYY KKEEIITTHH WWHHAAMMOONNDD Just days after being an-nounced
as the school's next
president, Rev. Jeffrey von Arx,
S.J. already has big plans for
Fairfield Univeristy.
"I've got several goals for
this school, all designed to make
Fairfield University the best school
of its kind," said von Arx.
First on von Arx's list: making
Fairfield a "leader in the renewal of
the Jesuit arts education."
"Doing that is a matter of fac-ulty,
and finding ways to integrate
that concept into the core curricu-lum,"
said von Arx. "It's important
for the university to reflect on and
continue to be a comprehensive
university."
In order to do that, von
Arx said he plans to stress
community outreach programs,
emphasizing a search for what
he called "non-traditional" stu-dents,
in addition to graduate
and commuter students.
von Arx, who was most re-cently
the dean of the Rose Hill
campus at Fordham University,
was elected as the next president
of Fairfield University by the
Board of Trustees after a three
month nationwide search of can-didates.
The presidential search
committee, which presented
three candidates to the Board
after narrowing the field down
from 25 major candidates, was
made up of faculty members,
students, trustees, alumni, and
Jesuits.
Dr. Irene Mulvey of the
mathematics department, who
was a member of the search
committee, said a good relation-ship
with faculty was one of the
major characteristics she was
concerned with in finding a new
president.
SEE "OVERWHELMING" ON P. 8
Beirut tables taken from basements during townhouse inspections
BY ASHLEIGH EGAN
Some townhouse residents are
complaining about the method of
confiscating illegal items used by
the university over winter break,
as many ever-popular beirut tables
were missing from their houses.
Students sometimes conceal il-legal
items in order to avoid confis-cation
or judicial action in the event
of a house or room inspection.
"We had our [beirut table] hid-den
behind our futon and covered
with tapestries," said Mike Barber
'05. "It was completely covered up
so they [the university] didn't have
the right to search for it."
Gary Stephenson, director of
housing operations, said town-house
inspections took place in
order to make sure available beds
were ready for new students and to
check the status of heating units.
The townhouse contract states
that students are not permitted to
have any form of "construction
material" in their townhouses.
"Since we removed construc-tion
material I do not have a count
of what was a beirut table versus
construction material," said Ste-phenson.
He also said, "no house
was searched."
Some townhouse residents
were confused about the universi-ty's
policy on searching houses.
SEE "TOWNHOUSE" ON P. 6
Contributed photo
Nice while it lasted: This beirut table, among others, was confiscated
from the townhouses during the winter break.