Mirror - Vol. 31, No. 22 - March 23. 2006

              WEEK OF March 23,2006
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Tough times for students from the Big Easy
BY ALEXANDRA STEWART
After spending a semester at
Fairfield University, Hurricane
Katrina victims say they are glad to
have returned to the Big Easy. Stu-dents
who spent their fall semester
away from their home universities
expressed mixed feelings about their
time at Fairfield.
Jessie Coe '08 of Loyola Uni-versity
in New Orleans said that she
plans to transferr back East after
spending a semester away from the
South, but she will not be applying
to Fairfield.
"I hated it [at Fairfield Uni-versity],"
said Coe. "This may be
because I commuted, but I really did
not like my classes and the people
were not overly friendly."
Most students agreed with Coe
and do not look back fondly on their
experiences at Fairfield.
Loyola student Kevin Carey
'08 complained about the lack of
diversity on campus.
"Everyone seemed to be either
from New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Long Island or Connecticut," he
said. "There was no diversity except
for the people who played on the
sports teams."
Bianca Loffredo, a junior at
Loyola, thought that Fairfield stu-dents
could have been friendlier.
"I hope this doesn't offend
anyone but I don't think people
were very friendly [at Fairfield],"
she said. "It was really hard for me
to adapt."
Laura Stevenson '08 of Loyola
agreed with Loffredo, but did
say that she respected everything
Fairfield did for her.
"I" appreciated incredibly that
Fairfield had opened up its arms to
all of us from Loyola and Tulane
without questioning it. They con-nected
us with counselors, the Red
Cross and we even had a few meet-ings
and dinners," she said. "The
only thing that I couldn't appreciate
was the student body, [which] didn't
seem very responsive or positive."
Visiting students agreed that
the often-criticized BCC cafeteria
was actually better than what they
faced at their original campuses.
"The cafeteria is much bigger
and better [than Loyola's ]," said
Carey.
Loffredo agreed.
"The only thing better in
Fairfield is the campus food."
Fairfield did offer the students
affected by the hurricane the option
SEE "KATRINA" ON P. 8
SPRINGING INTO ACTION
Mari Heenan/The Mirror
A different kind of spring break: Not every FU student spent their spring break lounging on the beach.
Above: Kim Buesking '09, Kira Greenwood '09, and Phil Graham '09 tear down the roof of a house they
were restoring in Lebanon, Penn. with Habitat for Humanity. The house was being restored for a woman
and her foster child who are currently living in a homeless shelter. The trip to Pennsylvania was one of
four service trips offered through Campus Ministry this spring break, which also offered a trip to West
Virginia and two more to Kentucky.
Forget dollar dogs at the Stag:
Something 'Super' is coming to FU
BY RYAN HULL
The town of Fairfield became
a big red star on the map of the
nation's best hot dog joints when
Super Duper Weenie (SWD) was
ranked on USA Today's and Gour-met
Magazine's Top 10 lists. And
this spring, the same nationally
acclaimed hot dogs will be avail-able
on the Fairfield University
campus.
The SDW truck is scheduled
(weather permitting) to be on
campus Tuesdays and Thursdays
for lunch beginning March 28 at
the Dolan School of Business. It
will also be on hand for all of the
Saturday men's home lacrosse
games starting the evening of
March 25.
SEE "MEALS" ON P. 4
Katie McCarthy/Mirror Photo Illustration
Viva Variety! Some students upset by similarity of concert acts
BY CHERYL HOLMES
L.L Cool J. The Roots. Past
FUSA spring concerts may have
only temporarily calmed some
Fairfield students. But Dashboard
Confessional?
Many students say the spring
concert selection is a step in the
wrong direction for FUSA, who
has often chosen similar acts.
"After four years of being at
Fairfield, FUSA has not had a vari-ety
of groups for the student body,"
said Nicole Williams '07. "I un-derstand
that FUSA wants to pick
a group that is within their budget
and that is known to the majority
of students, but a lot of students
listen to hip-hop music."
"They're often the same peo-ple
who listen to rock and pop,"
. she said.
"I know a lot ofmy friends are
upset because they've never heard
of them," said Megan Winslow
'06. "They would have liked a
more well-known band."
FUSA president Jessica
DiBuono '06 declined to release
the names of the other artists that
. FUSA had been considering.! «
However, DiBuono said she
wants students to be excited about
getting the band that FUSA put its
first bid in for.
DiBuono said it would be
impossible to please the entire
student body, but she thinks it's a
success that FUSA found a band
that many students will enjoy.
"I'd rather choose to focus on
how we got Dashboard and not on
which bands we didn't get."
DiBuono also said she has
received good feedback from stu-dents
she has talked to.
"Students seem to he excited
to have the opportunity to have a
great act right here on campus,"
she said.
Joshua Thornton '06 said he is
one of the excited students.
"It's sick," he said. "I've
never seen them, so hopefully it
will be a great performance."
Other students shared similar
positive perspectives.
"My roommates listen to them
all the time, they sound pretty
good," Queenie Paniagua '09 said.
"We'll see how they do."
Director of FUSA program-ming
Caitlin Conway '06 said she
still feels "incredibly confident" in
the spring concert choice.
"I, as well as other students
who I was working with would
never choose a band that we
weren't confident in," she said.
Thais Pagan '07 said he plans
on taking his sister to the event.
"I think Dashboard Confes-sional
is one of the better bands
since I've been here."
Tickets for the event cost $25.
They will be on sale Wednesday
and Thursday in the FUSA office,
and will also be available through
Ticketmaster. ' T. ,'/