Mirror - Vol. 32, No. 04 - September 28, 2006

              WEEK orSEPTEMBER 28,2006
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The independent student newspaper
of Fairfield University
FU admissions dept. doubles AHANA numbers
Eighteen percent of freshman class comes from minority background
BY MAURA ROUSSEAU
Fairfield made The Princ-eton
Review's 2007 top ten list
for schools with the most homo-geneous
student population.
But times are changing as
the University has doubled its
percentage of minorities.
The class of 2010 includes
169 AHANA (African Ameri-can,
Hispanic, Asian and Native
American) students compared to
the class of 2009, which includes
a mere 82.
The percentage of minorities
for the entire student body, there-fore,
jumped from nine percent to
18 percent, according to Associ-ate
Director of Admissions for
Diversity William Johnson.
The jump is exemplified in
the number of enrolled students
from Puerto Rico.
For the 2005 academic year
only one student enrolled from
Puerto Rico compared to nine
students who enrolled this year.
Director of Undergraduate
COMMENTARY
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ed's naughty list
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Admissions Karen Pellegrino
attributed the rise to several
reasons.
"I believe there are many
factors, but clearly one of the
most important is the commit-ment
of the entire university com-munity,
beginning with Father
von Arx, to enhance the diversity
on our campus in all ways," said
Pellegrino.
Visiting more high schools
with high populations ofAHANA
students for college fairs was
another technique implemented,
said Pellegrino.
Horizons weekend, an event
sponsored by the office of un-dergraduate
admission, is an op-portunity
for accepted AHANA
students to visit Fairfield and get
a better feel for the campus, Pel-
SEE "SEVERAL" ON P> 8
Not so fast, Popeye
Sodexho, students react
to spinach-borne E. coli scare
BY JOE CARRETTA
Small children are rejoicing over the greatest excuse of all time to
not finish their spinach while spinach lovers across the nation lament
the lack of green in their diet.
Here at Fairfield, students are agitated by the lack of spinach
throughout the Barone Campus Center dining areas. A warning against
the bacteria is accompanied by an online news article detailing the
problem.
Fresh and bagged spinach is being pulled from the shelves after it
was contaminated with a deadly strain of E. coli bacteria. According to
WebMD, the contaminated vegetables were grown primarily in three
counties in California: Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Clara.
The spinach was linked to various illnesses and deaths in multiple
states across the country, including one in Connecticut, according to
WebMD.
Although the cause of the contamination is still unknown, a CNN.
com article confirmed that the E. coli strain which was detected is an
extremely dangerous one known as E. coli 0157:H7 and has been linked
SEE "SODEXHO" ON P. 7
No PAIN, NO GAIN
Lorraine Lampe/The Mirror
For love of the game: Brittany Bates '08 edges out a Holy Cross Crusader during Sunday's game. For the
story, go to WWW.FAIRFIELDMIRROR.COM.
Two do a crime, rich one pays the fine?
BY ANDREW CHAPIN
Sanctions taken against students in
violation of university policy are decided
in accordance with the student handbook
and are subject to the dean's discretion. But
it seems as if a student's financial situation
may be a factor in the deeision as well.
According to Dean of Students Thomas
Pellegrino, his office has the ability to levy
non-monetary sanctions for offenses punish-able
by fine.
"A student in an extreme financial
circumstance could be given a non-mon-etary
sanction in lieu of a monetary one,"
he said.
However, Pellegrino defended the Uni-versity
policy, downplaying the instances
where this authority would be used.
"It doesn't happen often but it's some-thing
that common sense dictates should be
in place," he said.
Chris Del Bove '09 is not convinced of
the policy's practicality. Though he agrees
Dean's office giving
special consideration to
poorer students
with the concept, he does not understand
how the University would assess which
students fall under the policy.
"It's unfair if there is no line," he said,
since the policy has no explicitly stated or
specific guidelines. "There are too many
SEE "PELLEGRINO" ON P. 8
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