Mirror - Vol. 31, No. 11 - November 17, 2005

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Students on registration: New semester, same headache
BY ELIZABETH BAE until 3:30 and didn't get any of Residential College students EDITORIAL eacn omer if they could log in,"
the classes I wanted. Everything received the same pin numbers „ . . said Bakarich. "We heard some-
In the past few weeks, I needed was closed. The whole as last year. registration one say that you had to go to the
Fairfield has been struggling registration process this semester "The IRC students received a Stagnation Registrar to register but I was too
with the timeless burden of all was more frustrating than any pin to register early for their IRC Pawp 1? nre(^ anc^ c°ld-- so I went back
college students - registration, other year. The system the uni- courses only and then continued _? to bed for three hours."
From, technical difficulties to •' versity uses is terrible." to use that pin for core and elec- registration to log onto StagWeb, Communication majors un-courses
being closed, students However, University Reg- tives." but her pin number did not work derwent a confusing change this
are stressd out. istrar Robert Russo said that "It had nothing to do with on her or her roommate's com- semester.
"I had a 3 p.m. registration "everything has been running pins from last year," he said. puter, she said. "The communications ma-time,"
said Jennifer DeNapoli smoothly." He said there was IRC student Katie Bakarich "I could hear people in the
'06. "I couldn't get onto StagWeb a misconception that Ignatian woke up 7 a.m. for preferential halls complaining and asking SEE "SENIORS" ON P. 6
"PERFECT" PERFORMANCE AT ALUMNI HALL
Bill McBain/The Mirror
Blue Band: Guster, led by frontman Ryan Miller (foreground), played to over 2,000 fans at Alumni Hall
last Thursday night. For a full story and interview with the band see p. 7.
Little improvement for
'09 AHANA stats
BY MEAGHAN ANDREO
Recent statistics show that the
number of AHANA students that
enrolled in the class of 2008 has
dropped to 7.8 percent, while the
current class of 2009 has shown
little improvement.
"This is definitely something
to be concerned about in terms of
race and ethnicity and socioeco-nomics,"
said Dr. Renee White,
associate professor of anthropol-ogy
and sociology and co-director
of black studies, who is worried
about the lack of diversity.
White, one of the few new
black professors at Fairfield Uni-versity,
emphasized that the com-munity
residing on campus is not
preparing students for the real
world.
"We need to have a diverse
land of faces in order for the uni-versity
to do that," she said.
Director ofAdmissions Karen
Pellegrino said that these statistics
are an overall concern on the part
of the university, not just the ad-missions
office. Pellegrino stated
that the highest levels of adminis-tration
realize it requires full effort
to bring up the numbers.
Fairfield is not alone in the
battle to heighten the number
of ethnically diverse students at
a Jesuit university. Other Jesuit
schools such as Boston College
and Georgetown University have
also taken initiatives to promote
diversity.
Georgetown has instituted
new associations such as Pluralism
SEE "GROSSMAN" ON P. 6
MAAC
BY BEN DOODY
All for nothing.
That was the way Fairfield forward Bill Androut-sos
'06 described his immediate feelings about the
Stags' season following the team's 2-1 season-end-ing
loss to Marist in Sunday's MAAC tournament
championship game.
"A result like this makes you feel like the year
was worthless, but it was a good year," Androutsos
said. "It was very disappointing but the collective
mentality of the team stayed strong. We were just a
little unlucky today."
The loss was an unfitting ending to what had been
the best Stags season in a decade. The team had an un-defeated
regular season in the MAAC and entered last
weekend's conference tournament as the No. 1 seed.
If that was not enough, the Stags had the advantage
of playing the tournament on their home field.
But after the Stags dismantled Niagara 3-0 Fri-day
in the semi-finals, underdog Marist stunned the
capacity crowd on hand at Lessing Field Sunday, scor-ing
the game's first two goals en route to its second
consecutive MAAC championship.
Last year, the Red Foxes nearly stunned heav-ily
favored UConn in the first round of the NCAA
tournament, taking the game to overtime before the
Huskies pulled out a 1 -0 win.
The Stags still held on to hope that they would
be granted an at-large bid to the NCAA's - something
that appeared to be a very realistic possibility given
the team's standing as the No. 24 team in the nation.
But when the tournament bracket was unveiled on
Monday afternoon, the Stags were not included and
SEE "REES" ON P. 4
Katie McCarthy/ The Mirror
Not this year: The Stag's ended their season Sunday after losing to
Marist 2-1 in the MAAC tournament championship game.