Mirror - Vol. 31, No. 27 - April 27, 2006

              WEEK OF APRIL 27,2006
Vol. 31, Iss. 27-20 pages
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Best in Show: students par-ticipating
in Fairfield art classes
displayed their creations in the
Loyola ground floor art gallery.
Featuring works of paint, sketch-ing,
sculpture, and other mixed
media, the show opened to the
public on April 25th.
PHOTOS BY BILL MCBAIN
SEE STORY ON PAGE 11
Evaluating the Fairfield Image
LH&A reveals findings of marketing study
BY CHRISTINA STODDARD
Jesuit. Personal. Powerful. How does
Fairfield University's marketing platform
measure up?
To find out, a market analysis and
comprehensive institutional research find-ings
were released to the Fairfield com-munity
Friday, April 21.
University President Fr. Jeffrey von
Arx's strategic vision for the university in-cludes
a new marketing initiative. Lipman
Hearne & Associates (LH&A), a Chicago-based
higher education marketing firm,
was hired to guide this initiative.
After working on the project's first
phase, LH&A presented its results to more
than 60 people in the Dolan School of Busi-ness
dining room.
This is part of the "development and
execution of an aggressive and sophisti-cated
marketing initiative," von Arx wrote
in an e-mail invitation for the event.
The list of potential guests did not
include the general student population.
LH&A said that the goals of the re-search
are to articulate and balance the
various missions of the university and to
enrich the student population.
The firm analyzed various university
stakeholders to gage what criteria define a
top university and where Fairfield ranks in
that category. It found that top universities
should have faculty commitment, a strong
SEE "LH&A" ON P. 7
FU junior saves Spam Jam
Joins RASOR/UNITE as sign of solidarity
BY ASHLEY PHAN
The rumors are true. Spam Jam kegs
are back.
Bill McBain '07, who is the photogra-phy
editor of The Mirror, has taken on the
responsibility of obtaining and signing the
temporary liquor license for this year's an-nual
Spam Jam.
"I love Fairfield and it makes me sad to
see so many of the social traditions students
look forward to disappear. I was disappointed
to see that no one wanted to take the respon-sibility
or initiative of obtaining a temporary
liquor permit," he said.
Monday night, April 24, RASOR/UNITE
members invited McBain to a meeting and
asked him to join RASOR/UNITE and bring
his plans of returning the tradition of having
alcohol at Spam Jam.
"After I had completed the paperwork for
the temporary liquor permit, I met with RA-SOR/
UNITE to see how my vision of having
kegs at Spam Jam fit into the months of work
they've been doing," said McBain.
According to Michael Dominello '06,
president of RASOR/UNITE, the policy
starting this year is to put the responsibility
of student run events into the hands of the
students and as part of that policy, that in-volves
a non-university staff member acting
as a permittee of this event.
Dominello said that he was not informed
of the policy change even after a meeting with
Tom Pellegrino. He said that it was not until
members of RASOR/UNITE were going to
get the permit that they were informed of the
policy change.
All RASOR/UNITE members agreed
that they did not want to take on the re-sponsibility
of signing the temporary liquor
license.
"I was informed of the level of risk and
that level of risk was not something that I was
willing to take as an undergraduate student,"
said Dominello.
SEE "DOMINELLO" ON P. 6
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it FUSA budget to remain largely the same in 06-07
BY LESLEY ALMEIDA AND KATE MCGANN
Following last Wednesday's FUSA budget meeting,
President Hutchinson Williams held a second open forum
Monday night for representatives from any FUSA branch as
an opportunity to voice questions or suggestions concerning
specific funds.
On Sunday evening, the budget proposed by Williams
will be put to a Yes/No vote in front of the FUSA Senate.
While the Senate will not be permitted to propose
changes to specific monetary allocations, members will
be allowed to question the motives behind budget incre-ments.
Williams outlined the organization's 2006 budget, an-nouncing
that overall, the allocation of funds will remain
the same.
Because FUSA encountered very few problems in
the budget that needed to be fixed, the 2006-2007 budget
breakdown looks very familiar, with a total allowance of
$263,500. . . . . .
The biggest change was a cut in FUSA's lecture budget,
which will drop from $17,000 to $12,000 next year. This
section of FUSA goes to special programs such as psychic
researchers The Warrens and "Real World" cast member
appearances.
Williams said that although the cut looks large on
paper, FUSA plans to have more co-sponsored events with
academic groups, other student organizations and possibly
. SEE "STUDENT SENATE" ON P. 4