Mirror - Vol. 32, No. 21 -March 08, 2007

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Hutch Plans For Alcohol, but Details Not Yet There
BY CHRISTOPHER HALISKOE
At the start of his second term, FUSA President
Hutch Williams '08 announced his plan to bring alcohol
to more FUSA events next year.
"I will be working with Student Activities over the
summer, planning next year's [FUSA] events and we
will have to apply for a floating liquor license," Wil-liams
said.
FUSA Executive Director of Programming Christina
Pires '08 said that the logistics have not yet been planned
out, but more solid plans will be set this summer.
"The idea is that alcohol will be served to of-age
students at some events next year," Pires said.
It is not definite which events would have alcohol
served at them, which Pires also said would be decided
upon over the summer.
While the expected costs are unknown, Williams
said he thinks the cost should be manageably low since
they will be using the Levee's bar staff as well as FUSA
personnel.
"It should be something like dollar drafts because
with free alcohol you need to set a limit," he said.
"Control is the key element of having alcohol at
any event," said Dean of Students Tom Pellegrino. "The
question to ask is this: do those providing and taking
responsible for the provision of alcohol have sufficient
control over the distribution in terms of both insuring
that those drinking are of-age, and in terms of the amount
distributed?"
Pellegrino also said that the question of whether
alcohol is the main attraction of the event is a pivotal
factor.
"When alcohol comes to be the dominant element
of an event, then I tend to scrutinize it more carefully,"
Pellegrino said.
But Williams disagreed. "Alcohol is treated as this
big, bad something, [while] FUSA promotes responsible
drinking," he said. "It is unreal to think they [students]
won't drink. As long as we work within the guidelines
and the law, it [the plan] helps students grow."
Pires also disagreed that alcohol would be a negative
factor if added to FUSA events.
"I see this as being a positive because it may at-tract
a new crowd of upperclassmen who would other-
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SUPERVILUAN STRUGGLE
Contributed Photo
'Henchmen': (Lto R) Jeremy Shea '10, Anne Krane '09. and Tony da Costa '08 entertained audiences in one of the
three plays performed at the Black Box theater during Theatre Fairfield's Festival. For story see p. 9.
In Short Career,
Yago Has Seen
It All
BY CHRISTEN MECABE
September 11th. Hurricane Katrina. The War in Iraq.
The Kashmir earthquake.
Journalist and former MTV news correspondent
Gideon Yago, who spoke Thursday night at the Quick
Center, has experienced these events firsthand.
"He's been there and he's our age," FUSA President
Hutch Williams '08 said when he introduced Yago.
Yago said that landing the MTV job was a result of
being in the right place at the right time. For seven years,
he served as the first outlet to provide his generation with
what was going on in the world.
Yago discussed his journey from being a college
student at Columbia University, to working for MTV as
a war correspondent, to his present venture of writing
screenplays. However, Yago was quick to down play his
accomplishments.
"I'm just a VJ," Yago said.
Yago said that he has found his niche among young
people, often mocking himself in the process.
, "It's that dork again?" said Yago. "Change the chan-nel."
Before the lecture, Yago sat down with The Mirror to
share his experiences during his visits to Iraq and what the
future holds.
Yago said he remains optimistic about the future for
Generation Y. He cited the three Georgetown University
students who started the Save Darfur movement by using
the Internet, young adults who selflessly volunteer and the
few who continue to enlist in the armed forces.
"It is a very exclusive experience and not a shared
experience, which is ironic because it has so much deter-mination
of who we are as a country at large and we only
SEE "YAGO" ON P. 6
Commencement Speaker Picked, but Not Yet Unveiled
BY ANDREW CHAPIN
Arthur Levitt Jr. Douglas Perlitz. Strobe Talbott. Univer-sity
President Fr. Jeffrey von Arx. British Robinson. Since
2001, these are the commencement speakers who have ad-dressed
Fairfield's graduating classes.
While their names are not as familiar as past Fairfield
commencement speakers Billy Joel or Leonard Bernstein, von
Arx, who has been president since September 2004, said he
is more concerned with a commencement speaker of Jesuit
ideals than celebrity acclaim.
This year could prove to be no different if von Arx stands
by his initiative.
"A Fairfield commencement is a special community
occasion when the commencement speaker should have
something special and relevant to say to the graduates of a
Jesuit university," he said.
The commencement speaker, according to von Arx, has
been chosen and will not be announced until April.
In a letter to Fairfield seniors in 2004, von Arx presented
his argument for more quality than status.
"Popular speakers, I have found, will often give the
same generic address at several campuses," he said. "To put
it positively, speakers who have had a close relation to the in-stitution
and to the goals and ideals ofJesuit higher education
have given excellent talks that have spleen to the graduates
of a Jesuit university, even though they may not have been
famous people."
To von Arx, the University has other events to which
notable speakers are invited on campus, including the Open
VISIONS Forum and the Dolan School of Business lecture
series.
"Just in my own time here, we have hosted Jeff Immelt
(GE) and Anne Mulcahy (IBM), Tim Russert (NBC) and Bill
O'Reilly (Fox), Joan Didion and Gore Vidal (PBS)," he said.
"These have been wonderful occasions to hear these individu-als
speak as experts on what they know about."
SEE "VON ARX" ON P. 6