Mirror - Vol. 32, No. 20 - March 01, 2007

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A&S Dean Prepares for New Position at Loyola-Maryland
BY CHRISTINA STODDARD
Colorful balloons, Godiva chocolates and a bottle of
champagne decorated the office of Timothy Law Snyder, dean
of the College ofArts and Sciences, Thursday afternoon. These
gifts celebrated his coming birthday as well as the announce-ment
that he has accepted the position of vice president for
Academic Affairs at Loyola College in Maryland.
Snyder, who has worked at Fairfield for six years, will
assume his new position in Baltimore in July.
"It's bittersweet because I have to leave good people,
good friends, good colleagues, good students," Snyder said.
"I've accomplished a lot, and it's been wonderful."
Before coming to Fairfield, Snyder spent 14 years at
Georgetown, where he was a professor of mathematics and
computer science, was named a Wright Family Distinguished
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EDITORIAL:
TOUGH LOSS TO
TAKE P. 7
Professor and served as the com-puter
science department chair
before being named dean of sci-ence
in 1995.
Snyder earned a bachelor's
degree in both mathematics and
psychology and a master's in mathematics from the University
of Toledo in Ohio. He also holds a master's and a doctorate in
applied and computational mathematics from Princeton. He
has taught at both Toledo and Princeton, as well as the Wharton
School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Now, after 20 years as a distinguished part of the Jesuit
education system, Snyder will move onto a sibling Jesuit
institution, about which he said he is very excited.
"Loyola is known for innovation and a kind of nimble ap-proach
to Jesuit education," said Snyder. "They are not afraid
to try new things and frequently assess themselves."
Snyder also said that he looks
forward to working with Loyola's fac-ulty.
"They [Loyola faculty members],
like ours, balance well education and
scholarship," he said.
Snyder interviewed at Loyola on
Wednesday and Thursday of the week
before the announcement, when he
met with members of the Loyola com-munity
and was asked to make a public
presentation followed by a question
and answer session.
Orin Grossman, vice president of Academic Affairs at
Fairfield, said that the process of finding a replacement for
Snyder has yet to begin. He will most likely hire an "interim
SEE "SNYDER" ON P. 6
SNYDER
For Elections,
No Fanfare, but
Respectable
Turnout
BY STEPHANIE LAUTO
WILLIAMS
Nowhere to be seen
was the mob of students,
the HAM Channel lights
and cameras or any of the
other sights and sounds
that have become synony-mous
with FUSA Elec-tion
Night.
Instead, there was
a small group of FUSA
officials, gathered in an
otherwise empty Barone Campus Center lower
level as Election Commissioner Alexandra
Ghiorzi '09 handed out sheets of paper that
listed results that were essentially cemented
a week ago.
After a three-hour delay, FUSA President
Hutch Williams '08 officially became the first
president in FUSA history to be elected to a
second term, leading a list of incumbent of-ficials
who won re-election.
The results.—which were scheduled to be
announced at 9 p.m.—were announced shortly
after midnight because of the large number of
votes for write-in candidates received, which
made it more difficult for officials to count
all the votes.
Williams, running un-contested after
Frank Fraioli '08 withdrew from the race
last week, received 671 votes, while write-in
candidate Matt Reed '08 came in a distant
second with 41.
John Daly '08 was elected vice president
with 628 votes. He will take over for out-going
vice president Megan McConville '08, who
chose not to run for re-election.
Despite not having contested elections
for president and vice president, the election
drew 842 voters. The results are the lowest
since 1989, the earliest year for which data was
available. But turnout was close to what it was
two years ago when 892 students participated
and Jess DiBuono '06 defeated Ashlee Fox '06
for the presidency.
"We had hoped for a higher turnout, but
I anticipated roughly this amount," said Wil-liams.
"I'm happy with my own turnout, for
example; last year 819, this year 671, so that
SEE "INCUMBENTS" ON P. 3
PLAY BRAWL!
John Ollwerther/The Mirror
Up close and personal: Fairfield and Providence players exchanged blows after the final buzzer of the Stags' season-opening 6-5 win
last Saturday at Alumni Field. For cartoon, see p. 7 in Commentary; for coverage, see p. 19 in Sports.
Lewis Headlines National AIDS Conference
BY ANDREW CHAPIN
Emblazoned with shared memories,
war merits, bowling pins and smiling vic-tims,
six uniquely designed panels from
the AIDS Memorial Quilt humanized the
disease in the lower level of the Barone
Campus Center last week.
Friday marked the beginning of the
National FACE AIDS Conference held at
Fairfield from Feb. 23-24. It was the cul-mination
of what started simply as a button
drive for AIDS awareness on campus by
the Fairfield FACE AIDS chapter.
Stephen Lewis, former UN Special
Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, addressed
the Egan Chapel Friday night as the key-note
conference speaker.
Lewis, who described his disposition
as that of "anger and emotional volatility,"
said he is shocked by the lack of response
to the growing pandemic.
"How is it possible in the year 2002,
LEWIS
three, four, five, six,
seven, 25 years into
the pandemic, we're
still losing so many
children, so many
women, so many men
in such excruciating
numbers; it's hallu-cinatory
to watch it,"
he said, reflecting on
the current effects of AIDS on the world
population.
Striking the podium, Lewis expressed
disbelief about how such a modern world
could allow an increase in the "number of
infections and number of deaths in every
single region of the world since 2004."
In Africa alone, according to Lewis,
there are more than 2 million children
stricken with the disease, while only 5-10
percent of the 720,000 that require immedi-ate
treatment receive it.
"Why are African children's lives
so expendable?" INSIDE:
asked Lewis, STUDENTS FAILED
who alluded to
the premature To SHOW UP
deaths of young j>,J
children. "If they
don't receive treatment, 50 percent of them
die before the age of two and 80 percent of
them die before the age of five."
While praising the "incremental prog-ress"
made in the fight against HIV/AIDS,
Lewis said the protection of women has
been neglected.
"This is a virus driven by gender in-equality,"
he said. "The disproportionate
levels of infection are absolutely over-whelming
and women having no control
of their own sexuality, no capacity to say
'no' to predatory male sexual behavior, no
SEE "STUDENT" ON P. 6