Mirror - Vol. 34, No. 08 - October 23, 2008

              WEEK OF OCTOBER 23,2008
Vol. 34, Iss. 8- 20 pages
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Behind the
scenes:
Von Arx shifts Weitzer
into more vital role in
campus operations
BY TOM CLEARY
Now in his fifth year at the
University, President Fr. Jeffrey von
Arx is continuing to implement his
vision for Fairfield.
One step in that process is to
build a power structure that fits the
goals of the University.
■ Last week, von Arx announced
that Senior Vice President Billy
Weitzer will take on more respon-sibilities
and become the Executive
Vice President. Weitzer will now
SEE "WEITZER" ON P. 5
Jon Ollwerther/The Mirror
The man behind the University: Billy Weitzer is the man in charge behind the day-to-day operations
at Fairfield. University President Fr. Jeffrey von Arx will now focus more on fund-raising.
LGBT posters defaced
BY JOE CARRETTA
Torn down posters. Vandalism. Death threats
from off-campus sources.
These are some of the
constant forms of abuse
lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender students say
they are being forced to deal
with after becoming more
outspoken in their pursuit
of acceptance.
The issue of these
threats and cases of van-dalism
were addressed by
a joint letter to the editor
in last week's Mirror by
Associate Vice President
and Dean of Students Tom
Pellegrino, Dean of Student
Development Deborah Cady
Melzer and Sr. Associate
Dean and Director of Stu-dent
Activities Matthew
Dinnan.
Assistant Director of
Public Safety Frank Ficko
did not comment on whether these incidents
received special attention from Public Safety,
but acknowledged that they fall under the same
Photo Illustration by Peter Caty
Intolerant actions: Several posters
have been defaced with homopho-bic
remarks.
categorization of all types of vandalism around
campus.
"The Department of Public Safety requests
that any and all incidents of vandalism should be
reported to DPS immediately,"
said Ficko. "We also ask that
anyone with information re-garding
the person [s] respon-sible
for defacing posters and
bulletin boards to please come
forward. We count on everyone
within the community to serve
as extra eyes and ears in help-ing
to keep campus safe and as
free from crime as possible."
The letter from the
Fairfield administrators ac-knowledged
that "hateful"
actions toward LGBT students
will not be tolerated, and it
made it clear that the adminis-tration
will stand behind them
in their fight for universal ac-ceptance
around campus.
"Acts in such an anony-mous
and hateful fashion do
not encourage open dialogue
of difference and undermine our educational
SEE "WORK" ON P. 6
Law& Order: Fairfield
Cheating scandal goes to the cops
BY KEITH CONNORS
Several months after Aca-demic
Vice President Orin
Grossman authorized an in-vestigation,
the Fairfield Police
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ings of its inves-tigation
regard-as
"Student #1" and a "[former]
resident advisor."
Detective Bernard Kelly
said the decision to withhold
the student's identity complies
with Grossman's decision to
"• keep the inci-
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ing the StagWeb j ?•* j ply was not a
grade-changing
incident.
In addition to defining the
matter as a closed case, the
report failed to identify the
student, only referring to him
criminal mat-ter,"
said Sgt. James Perez,
Fairfield Police, who is the
public affairs official at the
department. "The professors
initially felt it may have been
a criminal act, but the school's
findings and [Kelly's] investi-gation
found that it was not."
Perez added that the Free-dom
of Information Act, which
mandates that federal govern-mental
and public agencies
must release information and
legal findings, only pertains to
criminal acts.
The report states that the
pursuit of a police report by the
professors involved began on
July 25, the date that Grossman
sent a memo to the six faculty
SEE "POLICE" ON P. 6
Mikaela Tierney/The Mirror
A,B,C: Associate Academic Vice
President Mary Frances Ma-lone
chaired the committee that
changed the registration process.
Registration
moving to
alphabetical
system
BY JEN BOOTON
Student concerns about academic
registration were answered Thursday
as Orin Grossman,
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academic vice
president, released
an updated reg-istration
process
that will be used
this fall for Spring
2009 classes.
The commit-tee
that was formed last year by Gross-man
to address registration issues is
responsible for the successful wait-list
system that was implemented last se-mester,
has recom-mended
changing
the system from a
computer-gener-ated
lottery to one
that uses mixed alphabetical groupings
of last names.
"Perhaps those students plagued
by the 745th lottery number for the
SEE "CHANGES" ON P. 5