Mirror - Vol. 35, No. 12 - December 02, 2009

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The Reflection of Fairfield
Perlitz Trial Delayed
BY CHRIS SIMMONS
MANAGING EDITOR
In a motion filed on
Nov. 25, the legal team
for Doug Perlitz '92 asked
the U.S. District Court to
re-set the deadlines for
the filing of pre-trial mo-tions
and the start of jury
selection. The pre-trial
motions were due to be
filed on Oct. 29 while jury
selection was scheduled
to start on Dec. 2.
The defense for Perlitz
argued that both the gov-ernment
and the defense
have been principally
occupied with detention
hearings on Perlitz's pos-sible
release on bond.
Perlitz's lawyers have also
yet to receive any discovery
from the government, ex-cept
for the government's
initial discovery letter on
Oct. 29. But "significant
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initial production will be
made early in the week of
Nov. 30," according to court
documents.
Because of the large
volume of material to
review and the preoccupa-tion
with the detention
hearings, the defense has
requested an extension
until Jan. 29,2010 for the
filing of pretrial motions.
The defense also requested
that jury selection be
delayed until April 2010,
but also admitted that it is
extremely difficult to know
if that is a realistic trial date
at this time with the logis-tics
of investigation and
gathering witnesses from a
foreign country.
The Assistant U.S.
Attorney Krishna Patel did
not object to the motion
and the defendant waived
his right to a speedy trial.
The U.S. Attorney's
office could not be reached
by press time for comment.
Registration Reruns
BY AMBER NOWAK
STAFF WRITER
Unpack your bags, greet friends,
and... head to the registrar? As students
return to Fairfield from Thanksgiving
break nearly two weeks after the initial
registration period, some are still working
on getting into the classes they need.
The relatively new registration
system, which was first employed for the
Spring 2009 semester, differs from the for-mer
method. Now preference is not given
to majors or minors within a department.
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For some students, registration is still occurring, due to the relatively
new registration process.
Instead, particular time slots are allotted
to students by class, with priority given to
upperclassmen.
But for according to underclass-men,
particularly sophomores who juggle
getting started on the core and applying
themselves to their majors and minors,
the process is less than equal.
Joey D'Alessio '12, an English and
Jazz double major, said, "I did not want
to take core classes next semester, so
that I could instead focus on the classes
I'll need for my majors. Because majors
cannot register first, I'm stuck e-mailing
professors. Hopefully I can get written
into the classes I need."
Several departments use the roll out
system to restrict registration for certain
courses, to majors (or minors) only or to a
certain graduating class. For instance, the
Dolan School of Business limits introduc-tory
courses to students who are majors in
the business school during the first week
of registration in order to allow business
majors the opportunity to register for their
core business classes. Students who have
a minor within the School of Business
but are majoring in another school (i.e.
College of Arts and Sciences) have to wait
until several
days after the
initial registra-tion
period to
register for the
introductory
business classes
they need to
begin their
minors.
Associ-ate
professor
and Chair of
the Marketing
department
Mark Ligas
stated, "Intro-ductory
courses
only have holds
for business
minors who are not majoring within the
School of Business. Only for 101 courses is
there a preference for business students."
He encourages students who do not
get into the classes they need the first
time around, to "seek the advisement of
chairs and professors" after the first week
of registration.
"I am very happy with the registra-tion
process. I did not experience any dif-ficulty
getting into the classes I needed,"
says marketing major Michelle Hughes
'12. Conversely, journalism major Eric
AFTERMATH [ PAGE 5
Peter Caty/The Mirror
The men's and women's cross country teams closed out their campaign at the 2009
IC4A/ECAC championships at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, N.Y. The men's team was
paced by junior Ben Heslin who finished 43rd overall while the women's team was led by
sophomore Kristen Golen who recorded Fairfield's fastest 5K time at Van Cortlandt Park
in program history.
Bargaining your Books
BY MIKAELA TIERNEY
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
It's that time ofyear
again - time to sell back old
textbooks for a fraction ofwhat
you paid for them back in the
beginning the semester.
Some students have
been creative with the selling
of books once courses have
ended, but many still turn to
the Fairfield bookstore
in hopes of getting at
least a few dollars back.
Fairfield's book-store
is operated by
eFollet, the same
company that controls
bookstores at col-leges
and universities
nationwide, including
Boston College and
Loyola University in
New Orleans.
According to the
eFollett book buyback
guidelines, "If an in-structor
has requested
your textbook for next
term, then the value increas-es,"
sometimes up to half of
the book's original price.
Additionally, the guide-lines
say, "Textbooks will be
purchased until we reach our
shelf stock limit." The first stu-dents
to sell books back will
be most likely to get the high-est
buyback prices. Once the
bookstore reaches its quota,
students are sometimes out of
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luck. Books can be purchased
by the bookstore to be sent to
other bookstores or won't be
purchased at all.
Even when the bookstore
does offer to buy the books
back, students may sell them
back at a much lower value
than the original price. The
bookstore can buy back a
used edition of a book, like
Introduction To Public Speak-ing
textbook for CO 101, for
$29 and then sell the same
used copy the next semester
to students for $89.50, accord-ing
to the eFollet Web site.
Because the bookstore
is known for its low sellback
prices, some students turn to
services other than the book-store
to sell back their used
textbooks.
"I'm selling some ofmy
books to my friends who are
taking the same classes next
semester, or I'll sell them on
Amazon or another Web site,"
said Victoria Niles '13.
TIPS | PAGE 5
INDEX
Opinion • Page 7
Features• Page 9
Arts & Entertainment • Page 11
Coffee Break • Page 13
Sports • Page 20
INSIDE THIS WEEK
ECONOMIC
BREAKDOWN OF
A STUDY ABROAD
EXPERIENCE
SEE PAGE 4.
FINALS FEVER
CAUSES STRESS
FOR STUDENTS
SEE PAGE 3.
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