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FREE | Take one THE Q/MIRROR Week of Mar. 24,2010 | Vol. 35, iss. 21 ■ iairfieldmirror.com ■ The Independent Student Newspaper of Fairfield University The Reflection of FairBeld Historic Health Care Legislation Passed BY CHRISTOPHER HALISKOE BUSINESS MANAGING DIRECTOR Many students went to bed Sunday night worried about their Final Four brackets or their 9:30 quiz the next morning. But over 300 miles away, their legislators were working late to change the society they will be graduating into. This week's health care reform bill, signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday after an arduous and slim win in the House of Representatives, guarantees that more than 30 million currently un-insured Americans will receive health care. The bill aims to reduce cost over time, thus lowering the national debt and improving health care for those who already have insurance, according to lawmakers. Children who are under their parents coverage are now covered until they are 26 years old, when the bill takes effect. In an interview with The Mirror, U.S. Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT), who represents Fairfield and surrounding towns, highlighted that college students will particularly benefit from the plan. "I would say people in their early twenties, in an unsure job mar-ket, could get some peace of mind," said Himes. "Many of the WILL | PAGE 4 Contributed Photo President Obama signed the health care legislation Tuesday morning, marking a significant moment for all Ameri-cans. The bill is the largest expansion ofgovernment health care since Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960. What the Health -$61 billion will be cut in fi- -Children under their parents -The overall $940 billion plan is Care Bill Means For nancial aid for college students. coverage may stay on until projected to extend insurance to YOUI they turn 26 years old. roughly 32 million Americans. M0 I Will ncts^r TVHCM Peter Caty/The Mirror For consecutive days in the past week, students have protested in solidarity for 15 minutes a day over the University's decision to cut down forestland. Zach Gross '12 wears a sign saying, "I am one tree of 60.1 will not stand for more destruction." Academic Calendar to Get a Makeover BY DAN LEITAO STAFF WRITER In the next two weeks, discussions will take place centering around the reassessment of and possible changes to the University academic calendar. The issue was brought to students' attention at the FUSA Senate meeting this past Sunday night. According to Mary Frances Malone, the University associate academic vice president as well as the FUSA faculty advisor for commencement, discus-sion is focusing on three major issues of concern. The issues are three reading days for students, enough time between fall and spring semesters for professors research and student immersion trips, along with a way to help students who have three exams at once. The Academic Council will be meeting on Thursday and FUSA and Malone are scheduled to meet next week. The issues under discussion will affect the academic calendar for at least the next two years. In the past the academic calendar has caused many inconveniences from students having more than two exams on one day to grades not having enough time to be processed. The Academic Council appointed Malone, along with two more faculty members, to look into the best ways to address the many concerns. The faculty's main concern was that students need three days before the exam period, and, because exam period was shortened, some students are scheduled for three exams one day, along with the consideration of meeting the needs of professional schools. Do Students Think They're Safe? BY MEAGAN FIYNN STAFF WRITER Walkie-talkies are beeping and confer-ence rooms are buzzing as John Ritchie, assistant director of the Department of Public Safety, intendy scans through statistics on his computer screen. The results are in for the department's recent online safety survey, and Ritchie knows that every detail of the report could hold clues to how he and his fellow offi-cers can better serve the Fairfield community. "It gives us a benchmark of how we're serving the community. We have our perspec-tive of things, but sometimes our perspective isn't the important one," Ritchie says of the DPS Survey that students, faculty and staff were recently encouraged to participate in. The DPS Survey is the first one of its kind in the past 10 years, its aim being to evaluate the performance of the department and to better understand Public Safety's role on campus. The demographics of the survey are reflective enough of the campus community to provide an accurate depiction of community opinion, according to Ritchie. The survey was generally broken into two sections: one survey for students, and another for faculty and staff. Appropriately, the majority of respondents (61 percent) were full-time undergraduate STUDENTS I PAGE 5 or INDEX Opinion* Page 7 Features • Page 9 Arts & Entertainment • Page 13 Coffee Break • Page 17 Sports • Page 24 INSIDE THIS WEEK HUNGRY FOR A CLEANING? SEE PAGE 3. WOMEN POETS COUNTDOWN TO TIMELINE SEE PAGE 3. LOG ONTO FAIRFIELDMIRROR. COM FOR MORE! NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE WILL COME OUT ON MARCH 30 INSTEAD OF MARCH 31.
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Title | Mirror - Vol. 35, No. 21 - March 24, 2010 |
Date | March 24 2010 |
Description | The Mirror (sometimes called the Fairfield Mirror) is the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, and is published weekly during the academic year (September - May). It runs from 1977 - the present; current issues are available online. |
Notes | A timeline for Fairfield University student newspapers is as follows: The Tentative, Nov. 7, 1947 - Dec. 19, 1947; The Fulcrum, Jan. 9, 1948 - May 20, 1949; The Stag, Sept. 23, 1949 - May 6, 1970; The University Voice, Oct. 1, 1970 - May 11, 1977; The Fairfield Free Press & Review, Sept. 10, 1970 - Apr. 24, 1975; The Fairfield Mirror, Sept. 22, 1977 - present. |
Type of Document | Newspaper |
Original Format | Newsprint; color; ill.; 11.5 x 17 in. |
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Publisher | Fairfield University |
Place of Publication | Fairfield, Conn. |
Source | Fairfield University Archives and Special Collections |
Copyright Information | Fairfield University reserves all rights to this resource which is provided here for educational and/or non-commercial purposes only. |
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SearchData | FREE | Take one THE Q/MIRROR Week of Mar. 24,2010 | Vol. 35, iss. 21 ■ iairfieldmirror.com ■ The Independent Student Newspaper of Fairfield University The Reflection of FairBeld Historic Health Care Legislation Passed BY CHRISTOPHER HALISKOE BUSINESS MANAGING DIRECTOR Many students went to bed Sunday night worried about their Final Four brackets or their 9:30 quiz the next morning. But over 300 miles away, their legislators were working late to change the society they will be graduating into. This week's health care reform bill, signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday after an arduous and slim win in the House of Representatives, guarantees that more than 30 million currently un-insured Americans will receive health care. The bill aims to reduce cost over time, thus lowering the national debt and improving health care for those who already have insurance, according to lawmakers. Children who are under their parents coverage are now covered until they are 26 years old, when the bill takes effect. In an interview with The Mirror, U.S. Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT), who represents Fairfield and surrounding towns, highlighted that college students will particularly benefit from the plan. "I would say people in their early twenties, in an unsure job mar-ket, could get some peace of mind," said Himes. "Many of the WILL | PAGE 4 Contributed Photo President Obama signed the health care legislation Tuesday morning, marking a significant moment for all Ameri-cans. The bill is the largest expansion ofgovernment health care since Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960. What the Health -$61 billion will be cut in fi- -Children under their parents -The overall $940 billion plan is Care Bill Means For nancial aid for college students. coverage may stay on until projected to extend insurance to YOUI they turn 26 years old. roughly 32 million Americans. M0 I Will ncts^r TVHCM Peter Caty/The Mirror For consecutive days in the past week, students have protested in solidarity for 15 minutes a day over the University's decision to cut down forestland. Zach Gross '12 wears a sign saying, "I am one tree of 60.1 will not stand for more destruction." Academic Calendar to Get a Makeover BY DAN LEITAO STAFF WRITER In the next two weeks, discussions will take place centering around the reassessment of and possible changes to the University academic calendar. The issue was brought to students' attention at the FUSA Senate meeting this past Sunday night. According to Mary Frances Malone, the University associate academic vice president as well as the FUSA faculty advisor for commencement, discus-sion is focusing on three major issues of concern. The issues are three reading days for students, enough time between fall and spring semesters for professors research and student immersion trips, along with a way to help students who have three exams at once. The Academic Council will be meeting on Thursday and FUSA and Malone are scheduled to meet next week. The issues under discussion will affect the academic calendar for at least the next two years. In the past the academic calendar has caused many inconveniences from students having more than two exams on one day to grades not having enough time to be processed. The Academic Council appointed Malone, along with two more faculty members, to look into the best ways to address the many concerns. The faculty's main concern was that students need three days before the exam period, and, because exam period was shortened, some students are scheduled for three exams one day, along with the consideration of meeting the needs of professional schools. Do Students Think They're Safe? BY MEAGAN FIYNN STAFF WRITER Walkie-talkies are beeping and confer-ence rooms are buzzing as John Ritchie, assistant director of the Department of Public Safety, intendy scans through statistics on his computer screen. The results are in for the department's recent online safety survey, and Ritchie knows that every detail of the report could hold clues to how he and his fellow offi-cers can better serve the Fairfield community. "It gives us a benchmark of how we're serving the community. We have our perspec-tive of things, but sometimes our perspective isn't the important one," Ritchie says of the DPS Survey that students, faculty and staff were recently encouraged to participate in. The DPS Survey is the first one of its kind in the past 10 years, its aim being to evaluate the performance of the department and to better understand Public Safety's role on campus. The demographics of the survey are reflective enough of the campus community to provide an accurate depiction of community opinion, according to Ritchie. The survey was generally broken into two sections: one survey for students, and another for faculty and staff. Appropriately, the majority of respondents (61 percent) were full-time undergraduate STUDENTS I PAGE 5 or INDEX Opinion* Page 7 Features • Page 9 Arts & Entertainment • Page 13 Coffee Break • Page 17 Sports • Page 24 INSIDE THIS WEEK HUNGRY FOR A CLEANING? SEE PAGE 3. WOMEN POETS COUNTDOWN TO TIMELINE SEE PAGE 3. LOG ONTO FAIRFIELDMIRROR. COM FOR MORE! NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE WILL COME OUT ON MARCH 30 INSTEAD OF MARCH 31. |