Mirror - Vol. 36, No. 01 - June 01, 2010

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The Reflection of Fairfleld
Please Excuse Our Appearance!
BY: ALEXANDRIA HEIN
NEWS EDITOR
Site of future residence for upperclassmen in 2011 located on the former Village parking lot. Peter Caty/The Mirror
Who'sWho at Fairfield:
A guide to who you need to know in the administration
MIRROR STAFF
With people pointing you in many directions, your first
month at Fairfield University can be taxing. People may tell you
to see the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences ifyou want
to switch your major or talk to the director of Residence Life if
your roommate is intolerable. That may be
all well and good, but just who are these
people?
Here is a guide that can help to clueyou in.
Name: Fr. Jeffery P. von Arx, S.J.
Title: University President
Location: President's Office: Bellarmine
Hall 123, exL 2217
E-mail: president@mail.fairfield.edu
Bio: Fr. von Arx started his academic
career in 1982 at Georgetown University
as a faculty member in the history department, where he served
as chair from 1991 to 1997. During his time in Georgetown, he
was a founding director of the Center for Austrialian and New •
Zealand Studies in the School of Foreign Service.
At Fordham, von Arx had direct responsibility for the op-eration
of the college at Rose Hill, which is the original under-graduate
division of Fordham University.
He has served or is currently on the boards of trustees of
Boston College, Canisius College, Loyola Marymount Univer-sity
and Xavier University. In 2002, von Arx joined Fordham's
board. He is also a member of the boards of Fordham Prep, Re-gis
High School and St. Barnabus Hopsital, both in the Bronx.
In 1969, von Arx receveid his undergraduated degree in
history from Princeton University, which was also the year he
entered the Society of Jesus. He recevied a master's degree in
history and philosophy and a doctorate in history from Yale
University. As a 1981 graudate of the Weston School of Theol-ogy,
von Arx was ordained in 1981.
In 2004, von Arx succeeded Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., to
become Fairfield University's eighth president.
Name: Fr. Charles Allen, S.J.
Title: Executive Assistant
Location: President's Office, Bellarmine 123, ext. 2256
FOR "PEOPLE" i SEE PAGE 3
Welcome to campus
Team'14! As John Ritchie,
assistant director of Pub-lic
Safety told The Mirror
this spring, "Please
excuse our appearance
while we strive to make
our facility a better place
for the future."
That being said, here
is a guide to all of the
construction going on
around campus, most of
which was not here the
last time you visited.
Unfortunately the
construction in the
Quad, which you are now
in the midst of, will not
be completed in time
for the fall semester. The
new freshman dorm will
be completed in August
2011. According to an
earlier Mirror article the
rooms will have over
200 square feet, as well ■
as study rooms that will
face the Quad, and a
large lounge on the first
floor.
August 2011 also
marks the end of the
current construction
going on in the Village
in what was the park-ing
lot for the Kostka/
Claver/library area. The
new building will feature
four, six and eight person
apartments for upper-classmen,
which means
that when you, the mem-bers
of the class of 2014,
are upperclassmen it will
be an option to live in.
What remains
of Dolan Hall is now
completely covered with
scaffolding for what Vice
President of Administra-tive
and Student Affairs
Mark Reed described in
February, as a renovation
that will strip the build-ing
down to its walls. The
former freshman dorm
will also not be available
until August 2011.
Jogues Hall, located
in the Quad, will house
freshmen on the first
floor, and sophomores
on the upper floors in
order to account for the
loss of beds during the
renovation of Dolan Hall,
The new dormitories and
renovations will provide
over 200 more beds.
The sophomores
being displaced by fresh-men
in Jogues have the
new option of living in
the former Jesuit Resi-dence,
St. Ignatius Hall,
which has also been ren-ovated
and is available
in time for the 2010-11
school year according
to school officials. The
building will hold ap-proximately
130 students
in four-person suites.
The Jesuits now live in a
< new building named The
Jesuit Community Center
located between the
Dolan School of business
and Bellarmine Hall.
In order-to extend
the parking lot of the
Quick Center and St.
Ignatius Hall, the parking
lot as well as surround-ing
trees are being ripped
up. A reported 20 percent
of untouched forest area
near the Quick Center
and Hall are being de-stroyed
to make room for
the expansion.
The administration
continutes to stress that
the renovations are to
prevent crowding in the
freshmen dorms.
WHAT TO BRING!
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PLACES TO GO IN TOWN
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LIFE AT THE BEACH
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