Mirror - Vol. 36, No. 06 -October 06, 2010

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The Reflection of Fairfield
Living and Learning Not Meeting Expectations
Kostka Hall (above) and Jogues Hall (below) were suite style living and dorm living options for sophomores up until this
year. BY Charlotte Adinolfi
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Freshman year was ending and housing for the coming
year began to approach. Daryll Fay '13, was "looking forward
to finally being able to choose my roommate and be rid of the
communal bathrooms." Fay was headed for the "suite" life.
Fairfield University had other plans for her. With the
implementation of three new residential colleges and two
that were already established, Fay felt that her only chance
for good housing would be if she chose one of the sophomore
residential colleges.
"Ihe whole process worked out for me in the end, but
I know other people aren't as happy," said Fay, who lives in
the Environmental Residential College in Kostka. "Many of
my friends are unhappy with the dorm or program they were
placed in, but stayed in it so that they wouldn't end up not
knowing where they were living until August."
The sophomore living plan was launched, in part, due
to the nine years of success of the Ignatian Residential Col-lege,
located in Loyola Hall. Joe DeFeo, director of living and
learning, began working with other members of Fairfield
University faculty to create other residential college pro-grams.
"Fairfield wanted to provide a way to help students bet-ter
engage in what type of person they want to be when they
leave Fairfield and beyond," DeFeo said. "It is not just supply-ing
an education to get a job."
The three new residential colleges were to be the Cre-ative
Life Residential College, the Environmental Residen-tial
College and the Leadership in the Ignatian Tradition
Residential College. Two previously established programs
include the Ignatian Residential College as well as the Service
for Justice Residential College.
DeFeo said that each residential college shares the over-arching
goal and question ofvocation from its particular lens.
Each would provide a mentoring community, dinner series,
community nights, retreats and a course with other residents;
students would also partake in other activities to foster the
idea of community and look at the three questions pertaining
to their residential college.
"What started nine years ago [with the Ignatian Resi-dential
College] is now still continuing," DeFeo said. "Sopho-mores
are asking the big question of the meaning of life and
what kind of life they want to lead."
But many students, including Deidre Forrest '13, and a resi-dent
in the Service for Justice Residential College, said she
did not feel this residential college plan was a successful idea.
"It is not amazing that 700 students in the class of 2013
applied to residential colleges," said Forrest, who lives in the
Service for Justice Residential College in Jogues. "It's amazing
that a large percentage of 2013 students are living in dorms
they don't want to live in, in programs they are not interested
in."
Many students did not apply to a specific program for
what it stood for but rather applied to where they wanted to
live, she said.
"There are Fairfield students who are genuinely inter-ested
in the programs they are involved in, but there are
students who really don't care," Forrest said. "For a college
that requires students to live on campus, there has got to be a
Photos By Yuri Sendzunir/ Ihe Mirror
line drawn on what is going to be forced on the students."
Forrest's fellow resident, Julia Sill, member of the class
of 2013, is also a resident in the Service for Justice Residential
College. She said that she does not like that she is a part of
FORCED LIVING | PAGE 7
Terror Alert Issued In Europe: Concern for Stags Abroad
Alexandria Hein/The Mirror
BY Alexandria Hein
NEWS EDITOR
The United States has issued a travel alert for Americans in Europe,
warning about the possibility of an Al Qaeda attack. Possible targets in- «
elude the Eiffel Tower, a hotel near Berlinis Brandenburg Gate and oth-ers
in capital cities such as London, Paris and Berlin. Fairfield University
has study abroad programs in each of these areas.
Fairfield has sent the students currently abroad in European nations
the following email: IThere has been a travel alert issued by the Depart-ment
of State Bureau of Consular Affairs. We would like to inform you
of the latest travel alert, and take extra precaution when traveling to and
within Europe. The warning is in effect till the end of January 2011 .i A
link is then provided to the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular
Affairs.
The statement by the Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the
ipotential for terrorists to attack public transportation systems and other
tourist infrastructure,! but does not get more specific than that.
Christopher Johnson, Director of International Programs at Fairfield
said, iThe safety and well-being of our students is paramount for us and the
guidance of the U.S. State Department is an important part of our proto-cols.
Because the alert is general in nature we are not giving guidance to
avoid particular locations at this time.i
President Obama reportedly met with his national security team
members on Friday and Saturday before issuing the alert, apparently
following the mantra that a vague alert is better than no alert. Nicholas
Shapiero, White House spokesman, said that it was the State Department
that decided to issue the alert, but only after President Obama insisted that
they ido everything possible to disrupt this plot and protect the American
people.!
Fairfield has taken more precaution regarding this alert than other
schools with students abroad. Carolyn Spallutoill is currently studying
abroad Rome, through the Trinity College program. She was emailed the
same warning as the Fairfield students from Trinity and they added, ho
TERROR ABROAD | PAGE 7
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