Mirror - Vol. 36, No. 09 -November 03, 2010

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The Reflection of Fairfield
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
FILM INSTITUTE
SEE P. 10
DOES GOING GREEN
SAVE GREEN?
SEEP.
HOW WAS THE CONCERT?
SEE P. n
NEW! BEER COLUMNIST
SEE P. 9
SATURDAY RUGBY
SEE P. 17
Students Still Unsatisfied with Parking
BY JANELLE CECCO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
It is 3 a.m. You just finished the ten-page
paper you have been working on for
the past 12 straight hours. You look outside
the windows of the library, and notice that
snow has just begun to fall. The thought of
walking back to your townhouse alone not
only worries you but also seems unbear-able
due to the cold weather.
It is too late to call a friend. So what
do you do?
Ifyou follow the parking rules at Fair-field
University, you have no choice but to
take one for the team - or yourself- and
make the trek across campus alone.
This is just one example of the
frustration undergraduate students
feel towards the parking rules and
restrictions that are in effect on campus.
Last fall, starting with the class
of 2012, Fairfield University decided
to only allow upperclassmen to have
their cars on campus. This meant, that
for freshmen and now sophomores, more
cabs and more trips on the Stagbus would
be their main form of transportation.
However, the University listened to
Yuri Sendzimir/The Mirror
the views of the students, and started the
Hertz car service, where you can rent a car
for a few hours, or even a day, depending
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Photos by Peter Caty/The Mirror
What's the "Bright" Idea?
BY MAGGIE ANDREW
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With the cold and dark winter months
quickly approaching, there is one thing Fair-field
students will not need to worry about:
being left in the dark!
At all hours of the day, Fairfield is ablaze
with light. While it is understandable that
dorm hallways and bathrooms are constandy
lit, the unnecessary lighting of vacant rooms
and unused buildings has warranted negative
attention. Some of these concerns are un-derstandable;
however, this important issue
should be looked at from both perspectives.
Our campus already boasts environ-mentally
friendly features that tremendously
reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but
many hope that the issue of unnecessary
lighting can be incorporated into future en-deavors
to further improve Fairfield's carbon
footprint.
Dr. David Downie, the Director of
Fairfield's Program on the Environment,
represents both perspectives of this envi-ronmentally
sensitive issue. He is the first to
admit that, "while Fairfield has done a lot, it
doesn't mean there is not more to be done."
Not many students are aware that the heat
ing, cooling and electricity on campus are~
provided by our own cogeneration plant. This
method is much more efficient, providing
over 95% of our power and producing only
half of the greenhouse gases that our campus
would be responsible for if these services
were bought from an outside source.
While many believe the cogeneration
plant and the geothermal system at the
Jesuit residence shows Fairfield's dedication
to environmental issues, the lighting of the
construction sites, library and the BCC leaves
others doubtful.
LEAF, Fairfield's environmental issues
club, strives to find realistic solutions to
energy problems. Their efforts have recently
resulted in last month's Farm-to-ChefHarvest
week. Senior Gina Caldwell, the President of
LEAF, shares the concerns of many over the
excessive lighting in the library and the BCC
at all hours of the day and night. While the
typical response is that these lights are to as-sist
the cleaning crews and for safety reasons,
LEAF is in the process of working towards a
suitable compromise.
Lights regulated by timers and motion
sensors are an understandable option, but
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Above: Construction lights illuminate the new dorm near the Apartments and Suites.
Below: The 25 light posts down the center of Loyola Drive.
Fairfield To
Host Vigil for
Acceptance
BY LOAN LE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Fairfield University Reaches Out to the
LGBTQ Community
The country was stricken to hear about
that the suicide of Tyler Clementi, who was
bullied for his sexual orientation. Two stu-dents
at Rutgers University, where Clementi
was a student, reportedly taped him having a
homosexual relationship that led to his jump-ing
off of the George Washington Bridge. The
case cast light on other cyber bullying inci-dents,
catching the attention of educational
institutions all around.
In light of these tragic events, Fairfield
University held a series of events in October
to educate students on the history, culture,
and future of LGBTQ community. Now,
Fairfield continues to fight intolerance by
organizing a vigil that invites all members of
the University's community to show support
for those who have or are being bullied.
On Wednesday November 3, at 5:30
p.m., Candlelight Vigil for Acceptance will
take place at Chapel Plaza to honor the vic-tims
of homophobia and cyber bullying.
The event is being coordinated by Cam-pus
Ministry, the Office of Residence Life,
and the Office of Student Diversity. Kevin
Donohue, the Campus Minister, encourages
students, "to attend to acknowledge and
mourn the tragedy ofhomophobic bullying in
[our] society and on college campuses, and to
state clearly that Fairfield University is a com-munity
of tolerance and mutual respect."
Students seem to agree with Donohue. "I
think that it's an issue that is misunderstood
by a lot of people and anything you can do
to shed light on it takes courage. Ifyou see
an injustice, if you don't stand up for it, who
will?" Cara KallemT3 commented.
Dennis Hodgson, a Fairfield Professor of
Sociology and Anthropology, says, "Hopeful-ly,
everyone who attends the Vigil will be sen-sitized
to the homophobic slurs and slights
that can occur in everyday life and which we
often let slide by without negative comment.
Speaking up in such everyday situations is
the best way to let those who don't share our
community's commitment to inclusiveness
know that they are in the minority."
This effort to ease the woes of the LG-BTQ
community does not stop here. Fairfield
University offers other resources on campus
for help. Trevor Project is a crisis interven-tion
hotline (866-488-7386) that operates to
provide help to LGBTQ youth.