Mirror - Vol. 38, No. 01 - September 12, 2012

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Fairfield U car fire victim still in critical condition
BY LOAN LE
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
A Fairfield University student
remains in critical condition after
being badly burned in a car fire.
Part-time student Justin
Hervey, 23, of Armonk, N.Y., was
rushed to Bridgeport Hospital last
Thursday evening after he and his
Chevrolet Tahoe caught fire near
Tunxis Hill Park in Fairfield, Conn.
According to a Connecticut
Postarticle, a Littie League baseball
game was in progress when coach-es
and parents noticed Hervey
on fire near the field. Hervey had
pulled into the parking lot when
the car started having trouble.
Coaches immediately rushed
over and tried to extinguish the
flames. This quick thinking was
"heroic and should be applauded,"
said Assistant Fire Chief Scott Bis-son
in the article.
Hervey was still conscious
when emergency personnel ar-rived
on scene.
As of late Tuesday night,
Hervey's condition remains criti-cal,
according to Bridgeport Hos-pital
spokesperson John Cappiel-lo.
Hervey's sister, Stephanie
Hervey '13, said that her family is
hoping for the best. "He's still in
critical condition," she said. "He
will be for a few months, but. . .
he's pulling through right now so
hopefully he will continue to do
so."
Word about Hervey's condi-tion
spread to the University com-munity
the day after the incident.
In an email released to the
community on Friday, Vice Presi-dent
for Student Affairs Thomas
Pellegrino wrote: "We are moni-toring
his situation closely and
University staff members have ex-tended
support to his family, who
is with him at this time." Pellegrino
also offered students and faculty
counseling options.
Because the accident is cur-rently
under investigation, little
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Investigations are still underway regarding the cause of the fire that resulted in a Fairfield student's serious injury.
information about the cause of
the fire is available, according to a
Fairfield Fire Department official.
However, in a Hartford Courant ar-ticle,
Sergeant Suzanne Lussier, a
Fairfield Police spokesperson, said
that the fire originated in the pas-senger
compartment of Hervey's
car.
Stephanie called Hervey the
"shining star" of the family and
"the best brother I could have ever
asked for."
Hervey's family asked that
people continue to pray for him.
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MOU approved
BY MARTIN O'SULLIVAN
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
After months of debate and
protest, full-time faculty members
of Fairfield University have reached
an agreement on the future of their
collective salaries and benefits.
On Friday, Sept. 6, faculty
members gathered in the Kelley
Center for a General Faculty meet-ing.
During this congregation, they
voted on the most recent Memo
of Understanding (MOU) for the
2012-13 school year. The MOU
serves as "a contractual document
that specifies all faculty compensa-tion,"
as stated by Dr. Irene Mulvey,
professor of mathematics and for-mer
secretary of the General Fac-ulty.
One hundred forty five faculty
members voted in favor of the new
MOU, with 70 voting against it and
two citing abstention. With an ap-proximate
2-1 vote, the MOU is
considered to be approved by the
General Faculty.
Fr. Paul Fitzgerald, a member
of the administration, expressed
positivity towards this latest oc-currence.
"I was pleased to see
that the faculty voted to accept the
MOU that was the result of colle-gial
conversations between elected
representatives of the faculty and
appointed members of the admin-istration,"
he said.
Although some faculty mem-bers
did not agree with the new
standards laid down by the revised
MOU, the general disapproval is
less than that of the previous MOU
meeting held on April 27, in which
185 faculty members voted against
the version in review at the time.
So why was it rejected in the
first place? In MOU of the 2011-
2012 school year, the administra-tion
promised to maintain the fac-ulty's
compensation rank within
the 95th percentile.
Since its introduction in 1994,
this standard of compensation is
meant to serve as a means of eco-nomic
security for faculty mem-bers.
In a previous Mirror article,
Mulvey described this benchmark
as a "standard of our profession
since it compares our compensa-tion
with other schools in our cat-egory."
In the original version of the
2012-13 MOU, the administration
cited its intent to distance itself
from this benchmark, which lead
to its unanimous rejection by a
General Faculty vote.
Fitzgerald explained his un-derstanding
of this situation: "The
past few years have been difficult
for most every member of the Fair-field
University community - fac-ulty,
staff and students. We have
all sought to prioritize students, al-locating
additional financial aid to
those whose family financial situ-ations
deteriorated significantly.
We also limited the tuition increase
this past year to a figure below the
rate of inflation."
In the aftermath ofthe rejected
MOU last April, faculty members
and students gathered on May 9 to
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