Mirror - Vol. 38, No. 02 - September 19, 2012

              THE PIVIIRROR
Week of September 19,2012 • Vol. 38, Iss 2 • The Reflection ofFairfield ' Independent Student Newspaper of Fairfield University
"Nothing tastes as good as
skinny feels."
This common pro-anorexia
slogan was printed inside Jona-thon
Adler planners and cal-endars
for sale at the Stag Spirit
Shop.
Vice President of Student Af-fairs
Jim Fitzpatrick was unaware
of the quote on the shelves - and
it was not easy to locate because
it was printed on the inside of the
planner under the January tab. It
was not boldly displayed on the
cover, but was the quote for the
month of January 2013.
The quote originated from
model Kate Moss and is com-monly
associated with pro-an-orexia
sites and organizations.
Moss came under much heat for
promoting the slogan because
she is such a familiar face in the
fashion industry and is a role
model to young girls across the
country.
ANOREXIA DEFINED
Phyllis L. Weihs, M.S., a
counselor in the Fairfield Univer-sity
Psychological Services, be-lieves
that eating disorders are no
joking matter. Weihs explained:
"According to the DSM IV, Eating
disorders are characterized by
two specific diagnoses. Anorexia
Nervosa, is the refusal of an in-dividual
to maintain a normal
body weight, is intensely afraid
of gaining weight and exhibits
a significant disturbance in the
perception of his or her body
and in females the absence
of at least three consecutive
menstrual cycles."
Weihs continued to ex-plain
the second most com-mon
diagnosis, "Bulimia
Nervosa, is characterized by
repeated episodes of binge
eating followed by inap-propriate
compensatory
behaviors such as self in-duced
vomiting; misuse of
laxatives, diuretics or oth-er
medications; fasting
or excessive exercise."
The quote printed
on the planners and cal-endars
in the bookstore
promotes being thin as a
superior body type and
Weihs explained that,
"Eating Disorders are
usually more prevalent in
highly industrialized soci-eties,
in which there is an
abundance of food and in
which, for females, being
considered attractive is
linked to being thin."
STUDENTS REACT
Senior Julie Labba-dia
was the first person
to discover the planner
in the on-campus book-store.
Labbadia made a
trip to the bookstore on a
day in late August looking
for a planner and was sur-prised
by what she saw.
"I was flipping
through the planners and
I saw it and just thought it
Planner
pulled
from
campus
bookstore
BY MOLLY LEIDIG
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
was wrong. I feel that the
bookstore selling some-thing
like that is promot-ing
eating disorders like
they're OK. I personally
would rather eat food that
tastes good than be stick
thin," said Labbadia.
Labbadia posted a
photo of the quote to her
Facebook and received 32
"likes" and 15 comments,
mostly from Fairfield Uni-versity
students.
Senior Samantha
Goodnowfound out about
the planner through Lab-badia's
Facebook post.
Goodnow said: "I have
seen that exact quote
online on Pinterest and
other places for weight
loss motivation, but I per-sonally
think the quote
goes beyond supporting
a healthy lifestyle. There
is a difference between
losing weight the healthy
way and starving yourself,
and I think the quote printed in
the agenda isn't a positive form
of motivation."
Senior Dan Bruno offered
the male perspective. "When I
first saw the planner, I was sur-prised,"
he said. "No wonder col-lege
students have issues."
However, the Fairfield Uni-versity
bookstore was unaware
that they were even selling such
content until Tuesday afternoon.
Fitzpatrick said that he thinks the
quotation is "extremely offensive
to someone who either is dealing
with an eating disorder or has a
friend or a family member that is
dealing with an eating disorder
and it is not something that I take
lightly."
ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTS
STUDENTS
As soon as Fitzpatrick got
wind of the situation, he imme-diately
went to the on-campus
bookstore and walked through
with two managers and could not
find any of the content. He then
drove to the downtown bookstore
and he again had no luck finding
any of the offensive material.
Once Fitzpatrick was ap-proached
by The Mirror and
shown the planners and calen-dars
that were still being sold in
the bookstore, he was shocked
and went directly to the book-store
to remove any remaining
planners and calendars.
Fitzpatrick is planning
on approaching the Fol-lett
Corporation, the dis-tributor
of the planner, so
that they are made aware
of the content being sold.
Over 900 schools use Fol-lett
as a provider, so the
discontent from Fairfield
University could have a
huge impact on schools
around the country.
"In all my years of
working with Follett,
I'm pretty sure this is
KOVERSY | PAGE 5
Entering the new portal of Fairfield
BY NICOLETTA RICHARDSON
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
If you've tried logging onto
your Fairfield email in the past few
weeks, you'll notice that there's a
new login page with a picture of
Fairfield University as the back-drop.
That's not the only thing
that will be changing.
As a matter of fact, StagWeb is
being entirely replaced by a new
portal.
The Computing and Network
Services staffs, along with a com-mittee
of faculty, staff and stu-dents,
have been working on the
idea of a new portal since 2010
and started developing it in April
2011. The new portal, called
my.Fairfield, became available for
students to preview at the begin-ning
of the fall semester.
"The new portal is designed
to act as a single sign-on system
for the different University re-sources,"
said Omar Munshi '13,
a senior technician at Fairfield
University Computing and Net-work
Services. "For example,
3F @MirrorFairfield
Blackboard, Mentor and even the
student Gmail. It is designed to
eventually replace StagWeb."
StagWeb is based on a de-cade-
old platform, so the new
portal will provide a user with a
new design and a number of new
services, such as a single sign-on
to applications such as Black-board
and Mentor.
"A more integrated approach
for including content from Ban-ner
(registration, personal in-formation,
etc.) is also possible
because of the new design," said
fairfieldmirror.com
a.The new portal
is designed to act
as a single sign-on
sysytem for the
different University
resources."
-Omar Munshi '13
Michael Graham-Cornell, Direc-tor
of Computing and Network
Services. "Other capabilities will
be explored over the next couple
of years."
These "capabilities" include
targeted messaging, mobile con-tent
on smart phones and tablets,
and community information for
schools, colleges, clubs and orga-nizations,
according to Graham-
Cornell.
The old StagWeb has been
around for about 15 years, said
Graham-Cornell. The feedback
that was received from the cam-
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