Mirror - Vol. 38, No. 14 - February 06, 2013

              THE ^MIRROR
Week of February 6,2013 • Vol. 38, Iss. 14 • The Reflection ofFairfield • Independent Student Newspaper of Fairfield University
Julie
Andrews
to visit
University
Bookstore
BY MAGGIE ANDREW
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Mary Poppins, Maria
Trapp and the Queen of Genovia
are coming to town. Julie Andrews
and her daughter, Emma Walton
Hamilton, will be at the Fairfield
University bookstore on Feb. 7 to
sign copies of their latest children's
book, "The Very Fairy Princess Fol-lows
Her Heart."
This book is one of four in
"The Very Fairy Princess" series,
which is a New York Times #1 best-seller.
The mother-daughter duo
has also coauthored the "Dumpy
the Dump Truck" series, among
ANDREWS | PAGE 3
Photo Illustration by Nicholas DiFazio/IJie Mirror
DPS reports that none of the Townhouses burglaries involved forced entry. Most thefts occurred during parties or while houses were vacant.
Townhouse thefts are on the rise
Contributed Photo
Andrews will appear in the book-store
on Friday, Feb. 7.
BY LUIGI DIMEGILO
CHIEF COPY EDITOR
Two weekends back on campus
and Townhouses thefts have already
surpassed those of the entire Fall
2012 semester.
Electronics are the main target,
with iPhones, video game systems
and laptops being the most frequent-ly
taken items.
According to Department of
Public Safety reports, many of the
thefts occurred during gatherings
where Townhouses residents invited
in possible culprits. Smartphones
were most commonly stolen from
unattended coat pockets in these in-stances.
A lot of the recent crime spike,
however, comes in the form of tres-passing
unlocked townhouses while
the residents are away or upstairs.
Residents in St. Gabriel Lale-ment
(7 block) came downstairs to
find two white males (one wearing
a grey hooded sweatshirt) and one
black male wearing a black hooded
sweatshirt attempting to take their
DVD player. The suspects fled with
an iPhone.
All of the burglaries and thefts
have occurred between about 11:00
p.m. and 2:00 a.m. on Friday and Sat-urday
nights.
One townhouse was robbed of
an Xbox with its controllers, a PS3
with its controllers (kept in the living
room) and a laptop (kept in a bed-room)
while the house's residents
went to the beach for a few hours.
The victims realized the items miss-ing
the next morning.
"We're starting to get a little par-anoid,"
said Gareth Rulewski' 14 who
lives just a few houses away from that
most recent burglary. Rulewski did
not think much of the trend at first,
saying, "I thought it was some drunk
kid who wanted a souvenir," but now,
"... I think we're going to start locking
doors during the day while we're
home."
All of the incident reports vary
to some degree. In one, someone
witnessed a failed bicycle theft at-tempt
from a townhouse porch.
There were even a couple cases
where residents heard people down-stairs
in their living rooms, thought
the noise was from a roommate and
woke the next morning to find that
TOWNHOUSES | PAGE 6
Adjunct professors seek greaterjob stability
BY GRACE TIEZZI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Fairfield's adjunct professors
are challenging their working
conditions and aiming for equi-table
treatment.
Part-time faculty members,
also commonly referred to as "ad-junct
professors," are challeng-ing
the University to take a look
at their conditions, rights and
privileges through a special task
force. Throughoutthe 2013 spring
semester, this task force will ex-amine
the University's treatment
of the part-time faculty. Once this
is done, a final report and recom-mendations
will be presented to
the Academic Council in Septem-ber
2013. This task force follows
a motion made in August 2012,
which asked the Academic Coun-cil
to look deeper into the status,
roles and conditions of part-time
faculty at Fairfield.
One of the creators of the
motion, Dr. Elizabeth Hohl, pro-fessor
of history, said that the task
force is essential to the employ-ment
of the nearly 400 part-time
faculty members at Fairfield Uni-versity.
According to Hohl, an ad-junct
or non-tenure track faculty
member was originally a title giv-en
to an instructor who was em-
"Unfortunately,
most of these
changes are depen-dent
on finances
and annual bud-gets.
-Dr. Robbin
Crabtree
ployed outside of academia and
only taught one course at a uni-versity
for a single semester.
However, the job descrip-tion
has changed over the years,
said Hohl. Now the term refers
to a broad range of professionals,
graduate students and teachers
who have been employed with
the University on a part-time ba-sis
for many years. The majority of
these professionals hold the high-est
degree in their fields.
While some are also em-ployed
elsewhere, for others, this
is their sole source of income. For
example, Hohl has been teaching
at Fan-field University part-time
since 1984.
However, just because Hohl
has been teaching at Fairfield for
over 20 years doesn't mean she'll
be here next semester. Part-time
faculty are employed on a se-mester
to semester basis with no
guarantees that they'll be invited
back to teach.
This, said Hohl, is one of the
many things the task force aims
to fix. Ideally, qualified senior
part-time faculty would be pre-sented
with multi-year contracts,
guaranteeing their positions for
ADJUNCT 1 PAGE 6
News
Core classes:
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Opinion
Online humor
''stupid?"
page 7
The Vine
Superbowl stuff for
your enjoyment
page 10
Sports
Grading men's
basketball
page 20