Mirror - Vol. 38, No. 16 - February 20, 2013

              THE^MIRROR
Week of February 20,2013 • Vol. 38, Iss. 16 • The Reflection ofFair field • Independent Student Newspaper of Fairfield University
FUSA Elections:
Ready, Set, Go!
BY DANIELLE ANCTIL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Meeting with university ad-ministration,
reviewing budgets,
addressing concerns about the
core curriculum and envisioning
the future social life of students
is not on the agenda of every
Fairfield student.
FUSA President Rob
Vogel '13 and Vice
President Mark Ev-ans
'13 have man-aged
these respon
five senators per class. If not
enough students run for senate,
"responsibility falls on the class
president to fill voids within
their class." Class presidents are
then elected amongst the elect-ed
senators.
"The most difficult part of
the process for me was the deci-sion,"
said Vo-
"r,The next FUSA
president will be
challenged to con-s7bmti7s7or
the past tinue to provide
year, and they are both innovative
now preparing to , ,
pass on their roles Programs and to-to
a new staff as the ditions to our cam-
FUSA elections ap- „..„ **
proach. "
The first step -RobVogel'13
in the process of
running for a FUSA _. _ _
president or vice
president is submitting an ap-plication,
along with a petition
signed by any 20 students. Ac-cording
to FUSA's application
packet, which was due Feb. 11,
20 students from the candidate's
class must sign if the student is
running for a Senate position.
FUSA positions include
President, Vice President and
gel. "It's also
always a chal-lenge
to put
your name out
there amongst
your peers
to represent
them in a
campaign set-ting,
but I'm
very happy I
went through
with it. I'd en-courage
any-
one on the
fence about do-ing
it to do so in the future."
Once they have been con-firmed
to be in good standing
with the University and have
attended FUSA's Election and
Posting Policy Meeting, candi-dates
are allowed to post and
campaign publicly.
CAMPAIGNS j PAGE 3
Leigh Tauss/ The Mirror
PJ, the psychic, tells Kathryn Dennen '15 what is in store for her.
V-Day is not in their cards
variety of activities, including a
photo-booth, washable tattoos,
friendship bracelets, desserts,
pinata's and two psychic read-ers.
"There are so many things
to do right now!" shouted excit-ed
freshman Bobby Bohny '16.
The inspiration for the
event was a "party for single
people" event organizer Nicole
Rende '15, explained, to combat
the over-the-top sentimentality
of Valentine's Day and provide
singles with their own event.
FUSA decided to play the
BY LEIGH TAUSS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
No crystal ball was neces-sary
to reveal the success of the
psychic readers who came to
campus this weekend to unlock
the secrets of the spirit for stu-dents.
The event, dubbed "Anti-
Valentines day" was sponsored
by FUSA late-night program-ming
and drew about 100 stu-dents
to the Lower Level of
Barone Campus Center Friday
night.
Students enjoyed a wide PSYCHICS I PAGE 3
Contributed Photo
Fairfield University students rally at the March for Change at the State Capitol in Hartford, Conn.
Students In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary
shootings, Fairfield students and others rally to
ensure that Conn, gun laws will be tightened
march for gun reform
BY GRACE TIEZZI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Stockton, Calif.: 1989. Little-ton,
Colo.: 1999. Nickel Mines,
Pa.: 2006.
These three cities have one
common thread, and in Decem-ber
2012, Newtown, Conn, be-came
the latest addition to this
list of mass shootings aimed at
children.
The shooting at Sandy Hook
Elementary School, however,
has sparked a push for new gun
legislation in Connecticut.
On Thursday, Feb. 14, a del-egation
consisting of Fairfield
University faculty, staff and stu-dents
attended the March for
Change rally at the State Capitol
building in Hartford.
Started by two Fairfield
moms, Nancy Lefkowitz and
Meg Staunton, the march was
held in support of the enactment
of "common sense gun laws" in
Connecticut.
The grassroots movement
that they began is the "noise"
behind the efforts of CT Against
Gun Violence, a group pushing
for safer gun legislation in Con-necticut.
According to their web-site,
this "noise," or the support
of citizens, will force the legisla-tors
to take notice and act.
Connecticut currently has
some of the strictest gun laws in
the nation, according to Byron
Wolf of ABC.
These new "common sense"
laws that the march supported
include a ban on high capacity
ammunition magazines and a
stronger ban on assault weap-ons,
as well as universal back-ground
checks on all sales of
firearms.
The laws would be a new ad-dition
to the pile of pre-existing
gun legislation in Connecticut
with the goal of preventing an-other
mass shooting in the state.
Almost 5,500 people turned
up for the march, according to
Hartford police. Many were
dressed in white and green
in support of Sandy Hook El-ementary.
Others carried signs
bearing slogans like "Enough is
enough" and "Change now."
According to Nicole Davi-dow
'15, the most striking part of
the march was the children who
attended the march along with
their parents. While they were
more interested in the piles of
snow surrounding the Capitol,
the children were "the face of
resilience and the reason why
changes for law reform are nec-essary,"
said Davidow.
With a change in the laws,
children "can grow up without
hate, anger and fear of what
harm others can bring to them
and their loved ones," Davidow
added. By simply attending the
march, the children showed
the participants what they were
fighting for, she said.
She went on to say that the
March for Change was an ex-ample
for the children of Con-necticut.
It represented citizens
coming together to enact posi-tive
change.
However, not everyone is in
favor of stricter gun legislation
in Connecticut.
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