Mirror - Vol. 38, No. 23 - April 17, 2013

              THE MIRROR Student-run newspaper
Finalists
compete
for$15K
By Danielle Anctil
Contributing Writer
Just a few months ago, if you had
asked Fairfield seniors Nicole Stark,
Stephanie Cruz, Elizabeth Cortez and
Bernardo Navarro what they had in
common, they probably wouldn't have
been able to give an answer.
Now they would say they share
passion for sports and fitness ... and
a $10,000 check.
On Tuesday, April 16, at 6 p.m.,
six teams of Fairfield students pre-sented
their business plan ideas to a
judging panel of alumni and faculty
members at the Dolan School of Busi-ness
dining room. Stark, Cruz, Cortez
and Navarro presented their plan for a
product called SenseFit.
Each team was given three to
five minutes to present its plan. There
were two categories of project submis-sions.
The Venture Track consisted of
"new businesses with a commercial
focus," while the Social Track consists
"new organizations with a social focus
addressing a pressing problem that
markets have failed to resolve," said
Meg McCaffrey, assistant director of
Media Relations at Fairfield. SenseFit
won the first place award for the Ven-ture
Track.
There were four Venture Track
finalists: BluStrip: WattU Control,
Good2Go, House N Stuff and Sense-
Fit. The two Social Track finalists in-cluded
inCognito Climate Controlled
Hats and LuxoElemento.
SenseFit began as an engineering
assignment, Cortez said. A common
interest of athletics, fitness and health
drove Stark, Cruz and Cortez to cre-ate
SenseFit, "a combination of three
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The Fairfield Mirror
'HEARTBROKEN'
field reacts to Boston Marathon bombing
By Danica Ceballos
Managing Editor
Early Friday morning, Kate
Hehn '14 woke up in her Mclnnes
apartment, excited for the upcoming
weekend. At 8 a.m. she packed up
her Ford Taurus, proudly displaying
a bumper sticker saying "26.2 Bos-ton
Marathon." After safely arriving
at her home in Chelmsford, Mass.,
she could not wait to head to Boston
for Marathon Monday. "The whole
weekend was awesome. It was the
best weekend ever," Helm exclaimed,
"And then, this happened."
dent Jeffrey P. von Arx sent out a
announcing that
one ot the victims is a relative or a
Fairfield University community
member. He stated, "These trag-edies
so close lo home remind us
of how fortunate we are to live and
work together within a community
On Tuesday afternoon, Presi-
A Prayer Service for Healing
and Hope was held in Egan Chapel
of St. Ignatius Loyola on Tuesday
night and on Wednesday afternoon
there was also a Mass to honor the
victims of the bombings.
In addition to the Fairfield fam-ily
that was directly affected, there
were numerous students and alumni
at the event as both spectators and
volunteers.
Hehn has never missed a Bos-ton
Marathon. It has been a main
event for her family throughout her
life. With her grandfather living four
houses from the starting line, her
dad and uncle ran the marathon for
years. This year was Hehrts sister
Cara's seventh consecutive year rac-ing,
"It's just a huge thing in my fam-ily,
and it's weird to think that now
it's definitely never going to be the
same," commented Hehn.
'70 explained that he v
supposed to be in Br
Red Sox game on Mor
his plans fell through;
on campus when the 1
curred. "With so mar
dents and alumni froi
setts, you realize what
Patriots Day is." said F
is the most magical da
monwealth."
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Logan International
signs welcomed all i
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Boston native
Commencement speakers announcedfor class of2013
By Loan Le
Editor-in-Chief
Fairfield has announced that the
63rd undergraduate commencement
keynote speaker next month will be
the President of Loyola University,
Rev. Michael J. Garanzini S.J., with
the Director of the Board on Global
Health of the Institute of Medicine,
Dr. Patrick Kelley 76, addressing the
graduate class.
As the General Secretary of
higher education for the Society of
Jesus, Garanzini is responsible for
coordinating and promoting Jesuit
Dr. Patrick W. Kelly
Mike Horyczun/Office of Media
Relations
education. Garanzini plays an active
role in community service. Before
becoming President of Loyola Uni-versity,
Garanzini was employed as a
full-time professor of psychology at
Georgetown University.
At the U.S. National Academies,
Kelley oversees studies on subjects
like U.S. foreign assistance for HIV/
AIDS and global surveillance for
infections transmitted between hu-mans
and animals. After graduating
cum laude from Fairfield University
with a B.S. in biology, Kelley was em-ployed
by the U.S. Army Medical
Corps.
The commencement commit-
Rev. Michael J. Garanzini, SJ
Mike Horyczun/Office of Media
Relations
tee recommends potential honorary
degree recipients, who are then ap-proved
by the Board of Trustees. Fa-ther
von Arx then selects the speak-ers
"based on my estimation of who
would be a good speaker with an ap-propriate
message to deliver to our
graduates," said von Arx.
The honorary Doctor of Laws
degree recipients will be Sister Mau-reen
Clark, of St. Joseph in Pitts-burgh
and Sister Patricia Farrell, of
Holy Family in Iowa. William P. Mc-
Donald, who has been with The New
York Times since 1988, will receive an
honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
degree.
News:
Comedian kick offMSA Islam
appreciation week
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Opinion:
Running community bond is too
strong to break
Page 5
The Vine:
Dance Ensemble shines in
theirfinal showcase
Page 7
Sports:
Softball defeats St. Peters
and Manhattan
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