Mirror - Vol. 39, No. 06 - October 09, 2013

              THE MIRROR Student newspaper Week of October 9,2013 Vol. 39, Iss. 6
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Students set up their shelter for the night outside of the Barone Campus Center's Oak Room in solidarity with the homeless. Colin Bell/The Mirror
Stags go homeless for a night
By Danica Ceballos
Executive Editor
Most Fairfield students wake
up in the morning in their comfort-able
beds, complete with a foam
mattress pad and cozy sheets. They
slowly get up, make some break-fast
and coffee and maybe turn on
the television while relaxing on the
couch before beginning a hectic day.
Though most Fairfield students
don't wake up to the rumbling of a
trash truck, the cold hard cement
ground stabbing into their back, a
flimsy cardboard box as their only
shelter and the morning air chilling
the tip of their nose, that is exactiy
what 10 Fairfield students experi-enced
on Oct. 3.
"It was incredibly hard to fall
asleep. I can honestly say there is no
comfortable position when you are
trying to sleep in a box," said Mol-ly
Camp '16. "I tried to fall asleep
around 12:30, and I would say I
got a total of two to three hours of
sleep,"
In an effort to raise awareness
for homelessness, the Students for
Social Justice club set up a home-less
village of cardboard boxes just
outside the Oak Room on Thursday
night. All students were invited to
sleep outside for the night to be in
solidarity with the homeless.
While 10 students slept out
until 5:45 a.m., 16 students came
and went throughout the evening
to show support for the cause. Mod-erator
and campus minister Jocelyn
E. Collen acknowledged the stu-dent
participants, saying, "All of the
S4SJ students had classes all day on
Thursday and had classes and as-signments
due on Friday. Yet, they
took time to stand in solidarity with
the poor."
Sophomore Sarah Almeida ex-plained
why she wanted to sleep out,
saying, "Living on a college campus,
especially in Fairfield, we don't see
people that don't have homes every-day,
so I think it's important to make
students aware that this is such a big
problem."
While the Homeless Village
was moved last year to the Oak
Room from the traffic circle, due to
weather conditions, the club found
that they were able to interact with
more students walking back and
forth from the library.
Camp explained that most
students were genuinely interested
in what the club was doing; some
passersby, however, were not as
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update
By Robert Joyce
Crime Beat Reporter
New information has been re-ceived
regarding the incident on Sun-day,
Sept. 22, where multiple parties
were involved in a violent outbreak in
Dolan Hall, resulting in three arrests,
several injuries and extensive property
damage.
According to a statement from
two of the students involved in - but
not arrested after - the Dolan brawl,
they received violations for Fairfield's
alcohol policy, for which they pled
"responsible." The two also received
violations for breaching the fight-ing
policy as well as the disorderly or
disruptive conduct/under the influ-ence
policy, for which they pled "not
responsible."
Despite the pleas of "not respon-sible,"
the Office of the Dean of Stu-dents
found them responsible for all
violations, and they were placed on
disciplinary probation until May 31,
2014.
It was confirmed by Frank Ficko,
associate director of public safety, that
a golf club was allegedly used in the al-tercation,
and was confiscated by Fair-field
Police at the scene of the incident.
Francis McGoldrick was dis-missed
from Fairfield as a result of the
incident, according to sources close to
McGoldrick. He declined to comment
on the incident after being contacted
multiple times by The Mirror.
Junior J. Brendan McGlew wrote
a letter to the editor which appeared
in last week's issue of The Mirror.
McGlew said that the part of the in-cident
that was most unsettling was
"the press' connection with this story."
He claimed that he was "not present
during the event that was mentioned
by the press," and that he did what he
"believed to have been right, which
was to try and protect everyone and
help break up the fight."
Bells ring for victims
By Jessica Delahunt
Contributing Writer
On the evening of Sept. 24,
Fairfield residents gathered under
the gazebo at Sherman Green to rec-ognize
victims of domestic violence
with a candlelight vigil.
"We need to give women the
strength to say enough is enough,"
said State Attorney Judy Stevens.
The event, organized by the
Bridgeport Center of Women and
Families, united a variety of speak-ers,
including local politicians, law
enforcement officers and students,
toward one cause: empowering vic-tims
of domestic violence to come
forward and seek justice for the
crimes committed against them.
Every 15 seconds, the clear
We need to give women
the strength to say
enough is enough.
- Judy Stevens,
Attorney for the State of
Connecticut
sound of a bell rang out over the
ceremony, reminding the crowd that
domestic violence occurs every 15
seconds in the United States.
Other numbers presented by
Deborah Greenwood, CEO of the
Center, were just as staggering:
One out of every four women
will experience domestic violence in
her lifetime.
During the first three months
of this year, 90 children were or-phaned
due to domestic homicide.
More than three women die of
domestic violence every day.
"That's just way too many," said
Greenwood. "One life is too many."
According to Stevens, a sig-nificant
hurdle in responding to
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Fifty years' worth of Fairfield University Ruggers gathered to celebrate
the program's milestone. Story on page 16. Alyssa Amabile/The Mirror
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