Mirror - Vol. 39, No. 09 - October 30, 2013

              THE MIRROR Student newspaper Week of October 30,2013 Vol. 39, Iss. 9
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President Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J., faculty and students represented a portion of the Fairfield community who filled in the Multimedia Room
in the Dimenna-Nyselius Library for a lecture given by a prominent art historian. Tebben Gill Lopez/The Mirror
Fairfield helps replicate Greek artifact
By Robert Joyce
Crime Beat Reporter
International representatives, faculty and
students packed the Multimedia Room in the
Dimenna - Nyselius Library on Monday to
hear a guest lecture by Dr. Jenifer Neils, pro-fessor
of art history at Case Western Reserve
University.
Neils, an art historian, is currently collab-orating
with Dr. Katherine Schwab, professor
of art history at Fairfield, on a project to rec-reate
an important piece of art from Ancient
Greece for publication and potential exhibi-tion:
the shield of Athena Parthenos.
The last time the shield was recreated by
historians was during the 1940s. Neils said
that the project is "in its beginning stages, but
we have an idea."
The Athena Parthenos was a great and ex-travagant
gold and ivory statue depicting the
ancient Greek goddess Athena. According to
Neils, it is believed by historians that it once
stood in the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, a
building famous for its Ancient Greek archi-tecture.
The shield was a central component to
the statue as a whole. Neils explained that long
ago the statue was deconstructed for the in-trinsic
value of its materials.
However, historians have small-scale cop-ies
of the statue, which were very crude com-pared
to the original, said Neils. According to
Neils, "for the shield of Athena Parthenos, we
do have a lot more evidence because we have
these Roman reliefs," or art that depicts what
the shield probably looked like.
"We know the scale, so we're actually bet-ter
off with the shield than we are with the
READ GREEK ON PAGE 3
The shield In ancient
Greek culture:
No shields actually used in ancient
Greek warfare have been discovered, only
artistic representations of them. This is
because the shields needed to be light and
maneuverable to be effective, which affect-ed
their ability to be properly preserved.
Women from the ancient Greek city-state
Sparta told their men to come home
from war "with your shield or on it," mean-ing
to return in victory or by death.
The Greek word "Oxi" translates
to English as "No!" The national Greek
holiday, Oxi Day, which the lecture took
place on, is celebrates the day the Greeks
refused to cooperate with the Axis powers
during WWII.
Two sexual
assaults
unrelated
By Robert Joyce
Crime Beat Reporter
Two separate and unrelated
sexual assaults have occurred on
Fairfield's campus over the past two
weekends.
Students were notified by the
Department of Public Safety on
Tuesday, Oct. 29, that a sexual as-sault
had occurred sometime over
the recent weekend of Oct. 26.
This notice came less than a
week after students received an email
informing them of a sexual assault
that occurred over the weekend of
Oct. 19.
Fairfield Police received a re-port
from Bridgeport Hospital that
a victim was sexually assaulted on
the Fairfield campus sometime over
the past weekend. Police notified
DPS and the Office of the Dean of
Students about the incident at 1:20
p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27, according
to Todd Pelazza, director of public
safety.
The victim of the second as-sault
is a non-student, and asked
that police and the university take
no further action regarding the in-cident,
said Pelazza. He added that
DPS does not know exactly where or
when the assault occurred, or wheth-er
the alleged assailant is a student.
The previous sexual assault oc-curred
on campus on the evening of
Friday, Oct. 18.
While the incident was origi-nally
reported to DPS by a third par-ty
on Oct. 21, an official complaint
was filed with DPS and the Office of
the Dean of Students by the victim
of the assault on Oct. 25, according
to Sgt. Mike Santos of DPS, allowing
them to proceed with an investiga-tion.
READ DPS ON PAGE 4
Collaboration brings 'FAME' to the Fairfield community
By Enxhi Myslymi
Associate News Editor
In collaboration with the Town of
Fairfield Economic Development and
Kleban Properties, Fairfield University
has launched a new business incubator
on Tuesday that focuses on transforming
ideas into businesses.
For Jamie Ramerini T3, inventing
a Bluetooth power strip where a lamp or
TV can be turned off through a phone
application attracted her attention. The
idea, created by Diego Mamani '14 and
Max Espinoza '13. came "out of pure lazi-ness,"
she said.
"They were too tired to get out
of bed and turn the lights off and they
wished there was a way to do that from
their phones, and that was that," Rameri-ni
added. She joined the team after con-tacting
Mamani about the pitch he made
for his new product at Startup Day, and
they advanced to the finals of the Busi-ness
Plan Competition.
"I marketed myself. He knew the
electric, I knew the business," Ramerini
said. "We're seeking to make home auto-mation
affordable with a Bluetooth-con-trolled
power strip."
Out of 15 applicants, Ramerini
and her teammate Mamani were one of
three entrepreneurs who were chosen by
a review board consisting of two or three
professors, a former GE executive and a
READ FAME ON PAGE 3
(From left to right) Jamie Ramerini, Daphne Dixon and Nicole J. Peranick are the first entrepreneurs
sponsored by the FAME Incubator Program. Enxhi Myslymi/The Mirror
NEWS:
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OPINION:
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Mlaatttt SScchhooffiieelldd at Fairfield
Theatre Company
SPORTS:
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