Mirror - Vol. 21, No. 05 - October 24, 1996

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Volume 21 Number 5 The Image of Fairfield
Choose or Lose
spokeswoman visits
Fairfield
JoAnn Gometz
News Editor
MTV's Choose or Lose
campaign, which visited cam-pus
last spring with its huge
American flag bus, sent an-other
messenger urging stu-dents
to vote. Tabitha Soren,
MTV's chief political cor-respondent,
spoke to a pri-marily
student audience in
the Quick Center on Mon-day
night.
Soren, ascandid in real
life as she is on MTV,
met with student leaders
in politics and journal
ism prior to the lecture,
She also held a press
conference, where
most of the reporters
asked questions that
Soren later answered
during her speech. One reporter,
though, asked if Soren felt the
vote of 18 to 30 year-olds was
underestimated.
She said, "There are eight mil-lion
more people in that age range
registered to vote than there were
last time. Because these elec-tions
are not considered thatcom-petitive,
I don't think that many
people will actually get
t o
the polls.
There's not a large degree of
confidence. We [MTV] will hold
an inaugural ball if there's even
one more voter in that age range
at the polls, but I don't know if
that will happen."
According to Soren, there are
five major issues that most people
in the 18 to 30 year-old age range
feel confront them directly. They
are: jobs and the
economy, higher educa-tion
and its affordability,
crime, preserving social
security for future gen-erations,
and affordable
health care, respectively.
These are the issues that
MTV News has been track-ing
throughout the cam-paign.
Soren also reflected on
her experiences with differ-ent
political spokesmen.
"Politicians may not give you
straight answers, but at least
they'll speak in full sentences.
Musicians a lot of times are not
even coherent," she said.
For those journalists in the
group, Soren said that Fairfield
students should take advantage
of the school's proximity to New
York City to take on as many
internships as possible, in sev-eral
different fields. "There are
so many places in New York that
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Parents' Weekend a hit
despite rain and wind
Kristen Sullivan
Assistant News Editor
Despite the rainy weather,
Parents' Weekend was eventful
and enjoyable for the 2000 par-ents
and families who attended
the annual weekend festivities.
Parents said that the inclement
weather was not a problem, es-pecially
when they got to spend
time with their children
"It was worth driving in all
that rain, just to be here. I don't
care, so long as I can see my
son," one parent said.
The weekend got underway
with registration Saturday morn-ing,
followed by faculty lecture
sessions and the football game
against Canisius, in which
Fairfield was defeated 21-0. The
turnout for the game was less
than anticipated due to the
weather, but the parents and stu-dents
who attended still seemed
to be enjoying the inaugural ses-sion
of Stag football, especially
since all spectators to Saturday' s
game received Stag window de-cals.
Mass was held in Alumni
Hall that afternoon for a large
crowd of students, parents and
families. Many students went
out to dinner with their families,
only to discover that much of
Westport was experiencing a
blackout, so many student's din-ner
plans were forced to be al-tered.
The evening's activities con-tinued
with two performances of
comedians Becky Blaney and
Tim Settimi in the Quick Center
as well as a hypnotist who per-formed
in the Oak Room.
Saturday night was quiet on
campus, with the inclement
weather and many parents spend-ing
the night with their children.
Many parents couldn't drive
home in the rainy and windy
conditions, so they stayed with
their children in the residence
halls, since most hotels were
booked for the weekend.
Parents' Weekend concluded
Sunday afternoon with the per-formance
of the Glee Club and
the Alpha Sigma Nu inductions
which took place in the Quick
Center. Alpha Sigma Nu, which
is the National Jesuit Honor So-ciety,
rewards students for their
service, scholarship and loyalty
through membership to the honor
society.
Spring
courses
on
student
minds
Theresa Vitello
Staff Writer
You can hear your heartbeat
echoing in louder and louder in
your ears with each step you take
toward the Registrar's Office. It
can't be time to register for the
spring semester already; it's only
October! You realize it is indeed
that time as you stand before a
crowd huddled in front of the
wall; each student in desperate
search for his or her lottery num-ber.
As you attempt to squeeze
through the crowd a quick prayer
pervades your thoughts, "Oh,
God, please don' t letme be num-ber
751 again this semester." And
then , from the corner of your
eye you see it... 11! You are about
to dash offto gloat to your room-mate
when something forces you
to move in for a closer look.
Drawing an imaginary line from
your name to your number, you
notice a serious discrep-ancy...
752! Visions of 8:20 a.m.
classes five days a week enter
your head.
It may seem impossible to
believe, but registration for
Spring 1997 is rapidly approach-ing.
Lottery numbers will be
posted on the wall outside the
Registrar's Office in Canisius
200 on Friday, Oct. 25. Course
booklets will be available out-side
the same office on Thurs-day,
Oct. 31. This means it's
time to start planning a schedule
of classes for the spring semes-ter.
For many, this equates to
making your best effort to take
your required courses while still
being able to sleep in on Mon-days
and have no classes on Fri-days.
Most likely, this fabricated
"dream" schedule will be shot
down by your advisor during
Advisement Week. Sometime
between Nov. 4 and 8, students
must contact their advisors and
meet with them to formulate a
practical schedule. So, bring your
"dream' schedule, but also be
sure to have a number of other
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Thursday, October 24, 1996
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visit to
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