Mirror - Vol. 24, No. 15 - March 04, 1999

              Volume 24 Number 15 The Image of Fairfield Thursday, March 4, 1999
Varied reactions to beach solutions
By Maureen Cuddy
STAFF WRITER
Student reactions to
the announcement that Fair-field
would make several
changes in an effort to im-prove
relations between the
university and beach resi-dents,
have been mixed.
The changes that will occur at
Fairfield were announced last week by
President Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J. They
will include the construction of an apart-ment
style residence hall, renovation of
existing residence halls, a permanent ad-ministrator
who will deal with univer-sity
students living at the beach, an ad-ditional
$75,000 to on-campus program-ming,
and modernizing the Barone Cam-pus
Center, in addition to other changes.
"Hopefully this will eventually
lead to a better relationship between Fair-field
students and the town community,"
said Amy Santoriello, '00. "I think the
implementation of an apartment style resi-dence
hall is an excellent idea on the part
of the administration. I believe that this
kind of residence hall will be attractive to
Fairfield students, thereby keeping more
students on campus and less students try-ing
to live at the beach."
Like Santoriello, many students
are happy to hear that the university plans
to build an apartment style residence hall
and believe that this could bring about the
most change.
"I think a lot of juniors and
people who don't get approved to live off
campus would like to live there," said
Kristen Giulietti, '02. Despite this, "there
will still be a lot of people who want to live
at the beach."
Like Giulietti, many students be-lieve
that an apartment style residence hall
would help to solve the discontent of many
juniors who may have had to live in resi-dence
halls, while their other classmates
were permitted to live in townhouses or
beach houses.
"If they are nice and everything
works out I think that people will want to
live there," agreed Cheryl Civitello, '02.
Despite this, "the beach has been going on
for so long though, that many people want
to keep it going. People are still going to go
down to the beach."
Other students are not as optimis-tic
about the changes that will be occurring
at Fairfield, and see them as a late solution
to a problem which has been going on for a
Continued on pg. 3
Campus facilities ready for a face-lift
By Paul Pennelli
ASST. SPORTS EDITOR
A sophomore walks into the
library's computer lab, only to see that
all of its computers are in use. Later in
that same evening, a junior seeking ref-uge
from his beach house leaves the
Barone Campus Center, unable to find a
quiet spot in the mezzanine for a long
night of studying. In Claver, a freshman
turns the lights off in his floor's study
lounge, which he is forced to use as a
makeshift room.
These stories of frustration
from Fairfield students will be quieted
in the near future, as major improvements
to the university's facilities are on the
horizon, administrators say. This will be
a welcomed change because many stu-dents
believe that there are certain physi-cal
facilities on campus that are in dire
need of updating. It is now clear that
student concern has not fallen on deaf
ears. "We are in the planning stages of a
capital campaign," says George Difflet,
university vice president for advance-
The Campus Center will receive
ment, "with no final decision yet as to its
goal..."
Whatever its specific financial
goals, any potential capital campaign will
help to provide funding needed to address
the campus's needs. This became plain
when University President Rev. Aloysius
P. Kelley announced his plans to construct
1 $12 million apartment-style dorm (pend-photo:
Mirror archives
$16 million in renovations.
ing the approval of the Board of Trustees)
and to begin a $16 million renovation of the
Barone Campus Center.
Other glaring needs have reached
the forefront in the minds of the adminis-tration.
"Some of the things we [the uni-versity]
are looking at...are other projects
like the science building," says Diffley.
Continued on pg. 3
Contraceptives
contraband at
Fairfield
By Lori Rizzo
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
By the year 2000, HIV will
have infected approximately 40 mil-lion
people worldwide. But at Fair-field,
there are no condoms available
in the university bookstore and there
is no birth control dispensed at the
health center.
"I think it's ridiculous," said
Karen Tkacs, a sophomore. "Birth
control is very necessary on this cam-pus
because people are going to do it
[have sex] regardless, and if it's avail-able
they'll use it. But if it's not avail-able
they may not be careful."
But not everyone on campus'
has come to the same conclusion.
"Fairfield has to be true to its roots
or it loses its identity and we become
any other university," said Douglas
Whiting, Associate Vice-President of
public relations. Whiting has just re-cently
come to Fairfield after work-ing
for a number of years with Bos-ton
College, and explained that the
two schools contain many of the same
beliefs and policies. He pointed out
the Fairfield provides advice and stu-dent
counseling while not providing
the actual means.
Sophomore Michael
Coleman agreed, "I think Fairfield
University, being a Catholic institu-tion,
is right not to have birth control
on campus. They can't condone and
promote casual sex."
Condoms in the bookstore
"would give out a huge mixed mes-sage
to students," said manager Bar-bara
Farrell. "You have to be true to
what you are all about...and we
should represent the culture of the
community."
"I feel that due to our Jesuit
nature, it's very expected. Since
Continued on pg. 4
Inside this edition
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