Mirror - Vol. 25, No. 14 - February 17, 2000

              The Mirror
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
Volume 25, Number 14 The Image of Fairfield Thursday, February 17, 2000
222 juniors head back to the dorms next year
By Laura Walsh
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The time has arrived. The ques-tion
of where to live has come upon
Fairfield students, and now with the new
arrival of the apartment complex, the
juniors and seniors appear to have a
larger array of options.
But according to Marisa
Mastriocovo '02, the building of new
apartments didn't make her living situa-tion
for next year any more pleasing.
Like over 200 other upcoming juniors,
she was forced to live in the dormitories
once again, due to her poor lottery num-ber.
"I think it's completely unfair that
as a junior, 1 should have to live in the
dorms, even after new apartments were
built. Everyone pays the same tuition;
why should I have to live in the dorms
again when others will be living in brand
new apartments or townhouses?"
She, along with other frustrated
students, are questioning the real purpose
behind these new apartments. Henry
Humphreys, director of housing, imme-diately
pointed to the arising tension
found between the student residents at
the beach and the Fairfield community.
According to Humphreys, whether
students want them there or not, they
should witness some definite changes next
year. "We reduced the total population at
"I think it's com-pletely
unfair that as
ajunior, Ishould have
to live in the dorms,
even after new apart-ments
were built.
- Marisa Mastriocovo
'02
B Photo: Nick Ouimct
Even after the completion of the new apartments, 222 juniors are still scheduled to
live in dorms.
"The university made the com- to accomplish their goal, with now only
mitment to reducing the number of stu- about 400 juniors and seniors assigned
dents living at the beach," said to live at the beach next year, compared
Humphreys. They were certainly able t0 the 600 this year-the
beach by 200 students. I think that
will help to alleviate some of the problems
that usually occur there." Some students
aren't so sure, especially those who have
been partying at the beach for as long as
they can remember, and consider the beach
a part of the school's history. The
new apartments are definitely a welcomed
improvement, although not everyone has
reaped the benefits, and they seem to have
See " Housing" on pg. 5
Getting to 'the core'
By Lori Rizzo
NEWS EDITOR
Looming over our heads for
four years, the core's completion can
evoke nothing but outright celebration.
Last weekend, the Fairfield University
Phi Beta Kappa chapter hosted "A Cam-pus
Community Conference on Educa-tion
at Fairfield," as an opportunity for
faculty and students to contribute their
own admiration and insults concerning
the core.
"Yes, you need Intros, yes, you
need a core," said senior Catherine
Henry. "But what we really need to re-consider
are the number of courses."
Many students who attended
expresses the idea that, although the
core is helpful, it is extremely limit-ing.
"I wanted to go to Washington,
D.C. for a semester," said senior Mark
Galdieri. "I know I don't need it, but I
wanted to do it for me."
Henry expressed a different
concern. "It's important when you're
leaving here to know your major. It's
embarrassing if you don't," she said,
explaining that the core often takes
away from opportunities to take extra
courses relevant to a student's major.
Instead, Henry proposed that
courses be "double counted" more of-ten,
in order to increase opportunities
for taking other courses in a major of
study, or electives. "The real world isn't
"Yes, you need
Intros, yes, you need
a core, but what we
really need to recon-sider
are the number
ofcourses.33
- Catherine Henry-compartmentalized,"
she said. "It's inter-disciplinary
by its very nature."
One concern that is very impor-tant
to the core is the current scheduling
system. "Every class is offered from 11:10
to 12:25," Galdieri exclaimed. Professor
William Abbot, president of the Phi Beta
Kappa chapter on campus, explained that
there is currently a faculty administration
committee working to change the 7:45
time code because it has been so ineffec-tive
in drawing students. Abbot expressed
similar concerns about conflicts in course
offerings, saying, "The student schedul-ing
system is about 20 years old."
See " Students" on pg. 4
This Week L Campus Life:
Snowball dance
to be held on campus
seep. 8
Commentary:
Are kegs off
campus for good?
see p. 11
A&E:
Charles
Schulz dies at
77
see p. 14
Sports:
Stags come
up empt y
see p. 18