Mirror - Vol. 25, No. 17 - March 23, 2000

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FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
Volume 25, Number 17 The Image of Fairfield Thursday, March 23,2000
Not a 'suite' option
Juniors find new home in redesigned Kostka/Claver
By Laura Walsh
STAFF WRITER
Lately the housing situation has
been the buzz around Fairfield, espe-cially
with all of the new changes oc-curring.
Although it has been an un-written
law that most freshman live in
Kostka and Claver and the upperclass-men
seem to flock to the Quad, the
Housing Department has made some
major adjustments.
It looks as though a new "Junior
Village" of sorts is going to be created
to accommodate the 200 juniors who
did not get a townhouse or apartment
through the lottery system.
Kostka and Claver are being des-ignated
just for juniors and with new
furniture, a new paint job and a new
electrical system, a new option is be-ing
presented.
All of the old, stationed furniture
in both dorms is being ripped out and
"Living in Kostka/
Claver is right up
there with looking
into the sun with
binocularsandis as
exciting as watching
paint dry."
-Andrew Storey '02
replaced with new, moveable furniture.
"I think it will have a positive ef-fect
for the junior class because they will
be able to live close to the apartments and
can be together with the majority of the
See "Kostka/Claver" on page 2 The Class of 2002 gets ready to move in to Kostka/Claver, their newest housing option
Registration changes ahead forstudents
By Lori Rizzo
NEWS EDITOR
Login for another chance to regis-ter
for courses online. With the past
semester behind them, the registrar's
office has made some changes in hopes
of improving past mistakes and mak-ing
registration online less of a hassle.
"We're very positive that this is
going to be better," said Judith Arel,
Assistant to the registrar, when explain-ing
the new changes in the system. Still,
she said, "It's a little complicated this
time to explain."
The major problem last semester
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Registration continues to change for the future
seemed to be a large number of students
trying to get online at 9am, when the reg-istration
was first available, said Arel.
The back up caused the system to slow
down and frustrated students skipped
class to head to computer labs to fight
for future courses, she explained.
Hence the changes. "First of all, there
is to be a new machine in place," said
Arel, "Which we are hoping will speed
it (the process) up." But the biggest
change seems to be the time frames.
"Registration time is not so much dur-ing
class time," explained Arel.
The registration for core and elective
courses will be offered at night and on
the weekends instead of during the day
in hopes of deterring students from miss-ing
class as well as using a time when
the system is not already be heavily used
by students for other resources, said Arel.
Also, instead of dreading the number
on the wall in Canisius, this time letters
are your ticket in. "It's like a lottery, but
instead of lottery numbers you're using
your last name as your entrance," said
Arel. "These web registration alphabets
will change (similar to the way lottery
numbers students were used to)."
For example, if your last name begins
with 'P' and you are in the class of 2002,
you are the first to register online in your
class during the 5-7pm allotted time pe-riod
during the day of the 2002 registra-tion
for core and electives.
So what do those numbers on the wall
mean? Well, for most people, not much.
See "R" on page 4
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