Mirror - Vol. 27, No. 05 - October 12, 2001

              AN INQUISITION
Beach security gaurd Sal Shiekh
takes on 20 Questions
Page 4
STRONG 'LINK'
'The Weakest Link' debuts
on Playstation and PC
Page 8
Fairfield
October 12,2001
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Volume 27, Number 5
work i progress
Campus Center to open soon
By Lisa Zaccagnino
STAFF WRITER
"It still looked like Home Depot,"
said Danielle Torio, '02, "only with car-peting."
Torio, along with many other
Fairfield students, returned from the ex-tended
weekend hoping to enjoy all the
amenities of the brand new campus cen-ter.
Instead, scaffolding, machinery and
construction workers once again wel-comed
them back to campus, and the
addition to the John A. Barone Campus
Center remained closed.
"This is a top-quality institution and
we pay top-dollar to go here," said Mark
DeTroia, '05. "It would be nice to have
a completed campus center."
The campus center project has had
numerous completion dates and setbacks
since the ground breaking in the spring
of 2000.
The newest snag in the completion
of the campus center came Tuesday af-ternoon
when the temporary permit to
occupy the first floor was denied, after
an inspection by the Fairfield Fire
Marshall, Captain Steve Lobdell.
"There were still some small out-standing
issues that had not been met,"
said James Fitzpatrick, assistant vice
president for Student Services.
Captain Lobdell was unavailable to
comment as to what those specific issues
were.
At one time the opening for the cam-pus
center had been slated for August
2001.
"The biggest disappointment was
not being able to give it to the students
Fairfield community responds
Students react to retaliation against Taliban
By Laura Walsh
ONLINE EDITOR
President Bush has addressed the
nation countless times, asking the
American people for patience and
time, and although his posture and
speech oozed utter confidence, our
nation remains shaken.
Especially now.
For we are at war.
Afghanistan has been bombed
and now it seems that Bush and the
rest of the country, including the com-munity
of Fairfield University, must
await to decide what the next step, if
any, should be taken.
"Bush did what was needed to be
done," said Peter Scott, '03. "He gave
the Taliban (government) many
chances to meet his demands and
since they were not met, he had no
other choice but to use air raids. This
was his only option to show that the
United States will not stand for ter-rorism."
Melissa Thompson, '05, would
agree, although she hopes that Bush
will focus on hurting the Afghanistan
government, rather than civilians. "I
think Bush's support increased as he
quickly implemented the
retaliation. However," I
hope that we do not lose
focus on humanitarianism
within our military at-tacks,"
said Thompson.
In retaliation to the ter-rorist
attacks that occurred
on Sept. 11, destroying
both the World Trade Cen-ter
and the Pentagon, Presi-dent
Bush issued an air war
against Afghanistan on
Sunday, Sept. 7.
And now the country
is left wondering whether
Osama bin Laden, the
prime suspect of financing
the attacks, plans on as-saulting
the United States once again.
"The other day I saw a billboard that
pictured a man in a suit wearing an oxy-gen
mask," said Alisha Mai, '03. "It was -
an advertisement for oxygen masks in
case we found ourselves in a biochemi-cal
war. 1 was really scared."
A biochemical war is now the sub-ject
of concern, especially since one man
died from anthrax just this past week and
another man was diagnosed with hav-ing
spores of the illness.
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According to The New York
Times, law enforcement officials, af-ter
finding the presence of anthrax in
these two co-workers in South
Florida, are highly suspicious of ter-rorist
activity, although there is no
evidence directly pointing to it.
"In general, I don't feel secure at
all," said Scott. "This is a scary time
for America because no one knows
See "FAIRFIELD" on p. 3
on opening day," said Fitzpatrick.
The food service aspect of the reno-vation
did receive clearance on Sunday,
Sept. 2, just two hours before serving the
first meal to the class of 2005. However,
work on the first floor, which will in-clude
a commuter lounge, study space
and the offices of campus clubs, contin-ued
after students arrival.
Fitzpatrick mentioned previous
problems with electrical workers and
lack of sufficient man power due to de-mands
in the surrounding area as con-tributing
to the delays.
William Schimpf, vice president of
Student Services, added that delivery
schedules have been off since the trag-edy
of Sept. 11.
"Truck transport has been signifi-cantly
disrupted delaying many of our
deliveries," said Schimpf.
The University closed the campus
center at the start of the long weekend
in hopes to complete the necessary reno-vations
by Columbus Day. All services
were suspended over the long weekend
and students were forced to make the not
long forgotten hike up to Dolan for
meals.
Mechanics, contractors and electri-cians
worked all weekend, but still came
up short of the Columbus Day opening.
When classes resumed on Tuesday
morning, construction was still in
progress.
"The workmen don't bother me,"
said James Gledhill, '04. "The place just
looks sloppy."
This is not the first construction
project on campus to face delays. The
addition to the Nyselius-Dimenna Li-brary
suffered numerous setbacks, in-cluding
weather and delayed arrival of
furniture and equipment. The oak pan-eling
of the interior walls in the library
added to the delay as well. The library
was also denied a temporary certificate
of occupancy after initial inspections.
Fitzpatrick hopes the campus cen-ter
will be ready for re-inspection within
the week.
"The students have been unbeliev-ably
patient," said Fitzpatrick. "It has
made the whole situation easier to work
with."