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Fairfield
February 7,2002 MIRROR University
Volume 27, Number 16
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BY ETHAN FRY
"Man's task is simple. He
should cease letting his exist-ence
be a thoughtless accident."
This quote from Friedrich
Nietzche is one of the motiva-tions
behind the aims and ide-als
of the Ignatian Residential
College, a unique program de-signed
for the class of 2005 that
will begin during the Fall 2002
semester.
The college will be placed
in Loyola Hall next year, fol-lowing
the departure of the Of-fice
of Human Resources at the
end of this academic year. The
space now will become a
21,000 square foot "living
room" area for the Ignatian Col-lege.
As reported in The Mirror
earlier this year, Fairfield was
awarded nearly two million dol-lars
in seed money from Lilly
Endowment Inc. to start the col-lege.
Rev. Thomas Regan S.I.
and Rev. lim Mayzik S.I. will
direct the college next year,
which is designed to encompass
a number of aspects which are
aimed at helping sophomores
address questions of identity
and how they fit uniquely into
the world.
According to Regan and
Mayzik, the college is first and
foremost an academic project,
directed at the aforementioned
questions.
"It's really a program to
help what students get out of
college," said Regan. "It's keep-ing
in the whole lesuit philoso-phy
of educating the whole per-son."
Regan will be leaving the
office of the Dean of the Col-lege
of Arts and Sciences to
teach philosophy full time. Ac-cording
to Regan, approxi-mately
50 faculty members are
interested in offering classes as
part of the college.
The college experience will
not stop at the classroom, how-ever.
"We're going to bring in
speakers and take trips off cam-pus
to places like New York
City and Yale," said Mayzik.
"Nothing's going to be manda-tory.
There will be a lot more
offered to students, but they
aren't going to be required to do
it."
David McFadden, chair of
the history department, will be
the first academic chair of the
Ignatian College. Glenn Sauer
of the biology department and
Roselie McDevitt of the ac-counting
department will be as-sistant
academic chairs.
"On the academic side, the
IRC will be offering a variety
of core courses (and electives,
and major and minor courses),
primarily for sophomores in the
College but then open to all
other students. These courses
will deal with a wide range of
issues and disciplines, but fo-cused
on questions of values,
meaning, purpose in life-how to
explore issues connecting a
student's life with a student's
life work-how to make a differ-ence
in the world," McFadden
said.
He added, "This is not just
religious studies or philosophy.
This is not just Catholic or le-suit
education-but it is the le-suit
understanding of education
at its best...we will be involv-ing
students and professors who
are Catholic, Protestant, lewish,
Buddhist, Muslim, atheist, ag-nostic,
seeker-and we will deal
with these questions across all
cultures and disciplines." •
Student reaction to the
Ignatian College is so far on the
positive side of mixed. While
some students think that the col-lege
is a good idea, some have
apprehensions about various
parts of the program.
"It seems like an interest-ing
idea with several aspects
that attract me to the program,
however the fact that it will be
entering into its first year at
Fairfield gives me enough un-certainty
to prevent me from
Photo: Kristia Janowski
Loyola will host the Ignatian Residential College.
participating," said Thorn
Corsillo '05.
"I feel that the idea behind
the Igantian College is going to
benefit sophomores if they are
willing to take it seriously," said
Caitlin Russell '02.
Others were discouraged at
the choice of Loyola Hall for the
program. "I don't like the fact
that they are using the best dorm
for it," said Matt Grasso '04.
Changes in the works for housing lottery
BY CHRIS WOOD
A new lottery system will hopefully fill these townhouses more painlessly. Photo: Amy Womack
Typical of many in the
sophomore class, Greg Will-iams
'04 said that he doesn't
knowwhere orwithwhomhe
is Irving next year.
"In general, there's not
muchgoingup aroundcampus
to let students know what to
do,"Wil!iams said.
The reason for this confu-sion
is simple-the lottery pro-cess
has not been started yet,
due to changes in the lottery
system.
According to Director of
Housing Gary Stephenson,
however, a plan is in motion to
begin the lottery process bythe
end of this month and to have
spot filled by Apr. 10.
In contrast to last year, this
year's lottery will assign each
student a numberandwill then
acceptgroup applications. Each
group of students will be or-dered
according to the lowest,
or best, number within the
group.
Previously, students were
requiredto applyforhousing as
a group, andwerethen assigned
a lottery number as a group.
"Wehope thatthis change
in the lottery gives students
more choices," Stephenson
said
The process will begin
when a tentative list is posted
in the Barone Campus Center
that includes the names of all
students consideredforon-cam-pus
housing. Students will be
given a period of time to check
melist andnotifyhousingifthe
list is inaccurate.
Accordingto Stephenson,
a modifiedlistwith names and
mekrespecrivelotterynumbers
will be posted about a week
later/'hopefully by Feb 25."
Students would then have
until Mar. 12 to submit their
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