Mirror - Vol. 28, No. 02 - September 19, 2002

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POINTS TAKEN
Changes to alcohol policy taking
place this year
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LAUGHING LIVE
Ani DiFranco returns
with new live disc
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The
Fairfield
September 19, 2002. - Vol. 28, Iss. 2
University
Celebrating; 25 Years of Publication
BANNED!
BY JESS HOLMBERG
No butts about it, smoking
in Fairfield's dorms is a thing
of the past...
It is a rainy and cold mid-September afternoon. You are of the academic and administrative buildings, as well as in all areas of
relaxing in your dorm room, chatting with friends on Instant the eight residence halls and the common areas of the apartment corn-
Messenger, and your roommate arises from the futon in desper- plex." Smoking is still permitted in the townhouses and individual
ate search for a lighter. After asking you if you have seen it. apartments.
your roommate catches sight of the black Bic tighter pro- Last spring, the office of the Dean of Students solicited
trading out from an old pizza box on the floor. Cupping - ' recommendations and opinions on a smoking ban from the
one hand around the cigarette, vour roommate proceeds EDITORIAL FUSA Senate. IRHG. the Health Center, and the University
to light it by the open window,' as rain drizzles into the | ,i Council, which was comprised of equal numbers ot students,
room -Hey no problem." vou think to yourself, as this is 0„ „,, ,, s faculty and administrators, according to Mark Reed, Dean of
Shredded: Enron accountant Andersen's name
removed from business school sign
BY CARLEIGH BROVVER
Over the summer, there were
many changes at Fairfield Univer-sity:
the relocation of several of-fices,
the completion of the
Bannow Science Center, the new
smoking policy in the dorms- all
of which the student body was
made aware.
However, after Fairfield
University's unwavering support
ofArthur Andersen throughout the
scandals of last year, it may sur-prise
students to see the once
"Andersen Interactive Class room"
has been renamed. Just last year,
the classroom was named after
Arthur Andersen, one of the larg-est
accounting firms in the nation,
and formerly one of the most pres-tigious.
At Friday's faculty meeting,
Dr. Norman A. Solomon, dean of
the School of Business, formally
announced the
classroom
name change.
Chris
Huntley, pro-fessor
of Infor-mation
Systems
and Operations
Management,
said, "Dean
Solomon said
at the faculty
meeting that he
contacted the
primary do-nors,
Joe
Berardino and John O'Neil, and
they mutually agreed to change the
name."
When asked to comment on
the decision, Dr. Solomon said,
"Given that, as an entity, the ac-counting
firm Andersen no longer
exists, and the difficult circum-stances
surrounding its demise, we
Name Game: The newly named Alumni Interactive Classroom.
Bridget SmithAThe Mirror
believed that the name change
was the right thing to do. We are
very pleased that Joe Berardino,
former Andersen CEO and a uni-versity
trustee, most graciously
understood our decision."
A small plaque inside the
classroom supposedly clears up
any confusion the name change
might have caused. "Basically, the
plaque explains that the room was
a gift from Andersen employees
who are alumni, not from the firm
itself," Dr. Solomon said. However,
all that remains of the plaque at the
moment is the clear indication of
SEE "ANDERSEN" ON P. 4
Grad school
here we come!
Surpisingly, job market
weakfor all but
acounting majors
BY JEN MALCOM
Erik J. Lowe, '02, former
marketing and management major,
did everything he was supposed to.
He studied hard and graduated in
the top half of his class. He par-ticipated
in such extracurricular
activities as FUSA senate and ori-entation
facilitator. He double ma-jored
and held an internship senior
year.
He sent out his resume to at
least 30 companies and went to
over eight interviews. Four
months have passed since gradua-tion,
and he's still unemployed.
"Five years ago I would have
had a job easily," said Lowe.
"Now no matter how hard I try I
still can't find anything. It seems
like it's just a matter of luck, and I
have none."
In previous years, a college
degree was touted as a guarantee
of a good job. Even in the eco-nomic
boom of the late-nineties,
most college grads had several job
offers after getting their diplomas.
Those days have passed.
As members of last year's
graduating class at Fairfield now
know, companies that used to com-pete
for their older classmates just
a few years ago are now barely of-fering
any jobs. Last year the un-employment
rate was at its high-est
level since 1994. A survey by
the National Association of Col-leges
and Employers (NACE)
showed that many graduates who
had actually found jobs were get-ting
less money than they would
have a year ago.
"Students are going to have to
work harder and expect less," said
Dr. Edward Deak, professor of
economics at Fairfield. "They
need to be flexible, undergo man-agement
training, and have strong
quantitative skills."
"It's not about GPAs any-more,"
said Eric Kaul, '02, a
former accounting major now em-ployed
by Deloitte & Touche. "It's
the fact that people can juggle
many different things that sets
them out from the crowd. Employ-ers
are looking for people with
solid GPAs and other things on
their plates."
Many students this year who
watched the class before them
struggle to find a job still remain
SEE "20% FEWER" ON P. 2