Mirror - Vol. 28, No. 04 - October 03. 2002

              SAVING SKIN
College students run risk
of cancer from tanning
Page 9
ROOTS IN MUSIC
An exclusive interview
with Rusted Root
Page 12
Fairfield
October 3, 2002 - Vol. 28, Iss. MIRROR University
Celebrating 25 Years of Publication
Police crack down at Fairfield beach
BY ETHAN FRY
Nine students were given citations
at the beach last Saturday night in what
was an unusually active weekend for
student beach residents. FUSA Presi-dent
Karen Donoghue, '03, called po-lice
activity "ridiculous."
Donoghue, who said police were
"going to far," met with Vice President
of Student Services Bill Schimpf on
Monday. During that meeting, Schimpf
told her that students were given tick-ets
for crossing a road near the beach
where there is no crosswalk, and also
students were threatened with tickets
for standing while waiting for cabs.
According to Donoghue, Stephanie
Savary, '04, FUSA's external executive
assistant, is contacting Fairfield First
Selectman Ken Flatto to demand an ex-planation
for police activity in the beach
area.
"I think that the students were
tready unfairly and I would like to know
more reasons why this occurred," said
Savary. "When I speak to Flatto, I in-tend
to find out as much information as
possible."
Donoghue said that it is important
SEE "NINE" ON P. 6
EDITORIAL
Karen Donoghue
applauded for her
stance on beach
situation
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Female jogger harassed
BY JESSICA HOLMBERG
A Fairfield University senior
was solicited to enter a man's ve-hicle
on Barlow Road last Tues-day
at around 10 p.m. The sus-pect,
whom has yet to be identi-fied,
drove up to the student and
asked if she needed a ride.
Upon the student's repeated
refusals, the suspect persisted un-til
another car approached behind
him, and he drove away. The stu-dent
proceeded to hide behind a
wall, when the suspect drove back
again and parked his car in an at-tempt
to look for her.
The student was able to ob-tain
a vivid description of the man,
as she saw him get out of the car
to pursue her. The suspect is de-scribed
as a 40 year-old Hispanic
male, approximately 5'8" tall with
a small build, dark, medium length
hair, and moustache. At the time
of the incident, he was driving a
mid-sized maroon car.
The student was unable to
identify the suspect's license plate
or give a description of his voice.
"The student reported the in-cident
forty minutes after it oc-curred,"
said Frank Ficko, associ-ate
director of Security. "She had
no choice but to wait until she felt
safe to leave, which was about a
45 minute delay."
The Fairfield Police Depart-ment
was notified, and as a result,
has put out more surveillance on
the area. The incident is
under investigation.
On campus, security
sent out an alert through
e-mails and flyers.
'The more eyes and
ears we get out there, the
better chance we have to [identify]
the suspect," Ficko said.
Other Fairfield students are
Danny Schwartzman/The Mirror
Avoiding risk: Safety off campus remains another priority for Fairfield
security. Sidewalks like this one leave students open to attackers.
if possible. Students should wear
bright clothes if planning to jog in
the evening.
"Don't jog alone," said Mike
Lauzon, Assistant Director of Se-curity.
"Take someone with you
if possible."
"At first reading the an-both
appalled and scared
by the incident.
"I am scared to walk
off-campus alone and es-pecially
at night," said
Mary McMinn '04.
"You just don't know
who you can trust these days."
Security advises students to
jog with someone and on campus SEE "SECURITY" ON P. 5
BAD CALL
Harassing phone
calls a problem
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F.U. grads admit
in survey to slacking off
BY JEN MALCOM
At a recent meeting of the
College of Arts and Sciences fac-ulty,
Dr. Timothy Snyder, dean of
arts and sciences, announced some
alarming stadstics from a survey
given to graduating seniors by the
Higher Educational Research In-stitute.
The survey gives administra-tors
a sense of the lives and
thoughts of the graduating seniors
and compares them to a group of
over 100 hundred other schools,
many of which are Catholic.
"The majority of schools in
the survey do not exhibit the level
of quality of our admissions pro-file;
in short, our students have, by
all indications, more learning po-tential,"
said Snyder.
But regardless of this poten-tial,
Fairfield students did not rate
very well in this survey.
The survey found that 35 per-cent
of students studied less than
six hours per week. Only five per-cent
said they studied over 20
hours per week, compared to the
average of eleven percent at other
surveyed schools.
"I definitely study around 20
hours per week and so do many of
my friends," said Dora Denardo,
'04. "If we study that much, it's
scary to think how many people
are studying so much less to get
that 35 percent."
The number of Fairfield stu-dents
that reported partying more
than six hours per week is 68 per-cent,
compared to an average of 28
percent at other schools. That
means that many students are par-tying
more than they're studying.
"What ever happened to party
hard, study hard?" said Kim Liaw,
'04. "I guess at Fairfield its party
hard — study when you want to."
On average 26 percent of stu-dents
at other schools reported fre-quently
feeling bored in class.
Forty-one percent of Fairfield stu-dents
reported that.
"My interpretation of this is,
instead, a cause for celebration: our
students can handle more than we
SEE "SNYDER" ON P. 5
Survey results MIRROR u******* SNAPS HOT their habits while at school. Here are the results.
Students at Fairfield who
study less than 6 hours/wk.
Students at Fairfield who
study more than 20 hours/wk.
35%
5%
Students nationally who
party more than 6 hours/wk.
Students at Catholic schools who
party more than 6 hours/wk.
Students at Fairfield U. who
party more than 6 hours/wk.
27.8%
39.5%
67.8%
Students nationally who
felt bored in class
Students at Catholic schools who
felt bored in class
Students at Fairfield U. who
felt bored in class
Source: Timothy Law Snyder; CSS Survey
26%
27%
"41%
Graphic by Joshua Q'Connell/The Mirror