Mirror - Vol. 28, No. 08 - October 31, 2002

              Fairfield
October 31, 2002 - Vol. 28, Iss. 8 MIRROR University
Celebrating 25 Years of Publication
FUSA offers low-cost alternative to SBRA event
BY JESSICA HOLMBERG
As if the $65 fee for senior
portraits was not enough to dry the
money-filled well, the class of '03
continues to be thirsty for dough
after paying for the infamous 200
Nights.
"Last year, 200 Nights was
held at the Trumbull Marriott, and
tickets were $65 each," said
Colette Landers '03, SBRA (Stu-dent
Beach Resident Association)
co-president. "It was a mess. They
ran out of food and alcohol, and
there was only one bartender. Stu-dents
were stealing alcohol and
Trumbull Police had to come and
control the situation."
Although the lack of alcohol
angered '02 students, many retali-ated
with inappropriate actions.
"The lines were astronomical
to get beer and mixed drinks," said
Greg Zacholl '02, who will also DJ
this year's 200 Nights. "People
would go behind the bar them-selves
and fill up their beers.
People were so fed up by 10 p.m.
that we were buying beer from the
Amy Womack/The Mirror
Tickets please: Seniors Lauren Mahoney and Liz Cummings buy tickets for 200 Nights from SBRA
member Amy Torchen with the help of Virginia Meade.
hotel bar and jumping into the ho-tel
fountains." '
The night ended abruptly at 12
a.m., and all students were sent
back to Fairfield.
"Some students didn't have a
ride Home," Zacholl said. "The
buses left unfilled because the
drivers were impatient and wanted
to get out of there."
Due to the lack of acceptable
behavior by last year's senior class,
it was difficult for the class of '03
SEE "SBRA" ON P. 4
Ex-Andersen CEO Berardino to speak
BY ZACK FINLEY
While attending college, there
are few things better than know-ing
that someone who has gradu-ated
from your college has made
it into the "big time." It is even
better to find out that there could
be a chance for you to meet this
person and learn how you can
make it big.
Joe Berardino, class of 1972,
is coming to speak at Fairfield next
Wednesday, Nov. 6, but unless you
belong to the Dolan School of
Business, are a member of the
Ignatian Residential College or are
a faculty member in either of these
two groups, you might as well stay
home and watch "Dawson's
Creek."
Jacob Pierson, '05, a member
of the Ignatian Residential Col-lege,
had mixed feelings about the
ordeal. "Because I am a member
of the Ignatian College, it doesn't
affect me. How-ever,
what
Arthur Andersen
and Enron did
affects not just
people in the
business world,
but everyone.
Many people
around the coun-try
put their money into the Enron
stock and now have nothing to
show for it."
According to Norm Solomon,
dean of the Dolan School of Busi-ness,
Berardino is coming to give
a speech entitled "Living and
Working in Interesting Times."
The event is free but tickets are re-quired
and are on a first come first
BERARDINO
serve basis. It will be held in the
Dolan School of Business dining
room where a light meal will be
served.
"Mr. Berardino is speaking at
a number of other universities in
addition to*~Fairfield. It is only
natural that given Mr. Berardino's
high regard for Fairfield and his
close ties to our university, both as
alumnus and as a trustee, that he
be willing to speak here as well,"
said Solomon.
"This event is a talk focused
on a specific part of the academic
community," said Solomon. "The
event is very different than an
Open Visions lecture... it is also
sponsored by the Ignatian Residen-tial
College and the Dolan School
of Business."
The Dolan School of Business
dining room can only hold 150
people, but, at press time, the
Ignatian Residential College had
only given out "about 15-20 tick-ets,"
according to Joe DeFeo, as-sociate
director of the Ignatian
Residential College.
The numbers are different for
the Business School. "I am confi-dent
that we will have very good
attendance for Mr. Berardino's
talk. We have already distributed
well over 100 tickets. Given that a
week remains before the event
takes place, I am sure that addi-tional
students and faculty will
pick up tickets," said Solomon.
The event is not required for
anyone to attend, according to
Solomon, although he feels that
individual faculty members may
determine that this is an important
SEE "BERARDINO" ON P. 5
FU prof joins
Iraq debate
BY PATRICIA MCGAHAN
With tensions in the Middle
East increasing and U.S. interven-tion
in Iraq seeming more inevi-table
every day, a Fairfield profes-sor
has joined the national debate
by speaking out in criticism of U.S.
foreign policy with respect to Iraq.
Philosophy professor Joy
Gordon's
PEACE MARCH
DC rally protests
Americas Iraq policy
Page 3
article in
Harper's is
entitled,
"Cool War:
Economic
sanctions as
a weapon of mass destruction."
The article highlights the
ways in which the Unites States is
"using [economic] sanctions as
nothing less than a deadly
weapon."
Gordon explains that over the
past three years, she has obtained
many confidential U.N. documents
that state how the United States has
forcefully and purposefully
worked to keep certain critical hu-manitarian
good from entering
Iraq, many of which have been le-gal
ones. Among these items are
water tankers, dental equipment,
fire-fighting equipment, milk and
yogurt producing equipment, di-alysis
equipment, printing equip-ment,
and other items crucial for
healthy living conditions in Iraq.
So how does the United States
get away with this? They simply
claim that these vital humanitarian
goods could be used as weapons
of mass destruction and they block
them. The Unites States also
blocks goods on the grounds that
they are "Dual-use goods"-goods
that, although they are important
in terms of humanitarian aspects,
might also benefit Iraq's military.
As Gordon explains in her article,
"Last year the United States
blocked contracts for water tank-ers,
on the grounds that they might
be used to haul chemical weapons
instead." The catch is the fact that
these tankers were approved by the
UNMOVIC (The United Nations
Monitoring, Verification, and In-
SEE "PROF" ON P. 5
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