Mirror - Vol. 28, No. 11 - November 21, 2002

              BIG WINNER
You could be the next to get
$200... find out how!
Page 10
FAMOUS AMOS
The Mirror sits in on a roundtable
discussion with singer Tori Amos
Page 13
Fairfield
I November 21, 2002 - Vol. 28, Jss. 11 MIRROR University
Celebrating 25 Years of Publication
SPEED BUMP
Security steps up enforcement of speed limits
\ VJT>\
Hrw*
MtOlJSS ^**
A'SS
BY JESSICA HOLMBERG
As much as the curvy roads on
campus appeal to the NASCAR
driver in us all, security has been
forced to resort to stricter guide-lines
to create a safer atmosphere
for pedestrians. But students
have a mixed reaction to the
| changes.
"We received many com-plaints
about speeding on
campus," said Mike Lauzon,
assistant director of secu-rity.
"We wanted to do
■\>sk
o
something about it."
Fairfield security received a
radar unit as a donation from the
Fairfield Police Department, due
to the police department's recent
equipment upgrade, according to
Lauzon.
We want to slow people down
on campus," Lauzon stressed.
"We're putting it to good use."
"We want to act before a trag-edy
occurs," said Frank Ficko, as-sociate
director of security. "We
have had people come up here and
thank us for what we're doing."
But most students interviewed
were angry with security's new
enforcement policies.
Weiss Froogh, '04, disagreed.
"That's like saying, let's not fly
because there might be a plane
crash," Froogh said. "It might not
happen at all. You can't prevent
everything before it happens."
"I know people who drive
worse because they got a ticket,"
Froogh added, who received a
careless operation ticket for driv-
SEE "CAMPUS" ON P. 8
Bishops against Iraq war
Reasons dorit meet "just war' criteria
BY EILEEN ARNOLD
As The United States continues to take
both military and diplomatic steps towards
war with Iraq, American Catholic Bishops
have said that if America were to go to war
against Iraq under the present rationaliza-tions,
they would not meet the Catholic cri-teria
for a "just war."
On Nov. 13, American Catholic Bish-ops
put the Just War Doctrine into effect
when they met for their annual fall meeting
in Washington. According to a statement
issued after the meeting, it was asserted that
since there is no clear evidence that Iraq is
about to attack America, no war against the
country would meet the Just War criteria.
Dr. Kevin Cassidy, of the Politics De-partment
and Peace and Justice Department,
said that the Just War conceptions are "not
just the Catholic Just War doctrines, it's the
Just War theory that has been used for
centuries...in terms of how to think about
the ethics of war."
The Just War Doctrine is usually ac-credited
to St. Augustine. Through the cen-turies,
four criteria have been developed to
meet the just war standards; the danger to a
nation must be grave; all other means of
solving the problem must be exhausted;
there should be a good chance at success;
and finally that the said war will not create
more evils or disorder.
American Bishops felt that the war
against Iraq does not meet the last criterion,
and it may create more "evils and disorders"
than it would eliminate.
DR. KEVIN CASSIDY
Assistant professor of Religious Stud-ies
Rev. Frank Hannafey, S.J., said that the
Bishops are "concerned about the severe
consequences" that come with war and that
the criteria would help assure the Bishops
that "some kind of good comes out of it
[war]." However, Hannafey said, "if a
greater evil is caused, they cannot, in moral
terms, justify it."
Cassidy said that "the people who are
trying to consider the ethics, the justifiabil-ity
of a war" will use the criteria, but we
cannot hope for our own politicians to fol-low
this doctrine because "politicians are
usually just concerned with what is there
SEE "FAIRFIELD" ON P. 4
Bridget Smith/The Mirror
Get out: Girls in one wing of Claver 4 were told last week that housing needed the
space for girls. They have until the 25th to find other arrangements.
Claver 4 cleaned out
Wing to house male overflow; 20forced to move
BY MEGAN MCGORY
Twenty female residents on Claver 4
are angry over a recent decision by the of-fice
of residence life and housing
to relocate them by Nov. 25 be-cause
of a "male housing crunch."
According to a Nov. 12 let-ter
sent to the affected students by
Laura Cantrell, the associate di-rector
of residence life, "the uni-versity
finds that there is a need to change a
female wing to a male wing in Claver. I
understand that relocating residents causes
much stress. Please also understand that the
EDITORIAL
Housing erred in
handling of situation
Page 14
university must consolidate the open spaces.
I know this is quite a shock and do appreci-ate
your cooperation to make this a fast pro-cess
and move on with the semester."
One of the students selected to move
didn't like the tone of the letter.
"Not only do they give us 12
days to move, but they notified
us by slipping this letter under our
door at 11:00 at night!" Lindsay
Mulvihill, '05 said, exasperated.
"I understand that the university
has to consolidate rooms, but to give us less
than two weeks with Thanksgiving and fi-nals
to move, and then tell us to 'move on
SEE "FEMALES" ON P. 7