Mirror - Vol. 28, No. 23 - April 01, 2003

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April 1.2003 -Vol. 28, Iss. 23 Fairfield University's Student Newspaper
Clam Jam a go! Court lifts injunction; FUSA
scrambles to plan spring event
BY SEAN HAYES
Fairfield students were shocked Tues-day
night when news reached campus that
a Bridgeport Superior Court Judge had over-turned
the injunction prohibiting large gath-erings
at Fairfield beach, thus giving a green
light to this year's Clam Jam.
In the conclusion of his ruling, Judge
Louis Friend stated, "Beyond insufficient
evidence demonstrating the need for this
injunction, this court believes that the shaky
constitutional ground on which this injunc-tion
is based unfairly targets students as a
separate group; therefore, the injunction is
overturned and rendered null and void."
The ruling came down at approximately
7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, sending Fairfield
University Student Association members
scrambling to make plans and schedule
meetings for a spring Clam Jam.
"The low cost of Howie Day for our
spring concert is really turning into a bless-ing,"
said FUSA member Jessica Fry '04.
"We have more than enough money to put
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Contributed photo
The Bridgeport Superior Courthouse.
Students turn out for teach-in
BY EILEEN ARNOLD
Fairfield professors, students,
and organizations sponsored an
exchange of diverse ideas, infor-mation,
and opinions about the war
with Iraq during a teach-in that
took place Tuesday in the lower
lever of the Barone Campus Cen-ter.
Organizers of the event called
the war in Iraq "the greatest moral
issue of our time," and the num-ber
and variety of panelists and
speakers that contributed reflected
this opinion.
"At Fairfield the teachers have
really taken the time to think about
the big picture," said Kathryn
Slanski, an adjunct professor for
the religious studies department
who held class early so that her
students could attend the first ses-sion
of the teach-in. "There's a lot
here that's appropriate for an edu-cational
environment, and not sim-ply
political."
The event started at 10 a.m.
and ended at 2:30 p.m. and was
divided into three sessions of three
different panels. Each panel was
made up of a combination of pro-fessors
in the departments of com-munication,
history, philosophy,
and religious studies, as well as
students, alumni and visitors.
Deirdre Tabak, '03, said, "I
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thought it was great that they all
covered different aspects of the war
from each other. The news gives
the same information on all sets and
since it's 24 hours it kind of spreads
thin and it's very repetitive."
Each speaker on the panels
gave a short speech on a number
of areas concerning the war and
then left the last half-hour open for
questions and discussion.
The first session featured Dr.
Ralph Coury of the history depart-ment,
Dr. Robbin Crabtree of the
communications department, and
Emmett Kearney, '03, one of the
founders of Fairfield University
Students for Peace.
Crabtree said in her speech
that even though this war is receiv-ing
more coverage than other wars
in the past, "more coverage does
not mean bet-ter
coverage."
She advised
students to
"use multiple
sources of in-formation"
when sifting
through the
ON RA
SEE "HUNDREDS" ON P. 6
Hockey team burned again: Fire causes $ 15k in damage
BY MIKE PIGNATARO
After the university cut their
program in February, players on
Fairfield's hockey team thought
things couldn't get any worse.
It looks like they were wrong.
The players were dealt an-other
substantial blow last week-end
when they heard that their
locker room at the Wonderland of
Ice, which contained the entire
team's equipment and uniforms,
was completely destroyed after a
fire was ignited by a space heater.
"The way this year has been
going for the hockey program, this
just seems like the icing on the
cake," said forward Lyon Porter,
'05. "It just adds insult to injury.
It's one more thing that we all have
to deal with."
Co-captain Rae Metz, '03,
was equally disappointed to hear
the news.
"It's just another thing that has
happened," Metz said. "I think we
all just sat back and laughed - like
what else could go wrong? We
actually thought it was an early
April Fool's joke at first."
The fire was reported to the
Bridgeport Fire Department at ap-proximately
6:30 p.m. on March
29. Ayouth hockey game that was
going on at the time was immedi-ately
stopped when smoke filtered
through the entire arena, forcing
everyone to be evacuated. No one
was hurt and the fire was contained
to just Fairfield's locker room, ac-cording
to Bridgeport fire officials.
West Side Battalion Chief
Bruce Porzelt said the fire was ac-cidental
and was caused because
the players' gear was too close to
a space heater. The Stags have
continued to skate in the off-sea-son
on Tuesdays and Thursdays to
keep in shape.
SEE "PLAYERS" ON P. 4
Tuition
increase
expected
BY ZACK FINLEY
The university recently de-cided
that construction of the new
grand boulevard will be put on
hold, merit pay for faculty will not
proceed and the football and
hockey programs will be cut.
To add more fuel to the fire,
tuition will increase for the next
fiscal year as all of these endeav-ors
are put on hold.
According to William Lucas,
vice president of Finance, there
will be a meeting of student lead-ers
today in the Barone Campus
Center where the working budget
for the 2003-2004 fiscal year will
be presented at 3:30 p.m. There,
Fairfield University President Rev.
Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J. and Lucas
will discuss and answer questions
concerning the budget for the up-coming
year.
"It is a fair assumption to say
that tuition will be increasing next
year," Lucas said. "I haven't seen
a school that has released its num-bers
each year with it going down."
Last year, the cost to attend
Fairfield as an undergraduate stu-dent
jumped an astounding 7.2
percent. This increase was trig-gered
by multiple factors, includ-ing
a need for competitive salaries.
Pay rates are supposed to increase
two percent in an effort to keep a
competitive edge among other pri-vate
colleges.
Since 1999, Fairfield's tuition
has increased 21.5 percent. Com-paratively,
Harvard University's
undergraduate tuition has risen
14.4 percent. Harvard's increase
for this fiscal year is 5.5 percent.
Overall, the cost to attend
Fairfield for this year is $33,430
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