Mirror - Vol. 36, No. 02 - September 08, 2010

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Senior star Jean Fauchet slide tackles an Albany opponent on a Wednesday night game during the first day of school.
The Reflection of Fairfield
BY SASHA CAMPBELL
SPORTS EDITOR
New Buildings. New residential colleges. New
dining options. An overall theme of newness and
change brings life to Fairfield's campus as students,
faculty and staff welcome the 2010-2011 academic year.
According to an article from "The Connecticut
Post," Fairfield welcomed 925 members to the class of 2014.
This was a large increase from last year that, according to
the Fairfield University fact book, reported 837 full time
daytime students.
This year also marked the first year that Fairfield
became SAT optional during its admission process, al-lowing
applicants to submit their scores only if they wanted
to. This new approach in admissions helps to demonstrate
to future applicants that Fairfield looks at an applicant as a
whole person, including grades and extracurricular activi-ties,
and not just as a number on a standardized test.
Not only has the freshman class experienced change,
but the sophomore class has experienced a new situation
in their housing experience as well.
According to a speech given by Father von Arx
at a housing assembly, almost 80% of Fairfield
sophomores are participating in the existing
k and newly designed residential colleges.
These residential colleges include: Ignatian
Residential College, Creative Life Residen-tial
College, Environmental Life Residen-tial
College, Leadership in the Ignatian
TraditionResidentialCollege,andService
for Justice Residential College.
Each residential college offers
their students a chance to participate in a
community of living and learning based on .
the values of each of the different programs.
. With the creation of these new residential
colleges, the need for new housing became an
issue. To help accommodate these students, the
old Jesuit Residence was transformed into
42 Bellarmine, the newest addition to
campus housing.
However, this newest resi-dence
is not the end of the housing
construction process. Still to come is the new apartment
complex being built in the Village, a new residence hall in the
Quad, and the rearrangement of the Dolan commons into
apartment-style living.
Each project hopes to make the housing situation at Fair-
Fairfield Turns Back On Perlitz's Victims
BY ALEXANDRIA IIFIN
NEWS EDITOR
Paul Kendrick battled the sweltering heat last Wednes-day
as he stood at his alma mater's entrance, offering
pamphlets to cars arriving on campus. His intent is to raise
money and awareness to aid the victims of the Douglas
Perlitz sex scandal in Haiti, something he feels Fairfield is
ignoring.
Perlitz, an alumnus of Fairfield and 2002 recipient of an
honorary doctor of laws degree, as well as commencement
speaker has been arrested for and pled guilty to having sex
with eight underage boys.
Since the arrest, the school has been shut down and
Kendrick believes that Fairfield has abandoned the victims
left behind. "Do I not feed a man at my door because he may
trip on my stairs on the way out and sue me?" said Kendrick,
an allusion to the University's actions in Haiti out of possible
bad media attention.
He is asking for two dollars per day for the 20 boys
abused at Project Pierre Toussaint, an amount that has not
been met by Fairfield. In an email titled, "A Visible Presence,"
Kendrick asked President von Arx to join him "in the blister-ing
heat" Wednesday at the edge of campus to help spread
awareness. The money would cover the ration of food for the
boys that day, rice and beans.
Von Arx was not present nor did he respond, none of
the other administrators on the email list joined Kendrick ei-ther.
According to The Connecticut Post, Fairfield spokesmen
Nancy Habetz, who was also sent the "Visible Presence,"
email said, "This is the first day of class for the fall semester,
and the University community's responsibility is to focus on
opening day activities and the students' educational experi-ence."
She continued, "The
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