Mirror - Vol. 36, No. 03 - September 15, 2010

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The Reflection of Fairfield
BY ANNIE ROONEY
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
At a last minute FUSA meeting Tuesday night at 6pm, concert
directors Michael Rubertone' 11 and Matt Signore' 11 announced the
fall concert artists. Jason Derulo, 30H!3 and opening band, Down
with Webster or DWW, will be performing in Alumni Hall on October
29. "It's the perfect way to start the Halloween weekend," said Signore
as the small audience reacted with excited shrieks.
Derulo is a new pop artist with hit singles
"Ridin' Solo" and "In My Head." 30H!3 has
been all over the charts since 2008 with
their first album "Want" featuring hit single
"Don't Trust Me." Recently the band has
collaborated with pop stars to create the
more hits including "Starstrukk," featur-ing
Katy Perry and "My First Kiss," featuring
Kesha. The Canadian pop rock band DWW is
currendy touring with 30H!3 as the opening
act and will also be visiting Fairfield's campus
for the concert.
Rubertone and Signore stressed
the importance of the concert survey
that FUSA previously distributed. "It's your
school and it's your concert," said Rubertone.
After reading about 570 responses they were
able to accurately assess the music interests
of the student body to book the three perfor-mances.
Tickets go on sale Monday, September
27. This year, student tickets will be sold at
$35 each for the first week of sales; After the first
week, ticket sales will increase to the normal $40
per ticket and only one student ticket will be sold
per Stagcard. All non-student tickets will be sold
at $45 each.
Students seemed to receive the announce-mentwith
immense excitement "That's awesome!"
exclaimed Jessica Goldstein '12 and Alexandra Giatrelis '12.
Nick Bakalov' 11 also seemed happy. "This might be
the first concert in four years that I go to," he said.
FUSA President, Eddie Muniz seemed pleasantly satisfied by the announcement. "It's
gonna be the best concert in all.four years," he expressed. FUSA seems to be promising
quite a show for October 29.
Fairfield Granted Ford Foundation Grant
BY CHARLOTTE ADINOLFI
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
The Ford Foundation has granted Fair-field
University's Center for Faith and Public
Life a two-year, $200,000 grant to study the
education of undocumented students at
Jesuit Universities.
"Every human has the right to educa-tion
and this project is really grounded in
this belief," Melissa Quan, Associate Director
of the Center for Faith and Public Life said.
Having begun on July 1st, 2010, Fairfield Uni-versity
will be working together with Santa
Clara University as well as Loyola Chicago
over the next two years.
As the lead university of the project,
Fairfield has set out to answer what the cur-rent
practices are at Jesuit schools regarding
undocumented students and what chal-lenges
are presented when trying to serve
these students.
At the end of the two years, a final policy on
the findings will be produced.
"There is very litde hard data about
the situation of undocumented students in
American universities," Richard Ryscavage,
S.J., Professor of Sociology and Director of
the Center for Faith and Public Life said.
"This grant will allow us to make a ma-jor
contribution to the national understand-ing
of the problem."
The project will be funded by the Ford
Foundation and a group of Fairfield profes-sors
and faculty will work on the project with
the other two universities.
Dr. Kurt Schlichting, professor of sociol-ogy
and anthropology, will lead the research
team and Dr. Jocelyn Boryczka, assistant
professor of politics and director of peace
and justice studies, will be a part of the proj-ect
for Fairfield.
Ryscavage said he has been concerned
about this issue for many years and how to
properly address the situation of undocu-mented
students. "I feel there has been a
lack of moral leadership on the part of the
universities," Ryscavage said.
In an effort to pursue this situation,
Fairfield began work with the Carnegie
Corporation ofNewYork on a pilot study run
last year. The project sought to look at the
immigration debate in a new light which was
through a faith based lens.
Quan said that the project grew and
Dr. Boryczka created a paper based on the
results.
During a meeting with various philan-thropists
organized by Noel Appel, director
of Foundation Relations, the Center for Faith
and Public Life presented their research in
hopes that a foundation would fund further
studies.
The Ford Foundation expressed an
interest in the project and invited Fairfield to
submit a proposal.
In this proposal, the Center for Faith
and Public Life laid out the basics of the
project with the ultimate goal being to fill in
the missing information pertaining to this
issue.
During the research process, Ryscav-age
said they will utilize a mixed methods
research study by conducting interviews,
surveys and various other techniques.
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