Mirror - Vol. 37, No. 04 - September 28, 2011

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Introducing; Fairfield University's Fall Concert Artists
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Ifs official - the FUSA fall concert
on October 28 will feature headliner
Far East Movement, supported by
opening acts Hoodie Allen and The
Hood Internet
Scheduled to go on sale on Oc-tober
11 at 11 a.m, tickets will cost $35
until October 24, when ticket sales will
become available to the public and
prices will increase to $45.
The concert was announced
during theWVOF Fall Concert An-nouncement
show hosted by Kevin
Tellie'12,VWOF station manager,
and Ivey Speight'12, WVOF Sports
Director.
"It was a great turnout, we really
liked that people came - we wanted
them to have fun!"Speight noted after
the event."It really pumped them up
for the concert."
Special guests Rob Goger '14 and
Michael Leavitt '12, both from FUSA,
offered some insight into the process
of choosing the performers. "Ifs
extremely difficult -You've got to get
in touch with people's agents.. .figure
out the budget, what students want
to have [as a] kind of genre, what the
school can host that fits their values,"
Goger explained.
About 150 people attended the
announcement show in the Lower
Level of the Barone Campus Center.
Initially, people at the event were
excited by the free food provided by
Garden Catering and Robek's, but
some got annoyed when they had
to wait through a half hour of music
and talking for the actual performer
announcement.
Student reactions to the final an-nouncement
of the concert perform-ers
were mixed.
"I've never gone [to the fall
concert] and this concert doesn't
excite me enough to change that,"said
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Contributed Photos
The Hood Internet (Upper Left), Hoodie Allen (Right) and Far East Movement (Bottom)
Fairfield Students Learn How to Date
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Fairfield U. students have been "excelling"at the hook-up culture.
BY MAGGIE ANDREW
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Fairfield is on the list... again.
While Fairfield was recently
added to the ranks of prestigious
Universities by the U.S. News and
Review's 2012 edition of"America's
Best Colleges"for the Best Regional
Universities in the Northeast Kerry
Cronin has a special place for our
school on her own personal
list.
Cronin, a philoso-phy
professor at Boston
College, spoke in front
of a packed audience on
Monday night about the
current "hook-up culture,"
dating, and the categories
of hook-ups that she at-tributes
especially to Fair-field
students, who she
says have been "excelling"
in this particular variation
of college relationships.
A hook-up is a
physical or social interac-tion
with no perceived
emotional connection or expectation
of a follow-up, according to Cronin.
She classifies college students into
three categories: the pseudo-married
couples, those who opt out and, of
course, those who hook-up.
During Cronin's previous three
visits to campus, Fairfield students
volunteered different classifica-tions
of those who participate in
the hook-up culture, including the
categories of the revenge, rebound,
bored and now-or-never hook-ups.
Cronin first realized that she
needed to connect with her students
beyond the typical philosophy cur-riculum
at the advice of a Jesuit 15
years ago. He helped her to under-stand
that the students'real learning
occurs in residential halls and caf-eterias
and involves their friendships
and relationships, not just the mate-
Contributed Photo
Kerry Cronin speaking in 2010 at Boston College.
rial fed to them by their professors.
In order for the students to take their
Jesuit education seriously, she would
need to figure out how to incorporate
Plato and Aristotle into their lives
outside the classroom.
Eight years of research on this
topic provided the background
information necessary to undertake
the blending of philosophy with
the students'social lives, and she
would unabashedly pose personal
questions to her students to find out
the truth about the inner workings
of modern college relationships.
Shocked by the conclusions, she
introduced an unusual assignment
to combat the deterioration of legiti-mate
relationships.
Cronin challenged her
students to ask someone out on a
level one date and the mandatory
face-to-face invitation was
only the beginning of the
culture shock experienced
by her philosophy seminar
class.
The "target," as one
student described the
intended victim of her
philosophy project, needs
to know the nature of the
date. The student also has
to invite someone he or
she has a genuine interest
in, but should not spend
more than 90 minutes
on this "reconnaissance
mission." Cronin believes
an hour and a half provides
just enough time to gather infor-mation
and make a decision if the
relationship is worth pursuing.
This manner of courtship can
be difficult to initiate in the perva-sive
hook-up culture of colleges,
providing a definite challenge to
Cronin's students at Boston College.
Aileen Monahan '14 says, "Level
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Signs of Student Money
BY ALICIA BISSONNETTE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
When walking on Fatrfield's
campus this semester, one might
notice a different sight. Over the
summer, signs with red back-grounds
and white lettering were
erected to label the buildings on
campus.These signs, which are part
of Fail-field's beautification process
that is taking place over the course of
the next several years, have sparked
some mighty rumors.
One rumor is that the signs
cost $3,800 per sign, and the other
is that the color scheme of the signs
is incorrect. However, upon closer
investigation, both rumors proved to
be wrong. In the exchange of emails
from Dr. Mark Reed, the Vice Presi-dent
of Administration and Student
Affairs at Fairfield University, it was
discovered that neither was the case.
Although he was unable to disclose
the actual amount spent on the
signs, he reported that the cost was
not $3,800. The signs, Reed also not-ed,
are the color they were designed
to be since the idea's creation.
The beautification project on
the campus has been in the budgets
and master plan for four to five
years. At this point, "it was a multi-year
and multi-phase plan which we
have been implementing ever since.
The Quad, as an example, was the
largest component to be completed
thus far, but there have been others -
such as the Village this past summer,
select parking lots and additional
sidewalks, and other examples,"said
Reed.
Although he cannot disclose
actual prices, he noted that the
prices seem more daunting than
they actually are when worked into
the budget. For example, when
there were new doors put in around
campus, Reed noted they were a six-figure
number, but claimed that this
was the norm. He notes: "It's a big
campus! [It's] safe to say that when
all is completed, the total cost for
this will also be in that cost range."
There has been some confusion
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INDEX
Opinion • Page 7
The Vine-Page 9
Coffee Break-Page 16
Sports • Page 20
OPINION:
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NEWS:
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