Mirror - Vol. 38, No. 13 - January 30, 2013

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Week ofJanuary 30,2013 • Vol. 38, Iss. 13 • The Reflection ofFairfield • Independent Student Newspaper of Fairfield University
Student-athletes entertain for a good cause
The women's Soccer team showed off their moves during the Student-Athlete Talent Show and placed second to the women's Volleyball team.
BY LAURA O'REILLY
MANAGING EDITOR
Fairfield University student-athletes
traded the field for the stage
during the Third Annual Student-Ath-lete
Talent Show held last Saturday at
Alumni Hall. The event, run by the
Student-Athlete Advisory Committee
(SAAC), raised money for a one-year-old
boy diagnosed with a very rare ge-netic
disorder.
Finnegan Straub was born on
Sept. 6, 2011, and within several
months he was diagnosed with Mic-
Cap Syndrome. Signs and symptoms
of Mic-Cap Syndrome include un-controlled
seizures, small head and
brain size, blindness, deafness and
impaired neurological capacity. He is
only the tenth case in the world that
has been identified with this disor-der.
Many of Fairfield University's
athletic teams came together to per-form
15 different acts, all vying to walk
away with this year's trophy and the
title of the team with the most talent.
Senior Michael O'Keefe and Will Hol-lingsworth
'14 co-hosted the event.
A donation of $3 at the door went to
helping Finnegan find treatment for
his seizures and his other medical ex-penses.
Students and student-athletes
cheered on the performers of the
night, whose acts included many
types of entertainment, such as lip-synching,
dancing and comedic skits
- all showing that they are not just
athletic, but creative as well.
The men's Baseball team were
up first, performing the "Get Your
Head in the Game" scene from Dis-ney's
"High School Musical." They
wore Fairfield Basketball jerseys
and showed off some Globetrotters
The Softball team had no time
for bronchitis with their rendition of
YouTube sensation Sweet Brown's
viral video of her response to a fire in
her home.
Women's Soccer also performed
their own take on the Macklemore
and Ryan Lewis song "Thrift Shop."
The second half of their act took au-dience
members back to the Summer
Olympics with a synchronized swim-ming
skit to the tune of an Italian op-era.
The Volleyball team awed the
crowd with their unique puppeteer
dance routine. The Volleyball players
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were the puppets themselves, danc-ing
to such famous tracks as "Kung Fu
Fighting," "Soldier Boy" and "Teach
Me How to Dougie."
Junior Katelyn Parisi said that
the Volleyball team's act was her fa-vorite.
"It was nice to see that they
cared enough about the event to put
that kind of energy into it," she said.
"It seemed like they took a lot of time
and effort to put that together and I
think that's what the audience appre-ciated
the most."
Irish step dancing was featured
in numerous acts in this year's tal-
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Barone's cafeteria now stays open until 8 p.m. and weekend continental breakfast begins at 8 a.m.
Dining hours revamped
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STAFF REPORT
After multiple operating
schedule changes last year, the
Stag, Einstein's Bagels, and even
the Main Dining Room have fi-nally
attained new hours at the
students' discretion.
Starting this semester, the
Barone Main Dining Room will
be open until 8 p.m., with a conti-nental
breakfast starting at 8 a.m.
on Saturdays and Sundays.
The hours of the Stag Snack
Bar and Einstein's have also
changed. Einstein's will now be
open Monday through Friday
from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., while the
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Stag hours run between 11 a.m.
and 10 p.m. every day, except
on Thursday when it will remain
open until midnight.
As a result of the new hours,
students will be able to eat a sub-stantial
breakfast on the week-ends,
grab a coffee before their
8:00 a.m. class at Einstein's, and
have a hot dinner until 8:00 p.m.
in Barone.
Assistant Vice President of
Student Affairs James Fitzpat-rick
was instrumental in bring-ing
about the extended hours. He
made the changes in response to
many complaints about the hours
of the dining facilities, saying that
"the request didn't seem imprac-tical."
Junior Samuel Maxfield is the
FUSA Chair of Senate who helped
direct the organization's accumu-lation
of student input. Although
the new dining hours became of-ficial
over the Winter Recess, the
push for extended hours in Bar-one
had been a wish of the stu-dent
body for years. However, as
Maxfield explained, it takes con-sistency
to put changes in motion
with the administration: "With
Mr. Fitzpatrick you have to be
consistent ... another thing that
he likes to say is 'prove it.'"
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