Mirror - Vol. 27, No. 15 - January 31, 2002

              AN INSTITUTION
Community Theater reopens
after renovations
Page 7
FACE TO FACE
Elton John and Billy Joel
duel it out in Boston
Page 13
Fairfield
January 31, 2002 MIRROR University
Volume 27, Number 15
For townhouses, seven is not a crowd
BY CHRIS WOOD
Ask any junior what they
think of housing and their an-swer
is sure to be wrought with
expletives.
In the past couple of years,
an ever-growing population of
students has resulted in a hous-ing
crunch, forcing juniors to
live in dorms for a third year.
The problem is expected to
get worse as this year's fresh-men
and sophomore classes are
larger than their predacessors.
Although conditions may not
change for this year's tolerant
juniors, there is hope for future
students.
According to Director of
Housing Operations Gary
Stephenson, adjustments may
be made, as the townhouse and
apartment lotteries may undergo
changes.
Stephenson said he is
strongly considering raising the
number of students in each
townhouse by one. "Four-man"
townhouses would house five
students, and seven students
would be required for the con-ventional
"six-man" townhouse.
This year, townhouse residents
were given the option to volun-tarily
admit one more student to
their roster with the incentive of
reduced housing costs.
In addition, students may
While more crowded, townhouses have the room for an extra person. Photo: Amy Womack
be entered in each lottery as in-dividuals,
and may be given
separate lottery numbers. Once
numbers are assigned, town-house
and apartment candidates
will then select their own living
groups. Each group would then
assume the lowest students'
number, and select housing ac-cordingly.
Kostka resident Vincent
Farisello '03 said "[the pro-posed
changes are] a creative
solution to a very big potential
problem. That was an idea I had
after getting screwed out of a
townhouse."
This is a significant change
from the 2000-2001 lottery
when living groups were se-lected
before the lottery and
each group was given one col-lective
number.
This change may be made
in the hopes to add more possi-bilities
and freedom of choice
for the students, according to
Stephenson.
However, the lottery cannot
occur until the number of stu-dents
required to live in a
townhouse is decided.
Stephenson hopes to start the
SEE "EXTRA" ON P. 6
Students protest dismissal of professor
BY GWEN NOLAN
Melanie Jobbagy signs a petition while Kara Camp looks on. Photo: Joshua O'Connell
Professor of Elementary Education
Alice Mclntyre has been a member of Fair-field
University's faculty since 1996, but this
May, Mclntyre will no longer be employed
by Fairfield University.
In Spring of 2001, Fairfield University
denied Mclntyre tenure and informed her
that the 2001 /2002 school year would be her
last at the university. Among the many who
were confused and outraged by the termina-tion
of Mclntyre were her students. 22 of
Mclntyre's students came forward and wrote
and signed a petition asking that the univer-sity
"retain Dr. Mclntyre in her position at
Fairfield University." Among the many who
received the petition was Mary Dillon
Reynolds, a member of the Board of Trust-ees,
who in turn sent the petition to The Mir-ror.
Mclntyre believes her termination was
unjust, in response to her denial of tenure,
Mclntyre is currently in the process of fil-ing
a lawsuit against Fairfield University.
Mclntyre is a professor in the Graduate Edu-cation
Program where she has been praised
by her students as "a professor who has
SEE "MCINTYRE" ON P. 4
KELLEY
APK: Berardino
an "outstanding
trustee"
BY SUSAN KEANE
How responsible should
accounting firms be for the
businesses that they audit?
This question is one of the
major issues that has been dis-cussed
in national news over the
past few weeks in relation to the
Enron scandal. Fairfield has its
own hand in the scandal, as
trustee Joseph Berardino '72 is
Chief Executive of Arthur
Andersen, the accounting firm
tied to Enron.
Fairfield University Presi-dent,
Rev.
Aloysius
P. Kelley
S.J. said,
"Mr.
Berardino
has been
an out-standing
member
of the
Board ofTrustees and an impor-tant
member of the Board's Fi-nance
Committee. He will ob-viously
remain a member ofthe
Board."
On Sunday, Berardino,
member ofthe university Board
of Trustees and chief executive
ofArthur Andersen accounting
firm appeared on NBC's "Meet
the Press," defending account-ing
firms in these situations.
"People want to focus on
the ac-counting,
and I think
that's fair
game. But
a com-pany
has
failed and
it's failed
because
the eco-nomics
didn't work," he said.
Berardino has remained an
active member of the Fairfield
University Board of Trustees
and the university community
since his graduation. According
to "Fairfield Now," Berardino
recently addressed the univer-sity
committee during a visit to
campus. "When I went to Fair-field
I learned that we're here
on earth to serve others," he
said. Berardino has donated
funds to begin a scholarship for
business school students as a
result of this belief.
"I thought a scholarship for
those who might otherwise not
SEE "BERARDINO" ON P. 6
BERARDINO
From a 1972 Manor photo