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THE MIRROR Independent student newspaper
Week of October 21, 2015
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Vol. 41 Iss. 7
Rotaract Club looks to reach 100 donors at blood drive By Catherine Veschi News Editor Blood drives and donations are nothing new for Jennie Chieco ‘17 and her family. Chieco’s sister was diagnosed at a young age with thalassemia major, a condition which causes the body to make an abnormal form of hemoglobin, resulting in the destruction of a number of red blood cells. Due to this condition, Chieco’s sister required blood transfusions every two weeks. Chieco’s sister’s need for regular blood donations is what drove her to participate in numerous blood drives throughout high school and now college. Chieco noted scary times in the winter and summer when there was a lack of blood available for her sister, something that she hopes to combat through blood drives. “They know that she’s coming every two weeks and needs two units of blood every time she comes in, but imagine somebody comes in and they are in a car crash and they need 15 units of blood immediately, and they don’t have it for them.” For this reason, Chieco always promotes blood donations, such as the blood drive that will take place on Oct. 26 and 27 in the Barone Campus Center Oak Room.
Hosted by the Fairfield Rotaract Club, this blood drive is an opportunity for students to donate their own blood in the hopes of saving another individual’s life. For freshman, attending this event will count as FYE Inspire credit. For Chieco, the Red Cross representative for the Rotaract Club, blood drives are “a really great thing to do. It’s an hour of your time, and you can save three lives by doing it. It’s something that is really gratifying after you leave there.” Junior Annie O’Neill, a frequent blood donor, agreed with Chieco that blood drives are “a really easy way to make a difference, and [they] usually take an hour or less.” Co-president of the Rotaract Club Morgan Laiter ‘17 echoed O’Neill’s sentiments, adding that “As a nursing major, I recognize the great need for blood donations and hope to encourage more students to get involved by taking just an hour out of their day to change people’s lives.” “I’ve always gotten good vibes from all the Red Cross workers and really appreciate how hard they work to keep
people donating,” O’Neill added. Vice President of the Rotaract Club Megan Gallagher ‘17 added that if students don’t meet the physical requirements for donating blood, they can still do their part to help with the blood drive effort. “For people like me who can’t donate, volunteering is the next best option and it is so important to the success of blood drives as a whole,” Gallagher said. Gallagher went on to stress the pertinence of blood drives and how students can make a significant impact by donating blood. “Roughly every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood, which is why these blood drives are so important,” Gallagher said. Despite this, however, Chieco noted that there is a lack of people actually donating blood around the world. According to Chieco, less than 5 percent of the U.S. population donates blood. Chieco added that these numbers transfer to the Fairfield student body. Flickr/ Creative Commons
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$10 million donation aids Fairfield Rising campaign By Catherine Veschi News Editor
Javier Rivilla/The Mirror Sigma Xi award winner Dr. Melissa Kenney delivered a lecture on stream restoration to students.
Sigma Xi recipient talks stream restoration By Juliana Sansonetti Assistant Vine Editor Although water is often overlooked or taken for granted, it was the subject of a recent presentation by Dr. Melissa Kenney, an assistant research professor in Environmental Decision Analysis and Indicators at the University of Maryland. In keeping with the University’s twoyear focus on water, Kenney, the recipient of the Sigma Xi science research honor society Young Investigator Award, came to Fairfield to speak on her extensive research on water and the potential risks involved in stream restoration. The event was part of the University-wide water theme that was revealed last year. This, along with other events such as the water bottle initiative, have been showing students the importance of conserving water and saving the environment. The University has adopted the theme of water to help students be mindful about issues involving scarcities and consider solutions to these problems.
Kenney, who grew up in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, explained that she always had an “enduring interest in water.” “I’ve always loved being in the environment, but I wanted to do something with water resources in high school. We did a lot of classes where we went outside and learned about forestry and stream restoration. We did a stream restoration project my senior year of high school, and it really got me started down that pathway.” Kenney now has a position which focuses on integrating science and policy. Kenney spoke on the importance of this topic, not only for scientists, but for everybody. “We’re all part of the environment and we all use the environment, and we want to enjoy the environment. If we want to enjoy the environment in future generations that means we have to know how we can protect it.” Senior Lindsey Klemm, a board member to involve the School of Nursing in the water iniREAD
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the University has already raised $115 million from major donors, saying that the UniverFairfield’s new capital cam- sity is well on its way to reaching paign Fairfield Rising was for- its goal of $160 million for the mally launched on Sept. 30 at a campaign. celebratory dinner held at Bel“Tonight we celebrate that larmine Mansion. At the din- accomplishment — we celener, Former Fairfield University brate and thank you all for your Trustee William P. Egan ’67 and leadership — and we look forhis wife Jacalyn announced a ward to the surge of energy and $10 million gift enthusiasm that will to Fairfield in accompany us support of the It is up to us to step as we enter the Fairfield Rising forward and open the public phase of campaign efthe campaign,” doors for future gener- Father von Arx fort. Their do- ations to follow in our said at the dinnation will “Now is the footsteps. That is really ner. contribute to a time to intennew, integrated what Fairfield Rising is sify our efforts health studies all about. to continue supand nursing porting Fair-Father Jeffrey von Arx, S.J. field Rising and initiative at Fairfield. As President of Fairfield University to encourage a result of the others to join in Egan family’s generous dona- this transformational effort for tion, the School of Nursing will our University.” be renamed the Marion PeckFairfield University trustee ham Egan School of Nursing, in John Meditz ‘70, who Meditz honor of Egan’s mother. Hall is named after, was also The physical expansion of in attendance at the event. His the health sciences facility is ex- contribution of $10 million last pected to begin in the spring of year to the Fairfield Rising cam2016. paign contributed to the $22 At the dinner, President million renovation of the Leslie Jeffrey von Arx, S.J. announced C. Quick Jr. Recreation Comthat during the initial phases of the Fairfield Rising campaign, READ EGAN ON PAGE 4