FREE | Take one June 2010 Orientation| Vol. 36, Iss. 1
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The Independent Student Newspaper of Fairfield University The Reflection of Fairfield
Please Excuse Our Appearance! By: Alexandria Hein news Editor
Site of future residence for upperclassmen in 2011 located on the former Village parking lot.
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Who’s Who at Fairfield: A guide to who you need to know in the administration Mirror Staff
With people pointing you in many directions, your first month at Fairfield University can be taxing. People may tell you to see the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences if you want to switch your major or talk to the director of Residence Life if your roommate is intolerable. That may be all well and good, but just who are these people? Here is a guide that can help to clue you in. Name: Fr. Jeffery P. von Arx, S.J. Title: University President Location: President’s Office: Bellarmine Hall 123, ext. 2217 E-mail: president@mail.fairfield.edu Bio: Fr. von Arx started his academic career in 1982 at Georgetown University as a faculty member in the history department, where he served as chair from 1991 to 1997. During his time in Georgetown, he was a founding director of the Center for Austrialian and New Zealand Studies in the School of Foreign Service.
At Fordham, von Arx had direct responsibility for the operation of the college at Rose Hill, which is the original undergraduate division of Fordham University. He has served or is currently on the boards of trustees of Boston College, Canisius College, Loyola Marymount University and Xavier University. In 2002, von Arx joined Fordham’s board. He is also a member of the boards of Fordham Prep, Regis High School and St. Barnabus Hopsital, both in the Bronx. In 1969, von Arx receveid his undergraduated degree in history from Princeton University, which was also the year he entered the Society of Jesus. He recevied a master’s degree in history and philosophy and a doctorate in history from Yale University. As a 1981 graudate of the Weston School of Theology, von Arx was ordained in 1981. In 2004, von Arx succeeded Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., to become Fairfield University’s eighth president. Name: Fr. Charles Allen, S.J. Title: Executive Assistant Location: President’s Office, Bellarmine 123, ext. 2256
Welcome to campus Team’14! As John Ritchie, assistant director of Public Safety told The Mirror this spring, “Please excuse our appearance while we strive to make our facility a better place for the future.” That being said, here is a guide to all of the construction going on around campus, most of which was not here the last time you visited. Unfortunately the construction in the Quad, which you are now in the midst of, will not be completed in time for the fall semester. The new freshman dorm will be completed in August 2011. According to an earlier Mirror article the rooms will have over 200 square feet, as well as study rooms that will face the Quad, and a large lounge on the first floor. August 2011 also marks the end of the current construction going on in the Village in what was the parking lot for the Kostka/ Claver/library area. The new building will feature four, six and eight person apartments for upperclassmen, which means that when you, the members of the class of 2014, are upperclassmen it will be an option to live in. What remains of Dolan Hall is now completely covered with scaffolding for what Vice President of Administrative and Student Affairs Mark Reed described in February, as a renovation that will strip the build-
ing down to its walls. The former freshman dorm will also not be available until August 2011. Jogues Hall, located in the Quad, will house freshmen on the first floor, and sophomores on the upper floors in order to account for the loss of beds during the renovation of Dolan Hall, The new dormitories and renovations will provide over 200 more beds. The sophomores being displaced by freshmen in Jogues have the new option of living in the former Jesuit Residence, St. Ignatius Hall, which has also been renovated and is available in time for the 2010-11 school year according to school officials. The building will hold approximately 130 students in four-person suites. The Jesuits now live in a new building named The Jesuit Community Center located between the Dolan School of Business and Bellarmine Hall. In order to extend the parking lot of the Quick Center and St. Ignatius Hall, the parking lot as well as surrounding trees are being ripped up. A reported 20 percent of untouched forest area near the Quick Center and Hall are being destroyed to make room for the expansion. The administration continutes to stress that the renovations are to prevent crowding in the freshmen dorms.
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Places To Go In Town
Life At The Beach
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