Monthly Archives October 25, 2007

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof brought many of his own visions regarding the genocide in Darfur, Sudan to Fairfield's Open VISIONS Forum Thursday night at the Quick Center. "On issues like these, the leadership usually comes from students," said Kristof to a crowd of about 600 members of the Fairfield community.

Fairfield's color may be red, but going green is becoming a trend on campus. Flip on the news and you will probably hear something about soaring gas prices, environmental disaster and international conflict with oil-producing countries. Two Fairfield students, Robert Scribner '09 and Peter Krueger '08, are helping to protect the ozone layer and lessen our country's dependency on oil by using alternative sources of fuel for their cars.

With tuition and room and board approaching $45,000 per student, one would think it was more than enough to support the continuing operations of Fairfield University. On the contrary, nearly 7 percent of the current budget for the 2007-2008 academic year comes from another source: the University endowment.

Find out What's going on at Fairfield, on Tv and in movie theaters this week!

There were two hit-and-run incidents, a grease fire and a sink being ripped off the wall all happened this week at your school.

Harvard. Duke. Yale. These schools do not require students to take a history course - Fairfield does. Roughly 700 people filed into the Quick Center to attend a $50 history lesson taught by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David McCullough. While many non-history majors feel that mandated history classes are unnecessary, the so called "master of narrative history" disagreed.

A continually decreasing number of Jesuit priests could affect the experience that students receive at Fairfield, University President Fr. Jeffrey von Arx said Thursday. "The number of Jesuits continues to decline," he told a student news conference. "[The Board of Trustees] might have to deal with the fact that I may well be the last Jesuit president of the University," he said.

On Wednesday, Oct. 17., students were trained to be globally savvy by Anne Marie Sabath, president and founder of At Ease Inc., a New York City- and Cincinnati-based business protocol and social skills training firm. The seminar program teaches students who plan on traveling how to introduce themselves, dress appropriately and have good table manners in foreign countries.

Since the days of Napster, people have been illegally downloading and sharing music files on peer-to-peer networks. Last April, Marc Fedoras '09 was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for $135,000, which averaged out to $750 per song.

The concept of human trafficking is a foreign one to many Americans, a problem often perceived as occurring outside the United States' borders. However, a packed Kelley Center learned on Tuesday night that trafficking is an epidemic that hits very close to home.