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Lights out: Campus loses power
It was the most chaotic, yet entertaining thing that I have witnessed here in the last four years, said Chrissy Szaszfai '02, of the four and a half hour blackout that enveloped much of the university in darkness Sunday night from approximately 1 a.m. to 5:30 in the morning.
Ignatian College at Fairfield Takes Flight
The Ignatian Residential College, a unique program designated for the class of 2005 will begin during the Fall 2002 semester. The college will be directed by Rev. Thomas Regan S.J. and Rev. Jim Mayzik and will house all of its students in Loyola Hall.
Changes for Housing Lottery
New changes in the Housing Lottery will result in each student receiving an individual lottery number, whereas in the past each group received one collective number. According to Director of Housing Operations, Gary Stephenson, this change will give students more options in the housing selection process.
Faculty to mobilize against merit pay
An ad hoc committee of the general faculty will meet today in response to the Board of Trustees' vote to impose a merit pay system on the faculty. Chaired by economics professor Kathryn Nantz, the committee, will try to determine the best course of action for the faculty with respect to merit pay.
Third World experience at Fairfield
Imagine traveling to a country where you find that over 95 percent of the population is literate, every village in the country has a doctor and there is no measurable amount of homelessness. Now imagine that country is a third world country in which the sides of buildings are crumbling, the paint peeling off and metal surfaces are covered in rust. According to philosophy professor Joy Gordon, that is exactly what she and eight other faculty members encountered when they traveled to Havana, Cuba over Christmas break.
For townhouses, seven is not a crowd
With an overpopulated amount of underclassmen, Housng Operations may need to expand the number of students living in each townhouse because of the limited dorm space. Tentative plans are for "Four-man" townhouses to increase to five students and seven students will be required to live in "Six-man" houses.