Editorials

CHEERS to the increased diversity on campus. Fairfield is certainly making more of an effort to diversify the student body. Programs such as the Student Diversity Grant and organizations such as AHANA are designed not to single out minority students, but as ways to promote awareness to different cultures and racial backgrounds.

We believe that the truest way to define a university is by the quality of the students who attend it and the dedication of the faculty and staff who run it. Without a doubt, this year saw more changes in the administration than any in recent memory, and Fairfield will undoubtedly be a very different place in a few very short years.

The rumors are true. Spam Jam kegs are back. Bill McBain '07, who is the photography editor of The Mirror, has taken on the responsibility of obtaining and signing the temporary liquor license for this year's annual Spam Jam.

Spam Jam is a tradition we've all come to love and look forward to. Conceived as an alternative to the notoriously wild Clam Jam, at its peak one of the most legendary annual parties of the New England academic corridor, Spam Jam is what its name implies: a spoof in itself, a lackluster imitation of the original.

To the Editor: As I read Michael S. Guarnieri's letter to the editor in the April 6 edition of The Mirror, entitled "Creation not 'random and haphazard," there were a couple of things I wanted to point out. I have met several same sex couples that were allowed to adopt children.

University President Fr. Jeffrey von Arx has made it clear to the Fairfield community that he was not and will not be interested in getting a big-name speaker for commencement ceremonies in the future. He is keenly interested in speakers connected to the university in a more intimate way than, say, a politician or entertainer -- the typical fare at most comparable universities.

It takes more than a coach No facet of a leading university gets more national attention than a Division I athletic program. It is for this reason newspapers throughout the country have written about Fairfield's decision not to renew the contract of men's basketball Head Coach Tim O'Toole.

Sophomore Hutchinson Williams won the FUSA presidential election in a landslide victory on Tuesday night. His is a victory on several levels; not only is he only the second rising junior in recent memory to earn the presidential post, but this year's election had the second-highest voter turnout since 1998.

The lower level of the BCC was like a ghost town Tuesday afternoon as FUSA Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates squared off for the traditional debates. Fewer more than 50 students showed up for these most important proceedings, a sample comprising less than 1 percent of the student body.

As students, the laws and rights that we are all used to as citizens of the United States are often very different from those experienced at Fairfield University in the name of bringing "problem" students to justice. As the student handbook states so definitively, "student conduct hearings are not courts of law and formal rules of evidence do not apply.