Opinion

To the Editor: "No student at Fairfield University was affected more by the Sept. 11 attacks than Sharon Hoey, '04. Patrick A. Hoey, Sharon's father and a Port Authority of New York employee, was killed that day." Those are some very bold statements; untrue, but bold.

In response to the article about Sharon Hoey and the 9/11 Memorial Scholarship, it angers me that I attend a university that regularly forgets its responsibility to students in the intangible ways. I refer to that "Jesuit spirit" they expect us to uphold, when clearly so many administrative officials do not.

The time to register for classes is once again drawing near, and as it does, some of Fairfield's commuters may be wondering, "Will I get into the classes I need or want to take?" If you are a full-time student, the answer is, yes, probably. Part-time commuters, however, may feel a strain on their schedules when trying to get into courses.

Seven hundred innocent people were brutally massacred in their village not so long ago. Surely this can't be true... Don't fool yourself. They were murdered in and around El Mozote, El Salvador in 1981. What's even more tragic is that every tax payer has the blood of these victims on their hands.

Well folks, we've already hit a milestone – this is my 10th column! To celebrate, even though I'm a bit long-winded (again), here's three questions of the general variety on el date-o.

Girls seem to be sending in the bulk of the questions, so I'm going to pamper them for this column. Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls I do adore… Why do guys who want to hook up with you act all interested, and then if you turn them down they pretend like you don't even exist? If you were so interested before what's the big deal? --Access denied So they want a little somethin' somethin' and you give them a nothin' nothin', and then they're interest in you is as strong as their interest in PBS pledge drives.

To the Editor: I am writing in response to the article that you wrote last week about FUSA. It might have appeared to some readers that the article gave a tone that FUSA is not motivated this year. This is hardly the case and I think the success of this first month is a perfect example of how motivated FUSA really is.

To the Editor: Being Pakistani, I must be really out of the loop because I had no idea that a lack of makeup on Pakistani women was a stereotype. I found nothing wrong with the article on Benazir Bhutto except for its opening line, which read "Wearing lipstick and eye shadow, Benazir Bhutto is a far cry from the stereotype of the average Pakistani woman.

To the Editor: To those who have voiced disapproval of Don Partyka's comments, "He Said, She Said" is meant to be a joke. It's a way to add some humor to the paper. If you take this article seriously, you take yourselves too seriously. Lighten up, ladies.

Cheers to Andrea Pelano '99 and the Freshman Year Experience program, which hosted a night at the Quick Center last week for Pelano to recount her traumatic story of being sexually assaulted at the beach while an undergraduate. Hopefully the FYE program can use events like these to help freshmen, and in fact all students, take a more serious look at their own development.