Oh if I could run Fairfield for a day. I think we all know that if Blackberry girl or myself ran this school, well, kegs would be allowed back on campus and we would find a way to open up the Townhouse basements once again. But after allowing the debauchery on weekends to run its course, we should think about what is best for Fairfield as a whole.
1. The Beach: You can’t avoid it. If I want to make money, I would get rid of students living at the beach and increase the price of on campus housing. But we all know that is something Fairfield already does.
For the Fairfield image I can’t disagree that reducing The Beach would be the thing to do (let the hate mail begin). The Beach is great and a tradition of old, but if they can drastically improve on-campus housing I might have to agree. It will be a shame to see it go, but at the end of the day getting all students on campus would improve campus life a lot.
2. Food: I would get rid of the ‘all you can eat’ buffet style food at the cafeteria and switch to the ‘by item’ pricing that Sacred Heart does. It would be nice to be able to get a sandwich to go from Barone with out having to shell $8.00 out at The Stag every time. It is a pain to eat a quick lunch when you have to go all the way up to Barone and sit and eat it there.
Speaking of the sandwiches at The Stag, some uniformity in the sandwich would be nice, having to chose which person I want to help me because I don’t want my sandwich to have one piece of meat would be a nice change.
3. IRHA & FUSA: FUSA is going to like what I have to say for once. Get rid of IRHA; they are just one more group on campus that programs events. Give spring weekend to FUSA and have representatives in dorms. In the end IRHA really does what FUSA does already – program events that nobody goes too. Whoops, FUSA still won’t like what I said.
4. Sports: Let us tailgate with kegs in the parking lots before games just like the lacrosse parents do. The ability to drink means fan support. At big state schools freshmen can be drinking before the game in the open – you can’t want fans and not allow pre-game festivities. Then again, nobody needs some person waving a flag in their face while they are trying to watch.
5. Student Affairs Office: I should really stay away from this office because I would like to graduate. All I will say is I would, as my last act of running Fairfield, insist that Dean Thomas Pellegrino take over the school. He cares about the school and most importantly, the students. Even though he would most certainly close the basements and kick kegs back off campus, I think he would do a great job.
There are many more things I would change about Fairfield, but I would not change majority of the people who work here or the students.
But most importantly if I were inviting seniors to the President’s dinner series, I would have the decency to at least use a form letter that address students by name. It’s seriously three clicks of the mouse to do so, instead they now say ‘Dear Senior.’ Because at the end of the day, when you are running the school you should try to make it seem like you at least like your students.
At the end of the day I love Fairfield. Don’t believe me? Just come to Harbor Yard at 9 p.m. on Friday when we play our foe Sienna, and we shall see.
– Sent from my iPhone
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