Editorial: Cheers + Boos

Cheers to legal beirut tables! Legal or not, beirut tables were always going to be a fixture at Fairfield University. Now that they’re legal, it makes carrying a huge piece of plywood into your house a lot easier…actually it doesn’t make it an easier task, just less suspicious. Along with the legalization of the tables we get the satisfaction of knowing that the university trusts us enough to posses them. All we need now is the tables that were confiscated last year returned and the fines charged for those who owned them refunded. Legalizing the tables also takes the sting out of the other housing policies that remain a burden to townhouse residents such as…

Boos to the confusion over smoking in the townhouses and apartments. At a meeting last week Fred Fetta told us all that smoking was legal in the townhouses and apartments, which was a miscommunication. The policy hasn’t changed, and it’s understandable why the dorms would be smoke-free, but the fire hazard in a townhouse would be about the same as in an actual residence. If we’re trusted to have beirut tables (and all the risks that go along with drunken debauchery) then smoking falls under the same rubric.

Boos to Sodexho wanting to raise food prices (and Cheers to the university turning down many of these price increases). With the 12-meal plan students only receive $100 dining dollars per semester, so spending almost six dollars on a sandwich is pretty steep. Students without meal plans desperately try to save money on food, and with prices on campus only increasing the Stag may find itself losing more business to the butcher at Stop ‘ Shop. Stag prices may be comparable to other universities, but that doesn’t make them affordable to college students. This brings up the question yet again… where exactly is our $38,000 per year going?