As we senior editors finish our last issue of The Mirror and approach the finish line of our last semester run, there are a few things we hope to see in Fairfield’s future as we leave it behind.
Communication. It’s a popular major in the College of Arts and Sciences, but maybe more importantly, it is a problem between our students and administration. With so many different departments, we’ve noticed in various forms over the past four years that they rarely talk to each other. So many of our current problems would be significantly lessened if everyone just kept each other in the loop.
Problems with Residence Life, Public Safety and Student Affairs are common complaints from many student voices across campus. Authority, intimidation and disappointing accommodations, among other things, strain the relationship between students and authority. While students should not be able to get their way in every circumstance, a mature and decent relationship should be established to ease campus conflicts.
FUSA does not properly function as the mediator between students and administration. Whether students are skeptical that administrators control FUSA, or they are plainly not interested in participating in different programming events, they don’t seem to take advantage of their student government.
Students might not know it, but FUSA is their friend. FUSA has power to speak up and make changes in the politically correct way. Rather than ranting outside Residence Life when you are not granted off-campus housing, voicing your concerns with FUSA is not only a mature way to handle the situation, but a more beneficial one.
Charlie Knights will be taking over Fairfield’s student body and we couldn’t be happier. His extensive FUSA involvement, BCC presence and kind personality are only a few of the many remarkable characteristics of our fellow classmate. We feel confident his leadership next year will not only maintain the progress made this year on campus, but also improve the student involvement and communication through the many great FUSA initiatives offered each semester after.
Charlie told The Mirror last week, “I understand not only the inner working of FUSA, but I also understand from an outsider’s perspective what the students want FUSA to do for them.”
We can only hope you recognize the communication problems between our students and administration, and help to ease these problems and quiet some of the complaining.
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