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Hurricane Sandy.

Senior year at Fair!eld Beach. Every student released. Point Sat-urdays. "ursday night Nauts. Mind Erasers and Two Dollar Tuesdays at the Grape.

Hurricane Sandy swept in and washed it all away.

As of publication, the approxi-mate 300 students living on the beach are temporarily homeless, many without their clothing and other possessions due to the worst storm in Fair!eld’s history.

In summarizing the attitude of many seniors, Kevin Bachman ’13 asked, “Where are we going to go? Are we even going to have our se-nior year at the beach?”

According to the O#ce of Resi-dence Life, the town of Fair!eld has indicated that all beach houses should be considered uninhabit-able. At this time, there is still no power and extensive $ooding of the beach area, making it impossible for residents to access their homes.

Once the water recedes, the sand must be removed. "en the homes will be surveyed and if deemed structurally sound, resi-dents will be able to enter and gath-er up their belongings. "e time it will take for this process to unfold is unknown. Police o#cials estimate it could be weeks, or even months until seniors can reclaim Fair!eld’s coveted beach lifestyle.

But life must go on. Classes will resume. But where will the beach refugees going to live?

OptionsStudents who live in close proximity to the University are encouraged to commute. Students can live with a friend on campus.Students can rent a space from a local hotel/motel.Students can ask the O#ce of Residence Life for assistance in securing alternate temporary housing, either in residence halls or with faculty, sta%, and alumni who have agreed to host students, or in converted lounge spaces.

Nathan Lubich, assistant direc-tor of Residence Life, described the situation on campus as “not ideal, but feasible and possible.”

On Wednesday, displaced se-niors were sent a survey assessing their needs for on-campus housing. "e University will generate hous-ing assignments Nov. 2 and will then inform the students of where they can live. According to Dean of Stu-dents Karen Donoghue, the seniors will be able to move into their new homes between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday. "ey will hopefully be able to resume some sense of normalcy before classes resume on Monday.

Donoghue also commented on the possibility of lounge spaces be-ing converted into temporary living spaces. Any lounge in a residence hall with access to a private bath-room is being considered. "ese include Loyola Hall, 70 McCormick,

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Yesterday morning, the sun shone down on the Barone Campus Center. Fair!eld University $ags re-claimed their places on light poles campus-wide. "e gardening sta% returned to meticulously caring for the evergreen lawns on campus.

"is scene was in stark contrast against Monday evening at Fair!eld University, when nearly all campus buildings had gone dark and was at the mercy of Hurricane Sandy’s 80 mph winds.

News about Hurricane Sandy, dubbed by some as “Frankenstorm” or “"e Superstorm,” !rst emerged more than a week ago. "e Weather Channel was quick to notify people about its severity and even tweeted that this hurricane “will occupy a place in the annals of weather his-tory as one of the most extraordinary to have a%ected the United States.”

Fair!eld University cancelled Monday and Tuesday classes in prep-aration for Sandy. According to one of many StagAlerts that the Universi-ty had sent out, “all students who can go home are strongly encouraged to do so.” For those who chose to re-main, the school instructed them to stay inside at all times.

According to a campus-distrib-uted survey, around 1000 students waited out the storm on campus.

At approximately 5:30 p.m., the Townhouses lost power. Around 500 residents in the Townhouse complex had to be evacuated via shuttle buses to the BCC, but some students went to stay with friends in the other resi-dence.

Because of its spaciousness, the connecting dining service and couches and furniture, the BCC be-came the main evacuation center during Hurricane Sandy, according to Nathan Lubich, assistant director of Residence Life, who spoke for the o#ce. If the BCC was ever compro-mised, Lubich imagined that they would move students to Alumni Hall.

Some students complained about the evacuation, but Lubich said he understood the circumstanc-es. “It’s really hard for people to be told to just sit and wait.”

But, ultimately, the Resident As-sistants performed “really well,” Lu-bich said. "e RAs, who were asked to remain on campus as “critical em-ployees,” had their radios ready and went on rounds in their halls during the power outage. Public Safety o#-cers also assisted in the patrol.

"e Quad, the Village, Dolan

and Bellarmine all lost power by 7:30 p.m. on Monday, but since the emer-gency lights stayed on, students were allowed to stay in their residences.

From then on was a waiting game for most. Students received Fa-cebook and Twitter updates from the University, Fair!eld Police Depart-ment, !e Mirror, Fair!eld Univer-sity Student Association and Inter-Residential Housing Association.

Twitter also indicated smaller incidents, which happened during the outage. A fallen wire of 13,000 Hertz had caused a small !re on North Benson Road. In Mahan, some students were stuck in an elevator but were eventually freed later on in

the night."en at about 11 p.m., almost

simultaneously, power was restored to all buildings, save for the Town-houses.

Technically, Hurricane Sandy was downgraded to post-tropical cy-clone status around 7 p.m. Despite this change, weather broadcasters had urged people to still take Sandy seriously.

"e damages to the University campus consisted of fallen trees and some smashed cars, but these dam-ages seemed to pale in comparison to those in the town of Fair!eld.

Flooded streets. Houses ripped to their foundations. Trees down across main streets - and that is just in Fair-!eld.

"e devastation felt from Hurri-cane Sandy stretches far beyond North Benson Road, Fair!eld University and Connecticut as a whole.

It has been reported that at least 17 states felt the e%ects of the hur-ricane as it wreaked havoc across the east coast of the United States. "e hardest hit state was New Jersey, where Sandy made its landfall.

According to “NBC News” yester-day, hundreds of thousands of people could be out of power in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey for the next 10 days. It is also estimated that New Jersey alone had $30 billion worth of damage, as the shoreline has been swept away by the storm.

In an article from !e Associated Press, in which they followed residents from New Jersey as they headed back to their houses, the reactions from the inhabitants illuminated the general feeling of Jersey residents.

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Not even a hurricane could come between Halloween and the roughly 1000 students who re-mained on campus.

After days of limited activ-ity, campus came alive again on Wednesday evening with a variety of University-sponsored events to keep the remaining students on campus occupied and entertained during Halloween.

"e biggest event on campus was “Karaoke Night” at the Levee, which doubled as a Halloween party complete with a costume con-test. Although the night started out casually with about 30 students in attendance, the bar soon became crowded with students by around 10:30 p.m.

“We’re regulars here,” said Bri-anna Levick ’15, who attends kara-oke night every Wednesday with her teammates on the Fair!eld softball team. “We do like !ve songs a night.” "is time, however, Levick and her teammates were in costume, trying to make the most of their Halloween

in spite of the weather.But many other students at

the Levee were not as frequent par-ticipants of karaoke night as Levick and her teammates. A large number

of attendees were displaced beach and Townhouse residents looking for something to do.

Senior Kristin Alexy is one stu-dent who lives in the Townhouses

and said that, although she would not normally attend karaoke night, the Halloween event was a nice way to break up the boredom following Sandy. “Since I’m not allowed to go

back to the Townhouse, it’s nice to get out of the BCC and stop crashing on people’s couches,” Alexy said.

Bartender Gabriel Sacco ‘13 noted the increased volume of students at the Levee Wednesday night, which he attributed to both the holiday and the hurricane. “[It’s busy] because it’s Halloween, there’s a costume contest tonight, but also the hurricane de!nitely a%ected it because the Grape’s not open,” Sacco said, referring to the popular o%-campus bar.

Beach resident Matthew Cole-man ‘13 was one of the many dis-placed upperclassmen who ended up at the Halloween party and had similar thoughts to Sacco. Coleman said about the Levee: “It’s the new Grape.”

As if to live up to its new title, the Levee transformed into a scene reminiscent of the movie “Animal House” by around 11 p.m. With beer $ying everywhere and costumed undergrads singing and chanting while standing on the pool table, chairs and stage, the Levee began

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Campion Hall, Claver Hall and 42 Bellarmine. She stressed that two friends will always be placed togeth-er, leaving no one to have to move in with complete strangers. “It’s a team e%ort”, she said, to get the University back in operation and to have the se-niors situated in their new homes.

Even Fair!eld University Presi-dent Fr. Je%rey von Arx, S.J., is getting involved in the team e%ort. He will house four students temporarily in his house located right o% campus. In times of disaster, the President and students are working together to move forward.

"is temporary housing will be free of charge to the displaced se-niors. "e University is also working with Sodexo to o%er a dining plan with reduced rates for the rest of the fall semester. While the new liv-ing situation may not be complete with all amenities, at least the senior class will not be homeless.

Landlord/Tenant RelationshipMany seniors are left question-

ing what is going to happen with the money they have paid their land-lords. Many pay rent by semester, leaving roughly two months of rent paid for when they are not actually living there. "en there is the ques-tion of the security deposit. Will renters get this money back?

Most beach residents were un-aware that they could get renter’s insurance for their homes. Renter’s

insurance with $ood coverage may cover any charges incurred at a rental o% campus, such as a hotel.

Senior Patrick Mingle, resident of Franklin’s Tower, has renter’s in-surance for his home. He said it was originally his father’s idea to pur-chase insurance. “When I bought it, I never thought something like this would happen.” He said his in-surance will cover up to $12,000.

Lubich advises students to look closely at their lease to under-stand their rights and responsibili-ties. Some student’s have certain obligations regarding $ooding worked into their leases. Bach-man’s lease states that renters will be reimbursed a speci!c dollar amount for charges if they decide to stay in a hotel while unable to live in his house.

What students can be reim-bursed for is unique for every lease, so it is crucial to review the terms of the lease. Questions should be made directly to landlords.

Student ReactionsSeniors Matt Nardella and

Nick Biagi, both residents of "e Laughing Cow, have had very few conversations with their landlord. "ey do not have renter’s insurance and are wondering what is going to happen with their security deposit. "eir house is severely damaged, with the deck completely torn up and about two feet of water in their !rst $oor at the time of the storm.

Like many other seniors,

Nardella evacuated his house with only the necessities. He wonders how the University will expect him to do his work without his books or his computer.

He is also concerned about his living situation in the weeks to come: “As a senior, my sophomore cousin is going to have a better liv-ing situation than I am.”

Senior Michael Lanigan’s house, "e Frozen Shamrock, is located all the way down Fair!eld Beach Road. Seeing some of his neighbor’s houses fall into the Sound put the situation many se-niors are in into perspective. “Los-ing the back wall of our garage, having two feet of sand on our !rst level, and missing a couple win-dows on the Sound side now seems silly compared to the damage our neighbors endured.”

"e storm surge ripped the whole bottom porch o% Paige Man-acek’s house, the Shangri La, leav-ing the upper porch luckily still standing. “It’s just awful that this is what many people’s senior year has come down to”, she says. “I person-ally don’t want to live in Gonzaga or any other dorm again.” She un-derstands that the University is in a tough situation to try to !nd hous-ing for the seniors, but is optimistic about returning to the beach once her house is repaired.

One of the most recognizable houses located on the Lantern Point deck is the Vatican, which is now missing the entire front wall.

Vatican resident Kevin Reda ‘13 said, “"ere was a lot more damage than I ever thought was possible.” "ey hope to one day return to their house, but for now will be placed in on-campus housing.

“I feel that Dr. Reed, Dr. Pel-legrino, Dean Donoghue, and the O#ce of Residence Life have been working very hard to help students !nd housing,” he said. “It is an un-precedented situation for the Uni-versity to try and house that many seniors, but I really appreciate the e%orts they are making.”

Moving ForwardVice President for Student Af-

fairs "omas C. Pellegrino is con!-dent that the short term and inter-mediary plans will meet the needs of the beach student population. Looking ahead “involves looking at how weather events such like this are becoming much more com-mon place and how we will need to continually adapt our processes and infrastructure to respond to them.”

Most seniors are optimistic about the future and hope to re-turn to their houses once they are repaired, even if this means waiting until second semester.

While the Class of 2013‘s se-nior year at the beach may have been temporarily swept out to sea, Bachman urged his classmates to come together and remember that “at least we’re all in the same boat.”

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bomb went o% here. "ere’s almost no-body here; it looks like tumbleweeds are rolling down the street,” New Jer-sey resident Barbara Montemarano said to !e Associated Press.

Fellow New Jersey native Dennis Cucci also said: “We’re running out of clean clothes. "is is the last pair of dry shoes I have. It took the storm two days to wreck all this, and it’s going to take well over a year to recover from it.”

"e Jersey Shore, and most spe-ci!cally Bergen Point, experienced the largest storm surge at 14.6 feet. It was exactly waves like that which caused such devastation to the coastline.

"e storm hit the shore on Sun-day night into Monday and worked its way up to Connecticut by late Monday afternoon. Aside from New Jersey, New York City and especially Manhat-tan were hit hard by the hurricane.

What followed the wind and rain added more to the crazy weather phenomenon that was already be-ing called “Frankenstorm.” Hurricane Sandy started to produce snow at the tail end of the storm, and it wasn’t just

trace amounts. In Tennessee, snow added up to 34 inches.

Extreme weather has been less than extraordinary in recent years, but this past week has been a bit crazier than most would expect. On Sunday, Oct. 28, when Hurricane Sandy was threatening the east coast, a 7.7 mag-nitude earthquake hit the west coast of Canada. "e earthquake caused a tsunami warning in Hawaii, where waves peaked at !ve feet in the !rst 45 minutes of the warning.

People across the country are wondering if these extreme weather events are signs of global warming.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke out saying: “"ere’s only so long you can say, ‘this is once in a lifetime and it’s not going to happen again.’”

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“It’s just sadness. It looks like a bomb went o% here.”-Barbara Montemarano,

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kicking out students and shutting down just before midnight.

A couple of residence halls also held their own programs for those who decided to stay away from the Levee on Wednesday night. Regis Hall hosted a Halloween-themed “What’s Good Wednesday,” a week-ly community-building gathering that included food, costumes and a movie. Jogues Hall also screened the movies “Hocus Pocus” and “Crazy Stupid Love,” while the Resident Assistants in 70 McCormick went door-to-door handing out candy to the residents who remained in the building.

With many of the students gone, the Quad remained much quieter than previous Halloweens, according to Residence Life sta% members. But the same cannot be said for the campus in general. Resident Assistants (RA) were busy breaking up parties in the Village and Dolan throughout the night, and eyewitnesses reported multiple students transported to local hospi-tals.

In an attempt to dissuade stu-dents from partying on Halloween, Vice President for Student A%airs "omas Pellegrino had sent out an email to students early Wednesday evening addressing previous be-havior during the storm.

Pellegrino wrote that he was “both surprised and disappointed” by some students who treated the

hurricane as “an opportunity to get drunk--drunk to the point of requir-ing medical assistance from Public Safety and ultimately an ambulance ride to a local hospital.”

Pellegrino then urged students to act responsibly and assured that “deviations from this most reason-able standard of behavior [would] be met with a heightened response from the University.”

After Halloween night’s she-nanigans, Associate Director of the Department of Public Safety Frank Ficko also commented on the irre-

sponsibility of the Fair!eld students who participated in dangerous drinking during the storm and its aftermath.

“"e !rst responders have re-ally been taxed by this storm, and they don’t want to have to answer unnecessary calls,” Ficko said. “"ese guys have been needed elsewhere and have been working double and triple shifts.”

Ficko went on to say that re-quiring ambulance drivers and other !rst responders to attend to Fair!eld students who did not

make responsible choices on Hal-loween night meant taking help away from Fair!eld residents still trying to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

In response to the events of Halloween night, Residence Life has issued strict rules regarding partying on campus this weekend.

All students were encouraged to go home if at all possible. For those who chose to remain, a zero tolerance policy has been placed on disruptive gatherings and irre-sponsible consumption of alcohol,

regardless of the drinkers’ age.“…if you have a loud room/

apartment this weekend and there is alcohol present, even if you are 21 or older, we will be dumping out all of the alcohol in the room,” Daniel Santaniello ‘13, the Village Senior RA wrote in an email to his residents.

Santaniello went on to say that the need to enforce this rule is regrettable, but Residence Life has been “forced to do so by events that have taken place on campus.”

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Friday, 10/26

2:44 p.m. – A Fairfield College Preparatory School student in-volved in a rollover accident on North Benson Road was sent to St. Vincent’s Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. DPS was called by Fairfield Police to assist in the incident.

8:24 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. – Six separate incidents of alcohol vio-lation resulted in Student Conduct referrals.

Sunday, 10/28

1:56 a.m. – A RA requested that DPS assist in an incident in which a unregistered guest was being uncooperative. The person was arrested for interfering with an officer and tres-passing.

2:48 a.m. – A student reported to DPS that their iPhone had been stolen at a Townhouse party. No suspects have been identified.

Another student reported that two Macbooks were stolen from their room in the Village.

5:11 p.m. – DPS is investigating an incident where a student was assaulted in between the Levee and the Village and re-quired medical attention.

8:39 p.m. – ResLife requested DPS assistance with an uncoop-erative student who was then referred to Student Conduct.

11:14 p.m. – One non-student broke a window in the Village while in a dispute with a female student.

3:56 a.m. – One person was referred to Student Conduct for a narcotics violation in the Townhouses.

Campus Crime Beat

*If you have information about any the these incidences, please contact the Department of Public Safety.*

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Next Tuesday morning Fair!eld was in a state of emergency with over 97 percent of residents without power. Streets and homes su"ered severe #ooding. Some roads were blocked by broken branches.

Because of road blockages and the power outage, for example, FPD had used the University Department of Public Safety radio frequencies to collaborate on responding to nearby damage, including the short-lived !re on North Benson Road.

Nationally, the statistics showed even more dire consequences. On Tuesday, approximately 8 million people were without power.

As of $ursday evening, CNN indicated the death toll in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean was at 157. $e cost of economic damage is at an estimated $20 billion, with some news reporting that it could possibly amount to $50 or $60 bil-lion.

However, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Fair!eld Universi-ty moves forward with the resilience to overcome future di%culties.

$e next day, Barone Campus Center Dining Hall provided full service to displaced Townhouse and Beach area residents and other stu-dents, an act that proved to Lubich the attempt to return to normality.

“Every crisis brings with it its own unique circumstances, and Hurricane Sandy was no excep-tion. With that said, our approach is to keep students and community

members safe, through best prac-tices and through clear and timely communications,” Vice President of Student A"airs $omas Pellegrino said.

Dolan resident Amanda La-Mattina ‘14 approved of the safety measures the University had under-taken during the crisis. “I personally felt safer there than going home. My parents actually encouraged me to stay here. I can honestly say that after the hurricane I was a lot better o" staying here than going home,” she said.

Similarly, Sarah McHugh ‘15

said she felt safe because “when the power went out and this storm was going on I was surrounded by my friends.”

Junior Nicole Juliano, a Town-house resident who stayed in McInnes Hall while the evacuation had been underway, said of her current situation: “$e townhouses not having power is frustrating but I can’t really complain because there are students who lost their homes completely. I’ve been staying with friends in Mahan and McInnes and we’re allowed back to our houses during the day.”

Juliano and Lubich said that the University had done a good job with keeping student up-to-date during and after the storm. Parents on Facebook found the University updates to be helpful.

On the Fair!eld University Fa-cebook page, Lisa Fescoe Petrama-le, who has a son enrolled, wrote: “$ey’re doing a fantastic job so far for the safety of all.” Another parent, Suzanne Taves, resided in California and said she “ really appreciated the updates.”

Townhouse resident Rob Gar-rone ‘14 also believed the University

did its best in response to the hurri-cane, but still had criticism for some of the school’s procedures.

“I think the university is being a little heavy-handed in its response to the storm in this instance,” said Garrone. “I could easily be sleep-ing in my bed in my townhouse in the dark at night instead of being in someone else’s room, inconvenienc-ing my friends and other guests like the beach residents who really do need a place to stay. I’m not afraid of the dark.”

Pellegrino also pointed other areas of improvement during natu-ral disaster responses: “In terms of what could have been done better, I think there would be opportunity for us to streamline our communi-cations and see to it that we were meeting reasonable expectations in terms of clarity and timeliness. $at’s always something that can be worked on.”

Fair!eld University is eager to move on. “‘Tireless e"orts’ is a term that gets thrown around a lot, but in this instance, these people have very much worked around the clock this past week adjusting to the needs of an extraordinarily di%cult situation,” he said.

Pellegrino said: “Su%ce to say, though, that these are going to be continually challenging times. We will be there for the students, and I think the level of support received from all sectors of the University has already reaped rewards.”

“As a Jesuit institution, Fair!eld does this better than most,” he said.

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"e storm we have just endured was unprec-edented. We remember it now, and we’ll tell the story to our grandchildren in this same way: It was 5:30 p.m., and everyone’s Facebook status-es went negative. "e emotional barometer of our news feeds changed from ‘excited’ to ‘anx-ious’ to ‘frightened.’

For days (a very long unit of time by social media standards), we saw it all; witty memes about the oncoming storm, cell phone pictures of empty store shelves and even legitimately in-formative tweets.

In short: our newest cultural phenomenon !nally met the national disaster test this past week. Facebook and Twitter were around for Katrina, but these mediums have grown up a bit now. "e surge of debris in the digital world could seem almost as widespread as that in the physical one. We learned of damage on campus and at the beach before we even saw it with our own eyes – and we live here!

With this kind of immediacy, it almost seems natural that Fair!eld emailed us at least twice a day throughout the incident with barely updated information. "e issue is: A fallen tree is a simple happening, and the existence of a school day carries a lot more weight – too much to be handled by twitter-like quantities of updates. Our cross-town rivals (dare we say) got it right with the week’s cancellation notice from the start. "e fate of our Fair!eld lives, however, was left in suspense numerous times.

But some emails were worth the e#ort because the student body has done wrong as well. We don’t think it will ever be written in this editorial column that drinking is bad, but we !nd it hard to accept the reality of drunken students being hospitalized during this particular week. If you disagree, think about how strict authorities on campus have vowed to be this weekend when the other 2/3 of campus !nally returns – just because of a bad few.

Keeping emergency crews from the sever-ity plaguing the world outside our thankfully spared campus with intoxication is just embar-rassing.

Email away, Vice President Fitzpatrick; no !reman should have to tend to vomit as houses crumble in the sandy wake.

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I met Hurricane Sandy with giddy anticipation. I bought a keg, picked up a few good books and screamed obscenities into the wind, daring Mother Nature to do her worst.

In honor of my request, Sandy doubled down and curb stomped the East Coast. To say I was woefully unprepared is an understatement. "e keg was kicked before the storm even ar-rived and the taps at the Levee were shut o#, a true college night-mare.

By the time Sandy sauntered into town, my house on Reef Road was already starting to -ood. "e extent of the damage is yet to be seen but it’s a safe assumption that none of the Fair!eld Beach residents are getting home any-time soon. So what’s a kid to do?

For those of you who decided to stay on campus like me you know that most people at the university have been running around like chickens with their heads cut o#. Fair!eld University gets an A for e#ort

with the StagAlerts but the content of those texts hasn’t been helpful in addressing the elephant in the room.

Whoever is running Fair!eld’s communications network really needs to brush up on his or her crisis management playbook.

Any crisis management pro-fessional worth their salt would tell you that in the aftermath of a crisis the most import thing to do is “Answer the First Question” for all impacted parties. For sta# this question is: "Do I have work?" For underclassmen and students liv-ing on campus the question is: "Do I have classes?" "e question for seniors at the Beach is: "Where the hell am I going to live? "

To be fair, the University ad-dressed the concerns of sta# and students living on campus quickly. What they have not done e.cient-ly, as of Wednesday night, is ad-dress the needs of those living o# campus.

During the storm all students without a place to stay were told to sleep in the BCC. "e problem was there were no sleeping arrange-ments. No cots, no blankets, noth-ing to dispel the dread of those

students seeking asylum from the storm.

Now that the storm has passed, the housing survey going around is sloppy and slow. It completely fails to address the immediate situation with anything other than "go home or !nd a hotel." As a student who is paying full tuition I !nd that o#en-sive. I’m from New Jersey; I can’t go home and I’m sure others are in a similar position.

"e other thing that needs to be addressed is how teachers are handling the situation. Pointing to the class cancellation policy on your syllabus and telling mis-placed students to keep with the readings when most of them lost their books is frustrating.

I understand teachers' inten-tions to e#ectuate a return to nor-mality but in our current situation that just isn't possible. I know that Hurricane Sandy wasn't included in anyone's lesson plans but ignor-ing it and going about business as usual is ludicrous.

Teachers and students need to work together to make the rest of this semester work and that's going to take some compromise from both sides of the table.

Distance may be one of the most challenging obstacles to over-come while abroad. It is not easy, but it becomes increasingly di.cult when there is a tragedy back home like Hurricane Sandy. Currently Lantern Point is destroyed, New Jer-sey is -oating somewhere out in the Atlantic, New York City is the new Venice and all of us are stranded in Europe feeling helpless and discon-nected.

Although being abroad has its many advantages, one of the down-falls is the di.culty of staying up-to- date on what is happening at home. Ted de Nicola, a junior at DePauw University studying in Rome, was unaware of the severity of the storm until 1 a.m. Tuesday morning when the 'superstorm' struck.

“We turned on the TV in the

lounge and saw the hurricane hit-ting. I immediately called my mom,” said de Nicola, “I saw Manhattan getting drenched, a crane hanging by a thread and the death toll was at six people. My !rst thoughts were my big sister, who just moved into Manhattan.”

Because of massive power out-ages, many students have had trou-ble contacting family and friends. Information is limited to us abroad, leaving many worried and uneasy. "ose who are fortunate enough to have family with power, or able to reach power outlets, have been able to communicate via email, video chat, or social networks. Some have not been able to reach their families, leaving them very much in the dark about the situa-tions of their hometowns.

“I’m just worried considering I’ve barely talked to my parents and my cousin is actually in a hospital

on LI cause she just had a baby,” said Maria Manis '14 who is current-ly studying in London, England.

"e storm was so damaging it has left many students in disbelief. Despite the hundreds of Fa-cebook statuses, Twitter updates, and pictures uploaded,

many students are

still having a hard time grasping what has just happened to the East Coast.

“I just can’t process it,” said Craig Hawkins, a junior at Boston College studying in Florence. Hawk-

ins’ family owns a house in Point Pleasant, N.J.

and described a horrifying scene of houses in his beach

neighborhood be-ing entirely swept to sea. He described, “"e bay and the ocean converg-ing,” and many of the local businesses having

burned down during the storm. Hawkins closed by

saying, “I’ve seen the videos and the pictures, I’ve spoken to peo-ple, but it hasn’t really hit me and I know it won’t until I’m back home.”

Others have had the dam-ages hit home thousands of miles away. "is disaster has stressed many and left others in a whirl-wind of emotions. Some students

feel helpless and even remorseful about how far they are away from their loved ones.

“It’s almost like I feel guilty, being here in Italy, enjoying Flor-ence and only worrying about how cold its going to be each day while everyone is back home in the states with windows boarded up, no pow-er, -ooded basements and streets,” said Kelsey Dumond '14.

For those of us who have been fortunate enough to experience a semester abroad, we have also been presented with this harsh burden of the reality that is this natural disaster.

Although we are trying to en-joy our time here, the general con-sensus of the students abroad is that although we cannot be home with you helping assess the physi-cal and emotional damage, our thoughts and hopes are still with you.

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Perceiving the Sandy disaster from abroad

Students stay positive during the beginning of the storm by having a slip-n-slide. Have an opinion about student activities during Hurricane Sandy? Have an opinion about something else?

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Despite the Hurricane, it was Halloweekend this weekend. What was the best costume you ever had?

Women's soccer and .eld hockey head to their conference cham-pionships this weekend. How will they do?

/e New York Marathon is still going to be run this weekend. How do you think you'd do in a marathon?

As it is Halloween, scary movies have been playing all weekend long. What's your favorite scary movie?

Hurricane Sandy took its toll this weekend/week. What did you do during the storm?

I found myself stuck in a library. ,en my friend got blood poisoning so I had to -ght o. some wolves on a cargo ship for penicillin ... ,en I saw I'm not Jake Gyllenhaal.

Field Hockey shocks the conference and wins it all! And women's soccer takes the trophy back from Marist! ,e women are going to bring the hard-ware back to Fair-eld.

Haha. I'm going to quote my boy Kanye here and say: "When I breathe on the track I asthma attack it ... " because I have asthma ... and would die trying that...

I'm going to say it's either when I was a witch at a month old or a sun/ower at age three. ,e latter was around the last time I went trick or treating. I don't want to talk about it ... :(

I'm going to say the one where the demon haunts the family who just moved into a new house. And then a whole bunch of spooky and creepy stu. happens. You know what one I mean ... right?

,ankfully, I didn't pay attention to the no-candle rule because candles came in handy when Sandy hit. We told ghost stories and made the most out of the lack of water.

I've always said women's soccer will win, and now that the lads will be there to support them, there's no way they'll lose. Big weekend for the Stags.

Apparently there is a wall you run into about 5 miles from the -nish line. I would have run into that wall 0.1 miles into it, realizing I still have 20 more to go ... must suck to run.

Being from New Zealand, I don't really celebrate Hal-loween, but I doubt anyone can beat the Bruno out-t I did one night - despite it being unintentional ...

Honestly, "Casper" when Iw was 5. ... It was horrible. ...

,ere was a hurricane? But really, my apartment has turned into "Hotel Rwan-da" for Townhouse people. Still waiting for Nick Nolte to drop o. some supplies.

Isn't half of NYC under water? So let's throw all the participants a bike and call it a triathalon. Either way, I'll do the -rst mile before hitting the nearest Dunkin'.

,is weekend I was a guy wearing a bath robe and a cowboy hat, and that got lots of love. Still love my old red Power Ranger costume though.

Anybody who hasn't seen ",ankskilling" is missing out on the cinematic experience of a lifetime. Anything by Ste-phen King is also genius. ,ey all /oat!

For our Hurricane Sandy edition, we've added one more contributor - Jeannine Nocera '15. Enjoy!

Because they like to talk ... sports.

Women's soccer has this in the bag, but -eld hockey's got a tough test. But hey, if Lehigh can beat Duke in the tournament, then these girls can upset UNH.

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I was locked in the Mirror o1ce watching "Paranor-mal Activity," hiding from pub-safe and Toby. If you don't know Toby, consider yourself lucky.

Please! ,e ladies are gon-na take down the house and bring back the titles. Without a doubt! And if not, in my heart they did already. <3

Well, seeing that my 5k time is a record-setting 30 min-utes, I'd say I'd beat every-one running this backwards - not to toot my own horn or anything.

Pikachu. I mean, who doesn't love that little yel-low mouse. It doesn't help that when I sneeze, I sound like him attacking some-one with his thundershock.

Why would I ever have a favor-ite scary movie? I'm terri-ed of everything, like "IT" and "Chuckie" and unicorns and rainbows, but my best friend Toby hates "Sex and the City."

Canisius struck early, but the Stags erased the deficit in the second half. Senior Nuno Rodrigues tied the game at one in the 66th minute with a shot from inside the penalty area.

In the 82nd minute, Jordan Ayris ’15 scored the game-winner from 12 yards out.

Senior goalkeeper Michael O’Keeffe made nine saves in the win and kept the Stags in the game against Niagara as well.

The game turned out to be the Stags’ last MAAC game of the season, as their final two games against Siena and Marist were can-celled due to Hurricane Sandy.

Cross Country

Cross Country trav-eled to the MAAC Cham-pionship in ESPN Wide World of Sports in Disney on Saturday.

Both the men and the

women finished in fifth overall and fell to the first place team, Iona.

In the men’s race, Connor Kelley ’15 was the first Stag across the line in 13th place and with an 8k time of 25:52.47. Junior Howie Rosas was the sec-ond Stag to finish in 15th place overall. This was the first time that two Stags have finished in the top 15 of the MAAC Champion-ship.

The next across the line for the men was John Lobo ’14 followed by Bri-an Cleary ’14. Senior Kyle Short and Jake Ruskan ‘15 rounded the top seven out for the Stags.

On the women’s side, Maureen Crimmins ’15 was the first Stag in a decade to earn All-MAAC honors from the MAAC Champi-onship.

Crimmins had a personal best 6k time of 22:28.92, which put her across the line in 13th place overall.

The top seven on the women’s side all finished

with personal best times, which propelled the Stags to a fifth place finish, which is one spot up from last season.

Following Crimmins, Sam Goodnow ’13 was the next Stag across the line with a time of 22:59.21. Cate Forte ‘15, Margaret MacKenzie ‘15 and Dan-ielle Renzi ‘15 followed her.

Junior Hillary Maxson and Kelsey Murphy ‘15 fin-ished out the top seven.

Twelve Stags were honored on the MAAC All-Academic Team, to add to the honors. On the wom-en’s side, it was Juli Bassett ’14, Danica Ceballos ’14, Kerry Hamilton ’13, Max-son, Renzi and Meghan Sullivan ’13.

On the men’s side, All-Academic honors were awarded to Matt Boley ’13, Greg Chase ’13, Cleary, Kelley, Ruskan and Short.

The Stags will next co-host the NCAA Region-als at Hammonasset State Park in Madison, CT.

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Women's soccer earns MAAC title

!e Fair"eld volleyball team won the "nal three sets in their match last Saturday against Iona, defeating the Gaels 3-2 and im-proving their winning streak to four straight matches.

!e Stags got down early in the "rst set, but with Iona on set point, Fair"eld mounted a mini rally and tied the score at 24 apiece. Both teams traded points before Iona eventually pulled away to take the set 29-27.

In the second set, Fair"eld turned the tables, this time going up by three and within striking distance of taking the set. But the Gaels rallied to tie the score, and again the teams traded points be-fore Iona took advantage of Fair-"eld’s 12 attack errors in the set to win the set, 26-24.

“I think it was our mental er-rors as opposed to anything else … at pretty inopportune moments,” said Kara Reis ‘13, who "nished the match with 34 digs, tying the Fair"eld single match record. “And I think that’s what made us lose the energy that we had in the next three [sets].”

Head Coach Alija Pittenger saw her team as being too “cau-tious” in the "rst two sets. “We’re the type of team that makes a lot of errors, but on top of that we get a lot of kills, so we can’t let those er-rors get us down, because then it’s a rough gameplan.”

“I told them [during halftime]that they have to "ght, and not

worry so much about messing up, because it gets into their heads. Sometimes when they make an er-ror, then they’re concerned about making another error on top of it.”

With their backs up against the wall in the third set, the Stags jumped out to an early 8-2 lead. Iona did rally to bring the score within two, but Fair"eld rebound-ed to win 25-21. !e fourth set started o# even, but with the help of a 9-2 run, the Stags took charge of the set for another 25-21 vic-tory.

With momentum on their

side, the Stags cruised to win the "fth and "nal set 15-5, as the Fair-"eld defense only allowed for two Iona kills.

“We really had to win this game, and I think that just had me driving and pushing myself,” said Brianna Dixion ’13, who led the Stags in kills with 19 and had a sea-son high 17 digs. “!is is a game I knew we could win and it all comes down to mental errors … When we came out [from halftime], we came out a lot harder.

“!e last time we played them, we got killed in three sets, and it

was all on mental errors. … Today we saw ourselves going down that same path, and we said ‘No, this isn’t going to happen again, we’re ending it right now.'"

Pittenger called the game “ugly," but was proud of her team for "ghting throughout the match.

“!ere were de"nitely times when they could’ve given up, but they decided not to. !ey did a great job "ghting through that.”

!is is the "rst time this sea-son that Fair"eld has comeback from a 2-0 de"cit to win the match. Earlier this season, the Stags lost

to Canisius 3-2 after gaining a 2-0 advantage. Last season, the team came back from the same de"cit twice, against Siena and Canisius, both on the road.

“It’s hard losing the "rst two, and then "nding the drive and the "ght to win the next three, and it’s something that our team has and we do really well,” said Reis. “We rely on each other if we need to, and we can pick each other up and make each other play harder, which is a huge reason we were able to come back and win in "ve [sets].”

!ree other Stags in addition to Dixion had double-doubles on the afternoon. Junior Rachel Ro-mansky had her "fth consecutive double-double, giving her 14 total on the season, posting 45 assists and 11 digs. Sophomore Carsen Mata had her "rst double-double of her career, with a career-high 19 assists along with 15 digs, and Ni-cole Marzik ’16 had 11 kills and 10 digs for her second double-double on the year.

!e win brings Fair"eld’s re-cord to 16-8 on the season, featur-ing an 11-3 mark in conference. !e Stags are currently tied with Niagara and Canisius for "rst place in the MAAC, and will host both teams next weekend, Nov. 10 and 11peni, for a shot at sole posses-sion of "rst place.

Fair"eld plays their "nal four games of the regular season at home, as Rider University comes to Alumni Hall this Saturday at 2 p.m., and Loyola comes this Sun-day at 2 p.m. as well.

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Women's Soccer

The Fairfield University Women’s Soccer Team has won a share of the MAAC Regular Season Title, and they did it with style.

With a 5-0 win over Manhat-tan on Sunday, the Stags (11-5-2, 8-1-0 in conference) won their first regular season title since 2002, a title they are sharing with Marist.

Senior Lauren Reilly scored her first career hat trick in the 5-0 win, with the other two tal-lies coming from Shannon Fay ’14 and Erin Pettersen ’15.

In the match, Fairfield played three goalkeepers, who combined to earn the team’s 10th shutout of the season. Sopho-more Kathleen Early started in

net and was not forced to make a save. Redshirt Freshman Veron-ica Saez started in the second half and made three saves before being replaced by Sophia DeVita ’16, who finished off the game.

The Stags also pulled out a thrilling win on senior night on Friday night against Saint Pe-ter’s.

Junior Stephanie Sutherby scored the game winner for the Stags eight minutes into over-time. The Stags had outshot the Peacocks 33-3 in the contest and held the statistical advantage throughout the game.

Also, on Thursday, the MAAC announced their post-season awards, in which the Stags were honored with 18 awards.

Senior Allison Walsh was named MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, after captaining the defense that had a shutout per-centage of 55.6, which was 19th best in the nation. The defense

allowed just 15 goals, making a .80 goals-against average.

Walsh is the second con-secutive Defensive Player of the Year for the Stags and only the third ever.

Coach Jim O’Brien was also honored by the MAAC as Coach of the Year, the first time he was honored with the award. O’Brien led the Stags to their seventh MAAC regular season title.

Three Stags were also named to the First Team All-MAAC. They were Reilly, Walsh, and redshirt junior Nikki Stan-ton. Sophomore Megan O’Brien and Pettersen were named to the All-MAAC Second Team.

Freshman Emily Wieczorek was also honored as a member of the All-MAAC Rookie Team.

The Stags head to the MAAC Tournament as the second-seed and will play their first game against third-seeded Loyola on Friday at 5:00 p.m. With a win, they will go on to play with Marist

or Iona in the finals at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday to see who will make the NCAA Tournament.

Men’s Soccer

The Stags split their games on a weekend long trip to play Canisius and Niagara. On Friday night, the Stags fell short to Ni-agara in overtime.

Three minutes into the over-time period, Niagara’s Bryan Da Cruz scored the game-winning goal. The goal and the loss knocked the Stags out of post-season contention.

However, the Stags won their second game of the week-end against Canisius, 2-1.

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