fordhamobserver.coERVERm September 22,2005 Fordham University at Lincolrrtenter Volume XXIV, Issue 2 FORDHAM REACHES OUT TO KATRINA VICTIMS Displaced Gulf $50k relief goal Coast students met, effort will offered a home continue By Lillian Polanco for fall semester Copy Editor By Caroline Ward Contributing Writer FORDHAM—The disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina FORDHAM—In the aftermath has evoked a worldwide effort to of the devastation caused by Hur- assist those affected, and Ford- ricane Katrina in the gulf coast, ham University immediately re- Fordham University has offered sponded. assistance to the displaced stu- Fordham President the Rev. Jo- dents from the area. Fordham is seph M. McShane, S.J., has initi- offering an interim move for stu- ated a fundraiser with $25,000 dents wishing to continue their from the President's Discretion- studies while reconstruction takes ary Fund, which has more than place at their home schools. doubled in less than two weeks. According to Fordham Presi- "Let us, who were helped and dent the Rev. Joseph M. Mc- consoled by the generosity and Shane, S.J., Fordham has received kindness of so many of our fellow approximately 140 applications Manning Billeaud, uncle of Caroline OeJean, FCLC '05, took this photo of Katrina's waters flooding Interstate 10 up to iteoverpasses. ^^ citizens in the aftermath of the from students enrolled in colleges terrorist attacks of 11 September and universities affected by the 2001, resolve to make a differ- disaster. These students are apply- ence in the lives of the survivors ing for enrollment in undergradu- by reaching out to them in their ate, graduate and law schools at COMPLETE HURRICANE KATRINA COVERAGE hour of need," McShane said to 'Fordham. the Fordham community in a writ- According to John Buckley, as- ten statement sistant vice president for under- Opinions: The Fordham community has graduate enrollment, of the ap- successfully met their goal by proximate 140 applications from Editorial: If s up to us to donate both money and time Pg. 6 raising over $60,000 exactly one visiting students, the majority are Bush's response : Pg.7 week after McShane asked the from students from Loyola Uni- Race and Poverty in Katrina's wake pp;. 9 community to match his donation versity in New Orleans, a sister Faculty Comer '. Pg.g on Sept. 5. Fordham will continue Jesuit school. to collect donations, as collection "By the end of last week, the jars can be found throughout the university had enrolled a total of school in the Offices of Student 104 students from the colleges Features: Activities (OSA), Campus Minis- and universities on the Gulf Coast How you can help .-. pg. to' try, Residential Life and Commu- affected by Hurricane Katrina," nity Service. All Funds will be do- McShane said in a written state- nated to the American Red Cross ment to the Fordham community. and Catholic Charities USA. "Of these students, 74 have been Arts & Culture: New Orleans in television and film ..Pg. 17 OSA immediately reached out admitted to our undergraduate to Fordham's student clubs and schools; 28 second- and third- organizations, and is also col- year students have been admitted ' laborating with Global Outreach, to the Law School; one has been Sports: Residential Life and Community admitted to the Graduate Sphool How college and pro teams are being affected Pg. 24 Service in order to continue the of Business; and one has been ad- NCAA relaxes rules for Gulf Coast athletes Pg. 23 efforts of raising money for the mitted to the Graduate School of relief fund. Social Service." NCAA (mostly) deserves credit for its response Pg. 23 Jennifer Mussi, director of stu- "Students were asked to sub- dent activities at Lincoln Center, mit an application along with noted the quick response of the as much academic information student club leaders and their as they qpuld provide under the contribution of ideas on how to circumstances—self-reported Fordham alum reports from the Gulf Coast expedite and facilitate fundrais- data, unofficial or student copies By Caroline Dejean player had already started his I'd seen poor people on roofs ing efforts such as organizing a of records, web-generated tran- Alumni Contributor work for the day, playing "God and their houses submerged, and dance-a-thon and selling t-shirts scripts or course listings," Buck- Bless America." It was such a realized that my own family and and sweat-shirts to donate all pro- ley said. Caroline DeJean, FCLC '05, perfect morning in the French friends were all in the same shoes ceeds to the relief fund. Fordham University School of grew up in Lafayette, LA, two Quarter, so perfect that I almost as the people I was seeing on TV. "We are expecting faculty, staff Law has also received similar hours outside the city of New Or- feel like I should have known On my way back from work on administrators, and students to inquiries from students attending leans. When Hurricane Katrina that it was going to be my last Thursday, a man stopped me at a respond favorably," Mussi said. Tulane University School of Law hit DeJean's hometown and left time there. red light, asking me to roll down "We are a very generous and a and Loyola University School of a path of destruction, she vis- After talking to my sister on my window. I was expecting him very giving community." Law. Fordham is welcoming these ited her family in Lafayette, now Wed., Aug. 31,1 decided that I had to ask for directions, and when he In addition, two banners will be students on the basis that they will home to some of the thousands to go back home. She called me asked, "How is everyone in Loui- placed in the plaza collecting sig- be visiting students and return to of evacuees. DeJean kept a re- and cried for the first time. She'd ' siana doing?" and said, "We're natures of support from the Ford- their home school upon reopen- cord of what she saw. This is her been really strong through the en- all pulling together for you. It's ham community that will be deliv- ing, according to McShane. story. tire storm, and after she shared her going to be okay," I got chills. ered to Fordham's sister schools, Fordham University School of frustrations over having to trans- I'd never been so thankful, and Spring Hill College and Loyola Law has accepted 25 students LAFAYETTE, La.—The last fer colleges, and saying she'd love proud of my Louisiana license University of New Orleans, which from Tulane and Loyola, the two time I was in New Orleans was it if I could send her any clothes plate that my dad had been beg- were affected by the storm. schools shut down by the hurri- the day before I moved to Los I don't wear, I could tell she was ging me to replace since I moved Monetary donations are not the cane, according to Dean William Angeled. < I went Uo Cafe< Du breaking down. That's when the only way to contribute. "While < :-'. ; sceFORDHAMOFfERSpg.03 ,•, Monde ..With' my.sister. A sax i implications • of Katrina hit me. • see ALUMREPORTS In FEATURES,»pg. 14 02 NEWS I September 22,2005 | THE OBSERVER fordhamobserver.com Colleges offer alternatives to illegal downloading By Christina Shanahan so that there would not be traffic INSIDE Contributing Writer s> throughout the day. The age of iPods and digital mu- Deirdre Dillon, project manager THE OBSERVER sic is changing the way students of training and development for view the technology services of- Information Technology Servic- fered on college campuses. Stu- es at FCLC, expressed financial Buying digital tunes dents are no longer satisfied with concern about legal downloading Percentage of persons surveyed who have paid to / LEARN an Internet connection and tele- programs on college campuses. download mus|i from the lnfcemet,by age group: • phone jack, but rather are looking Dillon posed the question of "who for ways to download songs, mu- pays the Napsters of the world," 12-17 years ELEVATOR sic videos and movies at no cost. and said that cost factors into the In order to satisfy students and effectiveness of the downloading 18-24 years prevent piracy on campus, colleg- program. She said that she would ETIQUETTE es, such as American University assume students' technology fees and the University of Rochester, would increase in order to fund 25-34 years are beginning to sign agreements legal downloading, as opposed to Opinions, Pg. 6 with online downloading services the university absorbing the full for students to use. Fordham Uni- cost. versity, however, has not entered A recent article in The Chronicle into negotiations to bring legal of Higher Education highlights 55 years and older «, downloading to campus. the details of American Univer- Fordham's unique location in sity's attempt to control illegal WHEN a city where music and movies downloading and file-swapping. Source: Tempo survey of 1,114 U.S. persons age 12 and older, June 24-28. dominate the culture causes con- In a program offered by American 2004; 2.9% error margin cern about piracy on campus. University's Office of Housing ROOMMATES' Mark McNeil, of Fordham's In- and Dining Programs, the univer- formation Technology Services, sity tested a library of over one said that as far as he knows, there million songs and movies that stu- DISHES have been no discussions of deals dents could obtain from Ruckus, copyright laws. With respect for Tara Williams, FCLC '07, said between Fordham and online an Internet downloading site.