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Radio station WICC to broadcast from campus Monday

The Citizen Smith program from Bridgeport-based radio station WICC 600 AM will be on campus late Monday afternoon gearing up for Tuesday's Super Primaries. The program, which covers politics, will be broadcast from the Barone Campus Center from 4:00 - 6:45 p.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Alum responds to Bush/Kerry commentary

To the Editor: I am a Fairfield University Alumni who enjoys reading the Mirror but last week's commentary piece by Michael A. Bond troubled me. The questions Mr. Bond raised seem off point in a post-9/11 environment where the major concern isn't about what one did over thirty years ago but about how one will handle the homeland security concerns of this nation.
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How do your favorite profs spend spring break?

While many Fairfield students excitedly await spring break trips to Cancun, Acapulco and Florida, their professors await exciting plans of their own. Sixty-eight members of the university's faculty, staff, security, campus operations, retirees and secretaries are going on a Royal Caribbean cruise to the South Caribbean.
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’50’ and loving it

Stop looking at me, Swan! "The price is wrong, b****!" "Sonny! I want 20 packets of ketchup!" Most of you already know where these quotes come from (and if you don't, drop the paper in your hand and get yourself to Blockbuster already!). These quotes are just a few of the hysterical lines performed by the great Adam Sandler and his recurring entourage of friends.
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THE BOND FILE: The world of politics at F.U.

On The Simpsons Bart is urged to run for class president against Martin, the goody-two-shoes of the fourth grade. Bart's campaign is a steamroller that easily should have won. However, no one, not even Bart himself, remembers to vote. He loses the election 2-0.
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Out with the old, in with the new

After a semester ends, most students forget about their teachers faster than Britney Spears can get married. "What do teachers do after four months of lecturing?" is right up there with "who shot JFK"? Do they moonwalk their way out to the Michael Jackson trial, predict A-Rod's at bats, wait in line for the new U2 CD? There's always that sabbatical in Hawaii.
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LETTER: Fairfield will accomodate pregnant women

To the Editor: Your article "Pregnant Pause: Fairfield's Policy on Expecting Students" (Feb. 12) provided some useful information on a topic that may have been unfamiliar or mysterious to students. Laura Cantrell may, in fact, be right when she says that some faculty members would make few allowances for students who were pregnant.
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LETTER: New technology requires revisit of plagiarism standards

To the Editor: While Dostoyevsky's plot required several hundreds of pages of exquisitely detailed text to examine the complicated motives in Crime and Punishment, last week's news article about student plagiarism is cause for grave concerns. But this story involves real characters as students, faculty, and university administrators are caught in a literal "web" of confusion.