Daily Archives March 24, 2004

College students are likely to be targeted more often, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said during an online press conference. With the filing of another 532 lawsuits Tuesday, the RIAA has included for the first time college students, numbering 89 in total from 21 different colleges.

Sean Reilly '05, a Fairfield business student studying abroad in Florence, Italy for the semester, has been injured after an accident in Barcelona, Spain and is currently in critical condition at a hospital there. The Summit, N.J. resident was visiting Barcelona independent of any university program for spring break when the accident occurred.

Fairfield University has many perks. Below, we have outlined just a few of the countless benefits of attending this institution (in no particular order). Please note, this is for entertainment purposes only and is not meant to be taken seriously. 1. The constantly failing internet connection.

As Spring Break passes us by, we are again confronted by the harsh reality that is college life. Once more, we return to last minute cramming, borderline poisonous food and unpleasant communal bathrooms. Nevertheless, for the sophomore class, these final few weeks in particular are a time of anxiousness.

The latest chapter in the deterioration of faculty-administration relations reared its ugly head recently when the Faculty Welfare Committee hired an independent economist to evaluate the university's finances. Perhaps this ongoing struggle between our school's faculty and administration began four years ago, when the administration began the process of imposing "merit pay" upon a resistant faculty.

Ever since the launch of the original Napster, college students have become increasingly reliant on getting their music fixes from the Internet. While many of the original services were illegally allowing trading of copyrighted materials, a quickly increasing number are offering legal alternatives.

More so than any other band, Weezer fans tend to be obsessive, strange, and temperamental people. I am no different. So, it is with the double release of both their first DVD, "Video Capture Device", and a re-release of their debut album "Weezer" (dubbed by fans as "The Blue Album"), that these same obsessive, strange, and temperamental fans can get their latest Weezer fix in high-caliber fashion.

Welcome to Fairfield, the land of the beautiful. People at this school place a lot of emphasis on what size you are, the color hair you have, and how much you can bench. I think that it is all a little overrated. However, it doesn't matter just for girls.

It is safe to say that everyone our age has some issues with body image. Advertisers exploit this human preoccupation with appearance by attempting to sell us a myriad of products that are designed to transform our natural look. Did you ever notice Cosmo and Maxim don't advertise anything to enhance your intelligence or personality? Males Hair Products - Your current hairstyle sucks.

For those of us blessed with an off-white skin tone, a trip to some vacation hot spot is terrifying at best. Why go south, where the sun is closer and the rays are stronger? After all, my last journey to the equator was a difficult experience, ask Cmdr. Chris Huff '04 of the HMS Surprise.