Monthly Archives September 29, 2005

By Ryan Hull Hoping to play up to high preseason expectations, the Fairfield women's volleyball team won two out of three games this past weekend as hosts of the Fairfield Invitational at Alumni Hall. The tournament began an eight-game stretch of home games for the team and featured the first games of the season.

In the midst of many of our nation's worst tragedies, music has been one factor in reuniting our nation and helping to benefit those who were affected and need assistance. We can recall the Sept. 11 and tsunami concerts to benefit the victims.

by Marie Montgomery "Corpse Bride," Tim Burton's latest foray into stop-motion animation, is filled with holes that leave the audience wishing Burton had just left the dead at peace. Although "Bride" has the same imaginative animation as "The Nightmare Before Christmas," the story is nowhere near as captivating.

by Andrea Bean and Jessica Pramer After one of us showed up an hour late and missed the beginning of the play over the summer, we were thrilled to come back to find that the first show of the FUSA Broadway Series would be "Wicked." After paying a friend to wait in line for tickets while we went to class, we were two of 90 lucky Fairfield students that got to see "Wicked" last Thursday night.

by Sean Corbett College radio. Does Fairfield University's radio presence stray too far from this commonly accepted archetype so often seen in movies and at universities like Emerson, Harvard and Brown? Will Ferrell had a radio show in "Old School" and the little fat kid who refused to shower had one in "Wet Hot American Summer.

It's Thursday night, and after a full week of classes, labs, tests and work, the bar is the last place you truly want to be. Nonetheless, as you step inside your humble abode, your housemates instruct you to shower because this is senior year, and "we only have thirty-five more Thursday nights at the Grape"-God forbid we miss one.

By Liz Bae I can still remember standing in a herd of freshman at the cab stand down at the beach and looking across the street at the infamous Seagrape. I thought I would never turn 21 and that the next three years would be excruciatingly long. There I was with no beach house, no car and I was not even legal to drink.

by Lauren Pepiciello Editor's note: The Mirror's Lauren Pepiciello sat down this week with internship expert Dr. Gerald Savage. As part of the two-day campus event "Learning and Integrity: Looking Towards the Future in College Student Internships," Gerald Savage gave a presentation entitled "'Overwhelmingly Positive, but.

To the Editor: I would like to share some information regarding the admission process and the class of 2009. Simply focusing on the size of the class and the percentage of students who were admitted fails to capture the true quality of the class. Our goal is to admit a class which will contribute to Fairfield University in a myriad of different ways - in the classroom, in the residence halls, on the playing fields and in the community.

To the Editor: Although I thoroughly enjoyed Kate Cota's gripping story about the social networking Web site phenomenon that is The Facebook ["Nearly one year later, FU weighs Facebook pros and cons," The Mirror, Sept. 22], there was one particular passage which made me feel quite faint! While addressing the legitimate privacy questions that the Facebook poses, Cota's first member on her list of possible identity-thieving individuals are Fairfield alumni! The very first! Cota writes that, "[m]any college alumni can obtain e-mail addresses from their alma maters," and that, as alumni, our "breaking into the site is feasible.