Monthly Archives September 15, 2005

Sleeping bags. Tents. Cardboard boxes. Sophomore year housing is supposed to be a step up from freshman year housing. However, the housing lottery for the boys of '08 had gone terribly wrong last semester, and it seemed as if a good majority of us were going to be spending our sophomore year roughing it in the quad.

by Christina Stoddard Attendance at the "Dodge 'Til You Drop" dodge ball festival may have been down, but the spirits of the competitors were certainly high as students hurled rubber balls at one another across Alumni Field last Friday night. Students came in teams of six ready to show off their dodge ball prowess.

As a senior, and having grown obsessed with the town of Fairfield, I have come to learn the ins and outs of this town, including which places to frequent and which to avoid. I wish that someone had given me a little insight into this town when I was an underclassman, so I decided to pass along my own knowledge of Fairfield to fellow students.

by Christina Stoddard Just as members of the Stag Basketball teams must endure rigorous pre-season tryouts and training, so must the much furrier, mammalian member of the team. Preliminary tryouts to become the next Lucas the Stag began this past Saturday afternoon, and the heat was on between students competing for a shot to wear the stag suit.

As incoming freshmen, the newly accepted college females experience a number of underlying concerns as they begin their collegiate memoirs. From academic challenges to life away from home, comfort soon turns to distress and they yearn for the day when the anxiety will subside.

by Bill McBain Editor's note: The Mirror's Bill McBain sat down this week with Fairfield President Jeffrey von Arx, SJ. Do you read The Mirror? JvA: Sure, I read it both in print and the online. Where do you live? JvA: I live in the president's house, and use it for entertaining a couple times a week.

by Lauren Pepiciello A conservative Catholic organization has called for the firing of a Fairfield professor of philosophy because he and 17 other Catholic college academics have publicly supported physician assisted suicide. Professor Curtis Naser found himself in the national spotlight after the Cardinal Newman Society, a Virginia-based Roman Catholic organization "dedicated to the renewal of Catholic identity in Catholic higher education," sent a fundraising letter to 75,000 members earlier this year, calling for the firings.