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Fairfield Remembers The Titans

Remember the Admirals? Remember the Presidents? No, but most remember the Titans. In a Mirror Exclusive, Coach Herman Boone of the Titans sat down with The Mirror to talk about the journey with the renowned team, as Boone spoke to the Fairfield community on Wednesday night about his experience. The football team was born from the combination of three high schools in Alexandria, Va., that came together to attend Williams High School during integration in 1971.
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Say what you need to say

In the past two years, protests have been put off, Mirror issues pulled off the shelves, events cancelled and posters prevented from being put up. Now, as the issue of freedom of speech for students has become more prominent, English Professor Sally O'Driscoll and other members of the faculty saw a need to hold a forum to discuss the issue publicly on Wednesday afternoon
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‘Stop-Loss’ stops audiences in their tracks

Stop-Loss is a powerful film that follows Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) and his squad as they serve in the Iraq War and return home to Texas. The movie begins by showing the U.S. soldiers in the Middle East. Here, we meet Sgt. King and the men in his squad, including King's best friend Steve Shriver (Channing Tatum) and Tommy Burgess (Joseph Gordon-Levitt).
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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good-bye!

For the first time in my life, I dreaded the arrival of spring. It's not that I don't welcome the warm weather, but spring means second semester, second semester means graduation and graduation means the end. For a long time, it seemed as though I would never be a senior.
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Can’t buy me diversity

If Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave the money to more rich people, he wouldn't have become a folk champion for the impoverished. University President Fr. Jeffrey von Arx, however, can be hailed only for helping out a certain demographic of underprivileged students and leaving others to find their own way of coming up with $160,000 for a Jesuit education.