Daily Archives April 16, 2008

I'm sure you've all made plenty of friends so far in college, but how many of them could you actually live with? Being friends with someone involves seeing them only when you want to. Living with someone is a whole different ball game. Sharing a room with someone can either be civil or it can be a disaster.

Marié Digby is a breath of fresh air to the music industry. If you're already familiar with Digby, then you've probably seen her on YouTube. Digby filmed many videos in her living room of just her singing and strumming her guitar. She became yet another YouTube phenomenon, was signed by a record company and lived happily ever after.

Funerals mean breaking ground - to dig a hole in order to bury the dead. But for Theatre Fairfield students, their ground-breaking performance, "A Cry for Peace" on Thursday was meant to get our heads out of the holes we have so conveniently buried them in.

University President Fr. Jeffrey von Arx, who greeted the class of 2008 in his first year as president, will speak at commencement on May 18 on the Bellarmine Lawn. During his first year as president, von Arx was the speaker at the 2005 commencement, and made it a policy to have a person with Jesuit ties and a familiarity with the University speak at commencement.