Author Heather Manning

Press Release "The Many Moods of Christmas" is the theme for the Fairfield University Glee Club's annual holiday concert on Friday, Dec. 5, at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 6, at 2 p.m. Both performances will take place at Fairfield University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

As the Thanksgiving season approaches, students from all over the country will be making the trek home in pursuit of rest, relaxation, and turkey. While most Fairfield students are making travel arrangements, some underclassmen are stuck at the housing department, requesting to stay in the residence halls for a fee of $35 per night.

Want to live at the beach junior year? Make sure you do because you will likely not be able to come back on to campus. "When students want to go off-campus for housing, we release them from their four year housing contract, which in turn releases us from being obligated to provide them with housing for the rest of their time here," said Gary Stephenson, Director of Housing Operations.

Horror stories about faculty advising at Fairfield are not few and far between. "My faculty advisor had no idea what was going on," said a student who wished to be unnamed. "He didn't know that there are world diversity and US diversity requirements, or many of the core requirements.

The scent of fresh bagels complemented with a friendly face handing bleary-eyed students a cup of coffee is no longer a familiar scene at two former kiosks on-campus. The only smile students will find these days is from their own reflection in a vending machine.

Student course evaluations-those pesky white and yellow sheets you fill out at the end of the semester-are seen only by professors. Soon, however, that system may change. "Professor evaluations are only seen by faculty -- period," said Academic Vice President Dr.

Every five minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with leukemia, Hodgkin or non-Hodgkin lymphoma or myeloma. Every nine minutes, someone loses the battle. Everyday, efforts can be made to speed up the road to a cure. Fairfield University students have joined forces with members of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in its annual evening walk and fundraiser to fight the battle against these potentially fatal diseases.

Four students escaped injury but are now homeless after a fire ripped through the basement of their two-story house causing between $15,000 and $18,000 in damage. "We were all sleeping in our rooms," said John Sousa '04 a resident of the home, "When we heard the fire alarms going off.

Students were in for a surprise Monday morning when the previously free printing in campus computer labs became a thing of the past. The university implemented StagPrint, a debit-card printing system that works through students' StagCards. The system allows fulltime students to print 200 pages and additional printing beyond this would costs student ten cents per page.

A typical Thursday night in the Rec Plex weight room is a male-dominated affair. The tables turned, however, when the Rec Plex weight room threw its inaugural Ladies' Night, on Sept. 11. Ladies' Night is designed to give female students the chance to lift weights without the presence of the opposite sex.