Author Josh St. Onge

For many years Campus Ministry has organized an event called Cardboard City. The purpose of this event is to raise Fairfield students' awareness about the reality of homelessness. It is (or at least should be) upsetting that a substantial number of people in America are homeless.

by Eileen Arnold At the beginning of the school year, my internship, which is at a bi-weekly Catholic magazine called Commonweal, asked me to compile their archived articles concerning Pope John Paul II since his health was once again flagging. This assignment filled me with trepidation; it almost seemed like blasphemy.

Jessica DiBuono '06 won the FUSA presidential election in a landslide victory on Tuesday night. However, with the lowest voter turnout in 20 years, it's questionable how much of the student body truly stands behind its new president elect. We congratulate DiBuono on her victory, but remind her that this is the beginning of a long road ahead.

To The Editor: I don't know who should be more embarrassed by the story that ran last Thursday on the addition of four new professors to the Fairfield community: the administration or The Mirror itself. ("New Hires will double number of black faculty"). Why the chagrin? Well, after a lead that curiously manages to disparage not only Leave it to Beaver, but the current faculty of the university as a "rerun," readers of The Mirror are treated to nearly 500 words that amount to the following: The College of Arts and Sciences has hired four new professors simply because they are black.

To the Editor: We are writing to voice our concern about the presence of swastikas around Dolan Hall. Although the history of the swastika as a symbol reaches back over 3,000 years, it serves today as a powerful reminder of Hitler's Nazi Party and its murder of over 6 million human beings during World War II.

by Jessica Holmberg I have never been to an upstairs party, but I know some of the guests. You must move swift, so no one sees you walk up the stairs or move towards the bathroom in a small group. Your mission: find the right room. Try every door handle.

So another FUSA election has come and gone and voter turnout was, as usual, pretty abysmal. Fewer than 900 of you managed to make your way down the stairs after checking your mail to spend less than a minute checking off two boxes. This isn't a surprise; each year FUSA candidates are lucky to drum up a third of the student body to vote.