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FUSA apologizes for fiasco

To the editor: On behalf of the Fairfield University Student Association, I want to apologize for last week's incident involving the 2003 FUSA elections. I especially extend this apology to Ryan Cantor and Jeff Holland. There was a miscommunication between the election commission and the company used to rent the booths.
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DiFranco is DiLightful

According to the Righteous Babe Records official biography of Ani DiFranco, "She's an outspoken feminist who doesn't run from that particular f-word." Well, if using the f-word doesn't make you a paramount musician, I don't know what does. And now, to remove my tongue from my cheek and proceed with this review.
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EDITORIAL: And the election winner is… Howie Day?

On Tuesday night, The Ham Channel aired an exemplary special episode of "Into It! Live" on the election debacle, during which FUSA advisor Steve Winkel said that the mix-up was due only to "human error," but that "nobody's opinion of FUSA should change" because "FUSA is still a great organization.
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Quick Center parking headaches

To the Editor: I am writing regarding the severe lack of parking space for the Quick Center. I worked four times last week at the parking lot of the Quick Center directing cars. There are two parking lots nearby the Quick Center for guests, performers, and.
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Looking forward into the past

Get ready to dance to the music, you everyday people -- in March, Sony is rereleasing Sly and the Family Stone's 3 early albums: "Life", "A Whole New Thing" and "Dance to the Music". And why should we care, you ask? Picture this: a slow pan across a silent room in the bottom of the library.
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EDITORIAL: They might be watching you

In order to ensure safety on campus, the university has added more surveillance cameras. So, those electronic eyes now sweep across campus rolling even more film. These cameras will certainly serve as a deterrent. They might even catch a criminal and help the courts carry out justice.
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We have to remember the lessons of history

The international community is consumed with whether or not there is a casus belli to justify attacking Iraq. There is a clear division of opinions on how this should be decided and it is marked in a geographic and historic context. The statements have been clear from France, move slowly and seek Security Council approval.
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Worst television of 2002

CSI - Perhaps it is a testament to the mind-boggling stupidity of the American television-viewing public as a whole that this show is so popular. This Law and Order wannabe features forensic scientists tracking down and interrogating suspects; in reality, they do nothing more than scientific grunt work that detectives need.
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Best television of 2002

Tracy Morgan: One Mic - "Saturday Night Live" comedian Tracy Morgan performs some of the most hysterical stand-up Comedy Central has ever scene in this one hour special taped at New York's Supper Club. Want more Morgan? Check out Comic Groove, hosted by the man himself.
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Worst music of 2002

Avril Lavigne: Let Go - What's worse than Christina and Brittney? Their imitatiors. Avril Lavigne's "Let Go" is the latest pop-clone album. The only thing she added to the decent bouncy tunes studio musicians laid out for her (like Mommy dressing her for kindergarten) were so-so lyrics and Alanis Morissette's vocal style.