Author Katie Barry

Fairfield students said they are disappointed by the lack of progress by administrators in combating one of the biggest problems on campus: overcrowded dorms and townhouses. And they don't see any quick relief in sight. "The housing problem still hasn't been fixed," said FUSA President Hutch Williams '08.

Tuition increases from year to year, yet one thing stays the same: the amount of money awarded for academic scholarships. Academic scholarships at Fairfield have remained monetarily stagnant since 2004, when each of the three awards was raised by approximately $3,000, with the premier award capping off at $15,000.

An assault on our humanity is how English professor Gita Rajan introduced the topic of Dr. Ruchira Gupta's Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The Selling of the Innocents," to a packed crowd at the Kelley Center Monday evening. Through her documentary, Gupta brought the world's attention to the crimes committed against girls in Central Asia.

Three more narcotics violations, vandals at the townhouses and a foul ball through a car windshield headline this week's crime beat.

In the battle to raise diversity, integrate the core, and retain competitive faculty, Fairfield has one main monetary ally: your tuition. On March 22, 2007, the Fairfield board of trustees approved a $137 million University budget, a $6.6 million increase from the previous year.

I have always really enjoyed the first night back at school - catching up with everyone and finding out how their summers went. But for me, and many other members of the class of 2008, this first night back was markedly different. Now, when I saw people for the first time, I had an entire semester to catch up on.

Fairfield University is renowned for many things. However, its political activism is not usually one of them. Allegations of political apathy have long plagued the Fairfield student body. There are often various reasons given, but many students agree: Fairfield students are not politically active.

Drinking, theft and vandalism! Find out what crimes were reported in just the first week of classes.

In 1989, a group of Fairfield students joined together under the acronym STAGs - or Students Against Gays - to actively protest the formation of the University's first gay-straight coalition. Now, 18 years later, three Fairfield students set out to see if the attitude on campus has changed since then.

According to the Center for Disease Control, 1,788 Americans between the age of 20 and 24 will become infected with HIV this year, bringing the number of college-age Americans who have been infected with the disease since its onset to more than 34,000. In 1968, Pope Paul VI issued the encyclical letter Human Veritae, or Human Life, which reaffirmed the official Church teaching that contraception of any kind is gravely sinful.