Author Kelly Sheehan

The California gubernatorial recall election has lapsed into an odd limbo that is certain to keep the late night comics-and crappy college columnists-feasting on cheap jokes about Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gary Coleman. For Coleman and Schwarzenegger, the bad news came early this week when an appeals court decided it would not be a good idea to have a major election with a great deal of national scrutiny and use the same controversial punch cards made infamous by the senile state, Florida.

Upperclassmen can all remember the excitement of being a freshman. Feelings of independence and maturity are just about to set in when an unexpected pang of homesickness creeps up on you. After a long day you creep back to your dorm room to read e-mails from home and check the comforting messages your loved ones left you on AIM.

Here is a pro/con list for life at Fairfield for the 2003-2004 year. Let's just dive in: PRO: After three years of hard work and sizable tuition bills, the class of 2004 is almost at the end of their undergraduate career. CON: Half of us are going to have to obtain Master's degrees or higher, racking up more debt and deal with having to become responsible adults on our own.

To launch the new year, 20 Questions went out on the road to the Activities Fair, where we talked with a number of organization's leaders. Of course - we didn't give them a lot of time to talk - space is money. Here are some of the responses we got: Dave Hanna of Video Game Club In 15 words or less, what is your organizations's purpose? Just have a good time, get a lot of people together and have fun.