Author Lauren Pepiciello

by Bill McBain Editor's note: The Mirror's Bill McBain sat down this week with Fairfield President Jeffrey von Arx, SJ. Do you read The Mirror? JvA: Sure, I read it both in print and the online. Where do you live? JvA: I live in the president's house, and use it for entertaining a couple times a week.

by Lauren Pepiciello A conservative Catholic organization has called for the firing of a Fairfield professor of philosophy because he and 17 other Catholic college academics have publicly supported physician assisted suicide. Professor Curtis Naser found himself in the national spotlight after the Cardinal Newman Society, a Virginia-based Roman Catholic organization "dedicated to the renewal of Catholic identity in Catholic higher education," sent a fundraising letter to 75,000 members earlier this year, calling for the firings.

Hey. I think I'm gay. Help me out. I think about girls all the time. I love breasts and butts. I even watch lesbian porn. I still like guys though. I think I just have to experience it once and then my curiosity phase will be over. I don't want to end up like an uber-dyke.

by Lauren Pepiciello Relationships, love, hooking-up and sex are the basis of the current literary phenomenon, which began with Sex and the City, exploded with He's Just Not That Into You, and continues its upward trend with The Hookup Handbook, hot off the press this month.

by Lauren Pepiciello You and "Mr. Right" exchanged numbers last Saturday night at the beach and now, two weeks later you've only heard from him once (that night he was wasted begging you to come over). What happened? You thought everything was great.

by Kelly Sheehan Fairfield students and politics professors say that there is a wide range of positions on campus that is continuing to grow and is not completely liberal. Professor Jocelyn Boryczka of the politics department said that she has noticed a strong presence of conservatism on campus, but also hears liberal voices.

by Lauren Pepiciello The number of students who have signed up to travel to Washington D.C. for the annual "March for Life", a pro-life event, has doubled from nine to 17 since last year, the first year Fairfield attended the event. The 32nd annual "March for Life" will take place on Jan.

by Lauren Pepiciello Students at Quinnipiac University don't have to ponder the question, "How are we getting home?" because they already know. Quinnipiac University provides a shuttle from its suburban Hamden campus to New Haven, CT. "The shuttles are supposed to be for students who don't have cars, but, given the times the shuttles run and the locations, many students use them to get to and from the bars," according to a student government representative, Victoria Backus '05.

by Lauren Pepiciello Clam Jam, Luau, and Keg Races used to be Fairfield's annual beach events, attracting students to the beach party scene for decades. Now, they are all distant memories, simply because "times have changed," according to Dean of Students Mark Reed.