Author Meghan O'Hare

Game. Set. Match. It's the academic battle of the sexes and Fairfield women are often victorious. In the past few years at Fairfield, a higher percentage of women have graduated than men. Of the forty senior Phi Beta Kappa inductees for 2003, only 12 were men.

Exams. Late night partying. Work that has been put off again and again. There are many reasons that college students suffer from sleep deprivation and other sleeping disorders. "I used a caffeine pill once because I needed to stay up all night to write a paper," said Alicia Wolff, '05.

This has been the worst winter I've seen in this wimpy state of Connecticut, which solves its snow problems by throwing sand on it. Brilliant, I say. But seriously, how are we to cope with all this snow? I mean, it does have its ups and downs, for instance, with it freezing out, parties become overcrowded far too quickly as everyone presses for room inside.

So, snow on Monday. Yeah. As much as I loved sleeping the afternoon away, you know, catching up on those serious nawnies, I would have gladly traded it in for a typical April day. In my opinion, there is nothing more miserable than doing what I did early Tuesday morning--cleaning off the car and getting old snow and ice everywhere in the process.

The White Stripes are an acquired taste. Their music is abrasive by any definition. But it is with "Elephant" that Jack and Meg White reaffirm their status as the undisputed king and queen of cultured garage rock and roll music. "Elephant" is an excellent continuation of the Stripes' break out hit effort of 2001, "White Blood Cells.

In light of the United States' assault on Iraq, these are truly uncertain times. What makes matters worse is that politicians are satisfied with supplying the public with superficial banalities, and concealing underlying information. Head of State is by no means a perfect movie, but what it does is brilliant: a comic, entertaining attack on an electoral system where candidates don't say what's really on their minds.