Author Mollie Chase

In a press release issued by the Department of Education Sept. 26, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced her plans to improve higher education. She based her plans on the Commission on the Future of Higher Education's final report. According to the press release, the commission is a group Spellings created in September 2005 to evaluate the state of the nation's post-secondary education.

Turkeys stroll through our campus. Skunks knock over our trash cans. Deer jump in front of our cars. Rats scuttle through our garbage, making enough noise to keep students awake at night. But campus is not the only place Fairfield critters obstruct student life.