Author Rachel Brean

Ask a professor, an Ignatian resident or an administrator about Peter Otoki '08, and they'll probably tell you that he's an accomplished, gracious and mature humanitarian. Ask Otoki about his success, and he says, "I just feel that I have been especially blessed at Fairfield in meeting a lot of great people … and I just thought, 'What can I do to give back?'"

See what other students around Fairfield are listening to and click on the links within the story to see the music videos.

Good news for Fairfield seniors and beach residents. A successor to the 100 Nights senior party has been announced, and the beach tradition known as The Naut will soon be back. Seniors have a reputation to uphold when it comes to various traditions.

Second semester is a frightening time for seniors who have jobs lined up and anticipate the shock of entering the real world. However, the final days of college are all the more terrifying when a student has no plans for life after graduation, which was the situation Marco Ambrosio '07 found himself in last spring.

Fairfield communications professor Robbin Crabtree said the classroom has always been her home. But Crabtree, also director of the office of service learning, is onto bigger and better things. Crabtree will continue her distinguished career at Fairfield as the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences after returning from a sabbatical.

A 21-year-old Gonzaga RA is being fired by Residence Life after admitting herself to the Health Center following a Saturday night of drinking in New Haven. Laura DeFrancesco '08, spent Friday night, Oct. 26 in the Health Center when she felt sick after drinking.

A fire broke out early Sunday morning at a beach house on Ocean Isle Beach in southern North Carolina, killing six University of South Carolina students and one Clemson University student, while there were six survivors also from USC, authorities said. Perched on stilts, the home sits about two blocks from the beach on one of a series of peninsulas, each by canals.

For the third time in four years, Fairfield University's Fulbright program has received top recognition due to the high number of students who were awarded the scholarship this past academic year. Fairfield placed first in the number of Fulbrights its students received among the 574 universities in the country that are ranked as master's degree institutions in the Carnegie classification, The Chronicle of Higher Education announced this week.

New York State Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson are the most recent vocal 2008 Democratic presidential candidates vying for college voters and their parents as they lay out proposals that will ease exorbitant college tuition costs and tedious financial aid paperwork.

Vandalism highlights this week's crime beat with elevators, air conditioners and stag card readers being the victims.