Author Nicole Funaro

I've had a long, but bumpy relationship with a girl who is pretty cool, but overall I don't think ultimately this relationship is going to work out. But I don't want to lose her completely – I'd like to remain friends with her. Is there an easy way to break up with her or is it a roll of the dice?

At my editor's insistence (and looking for something to do while my nails dried), I went to www.MyProfessorSucks.com in the hope that I would gleefully read all the nasty things written about scores of professors here at F.U. There were neither nasty things nor scores of professors.

With singles sales trending downward, dance music has turned more to compilations to help sell songs and get music out there even more. Mixed compilations tend to be the more popular, so it stands to reason that when Dave Dresden, of the production team of Gabriel ' Dresden, wanted to get involved in actual CDs, he would make a compilation.

We took pictures for the yearbook recently and I got my proofs back – one is definitely not a picture I'd consider flattering. A friend of mine, who I showed it to while expressing my disgust, thought it was so bad it was funny, and he wanted to scan a copy of it before I had to return my proof. How should I tell him I don't want to give it to him, without creating any wars?

Twenty female residents on the fourth floor of Claver have been told by Housing Operations that they must move out of their rooms by November 25.

When asked about living in Claver, one particular irate junior picked a bottle of Glade disinfectant and threw it against the wall of his dorm room.

Monday, October 28 6:00 p.m. - A professor in the School of Nursing reported her purse stolen from a desk drawer in her unlocked office. When she cancelled her credit card, she discovered charges had been made at Westfield Shoppingtown Trumbull. 10:30 p.m.

by Laura Walsh Whenever Dr. Mark Worden's name is mentioned, one of the first words that come to mind is warmth. "There's not one unkind thing to say about him," said Allison Lombardo, '03.

by Zack Finley With outrageous prices for food, according to those who go to the Stag on a regular basis, and a staff that doesn't bother matching your face to the picture on the card you are giving them, the students here are worried and outraged at what is going on with their alternative to the dining hall.

Every year as the cost of tuition at Fairfield gets higher, financial aid struggles to keep up. Coupled with a poor economy, students say that paying for tuition, fees and room and board is getting harder. The problem is not restricted to Fairfield, whose costs went up 7.2 percent this year alone.