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Fairfield ranked higher than Duke or Northwestern…sort of

Problems between students and beach residents took another turn for the worse this summer when the Princeton Review named Fairfield University as having the worst town-gown relations in the nation. The focal point of the decaying relations between students and townspeople is the weekly confrontation between partying students and angry year-round residents at the beach, but town and university officials have been quick to downplay the conflict.
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Unlike Fairfield, other schools not feeling the housing crunch

Unofficial counts show that college enrollment in Connecticut is up this year for the fifth time in a row, according to several media sources. While colleges and universities throughout the state, including Fairfield University, adjust to the influx of new students, housing lags way behind.
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Campus Crime Beat

Monday, September 2 10:27a.m. - There was a car accident due to rain, but there were no injuries. Tuesday, September 3 3:39a.m. - A vehicle was stopped and a stolen Fairfield street sign was confiscated. 5:13p.m. - A couch that was left outside the village apartments was stolen.
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Grad awarded Fulbright

Fairfield University's success with Fulbright scholarships continued this year, as recent graduate Lara Eckler was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Germany. This is the 28th Fulbright scholarship that a Fairfield University student has received. The Fulbright Grant is the most esteemed award given by the U.
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Fairfield doesn’t offer much help with birth control

Sex. Making love. Fornication. Call it what you will, but college kids are 'doin it.' Even college kids who attend Catholic Universities are participating in this pre-marital activity. The question is, are these Catholic college students well suited and prepared to be doing it safely? For those of you who don't know, condoms are not made available to us here on Fairfield's campus.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Carpenters’ strike hits Fairfield

3 unions, which make up over 5,000 carpenters in the state of Connecticut, have gone on strike over a contract negotiation gone sour. According to the Connecticut Post, the strike involves over 3,000 members of locals 24, 43, and 210. The number of projects affected is unknown but it is considered to be substantial.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: A program that’s ‘buy the book’

Dodging thrown books, enduring verbal abuse and reading the mind of professors are all in a day's work for an employee of the Fairfield University Bookstore. As the year comes to a close students look to sell their books back for financial reserves until that summer job starts.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Ritalin use on the rise

Forget No-Doz. Some Fairfield Students have found a new –and potentially abusive-way to pull all-nighters. Ritalin, a prescription drug, has become very popular among college students who need 'help' to keep them awake and focused while studying. "I know a lot of students use Ritalin when they have to pull an all-nighter studying for a test or doing a paper," said Lindsay Loderstedt, '02.