Opinion

As we work on our final issue for orientation, we can’t help but think of our own orientation experiences. Although it was only one night away from home, it was scary to dive into the college experience. But...

As you will find out in your time at Fairfield University, the Latin Jesuit aphorisms that adorn orientation materials are at their best, time-honored principles of human action and at their most ubiquitous,...

If you’re anything like me, the years leading up to college were filled with nothing but impatient anticipation. I couldn’t wait to go away to school and have a completely different life, to meet new...

We live in a time when what we choose to post on social media can be instantaneous, while being easily deleted five minutes later if we decide that we no longer like it. However, what many people, particularly...

It is as good a time as any to pull out your Sharpie and mark your calendar: I am in agreement with a sentiment expressed by President Donald Trump. On May 31, the president took to Twitter to respond to the...

We all know of Simone Biles; the gymnastics wonder girl who has swept the floor at all of the national and international competitions since, according to NBC Olympics, she won the All-round at her first senior...

It’s easy to say that you’re anti-abortion. How could someone not be in support of the most mysteriously essential thing to our very existence? How could anyone be against life? Well, it’s much more...

In the past year, there have been extreme comparisons between our nationalist sentiments and the election of Trump to Nazi Germany and the rise of Hitler. This dire mental image only becomes exacerbated with...

With the fast-approaching advent of the resignation of Developmental Services commissioner Morna Murray, deinstitutionalization ideologues have seized on this moment to reignite the push to shut down the...

As the academic year comes to an end, another year at The Mirror has come to an end. With this new end, we have seen the development of some amazing staff members that contributed to pushing our boundaries as...