FAIRFIELD
University offers full ride to needy Bridgeport students
During the upcoming academic year, all high school students with annual family incomes under $50,000 who graduate from schools located in the city of Bridgeport will qualify for a full-tuition scholarship.
The plan applies to the following seven high schools in Bridgeport: Bassick, Harding, Central, Bullard-Havens, Kolbe Cathedral, Bridge Academy and Bridgeport International Academy.
Look for the full story in next week’s Mirror and commentary about it in this week’s editorial on p. 7.
Click to read the university’s press release .
Evacuation drill
conducted on campus
All University members received an e-mail at the beginning of the week from Public Safety, informing them that an evacuation drill of an academic building was scheduled to take place on Wednesday, April 2. Public Safety was scheduled to conduct the drill along with the Fairfield police and fire departments.
According to Todd Pelazza, director of Public Safety, the drill is to ensure the safety of the University community in the case of an emergency by making it known to faculty, staff and students what their expectations are in the event of an emergency.
INTERNATIONAL
Muslims surpass Catholics in percentage of world population
A Vatican official announced on Sunday that Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism to become the new world religion, according to a report by Reuters.
According to a newly released report, Catholics make up 17.4 percent of the world’s population while 19.2 percent of the world’s population is Muslim.
However, Msgr. Vittorio Formenti, director of the Vatican’s statistical service, noted that 33 percent of the world’s population is comprised of Christians, after taking into account all Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants.
A reason for the increase in Muslims in the world population can be accounted for by the higher birth rates in comparison to Catholics.
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