With awards season in full swing, it is now time to begin The Mirror‘s campaign to win this year’s “Outstanding Organization Award.”
For your consideration, The Mirror has made fantastic strides this year, both on and off the printed page. We have finally successfully moved into our new office, and thanks to the student activities art room, we have finally harnessed the great power of the sign.
We realize this is a difficult award to win, considering The Mirror‘s stiff competition from other campus media outlets. For example, we are well aware that this week’s front page stories on a missing student and Iraq may not reach the hard-hitting caliber of a Ham Channel Into It dedicated to Jim Carrey’s hilarious works.
This year The Mirror has covered it all, from Sept. 11 scholarships to the FUSA electoral crisis. We have a dedicated staff from freshmen to seniors who devote the majority of their time at Fairfield to The Mirror. Often, the questions and inquiries of our writers fall on deaf ears, and often our reporters have to deal with people and situations that are more than uncomfortable.
Few students and faculty realize that The Mirror is one of the best weekly student newspapers in the nation; as we have discovered through our attendance at national conventions and studies of other colleges of similar size and standing.
How did we achieve this? Of course in our campaigning for organization of the year, we must also campaign for the true unsung hero of Fairfield University, The Mirror‘s advisor, Dr. James Simon. This man gives just as much time to The Mirror as he does his classes and research, and does not even receive compensation for his efforts. So, for your consideration, please vote Dr. Simon for outstanding advisor.
Above all, what The Mirror has managed to create, year in and out, is a group of students who will attribute their greatest successes and growths at Fairfield to their work here. This bond has helped forge our own alumni association.
So, remember to vote Mirror. I hear there’s a lot of buzz about Keith Whamond too.
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