Author Kate McGann

The StagCard: Essential to students for everything from eating to entering a building. And now, even to pass through the gates on campus. Public Safety implemented a new policy beginning Feb. 15 wherein students' StagCards must be swiped upon entrance to campus through the main gate, an update of the previous policy of checking parking stickers in order to gain access to campus.

In the endless crusade to afford the ever-increasing cost of college, a new source of relief may be on the horizon. Top-tier colleges, such as Harvard, Yale and Duke, have recently introduced significant financial aid initiatives aimed at lessening the pressure for both lower- and middle-income families.

What does 'world diversity' actually mean? Taking the plunge to study abroad last spring in Florence, Italy was a defining decision in many ways. It meant giving up my familiar and safe place in townhouse 104 and traveling 3,000 miles to a city and culture that were completely foreign to me.

The RIAA may have found another questionably legal way to suck money out of college students: directly from the institutions themselves. As a part of a bill making its way through Congress called the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, or COAA, universities would essentially be required to foot the bill for subscription music services for their students.

What would it take for you to kill another person? That was a question posed in front of an audience of baby boomer "students" by Harry Stout, professor of American religious studies at Yale, during the third of four lectures at the One Day University program at Fairfield.

Ken Flatto, the long-time Democratic first selectman for the town of Fairfield, is defending his incumbent position during next Tuesday's election. In an exclusive interview with The Mirror, Flatto talked about the town's relations with the school.

A temporary power failure leads this week's short list of crimes and mishaps on campus.

The phrase "Fairfield seniors at the beach" is typically synonymous with trouble. But, a month after this year's class of students took up residency at the beach, things are going fairly well. According to Fairfield Police Sgt. Michael Gagner, the statistics on the number of documented incidents in the tagged vicinity known as the "beach area" is lower this year compared to the previous two years.

A year after Fairfield was rocked by news of the murder of Barry James, his next door neighbor Jonathan Edington was sentenced to 12 years in prison for first degree manslaughter. Allegedly, Edington, the father of a two-year-old girl, accused James of molesting his daughter, and in a fit of rage, broke into James's home and stabbed him to death.

Last year Fairfield tied for the No. 4 position among colleges in the Northeast with masters programs, according to U.S. News ' World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2007." This year, Fairfield is tied with Loyola College in Maryland and Providence College for the No. 2 ranking in that category.