Author Lauren Pepiciello

by Sean Corbett Do you have an iPod? How about a brand new Dell laptop? Maybe some spare cash? Well, if you don't, you're going to have to get them the old fashioned way. Stealing on Fairfield Campus has become a feat that is hard to complete. Students are smartening up and protecting themselves against theft possibly more than ever.

by Lauren Pepiciello North Carolina State University was ordered to pay two former students $300,000 for ignoring their complaints about it. George Washington University did not renew a professor's contract because of it. And women in the U.S. Military and Naval Acadamies deal with the hardships caused by it everyday.

Lauren Pepiciello There is a lot of talk lately about the importance of getting an internship before applying for a job. However, if you want to land that internship, or even a job for that matter, you have to land the interview first. In order to do that, there are some things students should know before meeting with a potential employer.

By Liz Bae I can still remember standing in a herd of freshman at the cab stand down at the beach and looking across the street at the infamous Seagrape. I thought I would never turn 21 and that the next three years would be excruciatingly long. There I was with no beach house, no car and I was not even legal to drink.

by Lauren Pepiciello Editor's note: The Mirror's Lauren Pepiciello sat down this week with internship expert Dr. Gerald Savage. As part of the two-day campus event "Learning and Integrity: Looking Towards the Future in College Student Internships," Gerald Savage gave a presentation entitled "'Overwhelmingly Positive, but.

By Elizabeth Cooper In the aftermath of the disastrous hurricanes which have recently overwhelmed the South, countless organizations have helped collect funds to aid victims and help rebuild demolished cities. Not surprisingly, many groups on campus are part of this effort.

On October 12, 2003, the Fairfield University community was shaken to learn of the tragic death of Mark Fisher '06, murdered at the age of 19. In the weeks and months that followed, family, friends and students not only mourned Mark's death and celebrated his life, but also struggled with questions about what happened that night in Brooklyn.

by Ann Glover ' Tara Touloumis Whether it is studying among the riches of art and architecture in Italy, learning how to surf in Australia, speaking bits of Gaelic in Ireland or dining on traditional Hungarian goulash in the Czech Republic, Fairfield University's extensive study abroad program has exposed students to countless new eye-opening experiences across the globe.

My roommates and I decided to start our first night out as seniors at the Seagrape Cafe (suprise, surprise). Of course, we have ended up at the bar every night we've gone out since since this school year started, but that particular night we went for a celebratory drink at 7 p.

by Lauren Pepiciello A conservative Catholic organization has called for the firing of a Fairfield professor of philosophy because he and 17 other Catholic college academics have publicly supported physician assisted suicide. Professor Curtis Naser found himself in the national spotlight after the Cardinal Newman Society, a Virginia-based Roman Catholic organization "dedicated to the renewal of Catholic identity in Catholic higher education," sent a fundraising letter to 75,000 members earlier this year, calling for the firings.