Author Melissa B. Thompson

Success: a difficult thing to define. Last Sunday at the Fairfield University 2002 Leadership Conference, speaker John Spence referred to personal success as, "When your self-concept and core values are in harmony with your lifestyle and behaviors." He also suggested that there are three necessary components of success: 1) knowledge 2) network, and 3) love.

The concept of George Bailey's cozy little savings and loan in It's a Wonderful Life today is as hokey as the movie itself. By and large, banking has becoming cold and impersonal. If you have money, banks love you, and if you don't, they barely even let you in the door.

It's Saturday night, and you're going out. You know you're going to run into that little girl who wears those low rise jeans in your sociology class at the townhouses, or you're a girl who's gonna run into the meathead-lookin' dude from English at the Grape.

Picture this: you're standing around with your friends at a party one night having the usual pointless conversation about why otters float or something, when that special guy or girl catches your eye. The first thing you think is "hot damn," naturally followed by, "ahhh, what do I do?" Well, there is no need to panic -- there is a whole lot that you can do.

. By Melissa B. Thompson Last year a student was able to purchase tickets at the Quick Center for all of the speakers presented by the Open Visions Forum. Usually premium seating in the first ten rows was readily available. However, students may have taken for for granted their ability to listen to Richard Holbrooke and Robert Pinsky from the front row, because this year it was a whole different scene.

It's a place where the black man means something. ''It's our own country club. Welcome to the Barbershop, the home-away-from-home of an inner city neighborhood. Set in the South Side of Chicago, we are invited into the world of the "boys club" where worldly discussions intermingle with friendly banter, ranging from Rosa Parks, "who didn't do nothing but sit her black ass down,'' to the differences between a "woman with a big ass" and a "big ass woman.

Fairfield University's success with Fulbright scholarships continued this year, as recent graduate Lara Eckler was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Germany. This is the 28th Fulbright scholarship that a Fairfield University student has received. The Fulbright Grant is the most esteemed award given by the U.

My roommate came home quite drunk one night, and I wasn't sure what to do. Should I let him sleep it off like I did last time, or should I take him to the Health Center? —Drunk with confusion The health center has stickers in virtually every bathroom telling you to not let someone sleep it off.

On Wednesday night, April 24, Fairfield dressed in its best to welcome the broadcasting of "The Charlie Rose Show," as part of the 2nd Annual Dolan lecture series, featuring a conversation between Emmy-winning journalist Charlie Rose, and Chairman and CEO of AT'T, C.