Author Ryan Blair

For years, students at Fairfield have used illegal programs to download free music. Starting next week, the school is attempting to change that. Next Wednesday, the university is holding a demonstration of Apple's iTunes music store program in the Barone Campus Center, offering the use of 16 computers to give students a chance to try iTunes themselves.

Reilly to return One month after sustaining massive head trauma in Barcelona, Spain that resulted in a coma, Sean Reilly '05 will be returning to the United States on Thursday. Susan Fitzgerald, the director of the office of international education, has been in contact with Reilly's father, talking to him every other day.

One bad professor in your schedule can be the difference between an enjoyable semester and 14 weeks of academic hell. This explains why teacher rating services such as ratemyprofessor.com have become so popular among Fairfield students. Whether you're looking for an easy teacher, a challenging teacher or even a "hot" teacher, www.

Over 1100 Fairfield students flooded the campus center to vote for their student representatives in Tuesday's FUSA election. In recent years, FUSA has investigated the possibility of conducting the election on Stagweb. "We haven't abandoned the idea of electronic elections.

Imagine being charged with plagiarism by a computer program and failing the course, then having the teacher refuse to read the paper in question over in person to make sure the computer made no mistake. That is just what four students are claiming happened in Dr.

Paul Duffy '05 and Kevin Neubauer '05 will face each other Tuesday in the FUSA Presidential election after the primary saw a decisive win by Duffy,while Neubauer edged out Ben Manchak '05 by less than 30 votes. "I realize just how many friends I've made here these last two years," said Duffy, who received 501 votes.

If the election for next year's FUSA president is anything like the upcoming U.S. presidential election, George Bush should start sweating. Incumbent Kevin Neubauer '05 barely squeaked through Tuesday's primary, trailing the big winner of the primary, Paul Duffy '05, who received 501 votes, almost doubling Neubauer's 268.

FUSA candidates squared off Thursday on issues they perceive face students at Fairfield University and platforms to woo voters to the polls. Rory Butterly '05, Paul Duffy '05, Ben Manchak '05 and Kevin Neubauer '05 took to the microphone to present their platforms to an audience of a few dozen in the Barone campus center.

Voters are faced with a unique choice this year, as an incumbent FUSA president at Fairfield University tries to protect his position from four other contenders. The candidates' ad campaigns started not while voters were out and about but rather in the dark of night.

The Fairfield University Student Association kicked off the spring election season on Tuesday night as potential candidates gathered for a mandatory meeting in the campus center. More than 40 students from the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes registered their campaigns for senate, class council, Vice President of Programming, VP of Senate, and FUSA President with the Student Activities office.