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Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Once upon a time, my mom allowed me to have candles in my room. Now she doesn't, and I can't blame her, and the following story is [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo I watched Netflix's new series, '13 Reasons Why,' so you don't have to. '13 Reasons Why,' based on the novel by Jay Asher, details the aftermath of [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Roxane Gay's 'Difficult Women,' a 2017 anthology of short stories, has a self-explanatory title. The female characters in these short stories behave in ways that are opposed [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo If you're looking to ruin your day, than Netflix has a great show for you. Daniel Handler's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' is Netflix's new project. Written [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo A weekend trip to County Cork, Ireland brought me to one of Ireland's most famous tourist attractions: Blarney Castle. The 600-year-old castle appealed to my historical sensibilities [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Are you brave enough? This is the leading question for the City of the Dead ghost tours in Edinburgh, Scotland. I don't know about being brave, but [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo It was hard for me to narrow down what to talk about this week, because this past weekend I was in London, and like most big cities, [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo One of the pieces of advice I got for studying abroad was, 'try the local food everywhere.' I took it to heart, because I love food. In [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo 'IMMORALITY ACT, 1927: To prohibit illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives...' begins Trevor Noah's 2016 memoir, 'Born a Crime.' Noah, a comedian and the current host [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Prince fans are in an uproar after the Super Bowl Halftime Show. At Super Bowl LII on Feb. 4, pop singer Justin Timberlake performed an ultimately lackluster [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo In 1996, Congress passed the 'Dickey Amendment,' which banned Centers for Disease Control scientists from using congressional money to advocate for gun control. On paper, this is [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo The #MeToo movement should have been sparked by U.S.A. Gymnastics over a year ago after 140 women accused former team doctor Larry Nassar of sexual assault. Vox [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo The news media is under attack. This started during President Donald Trump's campaign, where he accused the 'liberal news media' of being biased against him, following accusations [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is, as the name would imply, a giant patch of floating garbage located in the Pacific Ocean. It is also, as the [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo The 'Fifty Shades' series, originally written as 'Twilight' fanfiction by author E.L. James, according to Forbes, took off as a best-selling trilogy and now movie franchise about [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo What, seems to be the question, is the big deal about condoms? Fairfield University is a Catholic Jesuit school; other Catholic Jesuit schools do not distribute condoms. [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo One of the things I cannot understand is why people - mostly men, mostly older - have decided to become evangelists for actor and director Woody Allen. [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Dress codes are common in high school classrooms and the workplace. But one wouldn't expect to see them on an airplane. As reported by the New York [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo The international community recently remembered the worst horror of the twentieth century, among rising hatred internationally. Jan. 27, 2018 marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Seventy-three years ago [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Adoption agencies that receive government money shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against same-sex couples. I wouldn't expect this to be controversial, but on Feb. 24 the Associated [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo What happens after you've become a freed political prisoner? The Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrations this year culminated in civil rights icon Dr. Angela Davis' Open VISIONS [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo When our bus pulled up to the Cliffs of Moher, it was so windy that the top of the bus was buffeting. I looked out the window [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo In February and March of 2018, West Virginia teachers went on strike to demand better wages. NBC News reported that West Virginia teachers' salaries were some of [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo I'm one of those very annoying people who watches too many horror movies, the good and the bad of the genre, and this has given me a [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo 'That summer I hunted the serial killer at night from my daughter's playroom,' writes author Michelle McNamara in her first sentence of her true crime novel. Before [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo In San Jose, Calif. in March, motivational speaker and life coach Tony Robbins denounced the #MeToo movement at one of his 'Unleash the Power' events. According to [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo There are a lot of little things about Fairfield University that annoy me. A sampling: I'll start, casually, with the pettiest: why are there no warnings for [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Roommate conflict has already brought the Fairfield Police Department to the beach this year. Fairfield University student Danielle Ferguson '19 was arrested on Saturday, Sept. 8 for [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo History was made in the United States senate on April 19, 2019. Senator Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, brought her 10-day-old baby to the senate floor [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo The problem of gun violence in America is often conceptualized in terms of assault rifles and mass shootings, not the violence some communities face daily. In the [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Globally, there has been a rise in verbal and physical attacks on members of the media. On Wednesday, Nov. 28, visiting professor of politics Dr. Aaron Weinstein, [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo The Office of the Dean of Students sent out a 'Campus Climate Sexual Assault Survey' on Jan. 24, asking students about their experiences, or lack thereof, with [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo What does the constitution really mean in 2018 politics? Sponsored by Civic Education & Democratic Engagement, 'In Trump We Trust' gave students the space to discuss the [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Throughout the 13th annual Commonweal lecture, speaker Dominic Preziosi reminded the audience that a people is known by the story it tells. Preziosi is the editor of [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo When he was four years old, Daniel Shapiro's family traveled to Israel. This was 1973, the same year as the Yom Kippur War between Israel, Syria and [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Voters across the country, the state of Connecticut and the town of Fairfield went to the polls to vote in the midterm election on Nov. 6, 2018. [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo I never intended to start working for The Mirror. I applied to be Chief Copy Editor in Feb. 2017 assuming that I wouldn't get hired, and then, [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Sacred Heart University student Caitlin Nelson died after a March 2017 pancake eating competition, and her family is suing SHU. The Fairfield Patch reported that during a [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Throughout the 13th annual Commonweal lecture, speaker Dominic Preziosi reminded the audience that a people is known by the story it tells. Preziosi is the editor of [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo The Office of the Dean of Students sent out a 'Campus Climate Sexual Assault Survey' on Jan. 24, asking students about their experiences, or lack thereof, with [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo I never intended to start working for The Mirror. I applied to be Chief Copy Editor in Feb. 2016 assuming that I wouldn't get hired, and then, [...]

Byline: Sabina DirienzoGlobally, there has been a rise in verbal and physical attacks on members of the media. On Wednesday, Nov. 28, visiting professor of politics Dr. Aaron Weinstein, Ph.D. [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo What does the constitution really mean in 2018 politics? Sponsored by Civic Education & Democratic Engagement, 'In Trump We Trust' gave students the space to discuss the [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo Five Portable Protein Shakes For Students Since I started college, I've become obsessed with protein shakes. When you're always on-the-go, there's nothing better than drinking a protein [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo 'That summer I hunted the serial killer at night from my daughter's playroom,' writes author Michelle McNamara in her first sentence of her true crime novel. Before [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo There are a lot of little things about Fairfield University that annoy me. A sampling: I'll start, casually, with the pettiest: why are there no warnings for [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo In San Jose, Calif. in March, motivational speaker and life coach Tony Robbins denounced the #MeToo movement at one of his 'Unleash the Power' events. According to [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo In February and March of 2018, West Virginia teachers went on strike to demand better wages. NBC News reported that West Virginia teachers' salaries were some of [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo In 1996, Congress passed the 'Dickey Amendment,' which banned Centers for Disease Control scientists from using congressional money to advocate for gun control. On paper, this is [...]

Byline: Sabina Dirienzo The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is, as the name would imply, a giant patch of floating garbage located in the Pacific Ocean. It is also, as the [...]