Sean Norton

Oct 9, 2024 | fairfieldmirror.com | Sean Norton

The beginning of a new season always brings a wave of questions that will have to be answered before you truly know how good a team is going to be. Ever-changing rosters in college sports leave gaps in graduates that younger athletes have to step up and fill, and shifting athletes means shifting leadership and team bonds. All this is normal and can be anchored by the one individual who remains stable year after year in a college program, the coach.

Sep 25, 2024 | fairfieldmirror.com | Sean Norton

Intramural sports are a true staple of campus life for many students at Fairfield. They offer a quality social space, a means to stay active and a place to pursue the sports students love in a low stakes environment. These low stakes, however, often come with unintended consequences. The “nomad” in intramurals is a player who plays for multiple teams in one sport throughout the season. They’ll bounce from one team to another until playoff time, when they’ll have to pick a team and stay with them.

Sep 18, 2024 | fairfieldmirror.com | Sean Norton

In my last two years here at Fairfield, I’ve seen over 40 bird species, ranging from the mallards in the pond to a beautiful bald eagle soaring over Dolan, and of course, the turkeys, which I can confirm are far more aggressive than Turkeys are supposed to be. I learned about birds during my senior year of high school in a class where each day we would birdwatch at various locations around my hometown.

Sep 16, 2024 | chronicle.com | Jacob N. Shapiro |Sean Norton |Mitch Therieau |Len Gutkin

The AAUP’s recent reversal of its longstanding opposition — formalized in 2006 — to academic boycotts has occasioned a great deal of debate, including dueling opinion essays in our pages by Cary Nelson and Joan W. Scott. But the practical consequences of the change in policy remain to be seen. Should we anticipate an explosion of academic-boycott activity in the coming year? What, exactly, does the AAUP’s new policy permit?

Sep 10, 2024 | chronicle.com | Jacob N. Shapiro |Sean Norton

Vladimir Putin is waging yet another influence campaign. New intelligence shows that Russian actors are using fake media websites and social media accounts, some enhanced by artificial intelligence, to shape the November election by targeting voters in U.S. swing states. And Russia is not alone: China and Iran are also spreading falsehoods online to sway votes to their preferred outcomes. We are unable to fully display the content of this page.