"It's not a personal attack on his qualities as a cardinal or individual, " said Monsignor Michael Fahey, a scholar at Fairfield University in Conn.

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Police say in the affidavit that the photo of Mara, a senior at Fairfield University, was when he was a freshman and looked significantly different.

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At Fairfield University in Connecticut, the University's College Democrats kicked off its "dorm storm" campaign, an effort in which students go door-to-door on campus with voter registration forms.

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He grew up in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of an elementary-school teacher and a math professor, went to nearby Fairfield University, and, like many good students, decided that he would go into medicine.

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He has been an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University in Boston since 1995 and also teaches a partnership tax class in the master's in taxation degree program at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, his LinkedIn page states.

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Rachael Joyner at Florida Atlantic University, Phillip Lucas and Kendra Desrosiers at Howard University, Tracy Boyer at University of North Carolina, Michelle Chan at Pepperdine University, Chris Welch at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ben Doody at Fairfield and Chris Burcham at Tulane University contributed to this article.

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An army general even joined the board of Maharishi International University, set up in Fairfield in 1974.

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