Daily Archives February 12, 2003

After an incredible start to its season, the men's basketball team has begun to lose more than just games recently. The Stags, who have lost three out of their last five games, announced last Saturday the immediate resignation of assistant coach and former NBA player Roshown McLeod.

Light flurries. Inundated switchboards. Rumors of cancellation. As the beneficiaries of snow days, students seldom realize who actually makes that declaration, freeing them from their academic responsibilities.

Sixty-four returning football players. Twenty-one returning hockey players. Ten coaches. As of the 2003/2004 academic year, all 95 of them will become a piece of university history. After more than 35 years of history at Fairfield, the football and ice hockey teams are eliminated from the university's athletic program.

by Keith Whamond Imagine that you find yourself having suffered through registration for another semester, only to find that you signed up for Advanced Trigonometry thinking that it would be an easy way to fill up a core math requirement. The reason? You didn't have the benefit of a faculty advisor helping you along the way.

I am definitely going to transfer. The words came quickly from The Sports Network All-American Division I-AA first team selector Jeff Gomulinski '06, as he responded to Fairfield University's decision to disband the football and hockey programs. "It will be tough to start over," said Gomulinski.

by Laura Walsh One year ago Wednesday, 24-year-old Fairfield alumnus Patrick Arbelo, carrying a cardboard box with exposed wires, suddenly walked into Dr. Elizabeth Dreyer's religious studies class in Canisius Hall claiming he had a bomb.

Business as usual, Hunter Greeley '04, a member of the hockey team, said about the morning of Thursday Feb. 6. The team was in the midst of its standard morning practice at the Wonderland of Ice. What was "business as usual" soon took a turn for the worst when head coach Jim Hunt received a phone call from Director of Athletics Eugene Doris at 9 a.

by Zack Finley Tim Fater, '05, has no connection to the recent disbandment of the football and hockey programs, except for the fact that he feels for the individuals and teams involved. However, Fater took his feelings and turned them into action last Thursday after hearing about the decision given by university President Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J.

by Mike Pignataro It's being called a "dark day" for Fairfield athletics, and for 85 student-athletes and 10 coaches the effects of last Thursday's announcement to cut the football and hockey programs will be felt for years to come.