Daily Archives April 2, 2008

Split start: The baseball team started the MAAC season with a 3-3 record, winning its first series against Marist and then losing in the series against Niagara. The Stags beat Marist on March 22 and then bounced back from a loss later that day to win on March 24.

As seasons change, so do intramural sports. Now that it is officially spring, intramural softball, the most popular intramural sport, is finally here. Sunday marked opening day for softball with the co-ed divisions competing at Barlow Field in the afternoon.

You may not have heard about them because they are rarely on an actual baseball diamond, but the club baseball team truly exemplifies what it means to play for the love of the game. "A lot of kids want to play baseball while still being a full-time student," said Dan Rogan '08.

Losing is a habit, just like winning is, said senior Matt Scanlon. "Once you have, it is hard to break. It is never easy." A five-game losing streak is hard to cope with for a team that was undefeated and ranked 16th nationally mere weeks ago in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) coaches' poll.

The women's lacrosse team's seven-game winning streak was given a scare Saturday against Marist, but the Stags remained calm and won their second overtime game during the streak. "It was a huge win for us," said Head Coach Beth Loffredo. "It was nice to know that we could still be very competitive in the MAAC, just like we are in our out-of-conference games.

Over the past four years, the minority enrollment at Fairfield has doubled and the University, as well as more than a dozen student groups on campus, have been striving to increase diversity awareness on campus with various programs. The Inter-Residential Housing Association [IRHA] and several other cultural clubs planned Diversity Week, a series of events scheduled between March 28 and April 4.

Thursday, March 27 3:46 p.m. Damage to a car parked in the Bannow parking lot was reported. One of the headlights was smashed. 7:58 p.m. A narcotics violation resulted in an arrest at the townhouses. Saturday, March 29 2:41 a.m. Two burglaries were reported in Campion Hall.

More than two-thirds of undergraduate students have never participated in environmental awareness activities on campus, according to the first environmental survey conducted at Fairfield. The survey, which invited all undergraduate students to answer questions about their environmental behaviors and ideologies, found that the majority of students who responded fail to bring about change by recycling or buying environmentally friendly goods.

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Find out all the numbers involved in Fairfield's Diversity Week in this weeks edition of 'By the numbers.'