Monthly Archives October 23, 2013

​Last Saturday, the Stags women’s soccer team beat the Niagara Purple Eagles with a score of 4-0 on Senior Day. Ironically enough, all four of the goals were scored by freshmen. The four seniors, Sarah Frassetto, Jac Ley, Carly Beyar and Shannon Fay, and one graduate student, Nikki Stanton '13, played in their last ever home game at Lessing Field and helped their team clinch a winning season as well as an undefeated season at home. This is the first time such a feat has happened for the women’s soccer team.

Over the past few weeks and months, Washington has been in an uproar. All sorts of political pundits and leaders have commented on how difficult the situation is, and even the President has weighed in with his opinion, although that hasn’t done much to settle the impasse.

​A new football week is about to begin, and I hope that it will be as exciting as the last one was. ​The highlight of last week’s games involved Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts defeating former Colt great Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos. The Broncos, although down late in the fourth quarter, showed why they were undefeated to that point and came very close to tying the game, falling short right before the end.

The war on drugs has been raging for upwards of 70 years, and for the first time we’re starting to see a legitimate end in the near future. Medical marijuana is now legal in 20 states as well as the District of Colombia, with more and more states leaning towards this resolution each year. Since grade school, we’ve been peppered with the idea that “drugs are bad,” but studies have proven that Drug Abuse Resistance Education is wholly ineffective when it comes to the root of the problem.

How would you feel if I told you that one of the central figures of your religion was nothing more than a myth to stop rebellions before they could occur?

Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, America is still fighting for equal opportunity. This continuous struggle is not just coming from the gap between black and white, but the gap between rich and poor.

It’s 2 a.m. and you are a hungry college student, therefore you are obligated to find the nearest takeout menu that someone creepily slid under your door and order anything that you and your friends are craving. This is called the “college diet” and it lacks fruits and vegetables as well as self-control and proper nourishment.

This week, the English department is again revving up their celebration of the National Day on Writing. The specific day of writing – created in 2009 via a Congressional resolution - was this past Sunday, October 19, however, related events on campus have been scheduled through Thursday.

On Aug. 7, 2012, maintenance staffers of Fairfield’s Department of Facilities Management casted a majority vote to join Local 30 International Union of Operating Engineers, making them the first and only group of employees at Fairfield to unionize. It has taken over a year for Fairfield’s Administration and their Maintenance staff to come to agreeable terms for the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that the Maintenance staff made official on Sep. 9, 2013 after voting 28 in favor, two against, one abstained and one member of the 32 staffers who did not show.

In 2007, Fairfield was ranked 19th out of 20 colleges and universities in the U.S. as one of the most LGBTQ-unfriendly campuses, according to the Princeton Review. Fairfield is no longer on that list.