Monthly Archives March 5, 2014

As the 2014 NFL Draft draws nearer, prospective players are being given the chance to show why they should be picked. Whether it is through the NFL scouting combine or through private workouts for individual teams, these college players want to make a good impression on teams in order to ensure that they are given a shot in the NFL.

“It never is easy,” Fairfield head coach Sydney Johnson said, managing a smile outside of the locker room following a narrow 79-74 win.

With what has started as a strong two-win season opening for men’s lacrosse has since turned into a 2-2 record, following losses to Hofstra and Providence. In a hard-fought game on Alumni Field, Fairfield men’s lacrosse fell 14-11 to the visiting Providence Friars.

I was taught that spoken word poetry started in the east coast, originating in Latin@ communities then Black neighborhoods as an “alternative venue where non-Columbia/NYU educated, poor, Spanglish-speaking, racially oppressed groups carved their own space” to challenge norms that silence them in a form that is meant to be experienced immediately with “particular rhetorical practices and discursive tropes that make it "SPOKEN WORD" as opposed to "poetry read aloud."

Loan has asked Luigi to bring her a cup of hot chocolate down from the Main Dining Room consistently for weeks. A new table for the sweet treat with toppings is just another tool for us to get through the crunch of working under Tuesday night deadline.

Hyperactive children are a handful, as anyone who has been near a toddler knows. Three- to five-year-olds are loud, energetic and have a short attention span that I’m sure drives their parents and teachers crazy. Young children are just overflowing with energy — everything is exciting and new to them.

Marketing innovator. Successful entrepreneur. Business icon. These all describe John Sculley, former President of PepsiCo and CEO of Apple, who addressed an enthusiastic audience at Fairfield on Feb. 26.

Walking to your car, you catch a glimpse of that bright, thin orange sheet, waving back and forth in your windshield wiper as the wind blows. You stop in your tracks and think, “Not again!”

Mayor Bill Finch of Bridgeport grew up in the city that he now governs, and has said he doesn’t recall Fairfield University being accessible to the kids from his own neighborhood.

Although mountainous snow banks may have students thinking that the university is trapped in a perpetual winter, soon enough registration for the Fall 2014 semester and talk of summer plans will elicit anxious murmurs of the infamous “I” word throughout campus. Internship.