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Rugby Gives It The Good Old Fashioned Try
By Dan Leitão at April 19, 2011 | 11:28 am | 107 Comments
[caption id="attachment_32686" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Dan Leitao/The Mirror"][/caption] This past weekend, Men’s Rugby returned to the Beast of The East Tournament, the largest college rugby tournament in the world. Returning from a one-year hiatus to the second division, the team went three for five this weekend in Providence, R.I. “We were led more...
Welcome to J.Crew U
By Dan Leitão at April 19, 2011 | 10:32 am | 226 Comments
J.Crew U- It is the funniest label in the college guidebooks that Fairfield University has. It is ironic that for being a “rich kid school,” we are certainly one of the more poorly dressed schools. It is slightly hard to be J.Crew U when so much of the temperature during the school year is spent under 40 degrees; preppiness really doesn’t hold up in the cold. more...
His iPhone: Parting Words Of Wisdom From Yours Truly
By Dan Leitão at April 6, 2011 | 11:00 am | 36 Comments
[caption id="attachment_32334" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Contributed photo"][/caption] Today I get to say goodbye to the iPhone and BlackBerry column, which has had about seven different names this year. It is sad to say I won’t be able to take any more shots at BlackBerry Girl and argue about who read whose story first. We are supposed to offer you all more...
Cooley to Providence College
By Dan Leitão at March 22, 2011 | 4:41 pm | 87 Comments
[caption id="attachment_22840" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Ed Cooley"][/caption] The Providence Journal is reporting that Providence College has reached an agreement to hire Fairfield University's Head Men's Basketball Coach Ed Cooley, a Providence native. Providence College, a Big East school, fired their coach Keno Davis after only three more...
I Said What Four Years Ago?
By Dan Leitão at March 9, 2011 | 9:45 am | 4 Comments
“Do you recall saying, ‘Time isn’t wasted when your getting wasted & I love drunk girls’ two years ago on your Facebook?” asks an angry possible future employer. You slowly stammer through a response saying, “I was a sophomore in college, we were just joking around.” Too bad you didn’t cleanse your Facebook of embarrassing information that could cost more...
His iPhone: The Great State Debate
By Dan Leitão at March 9, 2011 | 9:32 am | 2 Comments
Oh, the great state debate. It is a simple answer: it is not New York, not New Jersey, and definitely not Long Island who secretly wishes they were there own state. For those of you who don’t know, I hail from Connecticut, specifically New Canaan, which is 20 minutes south of Fairfield. I’m hard pressed to say there is any state better then CT mainly because I more...
