Author Mari Heenan

Every so often, a rookie class arrives on the scene and blows away the competition. There was the 1983 NFL rookie class with Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, and John Elway; the 2003 NBA rookie class with LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwayne Wade. And then, there was the class that took the Great Western Lacrosse League by storm immediately upon arriving at Fairfield: a class, now in its junior season, led by super-scorers Greg Downing and Mike Bocklet, and rock-solid goaltender Michael Kruger.

Is it worth it to save our planet? This is the question that economics professor Dina Franceschi's class is looking into: just how "green," or environmentally friendly, Fairfield University is. "The project is about identifying what we're doing right as much as it is attempting to fix the things we're doing wrong, while keeping in mind that the cost is the bottom line," said Franceschi.

by Maura Heenan "Jesuit education has its own particular, and indeed peculiar, set of standards for success which are not always measurable by the normal expectations of outcomes assessment, and sometimes cut across conventional ideals of success, " Fairfield University President Jeffrey von Arx said in his commencement speech last year.