Author Maura Heenan

Steelers 27, Seattle 17. That's my prediction. It may be wrong, it's certainly not what the experts are predicting (Steelers by 4), but I have another bet that I'm much more willing to put money on: at least half of the people who watch the Super Bowl game this Sunday will think that they know more about football than both Bill Cowher, the Pittsburgh coach, and Mike Holmgren, his Seattle counterpart, combined.

F.C. Lane, a professor at Boston University early in the 20th century, published an article in 1907 that, amazingly, strikingly resembles most publications a century later on the same subject. It's title -- "Present System of Batting Records Grossly Misleading" -- was the topic of conversation Tuesday when Alan Schwarz, baseball statistician and author of "The Numbers Game, Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics", a spoke to a room full of Fairfield math students and professors, often telling troubled baseball fans that widely held perceptions about baseball statistics are, as Lane wrote a century ago, grossly misleading.

by Maura Heenan There are more than 400 students on campus who want your empties. Fairfield University's Student-Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC) is sponsoring a can drive and is asking for donations from students, faculty and townspeople. The drive, dubbed "Empties for Africa" will benefit the children at the Baphumelele Children's Home.

One night each spring, Fairfield students construct cardboard forts outside the BCC during Hunger and Homelessness Week. They hope to draw other students' attention to the lifestyle of those who are homeless, marginalized and overlooked. Although these students may have their hearts in the right place, they are merely patronizing the people they are imitating.

Next Thursday, Theatre Fairfield will continue its eight-year tradition of "Director's Cut," a show consisting of 13 one-act plays performed and directed entirely by Fairfield University students. "It's going to be a fun night of theatre. There will be something for everyone; a lot of comedy, the heartfelt show... and it's guaranteed anyone who comes will know someone involved," said Jill Amato '05, one of the directors for the show.