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The PBS favorite "Reading Rainbow," will be featured at Fairfield University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts Sunday, March 10 at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. The Theatreworks/USA-staged show, appropriate for children in grades 2-7, will be repeated Monday, March 11 at 10 a.m. as part of the Quick Center's Arts Bound Schoolday Series.

Two Fairfield University professors, Dr. Katherine Kidd and Dr. Joy Gordon, and their student interns were recently honored by the United Way of Eastern Fairfield County with the United Way Community Builders awards. The awards were presented this year for the first time.

Yes, it's that time of year again. Either you are one of the lucky few who go out and buy anything and everything pink and red for their loved one, or you're one of the many who sit and watches as the nightmare of Valentine's Day comes and goes. No longer is Valentine's Day a day to be enjoyed by all. It has become a holiday when couples drown themselves with cliches of love and singles drown their woos with the bottle.

Whose doing what and where...check out this week's edition of Campus Crime BEAT.

On Wednesday, Feb. 27, Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000, will speak at Fairfield University's Open VISIONS Forum. "Keeping the Humanities Alive Via Poetry" is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

I once worked in a card store. This fact in and of itself is nothing extraordinary, except for the fact that in the course of my employment there, I was made privy to a most peculiar sort of activity every time Feb. 14 rolled around on the calendar.

Fairfield University, by nature, is a place where students, faculty and school officials are not expected to stare straight into the eyes of one of the most absurd and terrifying situations possible. Who would have ever thought a hostage situation could happen here? Who would have ever been prepared for such an ordeal?

The men's and women's basketball teams will host Manhattan and Marist tonight in a double-header at the Arena at Harbor Yard. The men's team has won two-straight games and are now 8-15 overall and 6-8 in the MAAC, while the Lady Stags have lost two-straight and are 11-13 overall and 6-7 in the conference.

Fairfield's move to the Arena at Harbor Yard has been a success this year with increased attendance from last season and plans to help spark more student interest in the upcoming years.

The hostage-taker at Fairfield University who held up 22 students and one teacher for about six hours on Tuesday was identified as Patrick Arbelo, a 24-year-old resident of Bridgeport, by the Fairfield Police Department.