As an alumnus, I was disappointed and embarrassed by the total lack of student support this afternoon in Alumni Hall for your women’s basketball team.
The hard-fought game against league-leading Marist had only 26 of you students at the game – that’s right 26. They were outnumbered by your cheerleaders, dance team and pep band. There were more Marist fans from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in your building than you students despite a 20″ LCD HDTV being given away to a lucky student.
I can understand your reluctance to take a bus to Bridgeport, pay $5 to get into the game and Arena at Harbor Yard prices for something to eat. But this was a game that you could walk to from your dorms or the BCC, get in for FREE and get a get a chance to win a television. More importantly, your loud and rowdy presence was needed, but you just weren’t there.
I’m sure that you all have a good excuse as to why you couldn’t have taken less than two hours out of your busy Sunday to go to Alumni Hall to support your fellow students as they played their hardest to represent you and the University today.
Don’t bother telling some “Old School” alumni old dude, tell Sabra Wrice ’08, Meka Werts ’08, Stephanie Cziria ’08 and the rest of your fellow students on the team, I’m sure they would like to know why you didn’t show up to support them.
-Thomas F. Leahy ’73
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