Author Keith Whamond

Due to the recount, this year's FUSA elections have been the talk of campus this past week. However, the fact that Fairfield University voter turnout this February was the lowest it's been in fourteen years is just as notable. A total of 974 students exercised their right to vote, 251 fewer than the yearly average of 1,224 since 1989*.

Considering that wealth and prestige are not new concepts at Fairfield, would it be surprising that the university has the wealthiest institutional and athletic budgets amongst Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) schools? According to the 2001-2002 Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA), Fairfield spent $8,241,475 on athletics last year.

by Ethan Fry ' Keith Whamond The Fairfield University Student Association was rocked by a recount last week when the results of the Vice President of Senate and Vice President of Programming races were overturned.

by Keith Whamond Imagine that you find yourself having suffered through registration for another semester, only to find that you signed up for Advanced Trigonometry thinking that it would be an easy way to fill up a core math requirement. The reason? You didn't have the benefit of a faculty advisor helping you along the way.

October, 2001. The New York Yankees lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks, losing their chance of being the World Champions for the 27th time. Numerous Red Sox fans were glued to the TV, ecstatic only because their most hated team lost. January, 2002. The New England Patriots beat the St.

You will notice an inflammatory adjective, one that begins with the letter "f," prominently placed in our coverage of the Student Beach Residents Association's 200 Nights. The use of this word was not an easy decision for the editors of this newspaper. What was a certainty, however, is that this quote in some form needed to be included.

I never watched much baseball after my favorite player, Donny "Baseball" Mattingly, left the sport. I didn't get back into baseball until freshman year, when I learned how powerful a force your favorite team could be. I was coming back from Monday night mass my freshman year (sidenote: I recommend that everyone try to attend one before graduation.

The Bush administration has publicly interpreted the recent United Nations resolution as authorizing the use of force should Iraq fail to comply with weapons inspections. George W. Bush has said, " if we have to go to war, we will." However, is this just a son trying to avenge Papa Bush's blow during Desert Storm? Fabulous.

If you are a true fan of the art of rap, go buy Nas' The Lost Tapes now. If you are merely enamored with the flashy samples and stale lyrics that are dominating rap right now, however, you probably will not like this album. The fact of the matter is that The Lost Tapes is the best rap album to come out this year, and will probably be the best rap album to come out for quite a long time.

It's not the conventional rags to riches story where the guy gets the girl and the unfathomable wealth and all is right with the world. However, on Detroit's real Eight Mile, the strip of land that separates the black from the white neighborhood, the urban from the suburban, this story is worthy of Disney accolades.