Author Ryan Blair

There was always "that guy" in every grade. Like that guy who ran through the quad naked during the first month of freshman year. Or then there's that guy who always got into senseless fights, or that guy who got drunk and ripped down all the posters on your floor and then broke a huge window in the dorm lobby.

Six a.m., December 25, 1993. The day the magic faded to black. My younger brother Chris, decked out in red union suit pajamas (I use to wonder about him) wakes my 9-year-old self up. "Ryan, get up! Get up!" The day had come. This day was the culmination of more than a month and a half of anticipation characterized by vivid dreams, goosebumps, and that weird tingly feeling you get in the back of your head when you think of something pleasant.

by Ryan T. Blair Has a whiny little snot-nosed kid in the cookie aisle at Stop ' Shop ever pissed you off so much that you tell yourself, "If I had something I could hit that kid with, I'd use it"? Me too. What a great age we live in, because not only does a company now manufacture such a tool, but God says it's OK to use it! It's called The Rod, and it's been on the market for a few years now.

by Ryan Blair ' Audrey Adade Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an accomplished print and broadcast journalist and major player in the American civil rights movement, addressed several hundred people last night at the Open VISIONS Forum at Fairfield University. Her speech, entitled "From Jim Crow to Apartheid South Africa and Beyond: A Journalist's Journey" consisted of a narrative of her years as a key player in the civil rights movement.

CHEERS to Fairfield athletics doing so well in the NCAA's report from the 2003-4 school year in regards to graduation rates. At some of the bigger schools, such as UConn, athletics often take more prominence than the true purpose of college, which is education.

by Ryan Blair Mike's Pizza, a popular local restaurant and long-standing tradition of Fairfield's students, will be opening a pizzeria in The Levee, the university's seldom-patronized campus bar. "I couldn't be more excited than to have Mike's Pizza here; it's something we've been trying to do for years," said Matthew Dinnan, associate dean of students and coordinator of the effort, as he announced the agreement at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

by Ryan Blair As the Fairfield University Student Association (FUSA) puts the finishing touches on a new constitution, it has indicated that all winter elections will be postponed from now until mid-late March, according to Brett Ritterbeck, FUSA's vice president of senate.

Cheers to legal beirut tables! Legal or not, beirut tables were always going to be a fixture at Fairfield University. Now that they're legal, it makes carrying a huge piece of plywood into your house a lot easier...actually it doesn't make it an easier task, just less suspicious.

I'm too lazy, says one college-age voter. "I hate politicians," declares another. "I don't live in a swing state, so my vote really doesn't count," explains one New Yorker. Anyone can construct a justification for staying out of the political process and there's little that can be said to convince otherwise.

Reilly to return One month after sustaining massive head trauma in Barcelona, Spain that resulted in a coma, Sean Reilly '05 will be returning to the United States on Thursday. Susan Fitzgerald, the director of the office of international education, has been in contact with Reilly's father, talking to him every other day.