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Athlete suspensions and the preemptive disbanding of a large outdoor party stained last weekend a!er would-be hosts pitched the event on Facebook to be a drunken orgy.

"e o#ce of residence life ap-proved what was originally slated to be an a!ernoon of outdoor dancing in the lawn between Stu-dent Townhouse Complex blocks 8, 9 and 10.

However, a “degrading” Face-book event page appeared within 24 hours of the approval according to Dean of Students Karen Donohue ‘03. Students administrating the event proposed it to ResLife with the name “Fair$eld Ultra” – a spino% of the annual international event (Ultra Music Festival) known for crowds of young people and hours of electronic disc jockeying.

"e Facebook event page, ti-tled “FUltra Townhouse F*ckfest,” had a detailed description stating,

“… DJ Lou [will] be setting up his strip poles and boombox on the grass for us to get inebriated and bang everything that has two legs and a heartbeat,” among other things.

For Donoghue, “whether it was a joke or not, it was extremely disappointing … "is turned from an organized event to an undercov-er orgy, you could argue.”

"ree students were adminis-trators of the Facebook event page and were asked by the dean of stu-dents’ o#ce to delete it and cancel the event. "e students complied. "e dean’s o#ce would not discuss any other sanctions that may have been imposed on the students for the o%ensive event description.

Donoghue said that all action taken in her o#ce is done indepen-dently from the athletic depart-ment, though the two departments keep in communication. On athlet-ics, “"ey have their own standards … I uphold to the [Student Hand-book] and I treat all the same.”

"e dean’s o#ce was informed

By Luigi DiMeglioManaging Editor

You can’t catch the boat if you can’t catch the bus. Unfor-tunately, this was the case last Saturday, March 23, as mem-bers of the sophomore class dressed in semi-formal attire and waited for the bus to drive them to their Halfway There Cruise that never came.

Each year, sophomores are given the chance to embark on an evening of fun and cel-ebration at the cost of $50 per ticket, which covers dinner and transportation. However, this year the cruise did not happen due to an issue with bus scheduling.

The buses were supposed to take Fairfield students to New York City, where they would take a ride around Man-hattan on a cruise ship.

Kuo explained there was a miscommunication in the con-firmation of the reservation between the office of confer-ence & event management and FUSA. “Both of them thought that the reservation was made but it was never confirmed by Academy Bus Company,” Kuo said.

Students who waited for the bus in Alumni Hall were upset about the cancellation of plans. Some even began to chant, “Move that bus!”

However, Fred J. Kuo, di-rector of the office of student

involvement, tried to keep things from getting out of hand by calming the crowd and sympathizing with students. He informed them about what was going on as he became aware of it.

“Myself and the students had a reservation for the bus on Saturday. It was supposed to arrive at 4:30, so right around 4:30 when the bus didn’t show up was when we got a little concerned,” said Kuo.

He said he then checked with the bus company and they said they did not have any res-ervation to arrive at Fairfield.

“I’m still in meetings right now to figure out where the er-ror was,” Kuo said. “Was it on our end, meaning [the] insti-

tution, or was it on Academy’s end? I’m not sure what the answer is just yet.” He hopes FUSA will put a statement out to the sophomore class in terms of a follow-up with hopes to reschedule.

Currently, the class of 2015 Programmers, Thomas Kenney and Andrea Butler are looking at the event calendar and working with the cruise company in an attempt to re-schedule the event. Unfortunately, it is predicted that the University will suffer some sort of financial loss.

Kuo revealed on Tues-day the incident will cost the school a total of $2,000. “We lucked out that the cruise com-pany hadn’t prepped most of

the food as we notified them when we had the issue,” Kuo said.

It is still uncertain if the cruise company will offset any of these charges.

Although a decision to re-schedule will not be made any sooner than after Easter break, Kuo stresses that students save their tickets because they will either be able to redeem them for the rescheduled cruise or refund them, if they cannot attend the rescheduled date. FUSA will also allow students who purchased cruise tickets to redeem them for free tickets to Dogwoods Dance on April 13.

By Dylan DembinVine Editor

Students never make it halfway there

The Fairfield University Student Association is looking to revive a decades-old Fair-field tradition by making this year’s Dogwoods Dance one for the books.

In years past the event suffered low attendance levels due to a scheduling conflict with Clam Jam, according to FUSA President Rob Vogel ’13. This year, Vogel made sure that the date was moved from April 27 to April 13, a week before Around the World and the se-nior mock wedding.

“For the past two years it’s been on the night of Clam Jam,” Vogel said. “We worked hard this year to move it to a

different night and to get the administration to approve us moving to a different night.”

In recent years Fairfield scheduled the event on the night of Clam Jam as a way to deter students from attending the non-sanctioned, off-cam-pus beach party, according to Vogel. However, he said that moving the event this year was relatively easy.

“We were putting [in] way too much effort financially and other resources into an event that we knew students weren’t getting what we want out of it,” said Vogel. FUSA believed that it was a waste of resources to schedule an event when stu-dents would chose Clam Jam instead; moving the date was a logical decision.

FUSA utilized social me-

dia to tease this year’s dance by posting a video for “Dog-woods ’13 Fire and Ice” on the Facebook group of each class, with a tailored message to each grade.

They wanted to market the event to seniors as another Fairfield staple before com-mencement, to juniors and sophomores as a “President’s Ball part 2” and to freshmen as a part of Fairfield tradition that they had never heard of before.

Freshman Katie Sirna, who saw the post in her class’ Facebook group, said the teas-er sold her on Dogwoods ’13.

“I didn’t hear about it at all, then I watched the video and thought it was cool,” said

By Salvatore Tri!lioNews Editor

FUSA to redeem Dogwoods tradition

PARTY | PAGE 4

Contributed photo

FUSA plans to return Dogwoods to its original glory. !is year’s spring dance will not con"ict with Clam Jam.

DANCE | PAGE 4

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THE MIRROR | Week of March 27, 2013News

Bus confirmation error strands sophomores at Alumni Hall

“[FUSA’s] hope is to reschedule, so we’re looking at dates right now and the boat com-pany is looking at their schedule and trying to figure out when we can go back,” he said.

“It stinks. I was looking forward to this night just like the students were,” Kuo said. “Students were disappointed and we were disappointed; unfortunately it was some-thing that was out of our control, but ulti-mately it falls on FUSA’s shoulders and my office’s shoulders so if people want to be angry they should be angry at us. We un-derstand that and hopefully we can make amends for it.”

Sophomore Matt Rouleau expressed frus-tration about the scheduling conflict.

“I don’t understand why they made us stand around in the front of Alumni Hall for as long as they did,” said Rouleau.

Sophomore Shardell Hamilton was also less than pleased with how the mix up was handled: “I started hearing that there was a mix up with the buses around 5, why wasn’t anything announced then? Standing in a crowded Alumni Hall entrance for over an hour and a half to finally hear that it was

cancelled was disappointing.”While many students are rightfully upset

about this ordeal, many are having positive attitudes, such as Kathryn Denne ‘15.

“Although it was a huge disappointment that the sophomore cruise was cancelled this past weekend, I believe that everything happens for a reason, and if it does get post-poned, then it will be warmer out,” said Dennen.

“I still had fun getting ready with my friends and even chatting and taking pic-tures in Alumni Hall,” said Dennen. “Worse events could have happened. For instance, our ship could have sprung a leak … and we all know how that story ends.”

Unfortunately with issues like this, there are no definite solutions, at least so far. There is no clear explanation of exactly what hap-pened. There are many people whom this affected and there is a mix of emotions, but students and faculty have to find out what happened before coming to a conclusion.

FUSA and other Fairfield offices will elab-orate on the events soon and come to a defi-nite conclusion. For now students should just save their tickets and wait for news on what will happen.

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Students gathered in the Lower Level BCC Tuesday night for the annual upperclassmen housing lottery.

Comm. panel still effective

Fair$eld University o%ers many majors that students are able to choose from but some-times narrowing down on that one speci$c major may be dif-$cult.

Sophomore Ti%any Scifo, like many students at Fair$eld University, entered into college “undeclared.”

“It’s intimidating to see all of my friends with majors and I am still unsure what I really want,” said Scifo.

To ensure that students are aware of all the opportunities available to them at Fair$eld, the Career Planning Center and the Department of Communica-tion teamed up and sponsored “Careers in Communication,” an event featuring distinguished communication alums.

"is annual panel discus-sion took place on Monday evening in the Kelly Center Pre-sentation Room. "e room was packed with students, ranging from freshman to seniors, either

looking for jobs or just some in-sight into what the Communica-tion major can do for them.

Panelists included Court-ney Cunnigham ’10, Caitilin Gallagher ’09, Ali Goldberg ’11, Brenna Jordan ’07, and Brendan Monahan ’10.

Panelists were asked a number of questions all relating back to how the communication major can give anyone a chance in the job market.

“Just because you’ve never done something does not mean that you won’t be able to know how,” said Cunningham. She explained that there are many things she is o!en told to do at work and she knows how to do all of them, whether it deals with public relations or market-ing, because her communication degree at Fair$eld prepared her for it.

Cunningham is an adver-tising sales planner for NBC Universal’s program Sprout. She earned her bachelors degree in Communication and graduated

By Kaitlin McEwanAssistant News Editor

Between featuring senior mug nights, chicken turnovers, and fund-raiser kicko%s, going to the Levee is a hallmark of the Fair$eld experience. What many students might not real-ize is that the campus bar and eatery is also a hotspot for faculty and sta% members.

On Friday, March 22, about a doz-en faculty and sta% members gathered at the Levee to kick o% this month’s Fac-ulty/Sta% Happy Hour. Usually about 20 to 50 people attend these events held one Friday out of the month, according to Tara Rupp, associate director of con-ference and event management.

“"e goal is simply to provide a chance for faculty and sta% to con-nect socially once a month,” said Rupp. “We o!en order food from Angelo’s to share.”

"ough the Levee is still open to students during the faculty happy hour, which runs until 6:30 p.m., typi-cally only faculty and sta% attend, Rupp said.

Colleen McGinn, associate direc-tor of alumni relations, said that o!en di%erent o#ces within Fair$eld plan on attending as a group.

“We’re here as an o#ce,” said McGinn.

"e event is not promoted to stu-dents and the only non-faculty mem-bers in attendance on Friday were two students who happened to be playing

pool as the event started."e happy hours started last year,

with Rupp being responsible for coor-dinating the events since January. She works with Professor Manyul Im to determine appropriate dates and Im promotes the happy hours among the faculty through personal email.

“Tyler McClain and I began this monthly event a year ago when we re-alized at the president’s holiday gather-ing how much fun it was to get together with both faculty and sta% together in a social setting,” said Im.

“I’m a $rm believer that knowing and liking who you work with helps in work collaborations, both routine ones and special projects.”

Although both faculty and sta% alike are on board with the idea of a faculty/sta% happy hour once a month, some attendees felt that there was still room for improvement.

“I like the idea, but maybe not on a Friday,” said McGinn. She said that she o!en opts out because she already has other plans.

Nicole Lynch, interactive web designer, who has attended the event twice, believes the event might be bet-ter attended if held on another day rather than Friday. Lynch also said that she does not think enough is done to promote the event, but the intention is good.

“We’re hoping it will become a real tradition for faculty and sta%,” Im said.

By Dylan DembinVine Editor

Faculty, staff gather for monthly Levee happy hour

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THE MIRROR | Week of March 27, 2013News

Compiled by Robert Joyce.

Information contributed by the department of public safety.

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Thursday, 3/21

12:30 p.m. – A cellphone was reported sto-len from the RecPlex on Wednesday night. The incident is under investigation.

3:37 p.m. – Officers patrolling Regis Hall detected the odor of marijuana. The officers made contact with a male student and dis-covered marijuana and paraphernalia. The student was referred to Student Conduct and the Fairfield Police Department.

Friday, 3/22

10:09 p.m. – DPS on patrol in Regis Hall found students to be in possession of vodka and beer. The alcohol was dumped out and the students were referred to Student Con-duct.

Saturday, 3/23

1:19 a.m. – An exterior window to a Dolan Hall stairwell was broken. The incident is under investigation.

11:25 p.m. – RAs in Kostka Hall reported an odor of marijuana. Upon investigation, DPS discovered marijuana and drug para-phernalia. The students responsible were referred to Student Conduct and Fairfield Police.

Sunday, 3/24

12:30 a.m. – A non-student attempting to enter campus at the main checkpoint was found using a fake driver’s license and re-ferred to the Fairfield Police Department.

If you have information about any of these incidents, please contact the Department of Public Saftey.

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Other panelists emphasized the importance of !nding two solid in-ternships before your college career is over.

“No job is too small,” said Jordan. He explained that students should never pass up an opportunity to im-merse themselves in the !eld they love because you never know what may lead to the “dream job.”

Jordan graduated from Fair!eld with a Bachelors degree in Commu-nication in 2007. She also minored in Spanish and Politics.

Jordan now serves as a Tal-ent Acquisition specialist, recruiting sales, marketing, compliance, !nance, and entry-level employees. She also coordinates the internship program in Connecticut and New York for the company, Legg Masson Global Assest Management.

#e panelists discussed how hav-ing a liberal arts education and taking the Core Classes that Fair!eld o"ers does help in the future with any career you may come across.

“Talking to so many di"erent people everyday there’s a great chance that you may not know anything they’re talking about,” said Monahan. “However, I found that you can always bounce back to the Core classes and !nd something to talk about.”

Monahan graduated with a com-munication degree and journalism

minor in 2010. He was involved with #e Mirror and HAM Channel at Fair!eld.

He is currently a news reporter at abc40-TV, New England Cable News and focuses a majority of his reports on investigative stories.

#e message of the night was that a degree in Communication gives you options in just about everything.

Panelists urged students to ex-plore all of their options and never give up on something you are pas-sionate about.

A$er hearing all of the panel-ists speak, Scifo commented, “I feel relieved. I am so happy I went to this event because so many questions were answered and I think I may !nally have a major. Communication is the match for me.”

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of the page by the department of public safety. DPS was noti!ed of the page de-scription by ResLife, who had it men-tioned to them by other students.

Because the event was open to public access, ResLife sta" was able to read it via their personal accounts.

One of the administrators is a men’s tennis player, the other on the men’s soccer team. Student athletes have their own additional code of con-duct. By Friday a$ernoon, a meeting was called in the Walsh Athletic Center for all Division I coaches. #e NCAA holds all institutions accountable for social media related to their athletics.

“I called the meeting more with disappointment,” said Gene Doris, di-rector of athletics. “#e meeting to re-mind coaches,” he said.

Within two weeks prior to the event post, Fair!eld athletics in con-junction with career planning held an event where athletes could meet with an Alumnus to discuss the dangers of social media. Attendance was optional; not everyone went.

A$er the meeting on Friday, it was determined that the athletes would be suspended for some time at their coaches’ discretion. As of now, the sus-pensions are for less than the rest of the semester. Doris believes the sanctions from his department are an appropriate reaction.

“I know the standard that we hold [our athletes] to,” Doris said. “If you’re at a party wearing Fair!eld University garb, doing something inappropriate, you have to take responsibility.

“I know it might not sound fair, but we hold them to that.”

Dance to rival President’s BallSirna. “I’m definitely going to go … I’m excited.”

This year’s theme, Fire and Ice, came after much consideration by Lindsey Hanley ‘15 and Mariam Boutros ‘13, FUSA’s co-directors of special events.

“We really liked the idea of ‘Fire and Ice’ because we could keep the red and white for Fairfield,” Hanley said.

Boutros and Hanley are planning to completely transform Alumni Hall for this event.

“It won’t even look like the same building once it’s decorated,” said Hanley.

Apart from the new theme and scheduling change, students can look forward to attending a Fairfield event with a cash bar. Vogel said the cash bar has been a part of Dogwoods since the establishment of the event in 1960.

FUSA has also decided to issue free tickets to any sophomore who still has their cruise ticket “as an apol-ogy on our end” for Saturday’s incon-venience.

Tickets are currently on sale at the Barone Campus Center Info Desk for $10.

“We have an incredible event, and an incredible project lined up, it’s up to the students to buy in and recre-ate this tradition,” Vogel said.



Party axed, athletes suspended

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scription, warranting disciplinary sanctions on the page administrators.

THE MIRROR | Week of March 27, 2013Opinion

My name is Lorena Gullotta, former Co-Chair of New Student Pro-grams and author of the New Student Leader petition.

I would like to address a concern that stems from the process of doing the petition and !ghting for policy changes. "is concern goes beyond the question of whether or not New Student Leaders (NSLs) should be allowed to be in the presence of un-derage drinking. "e more concern-ing issue revealed is the lack of open communication between students and administrators.

"roughout the process of creat-ing the petition and discussing policy changes, I met with several adminis-trators to discuss the challenges NSLs were facing as a result of the current policy. I advocated for a reasonable amendment that was ethical, equi-table and e#ective. "is amendment would achieve the desired goals of the administration without socially iso-lating NSLs. In these meetings, I was being heard, but not listened to. I was just one person.

So I mobilized the NSLs to an-swer an anonymous survey and sup-port the petition. With results reveal-ing that 90.9 percent were breaking the particular rule and 97.7 percent supported the change, I felt as though

this issue would be disregarded no longer.

“"e power of presence is ex-ceedingly powerful,” Asst. Dean Kiem said in last week’s article. "e survey and the petition could be seen as the NSL presence voicing the need for change. But presence, I’ve learned, is only as powerful insofar as people ac-knowledge that presence. "ere were meetings between professional sta# members from New Student Programs and Residence Life to discuss the peti-tion and the policy. But no students were ever invited to these meetings. We had a piece of paper but no actual voice to defend or further clarify our position. How can you expect to make an equitable policy decision if you are missing the voices of those who brought forth the concern about the policy?

Not only were there no students at these meetings, but there was never a meeting between the professional sta# and the NSLs to allow NSLs to openly express their concerns as a col-lective. "e only meeting that was set up was meant to clarify and further explain the current rule, but not for NSLs to try and convince professional sta# to change the policy. No NSLs went to the meeting. "ey had been silenced during the whole process and even with this face-to-face meeting, were still not going to be able to come forth and verbalize their concerns.

Editorial Board

An atheist, a practicing Catho-lic and a baptized Catholic walk into Fair!eld University. When the Su-preme Court asks their opinion on gay marriage, they all agreed that it should be legal throughout the coun-try.

Our editorial board represents both coasts and the full-spectrum of the Catholic faith. On a small scale, we can come to an agreement. It’s time for the higher-ups to do the same.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court debated Proposition 8, California’s

law banning same-sex marriage. Since the 2008 election when it was passed, Prop 8 has caused extensive debate. "e U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish-ops, for example, stands by its opinion that a marriage must remain between a man and a woman. "ere are, how-ever, many Catholics who disagree with this conservative outlook.

Although Fair!eld is a Jesuit institution, our students maintain a wide range of opinions on same-sex marriage. "rough LGBTQ Move-ment, Alliance is working to create a

more supportive and welcoming envi-ronment on campus. With Safe Space Training, events to raise awareness and library exhibits, Fair!eld contin-ues to shed its previous “Princeton Review” rating of being an LBGTQ unfriendly campus.

If Fair!eld’s attitude can change and adapt to the times, then shouldn’t the country and the Catholic church realize that they are quickly falling behind?

As members of the next gen-eration, we have been raised with the

constant debate of same-sex mar-riage. "rough the domino e#ect, it is only a matter of time until same-sex marriage becomes commonplace. "e sooner this is realized, the sooner we can adapt policies and Catholic practices to adhere to this social pro-gression.

"e Mirror stands !rm in our opinion: “Love is love.” It’s time to shed conservative agendas and sup-port people who choose to express their love di#erently than within the nuclear family.

I am under 21, I do not consume alcohol, and I still found it di$cult to follow the Code of Ethics (COE). It is hard not to attend a party with your friends because alcohol is being served to minors, and more challenging when your friends are the ones consuming even though it means you cannot go along.

But that is the position I chose when I joined the New Student Leader (NSL) program. Over the past two years I grew tremendously, learned a lot about myself, and had the opportunity to build relationships with hundreds in the Fair!eld community whom I would not have met otherwise. No one is sug-gesting that avoiding the drinking cul-ture is easy, but this commitment had bene!ts that immensely outweighed any party on campus.

"e analysis discussed in last week’s article stated that 90.9 percent of the surveyed NSLs violated the COE and its alcohol policy at least once. "is two question assessment is missing a lot of key information that would detail the extent to which NSLs violated this policy. It did not test for when NSLs violated the policy, to what degree they have violated or continue to violate the policy, if they were ever caught in viola-tion, and if their behavior had changed over time due to the public and private discussions amongst the team regard-ing the COE.

One thing that can be extracted from this survey is that the NSLs strug-gled with the alcohol policy. It is up to the Leadership Team to better prepare the next group of NSLs. "ey must provide the NSLs with clear expecta-tions, a better support system over the

course of this e#ort, and more conver-sations on the COE in order to normal-ize the conversation rather than have it feel taboo.

It was also clear from the survey that 97.7 percent of surveyed NSLs supported a proposed change of the al-cohol policy to allow NSLs in the pres-ence of underage drinking. "ere is no form of student leadership that can condone behavior in which students violate the Student Code of Conduct or that can break a local, state, or federal law. Being in the presence of underage drinking is counter-intuitive to student leadership. "e COE does not preclude an NSL from socializing or enjoying a weekend. "ey are surrounded by doz-ens of peers who made a commitment to uphold the same ethical standard. A NSL’s attendance at a private party or at a University-sponsored event that does not advocate underage drinking speaks volumes - just as a NSL’s presence around underage consumption is a si-lent a$rmation of the illegal behavior.

"e COE challenges the idea that underage drinking has to be a part of the college experience. "is year’s group stands at 69 members strong, and like every group before them, they are now strangers in March and will transform into a tightly knit team by June’s orientation. No one forced these students to become NSLs; it was their choice. "ere are various oppor-tunities to give back to Fair!eld that do not have this standard of ethical leadership. To a student who wants to be an NSL but does not support the program’s mission, I recommend that she or he !nd another way to get involved. To a student that wants to be held to a high ethical standard, be ready for a challenging and rewarding experience.

By Lorena GullottaContributing Writer

By Eric LynchContributing Writer

Letters to the editor: Code of ethics

Loan LeEditor-in-Chief

Danica CeballosExecutive Editor

Luigi DiMeglioManaging Editor

Opinion Editor

!ese letters are in response to last week's article "New Student Leaders petition for change." Visit www.fair"eldmirror.com to read the article and chime in on the debate by voting on this week's poll.

THE MIRROR | Week of March 27, 2013Opinion

Mars mission not for science

“I’m not a feminist, I just think that women should be equal to men.”

I’m not a pessimist, but I’m slowly losing my faith in human-ity. When I hear things like this, I want to bang my head against a wall. Being a feminist means that you believe in equality for women. Equality as in getting equal rights, equal pay for equal work and social equality. !ose are just to name a few.

If you’ve ever seen “Mean Girls” then you understand that part of the problem is other wom-en. Girl-on-girl hate is made up of words like “slut” and “prude,” spoken in a way that is meant to disparage. Why do we vilify each other while men commend each other? !e only way to get rid of the double standard is by accepting that our sexuality doesn’t de"ne us, ever.

!is is why I have such con-#icted feelings about Taylor Swi$. Her boyfriends do not de"ne her, her music does. However, all of her music is about boys. It isn’t nec-essarily a bad thing, until she drags other girls into it. In her song “You Belong With Me,” she down-plays herself as the nerdy, unpopular best friend of the perfect guy, who just hap-pens to be dat-ing the evil c h e e r l e a d e r that wears — no, could it be? — short skirts and high heels. Last time I checked, there wasn’t a dress code for life; you can

pretty much wear whatever you want. Wearing a short skirt doesn’t make you a tyrannical teenage girl hell-bent on destroying every guy she’s with.

Recently Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the Golden Globe Awards, and they made a jab at Taylor Swi$, joking that she should stay away from Michael J. Fox’s son. Apparently forgetting all of the songs she has written bash-ing other women, a bitter Taylor told Vanity Fair that “there’s a spe-cial place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” Ouch. She might have a point, but she should really check herself before she starts accusing card-carrying feminists (and comedians, no less) of trying to bring her down.

Society, especially at Fair"eld, is stereotyping feminists as bra-burning, hairy-legged harpies, and some are even called “feminazis” because of how strongly they advo-cate for their god-given, unalien-able rights. I’m sorry, I didn’t real-ize that wanting legal control over my own body was comparable to slaughtering millions of innocent

people. My bad.I’m a feminist

because it’s up to me to decide if I want to take birth control or have an abortion. I’m a feminist be-

cause I work just as hard as the men

in my o%ce and I deserve the same pay. I’m a feminist

because I don’t want to be judged by my sexual deci-

sions. I’m a feminist because I

want to live freely in a country that owes its existence to the desire

for freedom from oppression. I’m a feminist because I believe that all people were created equal. If you agree, then guess what: You’re a feminist too.

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Grow up, Taylor Swift Are you sick and tired of life on

Earth? If so, Bas Lansdorp of Mars One may have the answer. If you act now, you can be part of a select group of individuals who will win a ticket to the Red Planet with no scheduled return in the hopes of beginning a human settlement on Mars.

!e chosen subjects will take-o& in September of 2022 and with that, they will say goodbye to our home planet forever.

Bid your friends and family adieu, they are not coming to visit. Never again will you sleep in the comfort of your own full-sized bed in a home with access to all of the amenities that we take for granted.

On Mars, you cannot go out to eat, go bowling, or go clubbing on the weekends. Once you land a$er seven months of emotionally-drain-ing space travel, you are subject to the con"nes of your Personal Living Unit and the red dust that surrounds you on every side. Your only major hobby is trying to survive.

If you become ill, forget about going to the hospital or the family doctor. Aside from a Life Support Unit and whatever supplies Mars One may have sent you with, you are le$ to fend for yourself and hope that your immune system is strong enough to battle whatever ails you.

!ere’s one more catch- Mars One hopes to have the entire jour-ney and the lives of its subjects in-ternationally televised in the form of a reality show.

Mars One plans to train 40 “quali"ed” astronauts and choose the four subjects who will spend the remainder of their lifetime on our neighbor planet through a voting system open to the viewers of the reality show, which the company es-timates will receive as much viewer tra%c as the Olympics. Although I cannot see myself watching such a program, I can see how Mars One believes it would appeal to the mass-es.

Lansdorp con"rmed that Mars One has received thousands of emails from women and men of all ages, backgrounds, and education levels expressing interest in becom-ing the "rst human beings to set foot on our barren neighbor planet.

According to Lansdorp, Mars One is particularly searching for vol-unteers who are “the kind of people you and I would like to be stranded with on an uninhabited island.” !ey are looking for people with the abil-ity to work well in groups and who have attitudes that resemble those of old-fashioned explorers.

!e team argues that the tech-nical skills such as medical care and engineering can be learned in the re-quired eight-year training program. However, I doubt that the voyagers can absorb much more than the ba-sics of each "eld before takeo& in such a brief period of time. Lans-dorp shared with CBC that the se-lected individuals would be citizens who “are at their best when things are at their worst.”

I cannot rationalize what type of person would be willing to sacri-"ce all that Earth has to o&er for the

sake of science. Do these volunteers detest life on Earth so much that a solar system vacation is their only way out? Perhaps they’re looking to create meaning in their life and have had no success doing so here on Earth. !e thought of such indi-viduals is truly rather disheartening.

Who in their right mind would volunteer to spend the rest of their life with the same three people do-ing the same exact things every day? I think I might die of depression be-fore I even got to Mars.

Although, I suppose the rest of their lives may not actually last that long while they fend for themselves on a foreign planet.

!eir supposed purpose is to pioneer a settlement on Mars, but I cannot understand why such an ex-periment would even be necessary before we can develop the technol-ogy to send them home again. Fur-thermore, I cannot imagine why a Martian settlement would be neces-sary at all.

Is Mars One preparing for Earth to become so uninhabitable that hu-mans must seek refuge elsewhere? If the voyage’s main purpose is purely to entertain the masses, then Mars One has potentially found the most morbid way of producing a pro"t that we have ever been introduced to.

Perhaps Earth’s citizens will be vacationing on Mars years down the road. Maybe our lives will turn out just like “WALL-E” or “Zenon Z3”. !is may be the future of the human race and the end of life as we know it.

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The concert itself was held at Stage One, which made for

an interactive atmosphere during the concert itself. The venue actually re-sembles our very own Black Box Theatre, as it provides an in-timate setting for the events held there.

Tyrone Wells grew up in Spokane, Wash., where his passion for

making music swelled. He loved music throughout

his adolescence, having four sisters who were also active in

music. During his college years,

Wells played in a band and began playing guitar and writing songs more professionally. He played live music at a local coffee shop each Thursday night in Orange County, Calif. This weekly gig lasted for years and helped Wells better come to understand his true passion for making music, and his intense desire to share this creative process.

After a few years of small lo-cal gigging, Wells’ name became

more and more recognizable, and started playing at bigger venues. Sooner than he knew, he was touring the nation. As he slowly became an up and coming musi-cal hit, he remarked that he, all the while, had to “be able to hum-bly go about [his] business.”

Wells added that when he de-cided to make music not only his hobby, but also his career path, he faced some obstacles: “When I was in college, all my friends were in their careers, making way more money than I was, but I was still holding this dream to-gether. You have to persevere and push through.” He also remarked, “Nothing takes the place of prac-tice … lots of practice and hard work.

Wells’ practicing and perse-verance has seen him through, as his music has been featured in both television shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy” and movies such as “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.” He has also had top hits on iTunes charts, and is now trav-elling all over the United States

Soul and SongTyrone Wells performs at Fairfield Theatre Company

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before his concert.

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!is song is an upbeat, comedic and unapologetic anthem about the fun in thri" shopping and also perhaps the most lighthearted out of his album, in which he talks about social justice, commercial responsibility and same-sex marriage.

In a crooning, sorrowful voice, Bruno Mars sings about lost love.

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Food and DrinksAppetizers: !e "ash fried calamari is delicious but not quite as crispy as many would like. !ey have an excellent Caesar with homemade focaccia croutons and an interesting watercress, endive and pear salad with pecans. Another good move is to split a brick oven pizza to start.

Entrées: Quite possibly the best dish on the menu is the Parmesan crusted Halibut. !e four small pieces of #sh are perfectly cooked with a light white wine reduction that adds to the delicacy.

Another great option is the strip steak that comes sliced with a demi glaze, parmesan fries, mushrooms and a rich tru$e aioli. !e glaze is sweet and perfectly balanced when dipped in the aioli and combined with a parmesan fry. Other notable dishes include a chicken roasted on a slab of wood in their pizza oven and the whole wheat pasta with broccoli rabe pesto, sundried tomatoes and pine nuts.

Dessert: If you want to do Acqua right you have to order one of their signature sou$és. As always when dealing with the long cook time of a sou$é, make sure to order them along with your main course. My favorite is the white chocolate pis-tachio, but every other one I have seen looks perfect. Open-ing the top to add the sauce made me feel as guilty as putting the #rst footprint in fallen snow. !e crème brulee or fresh berries are good calls as well ... I guess.

Drinks: Acqua has interesting cocktails but I was much more impressed with the wine list. !ey have some good wines by the glass but can get pricey. Although, Every Tues-day evening is 50 percent o% bottles under $100. I won’t lie, they do have some good values with this discount considered. Very limited beer selection.

EnvironmentAcqua has a quaint clubhouse feel to the downstairs dining area. !e upstairs incorporates arches and is more exotic as well as open. !e Mediterranean atmosphere is solidi#ed by the hummus they pair with their bread baskets.

Upstairs has the best views of the Saugatuck River and is a great place to bring a date … or your parents when they visit so you don’t need to see the bill.

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Justin Timberlake:"!e 20/20 Experience"

Seven years. !at’s how long it’s been since we last heard a full length album from the singer-

actor-entrepreneur Justin Timberlake. !e now 32-year-old singer returns to the music scene with “!e 20/20 Ex-perience” a new album with a brand new sound.

When the world last heard of Timberlake in anything music-relat-ed, he was taking the world by storm

with his multi-platinum album “Fu-tureSex/LoveSounds.” !e critically acclaimed album that spawned six hit singles helped Timberlake shed his boy band image and take on a smooth player persona.

!is time around, the newlywed Timberlake teams up with producer Timbaland to give people a new mu-sic experience, the same they did sev-en years ago.

Timberlake doesn’t make albums, he creates masterpieces, and “!e

20/20 Experience” is no exception. He shows how much he’s changed since his “FutureSex” days. !e Timber-lake/Timbaland duo brings us a retro mix of romance and dance tunes that will take us into Timberlake’s world of love, passion and melodies.

!e album is full of so many standout tracks that it is hard to pick out a speci#c favorite. “!at Girl” is a ballad proclaiming that he is done

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with the promiscuity and loves only one girl. “Mirrors” the second lead single is an infectious track about how a signi!cant other can mimic you. “Pusher Love Girl” has Timber-lake referring to his wife’s love as the strongest drug. Fans of his previous two albums shouldn’t be surprised that he is embracing a new sound. “FutureSex/Lovesounds” experi-mented with several genres of music including R&B, pop and dance pop. “"e 20/20 Experience” is something new, a vision into the world of true love and romance.

Over the course of seven years, Timberlake dated several women and added many !lms to his already long

resume. He tied the knot with Jessica Biel last October and with this album it is evident that Justin has some post-wedding bliss. Now older, Timberlake has grown artistically, evident from the maturity in his sound with this al-bum, but he still has the swagger that brought “SexyBack” several years ago. In the span of 80 minutes, “"e 20/20 Experience” takes the listener on a hypnotic musical journey full of neo-soul vibes and retro pop rhythms.

With a part two releasing in No-vember, Timberlake is taking back the reigns of the pop world and letting his fans know that he hasn’t missed a step. “"e 20/20 Experience” is his ode to his wife, his music and his fans. Although it’s not a typical Justin Tim-berlake album, it is an album that one can listen to and say “welcome back.”

on his own tour. Check out his latest album, “This Love.”

As for what Wells would consider to be the central message of his music, he said that each song truly has its own theme and message. Much like those of his inspira-tions, such as James Taylor, Patti Griffin and Stevie Wonder, Wells’ songs are by-products of his own personal life experi-ences that he hopes will “strike a chord” with his audience.

He said, “I definitely hope that people leave inspired and encouraged. I hope they leave feel-ing that my music is a friend of theirs.”

This statement is quite profound, as the interplay be-tween Wells and his audience was evident throughout the concert. Wells strives to keep the audience coming back for more … and he succeeds.

Wells said that the best part of perform-

ing live at a concert is “when I can lose my-self in the music.” He continued, “There’s a connection that is formed between you and the crowd that I love. We are all experienc-ing something together, and I just happen to be the one who is helping to create the

experience … and that’s really fun.”

During the concert itself, Wells played some of his original songs (such as the single, “Freedom”), as well as a mash-up of current ra-dio hits, encouraging a sing-along.

He added that his Christian faith and re-ligious upbringing has played a huge role in not only his music, but in all aspects of Wells’ life.

Although Wells is not categorized as a Christian artist per se, he maintains that his music undoubtedly ex-hibits “underpinnings of faith.”

Wells remarked, “When you believe in this person called Jesus … it really affects everything. I’m trying to make a difference and say something that makes people think. I’m trying to point peoples’ hearts to God.”


Wells' heart aimed him across

the country

“!ere's a connection that is formed between you and the crowd that I love. We are all experi-encing something togeth-er, and I just happen to be the one who is helping to create the experience ... and that's really fun.”

-Tyrone Wells,singer/songwriter

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To-do list: April events around Fairfield

On "ursday, April 4, there is a show on the Carl and Dorothy Ben-nett Lecture in Judaic studies going on at the Quick Center. "is lecture is given by Bob Simon, the award-winning journalist and foreign cor-respondent who has contributed to 60 Minutes since 1996. Tickets are $20 and the event is at 7 p.m. "e lecture is called “Understanding Israel and the Middle East,” and Si-mon gives us his experience in those areas along with a humorous talk to give us a better understanding of the actual environment there.Wednesday, April 10, Fair!eld hosts a Holocaust Remembrance Service at 4:30 p.m. Fair!eld will remem-ber those who were killed during the Holocaust with a service in the Egan Chapel of St. Ignatius Loyola and hear from Alan Bell. Alan Bell is the son of the Holocaust survivor Aron (Bielski) Bell, the last living member of the group of Jewish par-tisan brothers who resisted the Na-zis and were the subject of the !lm “De!ance.” Bell will talk about his account of this amazing story passed down from his father.Saturday, April 13, at 8 p.m. John Cleary’s Philthy Phew performs at the Quick Center. Cleary was born in England and raised in New Orleans. He will be playing piano, and using his soulful vocals to bring a performance that is very unique. Cleary has performed with Bonnie Raitt and John Sco!eld, and writes

all his own music and lyrics. His music is a mix of R&B, blues and even gospel.Sunday, April 14, at 3 p.m. Belly of the Basin, a Sisters’ Eye on Media Production will be performed in the Multimedia Room of the DiMenna-Nyselius Library. "is documentary by Roxana Walker-Canton and Tina Morton is all about the sensational-ized views of Hurricane Katrina in the media and how African-Ameri-cans were criminalized. "e produc-tion will give stories of survivors and bring about the question of what we really value in human lives and how race and other factors play into these views and distinctions. Admission is free.

"ursday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. Ex-hibitions on Screen show “Manet: Portraying Life.” "is exhibition, originally displayed in the Royal Academy of Arts, will be shown in a movie screen. "is show will follow Edouard Manet and his entire life and how his art was very unique to him and came from his experiences throughout Europe."ursday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. "e

Fair!eld Jazz Ensemble performs in Gonzaga Auditorium. "e Col-lege of Arts and Sciences stressed the opportunities for students to be involved extra-curricular activities that can give a creative #are to the comprehensive Jesuit education. "e jazz ensemble is a great way for stu-dents to get involved musically and creatively on campus. "is concert is the culmination of all the work the ensemble has done so far, exhibited on campus for anyone to see in a stu-dent produced jazz concert.Saturday, April 27, 12 p.m. (live) and 6 p.m. (encore) George Frid-eric Handel’s Giulio Cesare Opera. "is opera was originally started in London in Handel’s time, but now is produced by David McVicar. David Daniels sings the lead role along with Natalie Dessay, while Harry Bicket conducts. "is performance is now live in HD from the Met, and will be coming to Fair!eld for anyone to see. Tickets are $25 regu-larly, $20 for seniors, and $10 for children.Sunday, April 28, at 1 p.m. “What if Mozart Played Guitar Hero?” "is event is created by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. "is particu-lar piece is performed by the Hard Rock String Quartet and presents the music of Mozart, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and many other bands. "is performance is meant to show the interplay and contrast between classical music and rock music and particularly how we can see Mozart as if he would use some rock in his music in#uence.

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I’m not your typical girl. I’d rather watch ESPN than MTV. I’d rather go outside and play soccer than go tanning. And I’d de!nitely rather read Sports Illustrated than Cosmopolitan.

It’s funny that men, such as my partner Tom here, say that they love that in a girl. However, in practice, it means you’re subjected to a life as “one of the guys.”

At least in my life, it means guys tend to call you up when there’s a game on, or you spend your time sitting around and talking about the transfer rumors of the NFL, or even better, they text you merely for your opinions on whatever happens to be the headline on ESPN.com.

So they preach and preach about wanting a girl they can bring to a game, or shows interest in their favorite sports team, but in real life, they look for the girl with the short-est skirt, and who clearly are just re-peating sports opinions they heard some guy saying in Barone.

Coming from a girl who can name the starting lineup for Man-chester United and the stats for Matt Ryan in the 2012-2013 season, there are certain things other girls say when watching sports that just com-pletely infuriate me. Yet it still seems to work just !ne for the guys.

First there’s the girl who just has no desire to watch the sports and they feel the need to express that to everyone. "ey’ll be sitting in a guy’s room while they’re watching basket-ball, and saying loudly “I don’t want to watch this! Sports are so booooor-ing!”

Okay well, you can just leave, then.

"ere is no rule that says that you have to sit here and torture your-self, not to mention everyone else in the room.

Second, there’s the girl who watches sports and just comments on the attractive men playing. I’m not going to lie and say I haven’t done it, because when Adam Scott is golf-ing or Iker Casillas is !nally back in goal for Real Madrid, I’m not going to not admire them. However, the di#erence comes in the fact that I can also appreciate the actual game these people are playing.

So, sorry, while I can’t say I don’t appreciate hot athletes, I also don’t want to sit there and hear you blather on about how “absolutely dreamy”

Cristiano Ronaldo is, when you can’t even tell me anything about his ath-leticism, and probably don’t even know what sport he plays. Do me a favor and keep your creepy fantasies about these athletes to yourself.

And !nally there’s the girl who is the fake fan, just to impress the men around her. Okay, go on and re-cite verbatim things you have heard other people say, just so they can think you’re super awesome.

But you’re not fooling me. I’ve read the ESPN articles

you’re quoting, and I’ve seen the tweets from the people whose opin-ion you’re stealing. And there’s a dif-ference between being a fan of a team and then just donning team apparel a$er they win, so men can see you and talk to you about the team that

you don’t even know any athletes on, except maybe their star player.

I’d much rather be a girl who is “just one of the guys” than one of these annoying girls.

On the same level, if you’re one of the guys who says you’re looking for a girl who is genuinely interested in sports, and goes for one of these girls, there is a very good chance that I have lost a lot of respect for you.

So yeah, I have a lot of opinions on the subject, but it all boils down to how guys need to stop asking for a girl who likes sports and instead go for a girl who is clearly just playing them.

Stop falling for it … you look like Bill Buckner.

JEN CALHOUN Sports EditorIn a hypothetical world, I

would be on a date with a girl. Now that I’ve lost all credibility in this article, let’s just keep going in this magical dream world I’ve created.

Let’s say that I decide that it’s a good idea to take the girl to some sort of sporting event, say a baseball game. Because nothing impresses a girl more than buying 10 dollar tickets to a Bridgeport Blue!sh game.

She agrees to stay and watch the game with me. Sounds like a very nice time for both of us po-tentially, right?

"at is, until the Blue!sh turn a very nicely executed 6-4-3 double play, at which point she turns to me and says, “I hate baseball, what’s double play even mean?”

Which is when I let out a sigh, and realize that this girl is now dead to me.

"ere is an epidemic among girls in our culture that, for what-ever reason, leads them to believe that they should be ignorant to the point of disdain towards sports. I have absolutely no idea where it started, or if it is something that medical research needs to bring its attention to. But it needs to stop.

I have heard that women sometimes encourage other wom-en to act a little ignorant or help-less in order to help the man in the relationship feel more masculine. I wouldn’t say that I don’t support that, but I suppose I can see some

weird logic in the sentiment. But please, ladies, do not take that ad-vice too far.

"e reality of the situation is that a guy loves it when his lady friend at least shows a little curiosi-ty into his favorite sport. It bene!ts us in so many ways: We can watch a game alone with you and not feel like we’re torturing you; we can watch a game with you and our guy friends and not feel like we’re tor-turing our friends; and maybe we get to see you wearing our teams’ jersey — a massive turn-on for us.

"e myth about women emas-culating men with sports knowl-edge is exactly that: a myth. I have covered two women’s sports this year extensively — volleyball and basketball — and both times I talk-ed to female athletes on a regular basis about their sports which they know more about than I can ever hope to, and I never felt any degree of emasculation. If it comes down to a guy ending a relationship with a girl because of her knowledge of sports, it’s a much more telling re-%ection of him than it is her.

And don’t forget, a small knowledge of sports helps you out as well. Anytime you are ner-vous about what to get us as a gi$, knowing our favorite teams is in-credibly helpful. I’ve never known any sports fan to turn down a jer-sey with his team’s name on it.

I’m not asking that all girls go out and learn all the stats for their man’s favorite players (Dustin Pe-droia hit .290 last year, and Will Middlebrooks had 15 bombs in an injury year, in case you were look-ing to impress me, ladies). All I ask is that you give it an open mind and know enough to just communicate — you may even !nd that you end up really liking sports, even if you end up really not liking the guy.

So, do not be afraid to give the sport an honest chance. If your boyfriend, male friend, sex friend, or whatever guy you have in your life happens to throw a football your way, just give it a shot. It is our way of letting you into our world and sharing our interests, so don’t %atly reject it, because when you do, it’s like you’re rejecting a piece of us.

A$er saying all that, April 26 is the home-opener for the Blue-!sh. Any takers?

“I broke a nail.”

“Derek Jeter is so dreamy.”

“Wait, was that a double play?”

“The Patriots won the World Series.”

Topic of the week: girls and sports ... what are your

thoughts?

"is week is the cusp of a home stretch. “Home” doesn’t quite !t the description though. "e weeks upon us are not exactly a journey home. For a lot of us, this is home.

Who decided four years was the allotted time to get this degree thing done, anyway? I know adding more time sounds like a cop-out; an avoid-ance of responsibility. But that’s al-ready been done. Generations ago, I could be solidly married with at least one little idiot me running around

already. "at actually sounds kind of hilarious. Maybe it’s a good thing we aren’t there yet.

What if we all just decided to be-come super seniors? "at’s right, I’m saying we become a bigger group of rejects than we are now on purpose - just for sake of continuing to be as sel!sh and destructive as this chapter of life encourages.

"ere’s also the constructive side to what we’re doing at Fair!eld. Someone just said, “I really want to

see what’s in this new course booklet.” Can you believe that? I can. I have never felt like more of a nerd than I do right now. I’m excited to see what kind of classes I can plan for senior year. But it demands attention: our want for more of this. "e weekly tides of work and play qualify as the most extreme some of us may see ever. Is it natural? Possibly not. More on that later.

I consider the week of Easter to be a turning point. A$er Easter, ev-

erything is a big deal. You can barely !nd a weekend without a signi!cant event (Clam Jam just being the gold standard).

"en there’s the academic heat. You can barely think about school without scheduling meetings under class registration pressure.

Spring is exotic. So is this sum-mer. If you’re not an education major, this summer vacation is huge. What makes it more exotic? America. Our friends abroad will tell us how chill

the work schedules are around the world. So that’s it. Our schooling is tight. Our work is tighter.

And they wonder why Fridays resemble a war. It is a war. It is a war against not society, but our internal self; the part that decided to play by 90 percent of the rules. You know who might be winning that war? "e super seniors.

Thoughts from the can ...

LUIGI DIMEGLIOManaging Editor

Editor’s note: His Beer, Her Cocktail was cre-ated to give students on campus a chance to voice their opinions on speci!c issues on a weekly ba-sis from both a male and female perspective. "e opinions voiced here by no means are uniform to males and females as a whole, but are the opinions of the writ-ers. "e goal of the column is to get people talking and debat-ing. Feel free to respond to any piece if you see it necessary. We are always welcoming Letters to the Editor. If you would like to be featured in the column, contact

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Awwwww yeah! Can't deny that these girls are go-ing to kill it! Nobody's got anything on us! My friend's a UCONN softball player, so I pride myself on being an expert. Stags got this.

Well, seeing as I have Florida Gulf Coast winning the whole thing, I'm going to say it's going pretty darn well.

We're coming for you, Mate. Squirtle! He is so freaking adorable! He was always my favorite polygon. Except Brock the polygon master. I cried when he left. True story.

Weird night Wednesdays have been a recent high-light. Spontaneous Wednes-day night Levee sessions. Everyone is invited - 10:30 p.m. start.

This team has a couple of superstars earning national recognition. Nothing getting in the way of the team from sweeping the MAAC. Bring on those Gaels.

I had my boy Steve Adams at Pitt going all the way to the final 4 but they got knocked out in the first round. Typical O'Keeffe basketball knowledge.

Doesn't look like I get the chance to fight anyone.

Arbok. Because it is "Kobra" spelled backwards. Very innovative from the Polygon creators.

Probably, just don't ask me to remember it. If anyone has witnessed these "excit-ing" moments, please do tell, I'd like to pretend my brain formed memories while in college.

Titles out, for the girls, titles out for the girls. The come-back wins against UConn let everyone know who the top Stag is in this state, and they're going to keep on rolling into MAAC play.

A handful of Cinderellas are out past midnight in Wichita, Fort Myers, Salem, and Philadelphia, and my bracket has more red on it than Santa Claus holding a Budweiser can. Going well.

Mate, we've got you sur-rounded.

I'm going with Poliwrath, because he was water AND fighting. (No member of 3x5 knows anything relating to geometry, this was asked to the wrong people.)

Has anyone done anything exciting at all this semester?

So.ball starts MAAC play this weekend. Trophy time?

So, how's everyone's March Mad-ness bracket doing?

If you could /ght any athlete who would you pick?

What is your favorite polygon?

Sports StandpointStags' take on Tiger Woods

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Home Games Ahead

Wednesday: -Women's lacrosse vs. Cal, 3 p.m.

Thursday: -Baseball vs. Harford, 3 p.m. -Women's tennis vs. Quinnipiac, 3 p.m.

Friday: -No home games.

Saturday: -Men's lacrosse vs. Bellarmine, noon.

Sunday-Tuesday: - No home games.

Quote of the Week“Being told you have cancer feels like a

death sentence. But it’s not."

~Mark Herzlich Oh, Tiger Woods. Not going to say I was ever his biggest fan. I was never much of a golf fan to be perfectly honest. !e /rst golfer I remember being a true fan of was Ricky Barnes. If you have no idea who he is, you are not alone.

He did really well one tourna-ment and ever since then I loved him. Have I seen him in a tourna-ment since? No.

I was always very aware of Tiger Woods. I thought he seemed pretty arrogant. !e other golfers would talk to the person they were paired with, while Woods seemed to just ignore them. Looking back, I guess it was just his way of get-ting in the mindset, and to be fair it worked pretty well for him.

To be perfectly honest, I was happy when he wasn't on the golf circuit for awhile. It gave some of the other golfers the chance to step up and show their skills. It gave us Rory McIlroy and Keegan Bradley. We all knew Tiger would come back. It was only a matter of time.

I think what surprised every-one was that he wasn't the same Tiger as he was before.

But recently he regained his spot as the number one golfer in the world. In one respect, he earned it when he started to win titles again.

But there's still that part of me that thinks he might have gotten the ranking from his name, and the history of it.

Rory McIlroy had to prove himself a lot more to get that rank-ing.

But he's Tiger Woods, and nothing's ever going to change.

Tiger Woods has climbed back to the top of the golf world yet again, becoming the top ranked golfer for the /rst time since Halloween of 2010. !e terrifying costume he has worn since then has not been the Tiger Woods that everyone fell in love with in the late 90s.

Before the whole incident with his wife, I supported Tiger. Anytime he was in contention on a Sunday, which happened very o.en, I was typically glued to the television, hoping he would add another jacket to his closet.

Even a.er all the drama, wom-en, divorce, sex rehabilitation and whatever else Tiger justi/ably had to go through, I still was on his side. I know he was a horrible father, husband and overall human being, but no one can say that he was the /rst athlete to ever do those things.

Babe Ruth was rumored to have been chased by the women he slept with the night before in the trains that the team, and the media, travelled on. But the Babe has gone down as one of the most beloved athletes of all time.

Since Tiger's collapse, the golf world - including myself - has moved on. We have embraced a new, younger generation of golfers to root for. Guys like Rory McIlroy have gained fans from their suc-cesses, and other like Ricky Fowler have earned it through their swag-ger on the course.

In order to get those fans back, Tiger needs to do the one thing that is a universal cure-all in sports: win. He did just win his third event of the year, but it will take more than that for me to believe that he is truly back, and truly number one.

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Baseball loses close game to SienaFairfield baseball (6-11)

dropped the rubber match of a 3 game series to Siena College (6-14), Sunday afternoon, at Alumni Diamond.

The controversially offici-ated game lasted a little over 3 hours in front of a crowd of more than 80 spectators.

Although starter Jeremy Soule ‘15 was able to bring a no hitter into the fifth inning with a 2 to 0 lead, the Saints plated four runs in the sixth to go ahead and capped it off with five more in the ninth in their 9 to 3 route of Fairfield.

Second-year Manager Bill Currier said that despite Soule’s strong start, defensive and pitching breakdowns were what to blame for the Stags loss.

“We seem to be giving runs all in one of two innings,” said Currier. “They’re just giving up too many.”

Fairfield’s bats were click-ing as captain left fielder Jack Giannini ’13 and right fielder Billy Zolga ’15 both went 3 for 4 on the day and combined for the day’s first run off a RBI-single from Zolga. However, the stags struggled with runners in scor-ing position with only 5 hits in 18 attempts.

Siena’s bullpen was the dif-

ference-maker late in the game as their two relievers combined for 4 innings, allowing just 1 run.

Fairfield relievers were in-effective, allowing two back to back home runs in the ninth, Anthony DiMauro ‘15 allowed the first three-run shot to Sie-na’s Mike Fish and the second solo-home run was allowed by Andrew VanEyck ‘14. The Stags’ bench was warned after the first pitch to VanEyck’s second bat-ter sailed high and tight.

“They brought relievers into the game that did well also … you’ve got to give them credit,” said Currier about Siena’s bull-pen. “They had pitchers come in that threw 2 or 3 pitches for strikes and we didn’t do that, we came in with one pitch and that’s why their guys were sitting on pitches to jack out of here.”

Going into the ninth, Fair-field was trailing by just two runs, with the top of the order due up in the bottom half of the inning.

A balk, a stolen base and a walk, were able to help Siena score their final five runs with two outs, blowing the game open and putting a comeback out of reach for Fairfield.

The Stags showed little fight in the ninth, with Captain Anthony Hajjar '13 striking out looking to end the game, in what

was a 1-2-3 bottom nine for Fairfield. Hajjar ‘13 was tossed by the home plate umpire after a brief confrontation over the called third strike.

This is known as a post-

game ejection, and Hajjar will have to sit the next game, ac-cording to Currier.

Fairfield’s young pitching staff will need their defense to defend the weak points exposed

by Siena, and their hitters will need to perform with men on base and runners in scoring po-sition if they are looking to take their next MAAC series against Rider.

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Senior Anthony Hajjar reacts to a play in their baseball game versus Siena on Sunday.

The Mirror | Week of March 27, 2013 Sports

There comes a time in every-one’s life when they must figure out who they are. Unfortunately for Mark Herzlich, a current line-backer for the New York Giants, it took a bout with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, for him to figure out who he was beyond a football player for Boston College.

In a speech at Roger Lud-lowe Middle School last Thursday, Herzlich spoke about how cancer changed his self-identity and how it affected him as a football player, and as a person in general.

After his junior season with the Boston College Eagles, Her-zlich was named the ACC Defen-sive Player of the Year, and was projected to be a top 15 draft pick. But Mark made the tough decision to return to BC for his senior sea-son.

“I went to Boston College to get my degree,” said Herzlich, ex-plaining his decision.

What nobody would have ex-pected was that before Herzlich could come back for his senior sea-son, he discovered a searing pain his leg. It was so bad that Herzlich’s roommate had to move out be-cause Herzlich kept waking up in the night screaming in pain.

When he went to the doctor to find out what was wrong, he got the news that it was Ewing’s Sarcoma, and his femur had a massive tumor in it.

“Being told you have cancer feels like a death sentence. But it’s not,” said Herzlich.

He was given a seventy per-cent chance of survival, and told he would never play football. He

went from being one of the top NFL prospects to possibly never tak-ing the field in a football uniform again.

But Herzlich didn’t let this stop him. He went up to his room, put on his music and developed a mindset that would get him past this.

“I went to my father and said I’m gonna be okay. I’m gonna beat this. I’m gonna play football again,” said Herzlich.

He knew from the start what his end goal was: to run back on the field as a Boston College Eagle. What he didn’t expect was the per-sonal struggle that would enfold in the upcoming months of battling the cancer.

“When I used to introduce myself, I would start by saying that I am a football player at Boston College,” said Herzlich. However, when he began his cancer treat-ment, he could no longer introduce himself as such. He had to figure out who he was.

As he battled the cancer into remission, Herzlich faced an iden-tity crisis beyond anything he had ever faces, and found that identi-fying himself as a cancer patient could be something he was proud of.

On the stage, Herzlich pointed to his head, on which his hair is shaved into a Mohawk, and proud-ly proclaimed that a bald head is not a sign of weakness, instead it is a sign of empowerment.

He took that empowerment, and a cancer free diagnosis and put it into hard work and dedication to achieve his final goal of stepping back on the field. He was okay, and he had beaten it … he was almost there.

Herzlich did not get through it without a few bumps in the road. The radiation had weakened his bones and Herzlich, who was desperate to return to his athletic prowess, jumped back into things too quickly and suffered a broken foot.

However, when September 4, 2010 rolled around, and Boston College was preparing for their opening game of the season, Her-zlich was ready. Well, maybe not ready; he had yet to put a football helmet on.

Herzlich appealed to then-head coach, Frank Spaziani to just get in for a few plays because it was his dream.

“He said ‘I’ll do you one bet-ter. You’re starting,’” said Herzlich.

On stage, Herzlich emotion-ally recalled his first moment back

in the tunnel in uniform, as he led the Eagles out for the start of the season. As he charged out of the tunnel, his teammates stopped and watched in awe and pride, as his dream came to fruition.

It was a moment of fulfillment for Herzlich, as his identification as a cancer survivor came to be one with his identification as a football player.

Unfortunately as the season wrapped up, Herzlich had not re-gained his former glory. He sat and watched disappointedly as he went undrafted in the NFL draft.

But just as with the cancer diagnosis, he did not see this as a death sentence for his NFL dream. He was aided by the lockout, and was able to work harder than ever during the extended off-season.

As the lockout came to a close,

Herzlich was offered a contract with the New York Giants. By the end of the season, he had won a Super Bowl with the Giants.

Herzlich gave an inspiration-al speech to the cancer survivors about taking the cancer diagnosis and seeing it as an empowerment. He was a perfect example for these children about how to have a posi-tive attitude when trying to deal with the diagnosis.

He was also an inspiration for people going through an iden-tity crisis, and showing them that there’s no shame in identifying yourself first as a cancer survivor.

He showed not only that you can overcome, but you can also be more successful than you could have imagined. He has a Super Bowl ring to prove it.

NY Giants' Herzlich inspires and empowers fellow cancer survivors

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Mark Herzlich (94) runs out of the tunnel after returning from his bout with cancer. Herzlilch is joined by his teammates, who were integral in motivating him for recovery.

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A tweet from Mark Herzlich before the New York Giants competed in, and won, the Super Bowl.

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SPORTS 16 Sports Editor: Jennifer Calhoun » sports@fair!eldmirror.com Week of March 27, 2013

If college basketball games only lasted 39 minutes and 57 seconds, then the Fairfield women’s basketball team would still be playing games right now. They’d be getting ready for their semifinal matchup against the University of Detroit in the Women’s Basketball Invita-tional. Their season would not be over, and they would only be two wins away from claiming the WBI title.

This is not the case, how-ever. Those final three seconds have to be played, and for Fair-field, those final three seconds were the difference between vic-tory and defeat. The University of Pennsylvania used that time to hit a game-winning three-point buzzer beater, lifting the Quakers over the Stags 49-48 in their quarterfinal game in Phila-delphia on Saturday.

The Stags came out very cold early in the first half, trailing 8-0 and not getting on the board until the 13:06 mark with a three point basket by Kristin Schatz-lein ’16. Fairfield never led in the first half, trailing by as many as nine with more than five min-utes remaining, but closed the gap to a manageable three-point deficit at halftime, 27-24.

“We started off pretty slow. We weren’t hitting [shots] early on,” said Katelyn Linney ’13, who finished off her collegiate career with a seven point, two assist performance on Saturday. “But we began to get back into it, we were playing together, play-ing with a lot of energy.”

Pennsylvania increased their lead back to six early on in the second half, but three–pointers by Alexyz Vazquez ’14 and Brittany MacFarlane ’13 gave the Stags their first lead of the game at 34-32 with just under 15 minutes remaining. There would be six lead changes and two ties from that point on, and Fairfield found themselves down by three with a minute re-maining.

After a missed layup and three-point shot by Schatzlein, Linney was able connect on a layup, bringing the Stags to within one, trailing 46-45. Fair-field immediately fouled, and following a missed free throw by Pennsylvania’s Brianna Brad-ford, Christelle Akon-Akech ’14 dished off to MacFarlane to hit the three-point shot to give the Stags the 48-46 lead with 7.9 sec-onds remaining.

But the Quakers’ Alyssa Bar-on took the ball down the court quickly, and got off a three-pointer with less than three sec-onds remaining to give the Quak-ers the lead for good at 49-48.

According to Linney, the team felt confident going into those final seconds.

“I think we all felt that we pretty much had the game in our hands. All we had to do was play solid defense for the last six, sev-

en seconds,” said Linney. “The morale was real high. We were excited especially because it had been a back and forth game.”

The loss marks the end of the playing careers for Linney, MacFarlane, and Laura Vetra ’13. The trio was instrumental in getting Fairfield two postsea-son victories in the past three years, the only postseason wins in team history.

“I’m definitely proud of what I’ve done,” said Linney. “Obviously, everyone goes into their college career wanting to make the NCAA Tournament, but looking back, I have two of the school’s [only] postseason wins, I hold three records here. For me, I accomplished what I came for.”

Linney walks away as argu-ably the greatest long distance shooter in Fairfield history, as she holds the Fairfield record for three-point shots made (261), three-point shots made per game (2.1) and three-point shots attempted (873). She also became the 26th member of the 1,000 point scorers club, accu-mulating 1,262 points over her four years at Fairfield, averaging over nine points per contest.

Linney actually now holds five school records, as the game against Pennsylvania marked

the 128th start and 129th game of her career, passing Desiree Pi-na’s record of 127 starts and 128 games played from 2009-2012. She was named to the All-MAAC Second Team in 2011, and was a member of the MAAC All-Rookie Team in 2010.

MacFarlane, who had a sea-son high 16 points and eight re-bounds on Saturday, proved to be just as durable as Linney dur-ing her time at Fairfield, playing in 121 games in four years, good for fifth all-time. She also totaled 48 blocked shots for her career, 18th most in program history.

Vetra finished off her career Saturday with two points and two rebounds in the game against Pennsylvania. She was named to the MAAC All-Academic Team in 2011 and 2012, and scored 213 points in her career to go along with 171 rebounds.

Even though Linney and her fellow seniors will never get to play in an NCAA Tournament game, she does not look at her time at Fairfield with feelings of remorse about not making over that final hurdle.

“I mean, are there always going to be 'what ifs' Yeah, of course there are,” said Linney, “but for what I’ve done, I’m proud. I’m extremely happy now, at the end.”

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Senior Katelyn Linney controls the ball and brings it to the basket in a game against Marist.

Women's basketball reflects on season

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“ I'm de!nitely proud of what I've done ... I have two of the school's [only] postseason wins."

-Women's basketball's Katelyn Linney '13

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The women's basketball team comes together before a game earlier in the season.

Season comes to a close with loss in WBI Tournament

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