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Three months of planning, singing and learning from each other will finally be showcased this weekend at the Fairfield University Glee Club perfor-mance, “On This Night.”

The music is a mixture of classical, Broadway and popu-lar music and centers on the theme of rebirth. The Glee Club will be doing a gospel rendition

of “Oh Holy Night,” along with “Gloria,” which will be sung in Latin.

Several soloists will be singing popular songs taken from U2 and the musical, “Love Never Dies,” The entire club will be singing “The Many Moods of Christmas,” which is a medley of various Christmas carols.

The Glee Club, which is Fairfield’s oldest club, has been practicing every Monday and Wednesday evening since Sep-tember and will have their fi-nal rehearsal this Wednesday. According to one of the solo

singers, Seamus Barrett ‘16, this concert is “the most formal concert of the semester. It’s a big deal.”

In addition to the Glee Club practices twice a week, other groups within the club practice on their own. These groups in-clude: Chamber Singers, Ben-sonians, Sweet Harmony and the performance soloists.

Dr. Carole Ann Maxwell is the director of Fairfield’s Glee Club, which is composed of 130 students. Maxwell made her debut as a conductor when she was 16 and later came to

Fairfield in 1980. She has been the conductor of the Glee Club since then and became direc-tor in 1987.

“I have played instruments. I have sung. I have done all of that in preparation for this conducting career,” explained Maxwell.

When Maxwell first be-came a part of the Glee Club on campus, it was all-male. This tradition was established in 1947; however, in 1987, the men and women were merged together. Since then, Maxwell explained that she has watched

the club grow in size and talent in monumental ways.

“This is the largest that the club has ever been. When the students come in as young singers, they are told what is expected of them, and we fol-low through with it for their four years,” stated Maxwell. “They all have a certain pride and love of choral singing.”

Maxwell’s method for training and perfecting the var-ious voices of the Glee Club is based on the passion that each

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On Monday night, a small but passionate group of student leaders assembled in the BCC to form a new network of humani-tarian and justice activists on campus.

Known as the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA), this or-ganization formed for the pur-pose of bringing exposure to im-portant causes on campus and providing support for student organizations trying to make a difference.

PSA first organized late last year, and so the network was still in its early stages at the end of the semester. As a result, they are “just now finding out how best to network to strengthen our move-ments collectively,” according to Arturo Jaras Watts ’14.

Jaras Watts is one of the two remaining students involved in the launch of PSA last year. How-ever, both he and his remaining cofounder Luke Record ’14 were quick to emphasize throughout the meeting that the purpose of PSA was not to create a new or-

ganization with them as leaders. Rather, PSA will function as a horizontal network of dedicated leaders who provide support for other organizations on campus with important causes.

“Each of us here represent different clubs that we are com-mitted to,” said Record. “But the purpose of PSA is so that when it gets to a point … where you go and present these ideas and it’s on the line and you need backup, we can come.”

Record clarified that this support was not automatic. “If you need a petition that needs to be signed, we should all read it and not just blindly follow you guys,” Record said, “but I think we can see the benefits that this would accrue for all of us.”

Another important function of PSA is to increase the visibil-ity of important humanitarian and justice events happening on campus. In order to accomplish this goal, PSA discussed options such as compiling a bathroom newsletter that lists these events and provides information about the clubs and organizations sponsoring them.

“We have events like the phenomenal Take Back the Night event that happens every year and we want participation to be as large as possible,” said Jaras Watts. “The newsletter would serve that side of the function of increasing the visibility and reaching a greater portion of Fairfield students.” The group also discussed creating a public space such as a bulletin board in the BCC that would display these events and club information.

In all, ten different groups and organizations were repre-sented at the meeting on Mon-day, although not all clubs in-volved in PSA were able to send representatives to the meeting. These groups ranged from the environmental club Leaders for Environmental Action at Fairfield (LEAF) to Act Against, a student movement that works to bring important issues to the forefront of campus consciousness.

The organizations and clubs involved in PSA are currently working on assembling their newsletter, which they hope to release during the first weeks of next semester.

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student possesses for music. She explained, “I expect from them what I expect from my-self, which is total and absolute commitment to what they are doing. I think a big thing that keeps us together is the esprit de corps, the energy that we give back and forth to one an-other. It’s why we enjoy being together in and out of rehears-al.”

For many students, the Glee Club has played a major role in their experience at Fair-field. Senior Peter Lyons, the social coordinator, explained that leaving Glee will be a dif-ficult task.

“It’s sad because I remem-ber when we were freshmen and now I’m a senior,” said Ly-ons. “Out of everything that I’m going to miss when I graduate,

Glee will be the thing that I will miss most.”

Though they are sad that their Glee experience is coming

to an end, many of the students are anticipating the upcoming performance. Maxwell also ex-

plained, the most exciting part for her is “the various ways I can challenge the students… and the audience too, I guess.”

She reflected on her goal for the audience during the performance.

Maxwell stated that the most important part is the focus on the rebirth and recognizing that every song is centered on the birth of Christ. “Everything points to that. Whether we’re singing about stars, whether we’re singing about angels or about something by U2, it all leads back to that,” stated Max-well.

The concert is this Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Quick Center.

In addition to the per-formance this weekend, the Glee Club will also be having a Christmas Pops concert on Dec. 12 in Einstein’s at 9:30 p.m.

You push back from the table, stu+ed to the brink with turkey and dizzy from tryptophan. Now that ,anksgiving dinner is done, the question remains: Do you stay up until midnight to brave the crowds at Best Buy, or wait until Monday to buy that iPad online?

,is year, Black Friday marked a signi-cant progression in the trend of mass shopping on the day after ,anksgiving. With major chains like Wal-Mart open-ing as early as 8p.m. on ,anksgiv-ing itself, shoppers were o+ered the earliest start to the tradition to date.

And for those who decided to stay in, retailers continued the tradition of o+ering signi--cant discounts the Monday af-ter ,anksgiving, also known as Cyber Monday. However, many companies hastened virtual sales by o+ering Black Friday discounts both instore and online.

,e year 2011 saw 11.4 billion dollars in sales during the four-day ,anksgiving weekend, with an additional 1.25 billion in sales on Cyber Monday, according to CNN. ,e question remains: Will these individual days retain their appeal?

Senior Byron Garcia said, “Cyber Monday is no longer just Monday. Black Friday is no lon-ger excluded to non-Internet based areas of commerce. ,ey are quickly becoming one single thing: the start of Christmas.”

“I like to go out with the masses because sometimes you stumble upon something and I can often avoid shipping costs,” said Jordan Freeman ‘13. “I also do some online shopping for oth-er smaller deals that I can get. So I think there are pros and cons so I see both institutions staying.”

Junior Hillary Maxson thought discounts could be found else-where: “I have never been Black Friday shopping in my life. If you want a real deal, go shopping after Christmas. ,at’s where the real deals are at.”

On Nov. 27, !e Mirror con-

ducted an anonymous survey of 102 students concerning these shopping traditions. Survey ques-tions were speci-c to whether or not students had shopped on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and how much they spent on each day.

Of the students surveyed, 56 percent did not spend money on either day. ,ose who responded as not spending anything were evenly distributed as male and fe-male.

Forty-four percent of students surveyed said that they had spent money due to sale prices on one or both of these days. As with those who did not spend, the sex of re-spondents was also evenly distrib-uted. ,e total amount spent by this group of students came to ap-proximately 11,000 dollars.

Of the 45 students who made purchases on these days, 34 spent more on Black Friday. Twenty-six of these students spent solely on Friday, making no Internet pur-chases the following Monday. ,e total amount spent on Black Fri-day alone by those surveyed came to almost 7,900 dollars.

Of the same 45 students who made purchases, 11 spent more on Cyber Monday. Within this group, 9 students shopped only on Monday. ,e total amount spent on Cyber Monday alone of those surveyed amounted to over 3,000 dollars.

So what about the people who didn’t shop at all?

Some may have tried. “I went to the mall for about 20 minutes on Black Friday,” said Juliana Bas-set ‘14. “With the amount of peo-ple in all of the stores it was hard to -nd what I was looking for I so just gave up and left.”

Others avoided it all together: “... I stayed home, relaxed, and avoided all the madness,” said Deidre Simms ‘13.

Black Friday began as a tra-dition in the 1960s, followed by Cyber Monday in 2005. With con-stant new ways to o+er discounts and more products to buy, the future may hold a new name for these shopping holidays.

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This Wednesday, Nov. 28, will mark the 79th annual Christmas tree lighting at Rock-efeller Center in New York City. It will also mark the seventh year in a row that Fairfield’s Inter-Residential Housing As-sociation (IRHA) will host their trip for students to attend the lighting.

“The IRHA has been do-ing this specific trip for at least seven years now,” said IRHA’s Director of Programming, Brendhan Kolf ’14. “Since the beginning of this school year, the IRHA has been working on this trip, whether it be decid-ing how many buses we want, getting them, ticket sales, the departure time, etc.,” he con-tinued.

Kolf went on to explain that the reason the IRHA continues to bring back the program every year is because of how well it is received by the student body. “It is a fantastic stress reliever to go into the city and be part of a tradition. It allows the student body to forget about the stress of finals, papers and projects,

even if it is just for a couple of hours,” he stated.

The tree itself is usually a Norway spruce and stands somewhere between 69 to 100 feet tall. The tallest tree ever to be put up in Rockefeller Center was in 1999. The tree came from Killingworth, CT and stood at 100 feet tall.

This year the Rockefeller Center tree, which hails from Mt. Olive, New Jersey stands at 80 feet tall and the event prom-ises to be just as fun and enter-taining as the previous years.

NBC will broadcast the event, as they do every year. Hosted by Al Roker and Savan-nah Guthrie, the broadcast will include performances from Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart and CeeLo Green, to name a few.

“This trip is extremely popular”, said Kolf. He also ex-plained that because the trip is so popular the IRHA decided to add another bus this year to ac-commodate the large amount of students going.

“Even though we doubled the number of tickets this year, they sold in record time on the very first day of sales,” he said.

Student interest seems to

add up. “I didn’t know about the Christmas tree lighting trip until someone put up one of those IRHA papers with riddles on the bathroom stall. I’m not positive if I’ll go but I’d be in-terested in going,” said Devon Hogan ’16.

Joe Flanagan ’16 said, “I’ve heard about the tree lighting trip and I’m definitely going.”

Some students, though, ex-plained that having the trip on a school night creates conflict with their classes. “It’s a fun activity and it’s nice that the school offers it for such a low price but it’s difficult to go be-cause it’s on a Wednesday and everyone has homework,” said Carolyn Mannix ’14.

Kolf ended on a positive note. “My hopes for this year’s trip, as it is my first year as the Director of Programming for the IRHA, are that it is as suc-cessful as it has been in the last couple of years, and if ticket sales are any hint as to how it will go, I know my hopes will be fulfilled.”

Buses will depart from Alumni Hall on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

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“Let’s put the fair back in (fair)field” is the slogan for this year’s 3rd annual Fair Trade Fair. The fair is scheduled to take place Nov. 30 at 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the lower Level BCC. Students for Social Justice (S4SJ) have been working hard to plan the event and to raise awareness of fair trade on campus.

Fair trade is a term that means buying a product and knowing that most, if not all, of the proceeds are going to the artisans, explains Cristina Rich-ardson’14, an executive board member of S4SJ. By promoting fair trade, S4SJ hopes to discour-age the use of sweatshops and support better work standards for artisans around the world.

S4SJ is working towards a fair trade movement that goes beyond an annual event with an ultimate goal of bringing the humanity back in consumption. But do the students notice the change? “I have definitely seen the coffee in Barone say ‘fair trade’ but that’s the only place I’ve seen it,” says Tori Ready ‘ 14. S4SJ has worked to motivate administrators to always choose fair trade.

But every year the group is presented with a new set of struggles. If there is a change in the food suppliers on cam-pus, like the recent switch from Jazzman’s to Einstein’s, the group

has to reorient themselves to the new products. Sometimes the progress the group has made will hold true to the next school year but sometimes it doesn’t,

explains Richardson.Although the fair trade cof-

fee is noticed, some students say that one of S4SJ’s central projects has gone unnoticed. Andres Pe-schiera ’14 has never noticed the Alta Garcia products in the spirit shop or the downtown bookstore but jokes that it might be under all the Vera Bradley products.

S4SJ brought the Alta Garcia products to Fairfield because the company embraced strong labor unions and gave the workers fair wages. By hosting the fair trade event, they hope to support oth-er groups that do the same.

The fair trade will include Nicaraguan handmade ceram-ic vases, pottery and wooden bowls brought in by the Hearts for Hands group on campus. Jewelry, coffee, scarves, choco-late bars and home goods from

Ten Thousand Villages in New Haven, Conn. will also be sold.

When students attend the fair, their awareness may start with a purchase that fits their wants and desires, whether it’s for themselves or a loved one for the holidays. But as students check out the items and they read the pamphlets regarding fair trade, Richardson hopes they will become more con-scious consumers.

But after shopping at the Fair Trade event freshmen year, Ready thinks there could be more information. Otherwise “people just think its nice prod-ucts but they aren’t thinking about where it comes from,” said Ready.

Bringing awareness on fair trade is a difficult task. There are many varying qualifications to

fair trade and often times labels can be deceitful, says Richard-son.

But there is hope. There is a whole wealth of knowledge out there on fair trade and S4SJ hopes to bring that knowledge to Fairfield.

They are hoping to include biographies on the artisans who reated the products. All that mat-ters is that students do the most they can and stay informed said Richardson.

After all, buying fair trade means the people who work hard on the products are be-ing respected and compensated for their hard work. And why buy something mass-produced at Walmart when you can buy something handmade and unique, said Ready.

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MirrorFriday, Nov. 30Head to the Quick Center

for a holiday performance

by the Glee Club. The

event is from 8:00 p.m.

-10:30 p.m. and tickets are

$6 for general admission.

Friday, Nov. 30Graduate students will

present their readings

Bookstore at 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 30

Levee to celebrate different

cultures through music and

dance from 11 p.m.-2 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 1Watch the lady Stags vs. St.

Francis in Alumni Hall. Tip

off is at noon and the event

is free.

Monday, Dec. 3

IRHA will be hosting its

annual campus wide Deck

the Halls competition. May

Friday, 11/16 12:03 a.m. - A student was struck by a car on campus. No injuries were reported. The driver was referred to Student Conduct. 9:12 a.m. - A Prep. student driving on campus was pulled over by DPS and was found to be in possession of marijuana. Fairfield Police was no-tified, as was Prep. administration. Saturday, 11/17 12:20 a.m. – A Townhouse resident reported that a beer can was thrown through their window. No suspects have been identified. 3:14 a.m. – DPS received report of public urina-tion in McInnes Hall on an apartment door. The matter is still under investigation. 3:30 a.m. – A Village resident was arrested for possession of marijuana in their room and was referred to Student Conduct. 1:48 p.m. – A group of males was observed throw-ing beer cans at an apartment window in the Vil-lage. All were referred to Student Conduct. 2:58 p.m. - One Townhouse resident was discov-ered to be in possession of marijuana and was referred to Student Conduct. 6:38 p.m. – A Loyola Hall resident reported to

DPS that their laundry had been stolen from the building’s laundry room. 11:16 p.m. – A non-student urinating near the Fairfield Prep. gate was confronted by DPS. The individual was not cooperative with DPS or Fair-field Police and was arrested for trespassing. Sunday, 11/18 12:38 a.m. – Exposed wires hung from where the hand dryer had been in a BCC men’s room. DPS has not found any suspects in the vandalism. 1:57 a.m. – Two students were involved in an as-sault at the Townhouses. Fairfield Police was no-tified for investigation. 4:17 a.m. – A taxi driver reported that two indi-viduals urinated in the back of his cab. The stu-dents were identified and restitution was paid. 4:35 a.m. – A Townhouse resident reported a burglary during which a MacBook was stolen. No suspects have been identified. 6:31 p.m. – An exit sign was smashed in the Vil-lage. Maintenance was called. No suspects have been identified. Tuesday, 11/20

4:16 a.m. – A Village resident was referred to Stu-dent Conduct for possession of narcotics.

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

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Change. It’s one of the most challenging things we as humans face. We lose friends and loved ones, and we switch schools and jobs. "e list goes on. Changes come in all shapes and sizes - positive, negative and everything in between. But what is it about change that makes it so hard?

When things in life change, a part of our character must change, too. It’s not always easy to change yourself in order to embrace the change your life has brought upon you. When your life takes on a di#erent road, you must adapt. Some people take on this challenge with poise and ele-gance, but some dwell in the past. I tend to see the past as brighter than it was and the future as

darker than it will be.I am sure many of you read-

ing can relate with my problem. Whenever something in your life changes, you crumble to pieces. When a friendship fails, or a re-lationship ends, you look in the mirror and beat yourself up. You ask yourself what you did wrong. You think that maybe if you were skinnier, blonder, funnier, not as loud, not as quiet, maybe if you did things di#erently, things would have worked. Trust me, I’ve been down this road a million times and that is not the right at-titude when dealing with change.

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Change adds to life's complication

"anksgiving? Check. Black Friday? Done. Cyber Monday? History.

After a holiday dedicated to gluttony and a week-end devoted to uninhibited materialism, we can’t help but ask: How did we get here?

To be precise, it seems that society has come to a point where we value self-interest more than the people around us. Billions of dollars are spent in a few days to satisfy super$cial impulses, while there are so many struggling to obtain the bare necessities of life.

So how have we come to a point in our country where a few deaths or gunshots have come to be ex-pected on a shopping holiday? Do we really live in such a self-interested society where the demise of Twinkies gets just as much attention on the internet as the turmoil on the Gaza-Israel border?

But there is hope.

the idea here? Several charity organizations banded together to promote the idea that after a weekend of self indulgence, one should realize that the needs of others should also be considered. Individuals are encouraged to donate to charities and the less fortu-nate in any way possible on this particular day.

Hopefully, people can recognize the importance of helping others through the organization of e#orts like Giving Tuesday. In fact, this day should replace Black Friday altogether.

One might argue that the loss of Black Friday as a national staple would be devastating to our econ-omy. And you’d be right - it promotes spending in a way that is not seen at any other time throughout the year.

We’re not saying don’t spend any money on the holidays. But instead of getting that iPad or !at screen television at half price, use that money to buy

will still be pumping money into the economy, but you will also be helping those in need. Without hav-ing to spend every last penny on the bare necessities of life, those helped by donations can work towards things like education and entrepreneurship, allow-ing an even greater progression for our country than one weekend of shopping could provide.

"anksgiving can stay. Enjoy a good meal with your family. But when it’s done, instead of buying the WiiU with 30 percent o#, go help the family who couldn’t a#ord to enjoy a "anksgiving dinner.

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When’s the last time some-one has stood outside the library with a “free compliments” sign and said, “hey, you have a nice smile?”

Sound creepy? I guess it de-pends on how you say it.

But two students at Tufts University say kind words in-cluding that. They’re members

a group that offer niceties for the sake of it.

Should we start our own chapter?

“I like the idea,” Father George Collins, S.J., director of campus ministry, told me as he sipped his Einstein Bro’s coffee Monday morning. “There’s days when everyone could use a free compliment.”

However, we agree that Fair-field doesn’t necessarily need a free compliments club.

We’re a nice campus as it is. Most people I’ve encountered here seems to be extremely friendly. People held doors open for me when I’m 50 yards away.

In other words, you don’t need to be a member of a club to be nice to someone, or to offer them a compliment.

This complement club re-minds me of a group I encoun-tered when a buddy and I visited Washington, D.C., this summer.

We were about to leave Old Glory Bar-B-Que, a Georgetown bar, when a small army of barcrawling guys and girls a r r i v e d

i n yellow “free hugs” t-shirts. And they made good on their offer, giving a hug to everyone who asked.

These people really changed the atmosphere of the bar and brought a more positive vibe. Could you imagine a better conversa-tion starter with women at the bar than “Excuse me, what’s that cool t-shirt about?”

Boom. Conversation.This group made the bar feel

like a gathering of friends. Well, I guess friends that somehow don’t even know each other.

I’m not saying that you hug everybody at a bar. Certainly, it’s not advisable to hug someone

who hasn’t showered in weeks.

should give a compliment where one is obviously not due. Surely, though, if someone is deserving of a compliment, you should give one.

We don’t seem to have a free compliments club at Fair-field. But if you do decide to

start one, I’ll be the first to compliment you.

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Staring at the computer screen in a panic and frustrated beyond belief, I begin trying to register for classes. Even as a sophomore I ex-pected it to be easier than it had been my freshman year, but I was wrong and at this point I had a feel-ing it would never get easier. !is system that determines the kind of life I will have next semester is un-doubtedly "awed.

Let me begin by saying that while I registered, I could not even get onto StagWeb. !e site kept crashing, which made things even more di#cult than usual. A note to whomever works on StagWeb, it would make things a lot easier if all of the kinks were worked out ahead of time. !ere should be no reason why I should have the spinning wheel in the middle of my comput-er while I am picking classes.

Secondly, out of the $ve classes I wanted to register for, I was waitlisted for four of them. !en when I tried to add my back up classes I was waitlisted for 2/3 of them. I planned on registering for a U.S. Diversity that would also ful$ll a part of my core. !is left me extremely limited. Many of them were English, history, or social sci-ence, all of which I have already ful$lled. I found this problem to be frustrating when all the other ones were closed that matched a core I hadn’t ful$lled. Fair$eld should

possibly think about crediting more classes as World and U.S. Diversity. Students need more options that $t their majors and their schedules.

Another problem was that a aournalism course that all majors need to take only had one section with only $fteen spots. Luckily I was able to reg-ister for it but what if I hadn’t been able to? What happens then? Even if I had asked to be written in and was allowed, why not just add more spots to begin with or create an-other section? If every journalism major needs to take this course at one point or another, there should be no rea-son why there is only one section of $fteen people.

A n o t h e r problem I found while registering was that I could not register for a course in marketing because I am not a busi-ness major. I had wanted to take this course to see if I wanted to mi-

nor in it. But because no paperwork had been $led, an error occurred in registering. I ran into this problem again in trying to register for an up-per level psychology course as well

to ful$ll my Social Science core.

by the end of regis-

tration I was left frazzled, upset and with a schedule I hated which did not work with my other activities.

Registration is a huge part of academics and Fair$eld cer-

tainly has a running list of problems they need to work out. !ere must be an easier and more e#cient way to sign up for classes. Fair$eld, it’s time to $gure that out!

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nice smile -cause of the loss of a relation-ship. If someone changes, that doesn’t mean you should ever change yourself for them. You can never go wrong with being yourself.

Sometimes the loss of a re-lationship is only temporary. Remember that you might not have lost this person forever. Al-ways have hope.

Look for the silver lining in every change. Most of life’s most useful lessons are manifested in change. Search for that lesson and implement it into your ev-eryday life.

Change, whether positive or negative, will never be an easy task. But you can’t let change break you and you absolutely can’t dwell in the past. You must trust that every change, even the hardest ones, are just part of the building blocks of your charac-ter.

If I ever get a tattoo, I’d de$-nitely get one with a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien: “All that is gold

who wander are lost.”Just because a change

doesn’t glitter does not mean it’s not gold. Trust that always.

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Dr. DeWitt hops the pond, goes over mountains and through woods in elite Orienteering

It was a cool, but sun-ny July morning in the Swiss Alps. Richard DeWitt left the ski village and headed to meet about 5,000 fellow competitors to be sent on cable cars, ski lifts and

gondolas to their speci)c starting

points for the upcoming competition.

At 10,000 feet, glacial terrain made it seem as though the race was about to take place on the moon. After a 45-minute ride to the top of the gla-cier with snow caps scattered all over, DeWitt pre-pared to embark on his orienteering competition.

On a daily basis, Fair)eld’s Dr. Richard DeWitt, professor of philosophy, experiences a very di*er-ent environment than that of his o+ce in Donnar-umma Hall.

“,rough my experience in Professor Dewitt’s class, he de)nitely seems like a guy to have a com-petitive nature and be into sports,” explained DeW-itt’s former student, Ryan Plourde ’14. “He always had healthy snacks and his Nalgene bottle nearby.”

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Orienteering pushes professor's life to great heights

“Some people do meditation, some people do yoga, and I do mapping.”

-Dr. RichardDeWitt

To orient is to locate some-thing in relation to the points of a compass. !e sport of orienteering, popular in Europe, does just that.

Orienteers are separated by age group and given a speci"c map to follow. Because there is no pre-determined course, racers have to "gure out the best way to get to all of the points, or “controls,” on their map. !ey then must check in at their locations by pointing sensors over the controls.

Participants are staggered about every two minutes on the starting line. As soon as the race begins, DeWitt can view his map for the "rst time. Compass in hand and racing against the clock, DeW-itt’s "rst priority is to locate the "rst control.

“You have to keep ahead of the game,” explained DeWitt in a recent interview in his Fair"eld o#ce. “You’re problem-solving sometime ahead and "gur-ing out the most e#cient route to run 10 minutes from now.”

DeWitt reaches about 12 to 18 controls throughout the race. With a pace of about 10 minutes per ki-lometer, he runs through trails and up hills, constantly bushwhacking along the way. “You think you’re doing things right,” he said, “but you might get someplace and re-alize, ‘this doesn’t look right any-more.’”

!e pace can seem mislead-ing because it is based on the most accurate way to get from one point to another; however, competitors often run more than the assumed mileage. “!e courses are designed so that the straight line is almost never the optimal one,” explained DeWitt.

Friend and colleague Dr. Joy Gordon of the philosophy depart-ment connected DeWitt’s person-ality in the workplace to his com-petitiveness on the course. “He’s someone who is thorough, articu-

late and has high standards of integ-rity in everything he does,” she said.

For most rac-es, the competitors are not allowed to follow each other. While their paths may intersect, it would be inef-"cient to follow someone because they could be look-ing for di$erent controls.

While novice competitors can add minutes to their overall time by making navigational mistakes, the more experienced runners can plan their route more accurately.

When DeWitt and his wife "rst discovered orienteering, they called their local club and were quickly hooked. Now, DeWitt is the president of the Western Connecti-cut orienteering group. “If it’s the sort of thing that grabs you, there is nothing more fun,” DeWitt said.

Almost every summer, he trav-els overseas to compete in more

populated internationally sanc-tioned events. “!e ones in Europe are by far the most fun!” comment-ed DeWitt. “!ey have fantastic ter-rain.”

When he was about 40 years old, DeWitt set a goal of ranking as high as he could nationally. “!at took an incredible amount of focus and training,” explained DeWitt. Although he did not qualify for the U.S. team, DeWitt was near the top 50 competitors in the country.

“Orienteering can be kind of cruel in the sense that you train re-ally hard for something and then you might just completely blow a race,” reminisced DeWitt. “!at can happen where you just have a really horrible mistake and take yourself out of the running.”

DeWitt still tries to keep in shape. He has run over 10 mara-thons and an Ironman triathlon. Some people would rather not go against him. “I wouldn’t challenge him to any races anytime soon,” joked Plourde. “He seems like he'd de"nitely beat me in a race.”

!ere is one kind of training that has remained close to his heart throughout the past 20 years: hash running. On !ursday nights, De-Witt and his buddies run about six to nine miles on a course marked by baking %our. “It’s our chance to just put work behind us and go act like children,” DeWitt said. “God knows how many miles I’ve run with them!”

Although most of the time it’s fun and games with his hash run-ning group, sometimes things don’t go according to plan. !e sun was slowly setting when DeWitt and his friends decided to play Frisbee after

a fun run. A l t h o u g h his wife repeatedly w a r n e d him to be c a r e f u l , DeWitt lost his foot-ing amid the play-ing and l a u g h i n g and took a hard fall. R u p t u r -ing all the ligaments in his right s h o u l d e r and breaking his collarbone, DeW-itt’s fun-"lled evening quickly took a turn for the worse. “We were hav-ing a blast, but it was one of those things where it’s a lot of fun until someone gets hurt,” he said.

While no athlete wants to be injured, DeWitt recognizes that it is all part of the sport, saying, “As you get more experience, you get more patient with things. With injuries, you realize that it will take a period of months to get better, and it’s just something you have to deal with.”

Not only has orienteering pro-vided DeWitt with a physical outlet, he also discovered another way that it can be mentally stimulating and satisfying: creating maps.

“It gives you a way of dissipat-ing some energy,” explained De-Witt. !is very time-consuming aspect of orienteering has become a relaxing part of the sport for De-Witt. With so few mapmakers in the United States, it is truly an art.

When creating a map of an area not far from campus, DeWitt would walk through trails and map every inch of the terrain. Because one map can take up to 300 hours to create, he explained that some-times it takes years to complete his hourly dedication to one speci"c map.

DeWitt joked saying that map-ping is like a second career - or rather, an alternative to his career. “Some people do meditation, some people do yoga, and I do mapping,” he said.

Over the past 20 years, ori-enteering has played a large role in DeWitt’s life, whether through his training runs, competitions or mapping. “Running and compet-ing has become a part of who I am,” explained DeWitt. Similar to most athletes, it was di#cult for DeW-itt to convey the signi"cance and impact of orienteering on his life - simply because it is his life.

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All photos contributed by Richard DeWitt

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New Music:AWOLNATION

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on the riseAfter !ghting their way onto

the popular music scene, Seattle-based hip hop duo

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are !-nally cashing in on the success that persistence, a loyal fan base, and more than 10,000 hours of logged studio time studio will get you.

Macklemore (real name Ben Haggerty) and Ryan Lewis have been working together as a col-laborative team since 2000 and are currently in the process of ascend-ing from their status as hometown heroes to that of national super-stars, having !nally found success after their recently released debut album titled “"e Heist.”

“"e Heist” was released on Oct. 9 and entered at No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes download charts and No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200 charts, selling 78,000 copies in the !rst week.

As soon as their album was released, the duo embarked upon "e Heist World Tour, which was created to promote and celebrate their debut album.

Recently, the band performed at Toad’s Place in New Haven, which was the !rst time either of the West Coast gentlemen had been to Connecticut.

Currently, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are not signed to a re-cord label. According to Haggerty, this is completely by choice, as the band has been o#ered several con-tracts at this point but has turned them all down.

In a song o# their album called “Jimmy Iovine,” Haggerty raps about what it’s like to be an inde-pendent artist in today’s modern

music industry and how, at the end of it all, the artists themselves are the ones left with the short end of the stick.

One of the many facets of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ over-whelming success as independent artists is the fact that their music, more speci!cally their latest al-bum, isn't comprised of a bunch of similar songs. In fact, it could be ar-gued that their diversity and variety is what’s making them so popular; it’s as if they have a song for every-body.

While some of their music is heavy and deals with serious top-ics such as their song “Otherside”

about battling addiction, they have produced plenty of light-hearted songs such as “And We Danced,” which is a humorous song about enjoying a really great impromptu dance party.

"e pair have also been ap-plauded for producing several songs that comment on and draw attention to civil rights topics and societal issues such as gay mar-riage, racism and the dangers of consumerism.

Like many artists who are mak-ing it big these days, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ success is rooted in a strong Internet presence and subsequent fan base.

Known for their artistic and high quality videos, several of the band’s music videos have gone viral, including the videos for their singles “"rift Shop,” which is played regularly on BET, and “Same Love,” a video about mar-riage equality that has been viewed on YouTube more than 30 million times. "is latter video has also drawn the attention of well-known celebrities including Ellen DeGe-neres, who had the the band on her show for a live performance of the song and gave everyone in the au-dience a copy of their CD.

"eir Nov. 18 concert at Toad's Place, a small and relatively inti-

mate venue, was !lled with a frenet-ic and nearly tangible energy that can only be produced by genuine fans. Many in attendance were col-lege students from nearby schools such as Yale University, Quinnipiac University and Fair!eld University.

Fair!eld sophomore Patrick Kueny who attended the concert said, “"e crowd was unbeliev-able, absolutely amazing… that was probably my favorite part. Everyone was singing along to every single song and we all knew the lyrics.”

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis gave an entertaining and lively per-formance that came with all the trimmings: sequin-clad dancers, multiple costume changes (includ-ing wigs) and more than a few stage dives and crowd surfs.

When the familiar beat and trumpets started blaring, intro-ducing their most popular single “"rift Shop,” the crowd roared and seemed to break out in dance simultaneously. Before Haggerty started rapping, he pointed to a few people in the audience who were sporting fake fur jackets and asked if he and Lewis could wear them as they performed the song. Unsur-prisingly, they said yes and crowd surfed them up to the stage.

In between sets, Haggerty and Lewis would address the crowd and talk about a variety of topics, ranging anywhere from how thank-ful they are for their supportive fans to how pretty they think the girls in Connecticut are.

In what most fans would con-sider a highlight of the night, Hag-gerty complimented the crowd on their enthusiasm and energy, saying that this crowd may have cracked their top three favorites of all time.

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Aaron Bruno is the mas-termind and front man behind AWOLNATION’s

(AN) much anticipated debut al-bum "Megalithic Symphony." "eir innovative, electronic feel pulls together elements of nearly every genre. AN is signed to Red Bull Records, and their creative control comes through as meticu-lous, clean and new throughout the entire album. "eir album in-cludes each of their three previous singles, “Sail,” “Not Your Fault,” and “Kill Your Heroes,” in addition to 11 other tracks.

AN broke through the music scene with their !rst single “Sail,” which became available for digital download in June of 2011. Profes-sional base jumper Jeb Corliss features the song in his audacious YouTube video where he plum-mets through the Swiss Alps in a

wing suit. "e video helped AN gain popularity with more than 19 million views. "e song went plati-num in the U.S., double-platinum in Canada and reached No. 5 on Billboard’s U.S. Alternative Songs chart. "is ground shaking song in-troduces a powerful bass and rug-ged synth, providing the de!ning elements of AN’s sound. Lead vo-calist Bruno repeats the title “Sail” in a rough voice, complementing its electronic backdrop. "e song is instantly ingrained in the minds of listeners, providing an anthem for the rest of the day and making ev-erything they encounter appear a bit more epic.

"eir second single “Not Your Fault” was released in October of 2011. AN’s electronic feel re-ally comes through on this song. It features a much more pixilated sound that holds onto soft a key-board early and brings in the heavy synth later. "e incredible build leads into a trashing chorus where

you can’t help but throw your entire body into the rhythm. "e song landed the band with its second hit within Bill-board’s U.S. Alternative chart, making its way up to No. 3.

In August of 2012, AN released their third single “Kill Your Heroes.” "e song climbed to No. 7 on Billboard’s U.S. Alternative chart and sticks to the band's orig-inal electronic sound. Fuzzy, hard-sung vocals are placed over a distorted synth and smooth guitar melodies that transition into another catchy cho-rus. "e song’s sinister lyrics leave its meaning up to debate, but in any case, another jam is produced.

Some other great songs on the album include “Jump On My Shoulders,” “Guilty Filthy Soul,” “Wake Up" and one of the best

tracks “All I Need,” which provides the album with another change of pace. "e song incorporates the pi-ano, along with a choir and a softer vocal sound to provide a gospel-infused rock feel that helps tie the entire album together.

"Megalithic Symphony" is an album deserving of its title and positive critical acclaim, as it suc-

cessfully spans across several genres, bringing them all together with unrivaled uniqueness.

AWOLNATION just stormed their way into the alternative/elec-tronic realm with absolutely no fear and no looking back.

"Megalithic Symphony" is now available in stores and for down-load on iTunes.

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Haggerty, popularly known as Macklemore, pumps up the crowd at Toad's Place in New Haven on Nov. 18.

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In the !nal movie of the popular romance-fantasy Twilight fran-chise, "Breaking Dawn: Part 2,"

viewers see that young lovestruck teenager Bella Cullen (Kristen Stew-art) is forever changed. After giving birth to a half-vampire, half-human baby while still in human form, Ed-ward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) had to change her when he realized he'd lose her otherwise.

"is Bella is beautiful, strong and !ercely protective of not only the Cullens, but also her new family. It seems that Stewart, whose acting is commonly compared to that of a stuttering robot - and this refers to viewers' frustration with her inability to exhibit a wide range of emotions - has graduated to a functioning hu-man. Congratulations.

Bella's child, Renesmee, or Nessie, is introduced to Twilight fans, played by newcomer Mackenzie Fay, who does bear a great resemblance to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cullen. Bella soon !nds out that Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) has imprinted on Renesmee, meaning he has chosen her as a life mate. Su#ce it to say, this immediately breaks apart the love triangle that many Twilight fans have obsessed over for the years.

Renesmee, it turns out, has the gift of transferring her thoughts and memories to other people through touch. Also, because of her unique

DNA, she ages more quickly than the normal child.

Stewart and Fay have a sur-prisingly believable chemistry, and Pattinson plays the part of a protec-tive and devoted father well.

One day, a vampire from a near-by clan spots Renesmee playing with Taylor and Bella, and she mistakes the child for a dangerous Immortal Child. "e witness then rushes to Ita-ly to inform the Volturi, the powerful vampire government run by the old-est vampires to exist, of this "crime."

Centuries ago, it became illegal to change children into vampires af-ter one child had gone on a killing rampant, incapable of controlling its new thirst. "e Volturi stepped in to get rid of this vampire-child and its "parent," or the one who turned it.

When the Cullens realize that the Volturi will stop at nothing to put an end to this perceived crime, they start planning. Preferring to avoid war, Carlisle (Peter Facinelli), the head of the Cullen clan, decides they must recruit other vampires from the Denali, Irish and nomadic clans as witnesses to attest to Nessie's exis-tence as a hybrid, not as an Immortal Child.

"e movie !nishes with an epic battle between the Volturi and vampires and their werewolf allies. "anks, Jacob.

"ere's one thing in this movie that needs praise: "e choreography and cinematography for the battle scenes were masterfully done and

fast-paced. Who knows? Maybe the boyfriends and husbands who were dragged to the movie even liked these !nal scenes.

With the gathering of vampires from across the globe, a lot of minor characters show up in this !lm, and it's actually sad that they got little screen time. A witty and seductive vampire played by Lee Pace might have been an American Patriot back in the day, and he is actually funny, delivering his humorous lines with-out causing the audience to $inch. He woos Kate (Casey LaBow), a member of the Denali clan, and their love connection is established in just

a few scenes. Not to say anything against Bella and Edward's connec-tion, which started when she saw him eyeing her angrily in biology class...

Some characters shine through among the mediocre acting that took up most of the movie. Dakota Fan-ning was brilliantly deviant as the sadistic vampire Jane, and actor Mi-chael Sheen, who played head vamp Aro, was su#ciently creepy and overwhelmingly gleeful at the pos-sibility of in$icting punishment on the Cullens.

It's a disappointment that the special e%ects of "Twilight" haven't

changed since that fateful day when Pattinson scaled up a tree with Stewart (read: spider monkey) on his back. Baby Renesmee was com-posed through computer-generated imagery, but unlike the success that CGI had with the werewolves in pre-vious !lms, little Renesmee ended up looking cute but ultimately unre-alistically composed.

"e "Twilight" book and movie franchise does not have the same sentimental value as, say, "Harry Potter," which people of all ages grew up with. So the ending of "Breaking Dawn: Part 2" was expected, but not seen as monumental.

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Newly-turned Bella (Stewart) tackles some tough opponents, including brother-in-law Emmett (Kellan Lutz).

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COFFEE BREAK | 12 Editor

Send your thoughts to info@fair!eldmirror.com.

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Ask Miss Anne Because we could all use a little advice now and then...

Dear Sad Sack,I can’t tell you if you will

ever be happy or if you will ever find someone to be happy with.

Blaming yourself is very easy, but it’s not something you should do often.

What are you not doing?

Are you not leaving your house? Are you not brushing your teeth in the morning? Are you not wearing deodorant? These are pretty easy fixes. Smelling good can really improve your chances in meeting someone you could find worthy to love, or even have as a friend.

Blaming everyone else is also very easy. Why is every-one such a snob? Why does ev-eryone think it is okay to wear Uggs and Timberlands for every occasion and every day? Why don’t people just come up and make thought-provoking con-versation with me when I ac-tually feel like talking to people?

My answer to those ques-tions is that you can’t blame people for the way they are.

More important, you need to understand that people aren’t going to change, espe-cially a large group of people that makes up this University. Just try to ignore others‘ indis-cretions and shortcomings.

SS, maybe it isn’t your time to be with someone. I am not saying this in a bad way at all. What I mean is it’s equally likely that you will find someone once you graduate this college life.

Sometimes, the relation-ships you see happening on this

very campus are not as cracked up as they seem to be.

Maybe the rela-tionship you’re

looking for is not what

y o u ’ r e

seeing. Don’t fret.If you are unsatisfied with a

particular group of people, just be satisfied with the fact that you understand yourself that much more.

I’m going to blame you again. Walking out your door is a great start but if you are really dissatisfied with life on campus, get off.

There is a train station a quick fifteen-minute walk away. Get on it and go somewhere - anywhere but here.

Go to a museum, visit a friend, just walk around and get lost in a city (well, don’t really get lost, just explore). But you can’t just keep doing the same thing and think that things will change around you. I believe someone once told me that is a sign of insanity…

Stop perpetuating your misery and change. Change

your socks. Change your diet.

Change your friends. Change your sheets. I’m not saying change who you are, but some-times you have to change what you do.

Love,Miss Anne

Send your questions to askmissanne@gmail.com

Disclaimer: !is is column is for entertainment pur-

poses only. !e author is a student, not a therapist, and

the column is not intended to take the place of professional advice. !e views expressed are those of the author and

do not necessarily re"ect the views of !e Mirror and its sta#

members.

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Dear Miss Anne,

Is it me or is everyone coupled o! on campus? I feel like everyone has a boyfriend or girlfriend. What’s worse is that I don’t think I could ever "nd anyone on this cam-pus. Will I ever be happy? Will I ever "nd someone I can be happy with?

Sincerely,Sad Sack

The Mirror | Week of November 28, 2012 Page 13Sports

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.anksgiving was this past week. What was your favorite food on the table?

.e winter intramural season will be beginning soon. What sport would you sign up for?

Volleyball takes on USC in L.A. on .ursday in the NCAA Tourney. Will you be making the journey?

Black Friday is one of the scariest days of the year. What is the only thing you would go out to buy on Black Friday?

It's under a month until Christmas...can you feel the Christmas spirit yet?

Dodgeball! Will I be good at it....absolutely not. Ever. I will actually be a liability to whatever team I'm on. I most certainly cannot dodge a wrench so I can-not dodge a ball.

Well, now that it sounds like David Beckham is on the way out of L.A. the appeal of the city is going down for me. But for now he's still there, so expect me there before its too late

If our room is any indica-tion, I would say room 118 is feeling the Christmas spirit. We have 5 di,er-ent color lights, a tree and Pierre. Oh yeah, Pierre's the man.

I would say that the only thing that can get me out of my house on Black Friday would be if I could buy a Manchester United player for the day...and I mean that in the most PG way possible.

Scotchy scotchy scotch, down down down, down to my belly.

As a reigning dodgeball champion, I will have to defend the title, but I am looking to apply my trade in something a bit di,er-ent. Maybe sinking and diving?

(Unfortunately Michael was not available to write this post as he is currently running across country hoping to make it before the -rst serve. We wish him well)

Can't wait until the ugly sweater parties o.cially start up. I have been having uno.cial ugly sweater par-ties all year long. Finally I won't look like a complete muppet!

It is very scary because it's so dark and black! I would buy a torch so I could see...

I ate everything on that table. /en I made them restock the table, and I ate that too.I'm pretty sure I ate some food that fell on the 0oor after that. #noshamethanksgiving

I'm not nearly the same athletic caliber as /e Mate, so I'm resorting to hitchhiking with truckers and staying in a cardboard box. Truckers are trustwor-thy people, right?

Not yet, but I've bought a lot of spirits lately, so I'm hoping the Christmas spirit can be found at the bottom of one of those bottles.

People shopping during-Black Friday are insane, they beat the hell out of each other for 10 percent o, baby clothes. I'll gladly stay in on Black Friday and gorge myself on leftovers.

Your 2012-2013 3x5 Columnists: Jennifer Calhoun, Thomas Shea

and Michael O'Keeffe.

Because they like to talk ... sports.

This Week in SportsWatch out for Fairfield Athletics

By !e Numbers

Quote of the Week "What a way to win a MAAC Champion-

ship, you know? Being down 2-0, coming back and winning in the -fth set, it’s unreal."

- Kara Reis '13 about winning MAAC

626 9.5Volleyball will

travel to L.A. to play in the open-ing round of the NCAA Tourna-

ment against 6th ranked USC

Senior Desmond Wade scored 26 points for men's

basketball in their 74-71 win

over Fordham on Nov. 20

Women's basket-ball's Katie Cizyn-ski '14 averages 9.5

rpg earning her MAAC Player of

the week

What To Watch ForWednesday - No games

Thursday - Volleyball at USC, 7:30 p.m. (PT)

Friday- No games

Saturday - Women's Basketball vs St Francis, 2 p.m.

Sunday - Swimming vs ECAC Warm-up

Monday - No games.

Tuesday - No games.

If there's a sport that in-volves me in my bath robe, on a couch, and a bottle of whatever booze I can a,ord, then I'll sign up for that. Otherwise, I'm hibernating.

Congrats to men's cross country on winning the

IC4A University Championship!

-Junior Howie Rosas was the runner-up in the five-mile

race with a time of 26:05.7.

-!e women's team finished seventh in their meet.

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-Sophomore Maureen Crimmins achieved the fastest time ever for a Stag with a time of 18:49.4.

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The Fairfield Univer-sity women’s basketball team squeaked out another close win on Tuesday night, this time de-feating the Vermont Catamounts 51-47 at Alumni Hall.

The teams traded points for much of the first half, with Fairfield taking a 15-13 lead on a three-pointer by Kristin Schat-zlein ’16 with just under nine minutes to play. Vermont would come back to tie it on two differ-ent occasions before halftime, but Fairfield never relinquished the lead and had the 24-23 ad-vantage going into halftime.

Coming out of the break, Fairfield’s defense held Vermont scoreless for over four minutes, and was able to build a 31-23 lead. The Stags had their big-gest lead of the day at 10 with seven minutes remaining when Katelyn Linney ‘13 connected on her second three pointer of the game. Linney scored eight points for the game, all coming in the second half.

Vermont battled back to make it a two-point game, and with just 20 seconds remaining, Catamounts forward Kaylea Brit-ton attempted a three pointer to give Vermont the lead, but missed, with Alexys Vazquez cor-ralling the rebound. Linney sank two clutch free throws to ice the game for the Stags and ensure the four point victory. The win avenges a 65-48 loss to Vermont suffered last year by the Stags up in Burlington.

The leading scorer for the

Stags on Tuesday night was Ka-tie Cizynski ’14, who had a ca-reer high 19 points to go along with six rebounds. Freshman Schatzlein added a career-high nine points in 14 minutes off the bench for the Stags.

“I thought it was kind of messy, but a win is a win,” said Cizynski. “We didn’t play well against them last year, so this is good redemption.”

“We struggled guarding them inside [at the end of the game], but I thought Felicia handled the ball really well bringing it up. She didn’t turn it over, and she just kept going,” said Cizynski.

Head Coach Joe Frager called the win a “complete 180” from last year. “[Vermont] is in-credibly big and physical, their kids are so much thicker and stronger across the board, and we did a better job of handling that tonight,” said Frager.

“In the first half, the really beat us up on the boards, and in the second half, for about a five minute stretch, their physical play really got us ragged with the basketball. But outside of that, I consider this a real solid win.”

The tight victory on Tues-day follows another close win at home against St. Bonaventure’s on Nov. 20 at Alumni Hall as well. Cizynski had her second double-double of the season, finishing with 16 points and 10 boards. Junior Alexys Vazquez went five for eight shooting, scoring 13 points, while Brittany Obi-Tabot ’14 and Brittany MacFarlane ’13 scored eight apiece as well in the victory.

“We’re feeling good, and it’s also good that we’re being put in

these situations early in the sea-son, so we can get comfortable with it,” said Cizynski.

“They’re embracing the fact they know they have to play as a team,” said Frager. “We made a few young mistakes down the stretch, and one defensive mis-take that almost cost us, and for-tunately it didn’t.”

The win over the Bonnies was an impressive one for Fair-field, given that St. Bonaventure

was considered among the best non-power conference teams in the country last year, and made it to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

“I’m real thrilled,” Frager continued, “because I don’t think a lot of people thought this group would be 4-1, with a win on the road at Butler and over St. Bonaventure.”

Since allowing 71 points to Florida in their first game of the

season, the Stags defense has played quite well, not allowing an opponent to score into the 50s since that game. On Tuesday, the defense held strong again, forc-ing the Catamounts to shoot just 36 percent for the game, and go 0 for 9 from three-point range.

The Stags look to pick up their fifth win of the season this Saturday when they take on St. Francis Brooklyn at 2 p.m. at Alumni Hall.

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Senior Katelyn Linney fends off two players for Vermont. The Stags went on to win 51-47.

Volleyball wins MAAC TournamentCONTINUED FROM PAGE 16

25-21 win in the set, and keeping their hopes alive.

*e fourth set was dominat-ed by Fair+eld early on, as they jumped to an early 6-0 lead be-hind the serving of Carsen Mata ’15. Siena yet again answered, and soon had a two advantage at 16-14. After a serving error by the Saints, Co,ey again came up big by serv-ing four straight points to regain the lead, and Fair+eld would take the set 25-20, forcing a +fth and +nal set.

By that +fth set, it seemed that everyone in the packed and loud Alumni Hall knew what was trans-piring before their eyes: a monu-mental shift, and the collapse of a team that had dominated the Stags in years past. *is moment seemed impossible.

Fair+eld jumped out to an-other early lead behind Mata’s serving, and led 4-0. *e Stags maintained that lead and mo-mentum, which carried them to a

15-11 victory in the set, capped o, by a Marilyn Peizer ‘15 kill, sealing their trip to their +rst NCAA Tour-nament in over a decade, and +n-ishing o, the season and collapse for Siena.

“I literally don’t have words for how happy I am—this is the best feeling in the entire world,” said Reis with tears in her eyes after the marathon +nal game was over. “I could not be happier with my team and my coaches. I wouldn’t trade this moment for anything in the world.”

“What a way to win a MAAC Championship, you know? Being down 2-0, coming back and win-ning in the +fth set, it’s unreal,” said Reis.

“It’s like we broke a curse, it really is, and it’s always us against Siena,” said Dixion. “It’s like they have our number, and we +nally pulled out a win, and a big one at that. It just feels unbelievable.”

Pittenger didn’t try to hold back emotions after the game as well. “I’m just so proud of this team right now. To come back

and win those three games, that’s incredible in any game, and con-sidering it was a +nal, even more so,” said Pittenger. “Siena is a great team, they +ght for every single point, they’re not going to give anything away … I’m so proud of [the team], and making that hap-pen, because it was all them, they just made it happen.”

One surprise of the tourna-ment was the play of Marilyn Peiz-er, who saw limited action dur-ing the season due to injury. She +nished Sunday with 11 kills, tied for second most on the team with Hayley Moyer ’14.

“My coaches have been train-ing me all year to be versatile … so I’ve been training at di,erent po-sitions and trying to understand the di,erent positions, and I know when I come in, my teammates will be there to support me,” said Peizer.

“She was a di,erence maker absolutely, if we didn’t have her, it would have been a di,erent story. She did a great job doing whatever we asked of her,” said Pittenger re-

garding Peizer.Peizer was named to the All-

Tournament Team, along with teammates Dixion and Rachel Ro-mansky’14.

Dixion was named the 2012 MAAC Volleyball Championship Most Valuable Player after post-ing 34 kills and 23 digs in the two matches over the weekend.

“I can’t even believe it, I was so surprised by it. It really takes all of us to do this … I went up to ev-ery one of my teammates and was like, ‘You did this [for me]’. Each little piece +t in to make one big puzzle.”

Never before in MAAC his-tory has a team come back to win a match in the tournament +nal after being down two sets to none. *e 118 digs for Fair+eld is good for second-most all-time in a sin-gle game in program history, and the most ever in a MAAC Tourna-ment game for Fair+eld.

Romansky +nished with 47 assists and a season high of 22 digs, joining Mata, Reis, and Cof-fey as the four Stags to have 20 or

more digs. Romansky also moved into second all time in Fair+eld history by notching her 3,506th dig of her career.

In a way, this victory was for more than just the players on this team. *is victory was for Lindsey Lee ’07, Katie Mann ’09, Haililani Pokipala ’11, and every player who has come through the program in recent years and has seen their tournament hopes dashed year after year by the same nemesis. It was for every fan who came to the games, every person who came to help the team in any way, and every person who saw this team -ounder with years of frustration under Siena’s dominance.

Now the Stags will go on the road to play the University of Southern California in the open-ing round game of the NCAA Tournament this Friday at 10:30 p.m. EST.

But no matter the outcome of that game, this team knows it has made history and will live in Fair-+eld sports lore for years to come.

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Tracking men's basketball over the breakLehigh University

Nov. 19 (2012 NIT Season Tip-O!)

- Lost 67-82

- Junior Keith Matthews led the team with 17 points

Fordham University

Nov. 20 (2012 NIT Season Tip-O!)

- Won 74-71

-Senior Desmond Wade scored a season-high 26 points

Providence College

Nov. 23(At Providence)

-Lost 47-66

-Senior Derek Needham tied his season high of 18 points

DePaul University

Nov. 27(At DePaul)

-Lost 78-85

-Needham scored a sea-son high 29 points

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against competitive teams. Some games were won and some were lost. In the end, the Men's basketball team players did their best.

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In a sense, there was no other way it could have, or should have, been done.

Fair*eld volleyball has consis-tently been a good team over the past decade, garnering numerous awards for individual players and half a dozen regular season titles in that span.

A very good team, but not great. +ey could not be consid-ered great until they overcame the *nal hurdle: making it back into the NCAA Tournament. Every time they found themselves at that hurdle, the Siena Saints were there waiting for them, and every time Siena was there to stop them.

+at is, until this past Sunday. Perhaps never before in Fair-

*eld history has a win exorcised more ghosts, avenged more for-mer players, so invigorated a fan base, and generally meant more to a team than Fair*eld volleyball’s 3-2 stunning come-from-behind victory over Siena in the MAAC Tournament Championship Final.

In a match that tested their limits both physically and mental-ly, Fair*eld scratched and clawed their way back from a two sets to none de*cit, to win the match and send themselves to their *rst NCAA Tournament appearance since 2001.

After defeating Niagara on

Saturday in four sets to earn their second consecutive trip to the MAAC Tournament Champion-ship game, and sixth appearance in the last eight years, Fair*eld took on a Siena team that they had defeated earlier in the season in four sets.

But history was on Siena’s side. +e Saints were 8-0 in MAAC Tournament *nals, with six of those wins coming against Fair-*eld. +ey had met Fair*eld in the *nals every year between 2005 and 2008, winning every one of those games, sending them to four straight NCAA Tournaments, and sending Fair*eld home.

After trading points in the *rst set, the Saints eventually estab-lished a three point lead at 12-9, and maintained that lead for the rest of the match, going on to win 25-20.

+e second set started o, with a service ace for Siena, o, a serve that changed direction after hitting the net hard, and *nding a no-man’s land in Fair*eld’s de-fense.

+roughout the set, the ball seemed to *nd the ground con-sistently on Fair*eld’s side, while the Stags’ shots were either always defended well, or fell just out of bounds.

Despite that, Fair*eld did battle to a 23-20 lead following a kill from Brianna Dixion ’13, one of her 17 kills for the game. +e

Saints would answer, however, and score seven of the next nine points, winning the second set 27-25. It appeared as though history was destined to repeat itself, and Siena was well on its way to anoth-er NCAA Tournament berth.

“I think it was a little bit of nerves, mixed with a little bit of panic that sort of set in,” said se-nior Kara Reis about why the team got down so early. “It was pan-icking in the sense that we were overcompensating, we were doing too much. And it back*red—we weren’t making the plays that we normally do. We weren’t staying relaxed, we weren’t focused.”

“In the locker room, I said ‘We’ve got to -ip the switch, guys. We’ve done it before, and we can do it again,’” added Reis.

No one knows what that switch Reis alluded to better than Head Coach Alija Pittenger, saying “they decide when they want to -ip it on and make plays.”

“We told them it’s up to them, and if they wanted to, they could get it done.”

+at switch was not hit di-rectly after halftime, as even in the crucial third set, Fair*eld found themselves down 15-12. But a Ca-mille Co,ey’15 kill started a rally that led the Stags to take 13 of the next 19 points, giving them the

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(Above) Volleyball celebrates as a team after winning the MAAC Tournament. (Below) Kaitlin Chin and Hayley Moyer embrace and cry in a post game celebration.

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