As visitors and the campus community know, Fairfield’s campus is filled with sights of interesting and varied wildlife.  Canadian geese, turkeys, coyotes, the Japanese carp in Bellarmine Pond, a few stray cats, a rat or two in the streams that run through campus, and plenty of deer are among the animals that make their home on Fairfield’s campus.  Despite the number of deer, however, a sighting of an actual Stag - a male deer - is sometimes rare.  The other day I was with our VP for Marketing & Communications and Fr. von Arx in the enclosed porch off his office overlooking Bellarmine Lawn.  Fr. von Arx saw it first and we watched a Stag run across the lawn, stop and stand proud, before heading off into the woods.  While admittedly corny, the Stag sighting gave me a short boost of Fairfield pride!

On a related theme, good luck tomorrow to the Stag’s men’s and women’s soccer teams as the men compete in the MAAC soccer tournament and the women take on Oklahoma State in the first round of the NCAA soccer tournament!