Discuss “If you build it, will they come?”
With last year’s football team undefeated in regular season play and the men’s soccer bringing home the ECAC South Championship, we can be sure that the lack of attendance at campus sporting events has little to do with team performance. Now that we have won the battle against other college sports teams, we have to start fighting the battle here at home against ingrained routines and general disinterest.
Housing and Dining’s answer to this epic problem is the Tartans Pavilion, a new dining facility located between the Gesling Stadium and West Wing and Resnick residence halls. The Pavilion will include a wood-fired pizza oven, big screen TVs, and glass garage doors – a sort of California Pizza Kitchen meets ESPN Zone meets Coffee Tree...
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Aug 27, 2007 at 01:23 PM
The authors apparently suffer from apathy and disinterest in fact. Tartan football doesn't make Gesling a "fun, active, and worthwhile place to be" on Friday nights because all of the games are on Saturdays. Nothing against the teams that do have games on Friday nights, but attendance to their events is not discussed in this article. Similarly, unless the Tartans Pavilion offers an early bird special for seniors, nobody will be eating their dinner next to a football game because all but one of the games starts at or before 1pm.