"Visions of idealism go up in smoke"

When news broke last week that Lafayette was going to begin offering basketball scholarships, I wrote a little about the history between the Patriot League and the Ivy League. The Express-Times goes into more detail with Alan Childs, a psychology professor at Lafayette and the first director of the Colonial League, which would be renamed the Patriot League. In the Express-Times story he rues the changes that have come across the league and says:

"We believed the way of the Ivy and Colonial Leagues would be the wave of the future and we were going to convince people of that. Unfortunately, time has shown that wasn't going to happen."

With all the renovation pictures I've been posting maybe it's time to take another look at the architectural renderings of what the new varsity house and visiting side of Memorial Field will look like in the fall of '07. To see both the front and the rear of the new building, click here. ... To see the footprint of the new building and stands, click here. ... The earlier pictures I posted of work on the stadium can be found if you scroll down this page.