[We] had good attendance. We wanted to have it in conjunction with the Board of Governors meeting so that they would be able to go through and see that.

It's a tremendous teaching tool and it's going to give our students hands-on, practical experience.

That was really the top priority.

We recommended extensive changes to our current existing stadium facilities to ensure student welfare, to accommodate fans in a comfortable environment, to promote efficient event management and to provide convenient facilities for instruction.

I'm ecstatic. I've been working on it for 10 months and I'm ready to see the green flag drop for the first time in two and a half years.

And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.