Student support a mixed bag at sports events

Last week, the men's soccer team's impressive season came to a disappointing end with a loss to Old Dominion University in the NCAA tournament. A crowd of 802 students turned out for the Bears' biggest game of the year, among them a handful of die-hard fans.

"I've been to quite a few soccer games," said Ross Leskin '11. Then he clarified: He has been to every single home game the team played this season.

But Leskin's ardent support of Brown athletics is far from the norm on campus. A recent Herald poll found that a slim majority - 52.7 percent - of undergraduates said they have attended a varsity sports game this semester. Though 69 percent of freshmen reported they had attended a game, only 47.4 percent of sophomores, 50.3 percent of juniors and 44.3 percent of seniors said they had.

The Herald poll was conducted from Nov. 5-7 and has a 3.9 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. A total of 621 Brown undergraduates completed the poll, which was administered as a written questionnaire to students in the University Post Office at Faunce House and in the Sciences Library.