Mirror - Vol. 30, No. 13 - December 09, 2004

              )ecember 9. 2004 Vol. 30. Iss. 13
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Students spend night in jail after Bridgeport bar bust
Chris Donato/The Mirror
Last call? John Adams remains open despite the arrests last week.
Slow recovery for off-campus shooting victim
BY ERIN GRAY
Recovery continues for Fairfield student Clinton Chiz-inski
who was shot in a Westport home on Nov. 12.
After a night out in South Norwalk celebrating a friend's
21 birthday, Chizinski and a friend accepted a ride back
from two young men to a friend's Westport home. When
they arrived, they invited the two young men inside to hang
out for a while.
"Normally you worry about girls getting rides home
from people they just met," Chizinski said. "The two seemed
normal and said they were going our way anyway, so we
took the ride."
For a while everything was fine. The other ten people
at the house were listening to music, playing video games
and having a good time. The two men went outside to have
a cigarette.
When they came back in, one of them, 22-year-old
Staten Island resident Brian Mincieli, was holding a gun.
He demanded that those present give him their wallets, cell
phones and other valuables.
"Clint was in the kitchen in the back of the house and
heard it get quiet," said Bill Ryan, a Fairfield senior that was
also at the party. "He looked out and saw the guy holding
the gun, and ran out through the back door and around the
house to the front."
Chizinski says he and another female friend ran out
the back door. He told her to hide under a car and gave her
his cell phone and money. He told her to stay there and
SEE "MAJOR" ON P. 4
BY STEVEN M. ANDREWS
An undercover raid by the Bridgeport police re-sulted
in the arrest of 32 people, many of them underage
Fairfield University students, at John Adams Bar & Grill
last Thursday.
Many of the students were taken to a Bridgeport
jail with the option of either paying a $ 1,500 bail or
waiting until the early morning to be released.
In addition to appearing in court next week,
students also face potential sanctions from Fairfield's
judicial system.
"There will be a review of the situation. It is
premature to speculate on the next steps, if any, at this
point," said Dean of Students Mark Reed.
William Simpson, of the Narcotics and Vice
Division, was the undercover officer who was sent to
observe the location for the State Liquor Commission
and Bridgeport Tactical Narcotics Team.
"At approximately 22:00 hours I entered John
Adams Bar," said Simpson in his report written later
that night. "I was accompanied by a state liquor agent.
I was directed by Lt. [Douglas] Stolze to identify
individuals who were possibly underage and drinking,
the bartenders serving them and the doormen checking
ID's."
After staying in the bar for about 45 minutes and
observing several people who looked underage drink
and purchase alcohol, the liquor agent went to the front
to call the rest of the team into the bar.
"I was standing next to the bar in the rear when
the owner came up and instructed the two bartenders to
stop serving everyone and to get the people outside,"
the report said. "He made his way to the DJ and ap-proximately
15 seconds later an announcement came
over the speakers saying the bar was now closed and
everyone had to leave."
The bar did not wish to comment on the situation
at all and has not been charged with any violations,
though they were interviewed by state liquor agents.
It was at this point that people began to rush out the
door and congregate outside, trying to find a way home.
Sean Ronan was one of the officers waiting to arrest
people by the front of the bar.
"I observed about 100 people loitering outside,"
Ronan said in his report. "Upon seeing officers entering
the bar, the crowd began to dissipate quickly. Officers ob-served
several parties on the outside of the bar who were
SEE "UNIVERSITY" ON P. 4
National database could bring Big Brother to Fairfield
BY KELLY SHEEHAN
Privacy concerns have risen for college students be-cause
the U.S. government is considering creating a national
database to increase federal oversight of universities and
track the progress of every college student in the country.
"The big con is not necessarily with the Department of
Education and their ability to use the data appropriately, but
rather, the increasing disarmament of individual privacy by
the federal government," said Timothy Snyder, dean of the
college of arts and sciences.
The database idea proposed by the National Center of
Education Statistics (NCES) of the Department of Educa-tion,
is designed to accurately record national trends in
colleges and universities which would help the government
decide where and how to spend federal funding.
The database would give each student a computer
record that includes name, address, birth date, gender, race
and Social Security number. It would track every student's
enrollment date, majors and minors, credits, tuition paid,
financial aid received, and graduation date, erasing privacy
from the picture.
"It will be like Big Brother constantly watching college
students," said Jennifer DeNapoli '06. "They say they're
going to track certain things now, but that could lead to the
tracking of more invasive things down the line. I don't care
if it will help the government. It's my privacy."
After the 2001 passing of the "No Child Left Behind
Act," a bill that requires testing in elementary and high
schools to ensure that students are being appropriately
educated, there has been a growing movement in Washing-ton
demanding more accountability from universities that
receive federal support.
SEE "FR. VON ARX" ON P. 7