Mirror - Vol. 31, No. 23 - March 30, 2006

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FU student stabbed at Lantern Point
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Mark Servidio/ The Mirror; inset photo contributed
Above: "The Undertow," the student beach residence on Lantern Point at which the stabbing took place early Sunday morning. Inset:
Tom Foran '06, who was stabbed in the chest by a Bridgeport man, is now in stable condition at Bridgeport Hospital.
Bridgeport man arrested; student in stable condition
BY KELLY SHEEHAN
A Bridgeport man was arrested on
charges of stabbing a Fairfield student
in the chest early Sunday morning at a
Lantern Point beach house.
As of March 28, 21 -year-old Tom Fo-ran
'06 was reported in stable condition in
Bridgeport Hospital. His lung had partially
collapsed when he was stabbed.
Sean Wargo, 19, of 198 Prince St.,
was charged with first-degree assault and
breach of peace in the 3:46 a.m. stabbing,
Fairfield police said.
"There was a description given and
police saw Wargo walking up Reef Road,"
Captain Robert Comers said. "Tom identi-fied
him." i
Wargo was released on a $5,000 bond
and will appear in Bridgeport Superior
Court on Monday for his arraignment,
police said.
Police said the incident occurred on
Fairfield Beach Road.
"There was a party going on and the
student, Tom, was there," Comers said.
"The dispute was over a coat. Tom and
Sean Wargo took the fight outside where
the stabbing happened."
Jen Bourque '06, resident of 'The
Undertow' beach house where the stabbing
took place, said she and her housemates
did not know Wargo or how he got into
their house.
Bourque said a Fairfield student was
wearing Wargo's coat, which angered
Wargo.
"This girl tried to get the kid [Wargo]
out of the house because no one knew
him," Bourque said. "He wouldn't listen
and that's when Tom intervened."
Bourque said she was in her room
when Foran was stabbed.
"I heard people yelling about someone
getting stabbed," Bourque said. "I opened
the door and a girl was on the phone with
911 and handed me the phone."
Brennan Clark '06 was also at the
party when Foran was stabbed.
"Tom came in and told me that he
thought he had been stabbed," Clark said.
"We looked down and saw blood stains
on his shirt."
"A few girls were really upset," Clark
added. "I don't think it really hit me at
first what was going on. It seemed kind of
surreal because you just don't picture that
kind of thing happening at Fairfield."
Clark said students made Foran sit
down and then took off his shirt.
Bourque said when she went down-stairs,
she saw Foran sitting in a chair
being helped by two girls.
"They were holding towels over the
wound," Bourque said. "He lost over a liter
of blood before he got to the hospital."
Borque said Foran's friends, Matt
Lupo '06 and Domenic Bonavitacola
'06, accompanied him to the hospital.
The police left Borque's house around
5:15 a.m.
The stabbing has raised Fairfield stu-dents'
concerns about beach safety.
"I can't believe this all happened,
and I don't feel safe," said Bourque. "The
events that took place keep playing over
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FBRA seeks
?zero tolerance1
policy at beach
BY JESS MITCHELL
Non-student residents living at
Fairfield beach believe student residents
are out of control once again.
A month ago, the Lantern Point in-junction
was established, prohibiting a
. gathering of more than 250 people on the
Point at one time.
Yet fed-up residents say the injunc-tion
was not enough to curtail the noise
and partying.
The Fairfield Beach Residents As-sociation
requested the police department
"enforce 'zero tolerance' policies in the
area," meaning an arrest is made once a
disturbance satisfies the legal threshold,
and additional police patrol in order for
parties to be shut down by 11 p.m., accord-ing
to the Fairfield Minuteman.
Fairfield U. alumnus and member of
the Fairfield Beach Residents Association,
Jim Bremm, told the Minuteman he still
"sees rowdy parties, vandalism and appar-ent
drunk driving" at the beach.
However, Dean of Students Tom
Pellegrino said that the beach situation is
improving.
"The number of complaints received
by my office has declined over the years.
The beach is not the 'phenomenon' that it
was back in the '80s and '90s, and that is
a good thing," said Pellegrino.
SEE "STUDENTS" ON P. 4
Locked out: Some year long beach resi-dents
feel that the injunction isn't enough
to curtail student partying.
needs ne
Search for basketball coach heating up - p. 18