Mirror - Vol. 33, No. 18 - February 14, 2008

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Students stop snickering after police raid bar
BY JESS MITCHELL
Nine Fairfield students and one Sacred
Heart student were arrested for using fake
identification at the Snickering Squirrel Sa-loon,
a popular Bridgeport bar.
The underage students were charged with
third-degree forgery and criminal imperson-ation
after police confiscated 10 fake driver
licenses, which were from Delaware, Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico, according to
an article in the Connecticut Post.
The Fairfield students, who are from
New York, New Jersey or Massachusetts, are
subject to disciplinary action.
Their arrests violate the off-campus code
of conduct and the University's policy on false
identification.
The students arrested during the bar sting
last Wednesday raised the
total number of college
students in the area ar-rested
for using fake iden-tification
to 22 in a span
of four days, Sgt. Paul
Grech, head of the Police
Department's Neighbor-hood
Enforcement Team,
told the Connecticut Post
last Thursday.
Dean of Students
Thomas Pellegrino ad-dressed
the arrests of eight
freshmen and one sopho-more
from Fairfield Uni-versity
in a campus-wide
SEE "RAID" ON P. 5
Jon Ollwerther/The Mirror
Squirrel scattering: The popular local bar, the Snickering
Squirrel Saloon, which is frequented by Fairfield and Sacred
Heart students, was raided by police last Wednesday.
BY RACHEL BREAN
PeggingThe Princeton Review
One year ago, Carly Jurman' 11 was decid-ing
which college to attend. Jurman, like many
others, began her college application process
with a Princeton Review guidebook. Quotes in
the review such as, "lots of class discussions"
and "an extremely social school" attracted her
to Fairfield.
Each year, thousands of students, similar
to Jurman, and their parents use guidebooks
such as The Princeton Review in the college
application process. Annually, The Princeton
Review has thousands of college students com-plete
surveys about the schools they attend.
These comments, on both academic and
social life at the schools, potentially appear in
the "Students Say" profiles on PrincetonRe-view.
com and in The Princeton Review college
guidebooks. The survey is currently available
on Fairfield's Students 411 Web site.
The publication's influence may sway
initial opinions about schools among prospec-tive
students and their parents, but there is no
way to determine how accurately the surveys
represent the schools.
The rankings in the 2008 edition are based
on surveys of 120,000 students (about 325 per
campus) at the 366 schools included in the
book (not at all the schools in the nation). The
surveys were completed during the 2006-2007
year and the previous two school years, accord-ing
to The Princeton Review.
James Shanahan, professor and chair of
the communication department at Fairfield,
said that ifThe Princeton Review's survey was
a scientific poll, it would include information
such as whether the respondents were self-selected
or randomly selected, the respondents'
demographic and academic performance, as
SEE "COLLEGE" ON P. 4
Police make
second arrest in
fake ID bust
BY JOE CARRETTA
A second arrest has been made in
the recent case involving two Fairfield
students who were creating and dis-tributing
fake New York licenses,
according to published reports.
Michaela Kehoe '09 of Cleveland
Heights, OH, surrendered to police
after being informed there was a
warrant for her arrest, according to a
Connecticut Post article.
Kehoe was charged with first-degree
forgery, conspiracy to commit
first-degree forgery and tampering
with evidence.
She was released on a $1,000
bond, the article said.
Kehoe did not respond to multiple
e-mails from The Mirror.
The first arrest in the case was
that of Taras Kulynych '09, who was
charged with conspiracy to commit
first-degree forgery, made on Jan. 28.
Contributed Photo
Double trouble: Michaela Kehoe '09
and Taras Kulynych '09 were both
arrested for creating and distributing
fake IDs on the Fairfield campus.
He was released on bond pending
arraignment in Bridgeport Superior
Court.
Kehoe was the occupant of a
room in Dolan Hall where officers
began investigating the distribution
of fraudulent identifications.
Public Safety was tipped off to
Kehoe's room after a smoke alarm was
triggered by a candle left burning in
the room in December 2007.
After arriving on the scene, Public
Safety officers discovered a laminator,
spray adhesive, a license cutter and six
fake New York state driver licenses.
Associate Director of Public
Safety Frank Ficko declined to answer
specific questions on the case, citing
matters of confidentiality while the
case is pending.
"[The] Department of Public
Safety acknowledges false identifica-tion
issues," said Ficko. "The guid-ing
policy is the one set forth in the
handbook, [that says]'... the creation,
manufacturing and/or distribution of
false identification, whether or not for
profit, is strictly prohibited and would
be subject for dismissal.'"
Despite the recent crackdown on
false identifications, many students
said they still do not think the problem
will ever be curbed.
"I don't have one [fake ID] but a
lot of my friends do," said Kelly Grif-fin
'11. "Even if kids get caught, they
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