Mirror - Vol. 35, No. 16 - February 3, 2010

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The Reflection of Fairfield
The Age-Old Question
18 or 21?
BY KERI HARRISON
NEWS EDITOR
Do you agree with lowering
the drinking age?
The question ofwhether or
not the drinking age should be
lowered from 21 to 18 was the is-sue
of the Debate on Lowering the
Drinking Age, hosted and orga-nized
by FUSA and FUSA Presi-dent
Jeff Seiser' 10 last Wednes-day.
Accord-ing
to the
Photo Illustration by Dan Leitao
The Lowering the Drinking Age de-bate
took place last Wednesday night
and discussed both sides of the issue.
OPINION I PAGE 8
Is The Wait Worth It?
Read a student's opinion on
the drinking age debate.
results of a mock ballot sent around the
audience at the debate, 48 attendents
said they were in favor of lowering the
drinking age, while nine said no.
Seiser said the reason for orga-nizing
the debate was to introduce
different aspects of the debate to
Fairfield students. "We need to
educate ourselves on this issue,"
he said.
John McCardell, president-emeritus
of Middlebury College and
founder of the Amethyst Initiative,
and James Fell, former
member of the Board
of Directors for Mothers
Against Drunk Driving,
were the two speakers at the debate — Mc-
Cardell for lowering the drinking age to 18
and Fell for keeping the legal age at 21.
DRINKING I PACTE 5
University Applies for Housing Loans
MIRROR STAFF
Fairfield's housing initia-tive
is close to taking a step
closer to reaching completion
located at 10 Columbus Boule-vard
in Hartford. The office is
on the seventh floor. The public
is allowed to make a brief state-ment
at the hearing, but needs
after the University applied for to submit notice at least 24
» FUSA Discusses Parking Issues | page 3
revenue bonds from the State
of Connecticut on Tuesday.
The University has asked
the state Health and Educa-tional
Facilities Authority to
make profits available from the
sale of $85,000,000 in bonds to
make a loan to Fairfield.
A public hearing will be
held on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at
10 a.m. at the authority's office,
hours prior. A written comment
may also be submitted to the
authority by mail at the address
above.
The University plans to use
the money for the following:
1. The design, renovation,
construction, equipping and
furnishing of the new Quad res-idence
hall, the new apartment
style building in the Village and
three houses adjacent to the
campus, which the University
will purchase.
2. The renovation and
conversion of St. Ignatius Hall
in to student housing and John
C. Dolan Hall into an apart-ment
building.
3. The refunding of the Uni-versity's
outstanding amount of
the $10,265,000 Series H bonds
issued in July 1998.
4. Costs related to
miscellaneous construction,
renovation, improvements,
equipment and furniture ac-quistion
and installation at the
University's facilities.
5. Funding a debt service
reserve fund for the bonds.
6. Paying capitalized inter-est
with repsect to the bonds.
7. Paying costs of issuance
with respect to the bonds.
The University plans on
purchasing three houses to
be used to hold 15 students or
faculty on North Benson Ave. at
1036,1082 and 1052.
The Series H bonds were
issued to pay for renovations
that included Dolan Hall.
The renovations and ad-ditional
buildings will result in
the elimination of triples and
should cost $60 million, ac-cording
to Mark Reed, the Vice
President of Administrative
Services and Student Affairs.
Perlitz Faces
Nine Additional
Charges
BY CHRIS SIMMONS
MANAGING EDITOR
Doug Perlitz '92
pleaded not guilty on
Tuesday to additional
charges brought after Nora
R. Dannehy, United States
Attorney for the District
of Connecticut, an-nounced
"a federal grand
jury sitting in Bridgeport
returned a superseding
indictment today charging
Douglas Perlitz with ad-ditional
counts related to
the alleged sexual abuse of
several boys in Haiti," in a
press release.
The superseding
indictment charges Perlitz
'92, who had worked for
Project Pierre-Toussaint in
Haiti until he was indicted
in the fall, with nine
counts of traveling outside
of the United States with
the intent to engage in
sexual conduct with
persons under the age of
18, and 10
counts of
engaging
in sexual
conduct
in foreign
places with
persons
under the
age of 18.
The alleged
activity occurred between
1998 and 2008.
Perlitz has been de-tained
since Sept. 16, 2009
Perlitz.
after the original Bridge-port
grand jury indicted
Perlitz on ten counts of
related to the alleged
abuse of nine boys. The
superseding indictment
adds nine counts and
references an additional
nine alleged victims. He is
currently being held at the
Donald W. Wyatt Federal
Detention Facility in Cen-tral
Falls, R.I.
If convicted, Perlitz
faces a maximum term
of imprisonment of 30
years and a fine of up to
$250,000 on each count of
the indictment.
Perlitz funded and
operated Project Pierre
Toussaint, which became
essentially a boarding
school for poor Haitian
boys in Cap-Haitien. The
Haiti Fund, which was
chaired by Rev. Paul Car-rier,
the former Campus
Ministry director at Fair-field,
and half ofwhose
members
were com-prised
of
people with
Fairfield
ties, raised
Mirror File Photo money for
the charity.
This
indictment
comes only
days after Perlitz's legal
team filed a motion to
dismiss all charges.
Graffiti Artist CRASHes Fairfield
Contributed Photo
Well-know graffiti artist John "Crash" Matos has some of his art work being shown in the University's Quick Center of the Arts now through Feb. 28. See "Quick Center Gets CRASHed" on
page 11 for more information.
INDEX
Opinion* Page 7
Features • Page 11
Arts & Entertainment • Page 14
Sports • Page 24
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