Mirror - Vol. 09, No. 19 - December 05, 1985

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FairfieldMIRRORv Volume 9, No. 19 Thursday, December 5, 1985 The Image of Fairfield
The Naut closes, may reopen in Spring
by Jeanne Burke and Stephen J. Humes
The Nautilus Cafe was forced to close its
doors on Monday, December 2nd, as a
result of a Sheriffs notice issued to its
leasee, William Daniel Gregorio. Financial
problems, health and fire code violations
were cited as reasons for the shutdown by
both the landlord and the Naut's former
owner.
According to Steven Levine, who owns
the building, the bar will be renovated. He
is not sure what he will do with it after the
renovations are completed. He said he will
probably re-open it this spring, possibly
with a new name. Levine commented, "It's
time that the place is cleaned up anyway."
The building in which the Naut is locat-ed
has been standing since before the
Depression. It has been known as the Nau-tilus
since 1965, when it was taken over by
the Gregorio family. The most recent own-er,
known as Barney to many of the Naut's
local patrons, took over the business when
his father died. He was forced to close by
Superior Court Justice Judge Thomas C.
Gerety, who ruled last week that Levine
could take over the business.
Levine said that Gregorio's business was
hurt by the rise in the state's drinking age,
noting, "Once you outgrow being a kid, this
isn't the type of place you want to come to."
The building also had many violations ac-cording
to Levine, because the electrical
and plumbing systems have not been up-graded
recently.
The massive renovations involved will
probably keep the Naut closed over the
winter. Levine commented,"After all, this
is a landmark, it has to be done right."
Gregorio said that Levine called inspec-tors
to the property regarding electrical
cords loose by the front windows, and due
to a fire exit in the back which was bolted
shut. "They told me to clean the place up,"
said Gregorio. He added that he complied
with requests by authorities and freed the
blocked fire exit. Gregorio said he cleaned
the bar every day.
The Naut has been the primary bar for
Fairfield University students for over 20
years. Gregorio said, "I've seen more Fair-field
U. kids go through my place than you
can imagine. God bless you kids."
Gregorio and his lawyers are working to
try and recover financially for the court ord-er
which "gave the business toLevine," said
Gregorio. "I think the courts are very un-fair
that a man can run a business for 25
years and have it wiped out from under
him," said Gregorio.
Levine said that the upgrading ofthe Naut
will be good for the neighborhood. He
doesn't know yet whether he will be able
to find a new tenant or will open the busi-ness
himself, but Levine predicts that it will
be, "a nice place to come to... a place you
could be proud of."
The Naut, a Fairfield tradition, closes its doors to all business
N.Y. raises legal age to 21, students irate
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-Raising New
York's minimum drinking age from 19 to
21, starting today, should make roads safer
by cutting down on drunken driving, state
officials say, but they acknowledge that
Washington's threat to withhold $90 mil-lion
in highway funds also was a con-sideration.
College students are grousing about the
new law, but some say they expect to keep
on drinking anyway.
New York joins 31 other states that al-ready
have a minimum drinking age of 21.
Connecticut raised its minimum age from
20 to 21 as of Sept. 1. Another five states
have approved legislation to raise their
drinking ages to 21 sometime next year.
New York's drinking age was raised from
18 to 19 in 1982.
A proposal at the State University ofNew
York at Albany to ban all beer kegs from
dormitories met with a student petition drive
and a mass call-in to the president and vice-president
that tied up telephone lines.
Unlike states such as Connecticut, New
York's "grandfather" clause that would
preserve the right to purchase alcoholic
beverages for those who were of legal age
before the new law.
To prevent young men and women from
losing jobs in restaurants and taverns,
however, the laws permits 18-year-olds to
serve alcoholic beverages on the job.
Anyone under 21 who attempts to pur-chase
an alcholic beverage through fraudu-lent
means is subject to fines of $100 and
a year's probation. Those 21 or older who
buy alcohol for underage drinkers face fines
up to $500 and 90 days in jail. Bars, restaur-ants
and clubs may lose their liquor licenses
if they are caught serving minors.
Student leaders opposed the law, argu-ing
it unfairly punishes the majority of 19-
and 20-year-olds who don't drive when they
are drunk.
"Nineteeen and 20-year-olds are not like-ly
to alter their alcohol consumption or
drinking behavior regardless of the status
of the purchase age," said Jane McAlevey,
president of the Student Association of the
State University of New York. "The only
thing that will change is the way in which
they will obtain alcohol."
Proponents say the law will prevent 2,300
highway deaths and injuries over the next
two years, save millions of dollars in health
care and property damage costs and signifi-cantly
reduce alcohol abuse among
teenagers.
State officials say they saw definite
benefits from raising the drinking age to 19.
According to the state Department of Mo-tor
Vehicles, there were 2,584 injuries or
deaths from accidents in 1981 involving
16-, 17-,and 18-year-old drivers who had
too much to drink. Three years later, there
were 1,551 injuries or deaths from acci-dents
involving the same age group.
Nineteen and 20-year-olds represent
about 4 percent of New York's licensed
drivers, but drivers from that age group are
involved in 12.4f percent of alcohol-related
accidents resulting in injuries or death, said
William Stevens, a spokesman for the state
Division of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.
Priest presents moral dilemma on apartheid
by Stephen J. Humes
The issue of apartheid South Africa was
presented by a third lecturer for the Fall
semester on Tuesday, by a catholic priest
who claims it is immoral to divest and dis-invest.
Rev. Oliver Williams, O.S.C., a profes-sor
of Management and Ethics at the
University of Notre Dame, spoke in a lec-ture
presented by Fairfield's program in Ap-
Rev. Oliver Williams, O.S.C.
[Photo by Karen Haney]
plied Ethics. He was introduced by Dr. Lisa
Newton, the program's coordinator.
Williams focused his discussion on moral
and ethical considerations by the business
world. For Williams, there are three posi-tions
from which U.S. companies doing
business in South Africa can choose. "They
can wash their hands and pull out, they can
put pressure on the government to change
their policies, or they can mobilize
resistance, say the apartheid system is
wrong, and get out."
Williams takes the second choice. "I
would argue it is the moral thing to do to
stay in." Williams added, "I believe the eco-nomic
pressures and protests and external
pressure has some hope in overcoming
apartheid."
Williams defends his position by saying
the U.S. companies in South Africa have
already defeated the apartheid's system of
racial separation within their own work en-vironments.
"I think it's true to say that in
the workplace, it (apartheid) is being over-come."
Williams, who spent the summer
in South Africa and touring for Notre
Dame, said "there essentially was no dis-crimination
in the workplace."
Williams claims that U.S. companies
have violated laws by allowing equal pay
for equal work, blacks to hold responsible
positions, and racial mixes while eating
lunches. The problems, according to Wil-liams,
rise when blacks and whites leave
the plants. "It doesn't matter how much
money they have, the blacks can't own good
land because the whites have it all." The
blacks must carry their identification papers
at all times, and live in segragated areas of
towns and cities.
Williams said that the U.S. companies
have all agreed to the Sullivan Principles,
a group of statements against the apartheid
system postulated by Leon Sullivan, a pas-tor
of a protestant church in Philadelphia.
He said Sullivan added another principle:
that every company must affectively lobby
the government to change. Sullivan gave
his challenge two years and said he will ad-vocate
massive pullouts and demonstrations
if the government does not change its apart-heid
policies by May of 1987.
The lecture was the last in a series of
university presentations on the South Afri-ca
issues. Athol Fugard and Donald Woods
both spoke earlier in the semester.
A.J. Winder scores against Utica in last Mon-day's
win. Stags are now 2-1 on the season.
See Sports. [Photo by Remy Steiner]
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