Mirror - Vol. 18, No. 03 - October 07, 1993

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 18, No. 3 Thursday, October 7, 1993 The Image of Fairfield
Beach Patrol Works To Alleviate
Tensions At Fairfield Beach
Jennifer Luongo
News Editor
In an effort to improve
relations between student beach
residents, town residents and the
Fairfield police, the Student
Beach Resident Association,
SBRA, has initiated a student/
officer Beach Patrol. This
program of students policing
their peers is an attempt alleviate
problems at Fairfield Beach.
SBRA President, Michael
McCormack' 94 said, "Our goal
is to create the whole idea of
students taking responsibility for
their own actions and to establish
respect and enhance a desire for
community."
The program runs each
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
night, from 10pm to 3am. During
these hours, one student beach
resident and an off-duty
uniformed police officer hired
by the university, work together
to patrol the area of Lantern
Point.
The patrol is pro-active
in its approach in that the
student and the officer will
attempt to recognize loud or
disorderly parties or gatherings
and intervene before possible
complaints to the police are
necessary.
In a potentially
disruptive situation, the student
will approach the house, in an
effort to "take responsibility first
hand," according to
McCormack. The student will
give a verbal warning to the
residents of the house to quiet
down.
If the problem persists,
or if warnings are ignored, an
advisory notice will be issued.
The resident of the house
receives one copy ofthe adv isory
notice and SBRA keeps one
copy. SBRA hopes that the
advisory notice itself will serve
as a means of quieting down a
party, before neighbors have
reason to complain to the police.
Tickets for a noise complaint
from the police are $88 and the
association hopes to prevent this
measure.
Matthew Foley '94 is
one beach resident who was able
to avoid a fine and control a party
at his house this past weekend,
with the help of the beach patrol.
After Foley's party had ended, he
still had trouble clearing people
Students Run For
Representative Town Meeting
Rosalind E. Van Tuyl
Staff Writer
For the first time in
Fairfield University history,
students are on the ballot for the
Town of Fairfield's
Representative Town Meeting.
On November 2, students
registered to vote in the town of
Fairfield will have a chance to
vote juniors Andrew Knauf,
Christopher Knauf, and
Christopher Pilkertcn into
office.
The Representative
Town Meeting (RTM) is like a
town council. The town is
divided into ten districts, each
district electing five
representatives. The 50
members of the RTM then vote
on legislation proposed to them.
Each member of the RTM also
serves on a committe, each of
which handles a certain aspect
town policy.
Knauf, Knauf and
Pilkerton are running in District
4 where the University is located.
All students are eligible to
register within this district, as it
is the district of their residence
Vfor nine months of the year.
Voter registration drives will be
on campus between now and the
October 19 deadline for
registration. Students who are
unable to make it to one of the
drives, mayregister between the
hours of 9am and 5pm at the
Fairfield Town Hall.
"What is happening
here is very exciting. We have
the opportunity to be directly
involved in the policies and laws
that effect all of us students
during theyears wecallFairfield
our home," Candidate Andrew
Knauf commented. Candidate
Christopher Knauf concurs,
"With this office we will be
afforded the responsibility to
make the students voices heard
and respected."
Conflict between the
Town and the University dates
back many years. To many
year-round residents, the
University conjures up. notions
ofdestructive, disrespectfuLkids
who create a public menace.
Many University
students are frustrated by zoning
regulations to drive them away
from the beach and the often
prejudiced treatment students
receive in the town press and by
the police.
"The situation at the
beach is a very touchy one and
one which deserves substantial
attention," candidate Pilkerton
stated. "However, it is not the
only issue which affects
University students. In the past
there have been disputes over
zoning of the University
Townhoases and fire and police
protection within the University
campus. We are committed to
focusingon these issues as well."
Knauf, Knauf and
Pilkerton have stated that their
primary goal, if elected, is to
open lines of communication.
Christopher Knauf commented,
"In our capacity as
Representatives, we will be able
to communicatemore effectively
with thetown than students have
been able to in the past."
How likely is it that
they will be able to win?
"Extremely likely, if, and this is
thecrucial part,avery solid block
ofregistered student voters turn
out at the polls," candidate
Andrew Knauf said. "We have
a t heme in our campaign and it
is that Together, Everyone
Achieves More (TEAM)."
out of his house. Finally, after
the second visit from the beach
patrol, Foley and the student
and the officer on the patrol
agreed that an advisory notice
would be the best means of
breaking up the party. Within
fifteen minutes after the notice
had been issued, the party was
cleared out and Foley avoided a
fine.
"The patrol doesn't
stop you from having a good
time, but it makes the means of
getting people out ofyour house
when the party is over much
easier andmuch more pleasant,"
Foley said.
Although last
weekend was the program's
first, it seemed to be successful.
No fines were issued at Lantern
Point, in spite ofthe fact that the
beach was much more populated
due to Alumni Weekend.
McCormack stated, "FOr it to
be successful on a weekend such
as this past one makes us that
much more confident for the
future."
Jeffrey Taylor, the
student beach resident working
on the patrol last Thursday night
had a very positive experience
working along with a Fairfield
Police Officer. Taylor said,
"From the student point of view I
get a different perspective working
in conjunction with a law enforcer
who was there to help rather than
initiate tension between the two
sides." Brian Concannon, a
student who worked on the patrol
Friday night, agreed, "This
changes the perception of the
police at the beach.
"Senior beach resident
Michele Imperia added, "I think
the program is a good idea if it
will help the relationship between
the town and the students."
„ Last weekend was a part
of the program's two week trial
period and . next week,
McCormack, along with Chief
Ron Sullivan of the Fairfield
Police Department, and Sergeant
Angelo Deleone, head of the
Police Officer Union, will meet
and evaluate the patrol.
McCormack said, "We
will measure the effectiveness of
the patrol and see if its existence
is helping matters." If the
evaluation is positive, SBRA
hopes to extend the area covered
by the patrol to other parts of
Fairfield Beach Road.
McCormack added, "You have to
walk before you run and I think
this program is an attempt to walk
in the right direction."
Harris Lecture Presents
Theories Of JFK Conspiracy
Alycen McAuley
Staff Writer
"Think critically about
everything said tonight,"
challenged Bob Harris, as he
took the stage for his lecture
"Who Shot JFK?". Harris, the
first speaker in the 1993-94
FUSA Lecture Series, was once
a political humorist in Boston
who began doing research on
the assassination of John F.
Kennedy for material for his
show. He thought that what he
would discover on the
"conspiracy theories" would
make a great spoof. But what he
found instead was, what he feels
is the truth- indeed there may
well have been a conspiracy and
most certainly the evidence
against Lee Harvey OswaldWas
doctored and hardly substantial.
Harris presented these findings
the audience last Tuesday in the
Quick Center.
Harris' lecture was a
combination of humor and
astonishing facts, In discussing
the case against Oswald Harris
presented the ridiculousness of
the story. A total of one bullet
blamed for seven wounds. No
bullets in the limousine.
Curiously and suspiciously, the
Presidential limousine was
immediately stripped, cleaned
and replaced within 24 hours of
the murder. Today, that would be
a vagrant tampering with the
evidence. And even strangerfacts
appeared in the Warren
Commission report. Harris even
joked, "Oswald may be the only
criminal in our history who used
public transportation to escape!"
The crowd, humored by the
clearly ridiculous statement, later
learned that indeed the Warren
Commission asserted just that:
that Oswald escaped via the
Dallas Public bus, and was not
seen by any of the 268 witnesses,
to be fleeing from the scene.
Other assertions by the
Warren Commission, pointed out
by Harris, werejust as ridiculous.
"The Warren Commission said
that, in the one minute between
the shooting of JFK, and the time
a local police officer observed
Oswald drinking a Coca-Cola,
that Oswald had fired three shots,
admired his handiwork, cleaned
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