Mirror - Vol. 18, No. 15 - February 24, 1994

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Pilkerton administration elects five
Vice-Presidents
Caitlin Whelan
Assistant News Editor
The new Pilkerton
administration began to take
definitive shape on Tuesday with
the appointing of five new Vice
Presidents to positions within
FUSA.
The Vice Presidents-elect
are Erica French, Vice
President of Student Life;
Rosalind Van Tuyl, Vice
President of University
Development; Ryan Farrell, Vice
President of Student Activities;
John Hennessy, Vice President
of Government Operations; and
Luis Rivera, Vice President of
COSO.
French says her plans
for the area of Student Life
include "making a few changes
to consolidate some positions and
expand other positions." Such
changes will involve the Office
of Community and Alumni
Relations, she says.
"A key aspect for
developing relations with the
community is having students
reach out in town to take active
involvement in the community."
Additional plans center
around the area of Multicultural
Relations. "We will continue to
have the annual student-run
diversity process, but it will be
expanded to be completely
student-run."
The process will consist
of a year-long project to
culminate in a final conference
on multicultural awareness at the
end of the year.
"This will be run," says
French, "through the Director of
Multicultural Relations under
Student Life. It will include
faculty input, but students are the
ultimate voice."
Rosalind Van Tuyl is
the Vice President of University
Development, a position that was
tentatively called Chief of Staff
at the time of her nomination.
Her role "is about finding out
what students want and
determining long-term goals for
FUSA for continuing into future
administrations."
Plans for this
department include not only the
ideas ofcurrent students, but also
expanding these ideas to fit the
needs of incoming students in
future years.
"We are planning a
massive student evaluation to
find out not only what students
who come here want, but
updating the results for future
students. We want to hear what
different groups want."
Van Tuyl's plans also
enable students and FUSA to
communicate through electronic
mail.
"Students could access
ideas from FUSA and FUSA
can receive feedback via E-mail."
Rosalind, who worked
on the RTM campaign and as an
IRHG senator, says "there was a
definite energy in what happened
when Erica and Chris came
together. A lot of people have
come and said they want to be
involved."
Ryan Farrell, in charge
of Student Activities, is a
newcomer to FUSA. His hopes
for activities concentrate on
"weekend programming. We
want quality more than quantity.
I would rather pull in the majority
of students for one quality
program than have two or three
so-so programs."
Farrell' s ideas expand
to "pull students back onto
campus, have them involved in
activities, get them excited about
activities."
John Hennessy, Vice
President of Government
Operations, has been involved
in FUSA since his Freshman
year, and was an election
commissioner in 1993 for the
campaign of current FUSA
President Mark Resnick.
His job, he says,
concentrates on "publicity for
FUSA. We want every
committee to be able to utilize
(Continued on Page 3)
Town rethinks position on controversial ordinance
Jennifer Luongo
News Editor
Student beach residents
and landlords have won an
important victory in their
opposition against a proposed town
ordinance that would hold
landlords responsible for several
violations by their tenants. The
original ordinance proposed
required landlords to post a $2500
bond from which $500 would be
detracted after three violations
(among these, noise violations) by
their tenants. However, as of last
week, the town reworded its
proposal, excluding the deduction
for noise violations.
Michael McCormack,
President of the Student Beach
Resident Association, feels that the
new proposal, if passed, will not
pose as much of a financial threat
to students. It, now, cites a $500
deduction for a third violation of
Noise violations are not part of proposed ordinance
at Fairfield Beach. photo: J. Luongo
the fire code, garbage pick-up,
among other violations. Students
usually have the most problems
with the noise violations, especially
during the early autumn and late
spring. Last semester, the Fairfield
Police Department had issued six
$88 noise violations to students
living off of Lantern Point as early
as the third week of September.
"In light ofthe opposition
of landlords and the student
members of the Representative
Town Meeting [District 4 members
Andrew Knauf, Christopher Knauf,
and Chris Pilkerton] the town
realized [the ordinance] would
never pass the way it was worded."
And, although McCormack
opposes the proposal, he does feel
it has a better chance of passing as
it stands now. "We're all going to
be there to fight it," he added.
The whole issue was
brought into the spotlight two
weeks ago when The New York
Times printed an article which
rehashed the infamous tensions
between students and permanent
town residents, and announced the
proposed ordinance.
Both McCormack and
Chris Pilkerton, FUSA President-elect
and RTM member, feel that
although the article discussed the
problems, it did show that the
students are trying to make a
difference. Pilkerton said, "It
explained definite student
involvement."
The student/officer beach
patrol, initiated by SBRA this past
September, is, perhaps, the most
concrete example of this
involvement. The patrol is pro-active
in its approach in that a
student and a uniformed police
officer will attempt to recognize
loud or disorderly parties or
gatherings and intervene before
complaints to the police are
necessary.
Last semester, although
the patrol had a very positive effect,
it only covered Lantern Point. After
Spring Break, the patrol will begin
again and this time, it will run
along Fairfield Beach Road and
those involved are hoping to have
the use of a patrol car as well.
Gwen Vendley, Dean of
Students, feels that town residents,
without passing the proposed
ordinance, can help to alleviate
tensions by backing the beach
patrol. Vendley said, "The
strongest thing the town can do is
back the beach patrol totally."
The members of the
District 4 Representative Town
Meeting will meet next on Monday,
February 28 and the they will vote
on the proposed ordinance in
March.
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