Mirror - Vol. 03, No. 13 - November 2, 1979

              Student Beach Residents
Retain Attorney
By Lauretta LoCasale
Last Tuesday, October 23rd, the
Student Beach Residents meeting
took place during which students
were given an opportunity to discuss
problems or ask any questions to At-torney
Andrew E. Garson of Fairfield
concerning the zoning and Health
Board violations they are faced with.
The basic issues discussed at the
meeting were: the pending zoning
and health complaints held against
students living at 1127 Fairfield
Beach Rd, non-student resident at-titudes,
noise levels at the beach,
abuses at the Nautilus, the shuttle
and student committees.
Mike Navarro began the meeting
by introducing Mr. Garson along with
suggesting that the lawyer begin by
speaking about "the incident of 1127
and other topics," to discern what
the student reaction was and how
they wanted to approach the situa-tion
in terms of direction or control.
The incident of 1127 involved eight
students who signed a lease, which
supposedly violated zoning laws
which stated that 8 non-related peo-ple
were not permitted to live toget-her
in the same residence. The com-plaint
was filed in the zoning office by
an individual. Mr. Garson stressed
the responsibility of the landlord in
this type of situation because it is up
to a landlord to make up a lease in
compliance with the zoning laws. Mr.
Garson stated that, "the landlord
might not want to fight the issue."
Various students expressed con-cern
over future student housing at
the beach. Mr. Garson felt that, "as
for this year, no one will get thrown
out of their house, but I think even-tually
they're going to try to push
students off the beach." Mr. Garson
stressed that students need to ap-proach
a landlord with a business-like
attitude in terms of signing a
lease, because a lease is a property
interest and any verbal agreements
not listed within the lease are invalid.
Mr. Garson warned that, "leases
tend to favor landlords and.the lease
of 1127 was heavily weighted for the
landlord."
He/also emphasized that students
shouldn't rely on real-estate agents
and if students were experiencing
difficulty with leases a possibility
would be to seek the aid of the stu-dent
government.
One student asked if the landlords
who rent the houses were on the side
of the students in which Mr. Garson
answered, "if I were the landlord, I'd
stay low and see what happens."
The attorney also responded that
if the students of 1127 were evicted
they would be entitled to a money re-fund
for that time period or possible
extra money for other potential dam-ages.
As a solution to this, one stu-dent
suggested that pictures be
taken of individual houses to insure
student protection, expecially in
terms of obtaining the security de-posits
which have supposedly been
difficult to collect in the past.
Mr. Garson also added that the
possible attitudes of the landlords
could be that students aren't per-manently
living on the beach and
therefore don't have a stake in the
community as permanent residents
do.
Mr. Garson cited that increasing
concerns were due to the home im-provements
of the people who want
to live at the beach and are not in-terested
in tenants. These people are
spending money on improvements
and want peace and quiet without
any disruptions. The election cam-
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Attorney Andrew Garson, who has been retained by the Student Beach
Residents Association to advise students in conflicts with non-student
residents and their landlords. .
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Brennan Named New
Director Of Security
By Erin DeLorenzo
After a month without a Director of
Security, State Police Lieutenant Vin-cent
Brennan has been chosen by
Mr. Hickson and Mr. Jacobs of Fair-field
University's Personnel Depart-ment
to replace Pat Carroll. Former
Fairfield Police Captain Patrick Car-roll
retired from the position of Se-curity
Director at Fairfield on Sep-tember
28 for a Congressionally ap-pointed
position on the New England
Regional Fisheries Council. Mary
Walsh Security Supervisor, has been
acting director from the time of Mr.
Carroll's departure. Here since 1975,
Miss Walsh is the senior supervisor
and is next in line under the security
director in terms of rank.
The position of Director of Securi-ty
was advertised in local Connec-ticut
papers and in trade magazines.
According to Mary Walsh, there were
many good candidates, yet Person-nel
was able to narrow it down to 8 or
.10 applicants to be interviewed. The
list was narrowed down even further
to two and Lieut. Vincent Brennen of
the State.Police Force was chosen
as the most qualified applicant.
Brennan will retire as commander
of Troop G, Westport, on Novembers
and will start as Director of Security
here on November 5. From informa-tion
gathered from the October 24,
1979 Bridgeport Post, it was learned
that Lt. Brennan has served 22 years
with the Connecticut Police Depart-ment,
having been appointed in
1958. He has been commander of
Troop G since 1975. Before coming
to Troop G, he was commander at
Troop A in Southbury. During his four
year term as commander, Lt. Bren-nan
helped coordinate an overall ef-fort
by the state police to reduce the
number of traffic deaths on Connec-ticut
highways.
Mary Walsh, acting director of se-curity,
said that she was very im-pressed
with Lt. Brennan. "I'm really
excited about his coming. He seems
to be a nice guy and I anticipate a
good year ahead." She went on to
say that on the day Lt. Brennan visit-ed
Fairfield, he was anxious in see-ing
how the whole operation at the
university works. Miss Walsh is very
hopeful that he will stay at Fairfield.
Navarro Reorganizes
Teacher Evaluations
By Ken Vaughn
From now until about Thanksgiv-ing
time, students will be filling out
evaluation sheets on their professors
in many classes as part of the Tea-cher
Self-Improvement Study Pro-gram,
according to Mike Navarro,
who is running this FUSA program.
About 25 percent of the classes and
labs will be evaluated, and the re-sults,
along with the results from the
1979 spring semester survey, will be
published in February of 1980.
Navarro anticipates that "prob.-
lems that once plagued the survey
are now alleviated by hiring profes-sionals
to administer the survey."
Eleven students have been hired and
assigned classes to administer the
evaluations to and will be responsi-ble
for collecting them alnd returning
them to Navarro so compilation of
the data can begin.
It is expected that between last
semester and this semester, each
professor will be evaluated twice.
Teachers who were not evaluated
last semester and refuse to be sur-veyed
this semester will have this
fact published in the record. The op-scan
sheets that yield the informa-tion
for the report will be returned to
Harvest Weekend
Financial Results
Concert:
Commission to agent $ 1,000
Ian Hunter 5,000
Steve Forbert . . . .' _ STOOO
Sound and Lights 2,500
Chairs T . . . 750
Food and Liquor for Band 600
Stage rental from Univ. of Bridgeport 500
Piano rental 350
Publicity:
Ad in New Haven Advocate 255
Tickets 135
Truck rental for stage movement 100
Stage crew 100
Miscellaneous . . • 35
Total $16,325
Dance:
Dance Bands:
B. Willy Smith '....:.. $ 1,000
Scratch band 800
Police and Fire 450
Paper Products:
Decorations 400
Mixers .'...■ 325
Ice and Buckets 275
Flowers 200
Electrician ,. 50
Total $ 3,500
Grand Total . $19,825
Receipts $15,100
Net Loss ,. $ 4,725
Expected Net Loss $ 8,100
Ken Donovan, Treasurer of FUSA made this statement: "Our last
minute receipts for the concert totalled $4200, $2200 more that we ex-pected.
If we had sold 800 more tickets there would have been a profit.
Student ticket sales came to only 1800.
If the upcoming Beaver Brown concert is a sellout, we will be ready to
look at bigger bands in the spring."
Mike Navarro, Administrative Director of FUSA.
the professor along with the report in
February. Also, op-scan sheets from
the spring semester and from an at-tempted
survey before Navarro's
current project will be returned.
It had been planned that the spring
semester results would be available
in September, but the publication
had to be postponed because many
forms that were sent out were not
returned and-compilation of the re-turned
forms took longer than ex-pected.
"Navarro said that he hopes stu-dents
participate in the program by
"honestly filling out the evaluation
forms," which contain a comment
section this semester. He added that
the timing of the evaluations is also
important in that the teachers admin-ister
the forms and return them as
quickly as possible.
"We hope the evaluations serve
as a means of communication bet-ween
the students and the teacher,"
said Navarro. While professors are
usually telling students what they
lack in a certain course, this gives
the students the opportunity to tell
the professor what he lacks. "This
type of evaluation is something that
is necessary; to not have one would
be a gross negligence," added
Navarro.
The FUSA official also wanted to
emphasize that because this is fund-ed
by the students and the informa-tion
comes from the student's sur-veys,
each student will also receive a
copy of the evaluation text in
February.