Mirror - Vol. 21, No. 01 - September 26, 1996

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FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
IRROR
Volume 21 Number 1 The Image of Fairfield Thursday September 26, 1996
Football and fireworks mark This
Fairfield's Homecoming f96 Week's
Top
Stories
Kristen Sullivan
Assistant News Editor
"What's Up, What's
Up, What's Up! Go Fairfield,"
exclaimed football's game cap-tain
Eric Wise at the pep rally
Friday night. This is the kind of
enthusiasm and energy that the
team and the students shared
for Fairfield's first home foot-ball
game. "Since I've arrived at
Fairfield, I've been impressed
with the enthusiasm here. People
here are excited about their
school and football provides a
great rally for the University,"
Head Coach Kevin Kiesel said,
regarding Homecoming Week-end.
The weekend's festivi-ties
began Friday evening with a
Pep Rally held on Alumni Field.
During the Pep Rally, recently
inducted Fairfield Hall ofFamers
Paul T. Barnes; Jeff Gromos;
and Arthur Kenney were intro-duced.
Coach Kiesel and his
coaching staff introduced the
football team, which was repre-sented
by its game captains,
James Tabery and Eric Wise.
The Pep Rally concluded with a
sixteen minute fireworks dis-play.
Approximately 1,500
people attended the Pep Rally,
which was sponsored by the
Fairfield University Student
Association, the Alumni Asso-ciation,
and the Athletic Depart-ment.
FUSA President Michael
Reardon had been planning the
event since he took office. Jim
Fitzpatrick, Associate Dean of
University Activities, praised
Reardon and FUSA for their ef-forts.
"It was quite a night. Ev-erything
fell into place. I can't
remember a night like this on
campus. It was electric,"
Fitzpatrick said.
Reardon said that in
planning the Pep Rally, FUSA's
intent was to make the event,
"fair and equitable to students."
Given the positive feedback re-ceived
from the University com-munity,
Reardon said that FUSA
would like to make the Pep Rally
a tradition for Homecoming
Weekend.
On Saturday, the inau-gural
football game took place
on Alumni Field, where the Stags
were defeated by the Georgetown
Hoyas, 59-14. The Stags played
in front of a sold out crowd of
4,500. Despite the loss, Coach
Kiesel appreciated the fan sup-port
and turn-out for the game."
The fans' understanding for the
players was great and very touch-ing
for the team," Kiesel said.
As a former coach at
universities such as Gettysburg,
Temple, Fordham, Albright, and
the University of Kentucky,
Coach Kiesel has been a part of
many homecomings. He found
Fairfield's homecoming to be as
impressive as any other home-coming
he has seen. "There's a
great spirit about Fairfield,"
Kiesel said.
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Tensions blaze at the Beach
JoAnn Gomel/
News Editor
Editor's Note: The
Mirror receives continual up-dates
about the conflict at the
beach, and we will pass this
information along as it becomes
available.
"Twenty years ago
parties at the beach were an
insignificant event. There were
few town residents living there,
especially during the winter.
That isn't the case now,"
Fairfield Police Captain Paul
Dyer said, in a recent inter-view.
He and Fairfield's
Chief of Police, Ronald
Sullivan, expressed sympathy
for both students and town resi-dents
living at the beach, but
said that "we're caught in the
middle. The students say we do
too much, and the residents say
we aren't doing enough."
Both men explained
that last year's "Clam Jam"
seemed to have caused
manyresidents at the beach to
press the police to monitor ille-gal
behavior of students visit-ing
the beach. This year, they
said, the semester started off
with a larger number of stu-dents
visiting the beach, for
longer amounts of time.
"Including the students
that live at the beach, there
seemed to be about 1000 stu-dents
down there every night of
the first week," Sullivan said.
derage drinking that takes place
at the beach nearly every week-end.
They said that students are
the ones who are responsible to
keep things under control, and
that may mean taking
"It seems
that, for every student living
there, there are ten or 20 show-ing
up," Dyer said.
Dyer and Sullivan ex-plained
that one of the greatest
problems facing them is the un-a
very strong stand.
"Students living at the
beach cannot provide to under-age
students. It's illegal, and it's
a felony," Dyer said. "Also, par-ties
have to end by 10 p.m. from
Sunday through Thursday, and
11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
People have to be gone by then,
not leaving. Students can call us
if people aren't leaving, and we
will come and clear the house,
but this has to be done about a
half hour before,the time is
up."
Sullivan said that the
main point that needs to be
made is that students must
I consider the beach to be a
neighborhood, and just as
other neighbors wouldn't
invite an uncontrollable
number of guests, or al-low
gate-crashing, stu-dents
must try to abide
by the same standards.
"We have some laws
that overlap,. We've
been giving the stu-dents
infractions when
amisdeameanor might
have been given , and
we've been trying to
be lenient about other
things," Dyer said.
"Students
should expect us to be a
lot more watchful, and to give
harsherpunishments. Also, more
actual in-custody arrests may be
made, if that is an option," he
said.
"The biggest problems
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Student Beach
Residents and
Town relations
continue to
clash. Inside
p. 6
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Feast Day of
Patron Saint of
Fairfield
largely ignored
by University.
Inside, p. 9
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Fairfield's #1
student band
SUPROX con-tinues
to
recieve rave
reviews.
Inside p.13
Women's Ten-nis
coach Jim
Gianchino bids
farewell after
years of
success.
Inside p. 16
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