Mirror - Vol. 22, No. 12 - February 06, 1997

              FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
IRROR
Volume 22 Number 12 The Image of Fairfield Thursday, February 6, 1997
From Skip to Cip;
The torch is passed
JoAnn Gometz
News Editor
Following a trying day at the
polls, the results of the fifty-second
FUSA Presidential elec-tions
were announced after ap-proximately
30 minutes of vote
tabulation on Tuesday night.
Chris Cipriano, with 727 votes,
decisively took the election over
Natalie Van Eron who garnered
461. In an unusual campaign
move, write-in candidate Joe
Fattorini took 36 votes, one of
the more impressive showings
for a write-in candidate accord-ing
to one Election Commis-sioner.
A subdued but unemotional
Van Eron said only, "Congratu-lations
to Chris!" before depart-ing
from the Campus Center.
Cipriano, meanwhile, went di-rectly
to call his parents with the
news, displaying the family ties
he spoke of in Monday's Presi-dential
Debates.
"I want to thank all my sup-porters,
everyone who made this
possible, who believed in what I
had to say and in my ideas. I
could not have done this without
all of them," Cipriano said.
When asked about his imme-diate
plans, the President-elect
said, "I will be working with
Mike on the transition process.
We'll begin making the initial
steps toward implementing the
platform and the new [Town
Relations] branch."
Cipriano said, "The last two
weeks, stressful and eventful as
they may have been, were worth
it. We ran the campaign the way
we wanted to, and I regret noth-ing."
Incumbent FUSA President
Michael Reardon said, "I am
fully confident in Chris
Cipriano's ability to take over
FUSA. As Vice President of
Activities he proved himself as a
leader and person dedicated to
Fairfield University. I am sure
that come April first, Chris will
be more than prepared to as-sume
the role of FUSA Presi-dent."
Reardon continued, "I think
both candidates really illustrated
their love for Fairfield and should
be commended for their achieve-ments.
I honestly hope that they
can share some of their ideas and
bring FUSA to an even higher
level."
Could Clam Jam really be cancelled?
Todd Chiaramida
Staff Writer
It seems that every year there
are rumors that Clam Jam will
be canceled. 1997 may be the
year it actually happens. It will
if the recently proposed ordi-nance
by Ed Gleason, one of
five Police Commisioners in
Fairfield and also President of
the Alumni Association of
Fairfield University, passes at
the election in March at the
RepresentativeTown Meeting,
or R.T.M. Before this ordi-nance
reaches that stage, it must
be presented in February at the
R.T.M. It has already been
passed at the Police
Commisioner's meeting by a
vote of four to one.
Jim O'Connor, Co-Director
of Community Relations, and
Kate Mclntyre, President ofthe
Student Beach Resident Asso-ciation,
plan to meet with Paul
Audley, the First Selectman of
Fairfield, to discuss the legal-ity
of the ordinance. If the
ordinance is found to be Uncon-stitutional,
then it must be either
rewritten or withdrawn.
The ordinance requires, "a
permit, obtainable through the
office of the chief of police,
whenever three or more kegs of
beer, or an equivalent amount of
alcoholic beverages, would be
available for consumption." The
permit would have to.be signed
by those purchaing the alcohol
along with the ownerofthe prop-erty
on which the party will take
place. In addition, the permit
would list the amount of alcohol
purchased along with the num-ber
of guests expected. "The
chief of police, shall determine
the number of officers required
to maintain security and order at
the event. Payment for such
officers shall be made in ad-vance."
The ordinance also states
"events held simultaneously on
properties contigous to each
other shall be considered one
event. However, a permit must
be obtained for each property."
Ed Gleason denies that this or-dinance
is aimed specifically at
Clam Jam. He does believe that
it will have an effect on Clam
Jam.
Any violation of this ordi-nance
would result in confisca-tion
of all alcohol, $1000 fine
for the purchaser of the alcohol
and $1000 for the owner of the
property.
Mr. Gleason believes that un-derage
drinking is a major prob-lem
in society today. When
asked why there is a need for
this law, he responded that it is
designed to control underage
drinking by high school students
as well as Fairfield University
students, citing floating high
school parties as a major prob-lem.
The ordinance he is sup-porting,
however, specifically
addreses parties held on "prop-erties
contigous to each other"
i.e. Clam Jam.
Gwen Vendley, Dean of Stu-dents,
is approaching the ordi-nance
attentively. "As a
Fairfield University official, I
amconcerned that any ordinance
passed in the town of Fairfield
address the town as a whole, not
Fairfield University students spe-cifically."
Murray Farber, Director of
Public Relations, also voices his
concern for the rights of Fairfield
University students. "When any-thing
is being done, we don't
want the students discriminated
against."
Many University students be-lieve
the ordinace is targeted at
them as a result of pressure from
Fairfield residents who have long
been discontent with students liv-ing
at the beach. According to
Kate Mclntyre, "the ordinance is
attempting to control the behav-ior
of all Fairfield student beach
residents."
JimO'Connoris not dismayed.
"This ordinance is still in its in-fancy
. At this point I am optimis-tic
and see no reason not to be.
There are a bunch of Constitu-tional
issues at stake here." Is-sues
will be brought up in Febru-ary
when the ordinance is pre-sented
at the Representative
Town Meeting.
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