Mirror - Vol. 24, No. 03 - October 08, 1998

              FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
IRROR
Volume 24 Number 3
The Image of Fairfield Thursday, October 8, 1998
"We're mad as hell..."
Year-round beach residents express their outrage
Dana Ambrosini
News Editor
Urinating, defecating, and vom-iting
in peoples' yards were only a few of
the complaints leveled against student
beach renters at a meeting of year-round
beach residents.
Residents railed against First Se-lectman
Kenneth Flatto, police officers
charged with monitoring the beach, and
the University for allowing students' con-tinued
parties all hours of the night; speed-ing
and drunk driving on the streets; uri-nating,
defecating, vomiting, and having
sex on their lawns; brawling; underage
drinking; and overcrowding of houses to
the point of it being a fire hazard.
"We're mad as hell and we're not
going to take it anymore," Colleen
Sheridan, the moderator of the meeting,
said last Thursday. She demanded that
Flatto keep is campaign promise to "clean
up the beach."
Flatto conceded, "Unfortunately
there is a series of problems at the beach."
He stated that he had started a dialogue
between student leaders and the town two
months ago and that he had just submitted
a proposal of various regulations to the
University.
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Flatto declined requests to hear
the specifics of his plan, but briefly stated
that it would include dramatic cuts in the
numbers of students allowed at the
beach, a step up in discipline and park-ing
regulations.
Douglas Whiting, Associate
Vice President for Public Relations here
at Fairfield, has confirmed that the Uni
versity is presently reviewing the mate-
"We need to take a
certain amount of
responsibility," said
Whiting.
rial and would be meeting with Flatto
for discussions. "The University always
has been and remains committed to cre-ating
a situation at the beach whereby
permanent residents and students can co-exist,"
said Whiting. "We need to take a
certain amount of responsibility. We
need to continue to try to reinforce our
message to the students and work with
the police."
FUSA President Michael
Piagentini, who attended the residents'
meeting,
later
said,
"both
sides
need to
sit down
now and
workout
a com-pro-mise."
Piagentini
c o n -
firmed
Tuesday
that he
had met
with
Flatto to
go over
policies,
but he maintained that students have the
right to live at the beach. "You can't
infringe on our rights and, if these poli-cies
in any way do, they're never going
to work," he said.
Piagentini was outraged at
some of the accusations leveled against
students, "It's awful some of the things
photo: Dana Ambrosini
"We should have the same rights as any other Fairfield citizen," said Michael
Piagentini, who nevertheless urges students to be careful, as their actions will
be under particular scrutiny.
they were saying," he said.
Piagentini took particular issue
with the complaints such as students def-ecating
on peoples' lawns and having sex
outside their porches. While he acknowl-edges
that such actions may have occurred
continued on pg. 4
Combatting computer woes at Fairfield
photo: Nick Ouimet
Football upsets Dusquesne in OT...seo pg. 16
Brian Huben
Staff Writer
In an effort to coordinate a more
effective usage of campus technology, Fr.
Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J.., announced last
week that he has appointed James
Estrada, University Librarian, as Vice
President, Information Resources and
Services in addition to his current respon-sibilities
The appointment, which took
effect immediately, means all of the units
responsible for supporting information
technology on campus- academic com-puting
(SCT), communication and tech-nology
services (CTS), the library and
media center will all report directly to
Estrada
In the past, these groups were
separate entities and only responsible for
themselves. This often resulted in du-plication,
overlap of responsibilities, con-fusion
among users and a competition for
scarce resources that was not always coor-dinated
with overall university priorities.
Estrada's appointment is part of an effort to
centralize these departments and ensure that
they function as effectively as possible.
In a letter to the campus commu-nity,
Fr. Kelley wrote that Mr. Estrada's re-continued
on pg. 3
Inside this edition
Stephanopoulos
sells out,
see p.3 for details
Fun Fall
Festivities
activities for autumn,
see p. 6
Beach
residents
respond
see p. 8-9
Not a dry eye
in the house...
"One True Thing"
reviewed, see p. 11
Men's Soccer
ranked 24th
nationally
see p. 16