Mirror - Vol. 24, No. 07 - November 12, 1998

              TheMIRROR
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
Volume 24 Number 7
The Image of Fairfield
Thursday, November 12, 1998
New neighbors are on the way
By Chris Romano
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Richard and Lois Schlegel are
hoping to move into their new house in
the University Park housing development,
located just north of the Fairfield Univer-sity
townhouses, sometime this winter.
They have no concerns about rowdy stu-dent
behavior.
"We are looking forward to tak-ing
full advantage of the benefits of liv-ing
so close to Fairfield University," said
Richard Schlegel. He also is excited
about attending University athletic com-petitions
and events held at the Quick
Center.
As the University Park housing
development nears its completion, Uni-versity
officials say they want to mini-mize
any possible clash between Fairfield
University students and town residents.
There are 38 houses that are currently
being built in the development that bor-ders
the townhouses and the Dolan Cam-pus.
Doug Whiting, director of pub-lic
relations said he, "hopes that the de-velopment
will not be a source of con-flict,
but foresees some inherent tensions
as a result of student lifestyles." He said
that the University would have to wait and
see how the development progresses be-fore
there would be any consideration
to constructing a barrier in between the
development and campus.
Director of security, Todd
Pelazza, said that he is "amazed at the
photo: Nick Ouimet
The houses in the University Park development have a starting price of
around $500,000.
The University purchased the
land from the Sisters of Notre Dame de
Namur, officials said. The 13 acres turned
out to be roughly half of that purchase.
At the time of the purchase there were
no plans
to utilize
the land,
but inter-est
on the
mortgage
was high.
Even in
1991 it
was an is-sue
that
t h e
houses
would be
built too
close to
the Uni-versity,
but the
decision
was made
Women's
soccer moves
on to the
NCAA
proximity" of the houses to campus.
Pelazza predicted that noise complaints
would be the biggest issue. He also said
that time will tell if the housing devel-opment
will cause problems.
The administration decided to
subdivide 13 acres of land in 1991 .Whit-ing
said. That land has now been devel-oped
into the University Park housing
development.
that paying off the mortgage on the land
would be too costly.
"The location of the housing de-velopment
could create problems with
noise levels in the evening," said one
townhouse resident, Mike Damanti '00.
Lou Delmonico, a representative
from Century 21, which is selling the
continued on pg. 3
By Dana Ambrosini
NEWS EDITOR
FUSA President Michael
Piagentini has set the date for the manda-tory
meeting of student beach residents
with a lawyer and a police officer.
The meeting will take place at
6:15 p.m. in the Oak Room of the Barone
Campus Center. Although only students
living at the beach are obligated to at-tend,
all students are welcome.
"This meeting will address the
concerns of the student beach residents
in regards to violations of their rights,"
said Piagentini. "For example, their
rights to privacy and to private property."
Piagentini declined to supply
the names of the lawyer or police officer,
but has confirmed the appointment with
both of them.
Although many students feel
that the beach scene has quieted consid-erably,
a meeting of year-round residents
last Wednesday would indicate otherwise.
The Connecticut Post reported that once
again town residents met for 90 minutes
to "skewer" the university.
Residents blamed the University
for enrolling more students than it has a
capacity to house and consequently forc-ing
town residents to live with them at
the beach.
While University officials re-
Congratulations to the women^s
soccer team, which defeated Loyola in
the MAAC Championship to advance
to the NCAA tournament for the
second year in a row. Seepage 16for
details.
Piagentini sets the date
Mandatory meetingfor student beach residents will be next Monday
portedly declined the invitation to be
present at that meeting, students were in-formed
by the Fairfield Beach Resident
Association that they were not welcome.
The FBRA did extend apologies
to landlord George Ganim last week, pre-empting
any legal action on his part against
the organization.
Monday night's meeting with a
lawyer is not for the purpose of taking any
legal actions, but to respond to student
questions and concerns about their rights
and responsibilities at the beach.
Inside this edition...
Unjust Library
Fines Anger
Students
see p. 4 for details
Dating in the
90's:
Be Aware!
see p. 5
Fairfield Stu-dents
give to
the community
Letters on their efforts,
p. 8-9
Waterboy
makes a Splash
A Review ofAdam
Sandier's latest,
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Basketball
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