Mirror - Vol. 27, No. 20 - March 14, 2002

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ARBELO
Photo: Fairfield Now
Fairfield
March 14,2002
Aribebpkads
notguiltyto
kidnapping
BY JEN MALCOM
The nearly blind and par-tially
deaf Fairfield University
graduate accused of holding
Professor Dreyer's class of 26
students hostage in Canisus Hall
pleaded not guilty to kidnapping
charges on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Patrick
Arbelo, 24,
appeared in
Bridgeport
Superior
Court be-fore
Judge
Eddie
Rodriguez
Jr. and
elected to a
trial by jury.
He spoke
very little, only answering "yes"
or "no" to the judge's questions.
His attorney, Vincent Noce
Jr, entered the formal plea dur-ing
a brief hearing as 14 family
members and friends watched.
The judge asked Arbelo if he
had been advised of his consti-tutional
rights and if he under-stood
them. He responded,
"Yes, sir."
"I was pretty shocked at
first when I found out that he
pleaded innocent. He was un-der
oath to tell the truth and he
was undoubtedly in the room.
I wonder what goes on in his
mind," said Jessica Mauro '04.
Noce also indicated he
needed time for an evaluation
of his client, but refused to say
whether the evaluation would
be to establish Arbelo's compe-tency
or to determine if he has
a mental deficiency that could
have barred him from compre-hending
the wrongfulness of his
conduct.
Arbelo is being held in a
segregated cell at the Bridgeport
Correctional Center in lieu of $ 1
million bond. He is scheduled
to be back in court on April 9.
"This is not a case that is
going to be resolved quickly,"
predicted Assistant State's At-torney
Howard Stein, who is
prosecuting Arbelo. "There is a
lot of information that has to be
processed on both sides."
Stein said if the defense
presses the issue of competency,
the prosecution will need time
to have its own experts evalu
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MIRROR University
Volume 27, Number 20
HeadfootbaflcoachfadngDIJIcharges
BY MIKE PIGNATARO
Fairfield head football
coach Joe Bernard has chosen
to remain without comment
concerning his Nov. 22 driving
under the influence arrest in
Penn Argyl, PA.
"I have no comment at this
time," Bernard said. "I need to
talk to Fr. Kelley, since this
wasn't something that involved
Fairfield University."
In the early morning hours
of Thanksgiving Day, Bernard
crashed his vehicle into five
parked cars at approximately
1:45 a.m., according to the Penn
Argyl Police Department. Ber-
FAIRFIELD
nard, a resident of the small
Pennsylvania town, had a
blood-alcohol level of 0.23 per-cent,
which is above the state's
0.10 limit, police said.
According to the town po-lice
department, Bernard was
charged with driving under the
influence and careless driving.
Bernard waved his preliminary
hearing that was scheduled in
February and has not been given
a county court appearance date
at the time of publication.
The Mirror recently re-ceived
an anonymous letter stat-ing
that the university's admin-istration
may soon take action
against Bernard. Director of
Athletics Eugene Doris said that
action has already been taken.
"Appropriate action to the
situation was immediately taken
after the incident," Doris said.
"I can't say what action was
taken, just that it's a personal
matter."
Some Stags' players be-lieve
the incident should have
no reflection on Bernard's
coaching status.
"I don't really think it's any
of our business,"
said sophomore
defensive end Joe
Murphy. "It
doesn't affect the
way he coaches
us. We look at it
as just a mis-take."
However,
other players
were not sur-prised
to hear of
the incident.
"He's always
drinking on the
bus on the way
home from away
games," said
Chris Hook '03.
"Everybody
knows that he
drinks. He
doesn't hide it."
Bernard,
who never officially told his
players of the incident accord-ing
to Murphy, finished his first
season as Stags' head coach
with a record of 5-5 overall and
a third-place finish in the
MAAC.
Bernard Photo: Public Relations
Bernard took over on April
2, 2001 when Kevin Kiesel de-parted
after guiding the program
in its first five years of exist-ence,
while Bernard served as
the team's defensive coordina-tor.
Students skepticalofuse offacultytextbooks
BY SEAN TOOLAN
How can the hundreds and
hundreds of dollars spent each
semester by students even be-fore
they enter a classroom be
avoided?
At Fairfield University
there are a number of professors
who use their own books within
the classroom to compliment
the learning process. These
books range from $5 to over
$ 100 with the subject matter as
diversified as the prices.
"With the amount of
money we as students spend on
books," said Joe Angelini '04,
"I think it is reprehensible that
teachers profit from the sale of
a book that they require the stu-dent
to purchase."
According to Dr. Lisa
Newton of the Ethics Depart-ment,
professors are not getting
rich off the sale of their text-books.
"I write and use text books
so that my students will have
certain things available to them
that they would have had to find
in more than one place," said
Newton.
Academic Vice President
Dr. Orin Grossman also down
played any ethical question say-ing
that professors at universi-ties
across the country use their
own textbooks in their own
classroom in an effort to aid the
learning process. Newton also
does not profit from books that
she requires within her class-room.
She has established a re-serve
account where all royal-ties
from these books go. The
account goes to pay for an eth-ics
web site for the department
and honorarium to those she has
speak to the class.
"I was definitely pleased to
hear that teachers are not prof-iting
from the students they
teach if they force the students
to buy their books," said
Kristina Tierney.
Other than text books
teachers are teaching their own
fiction within the classroom.
Such professors will argue that
doing so will aid the students by
having the actual author in the
classroom to help explain the
meaning of things within the
story.
"I took a class where the
professor was teaching one of
their own works and initially I
was a bit turned off at seeing
their name along side well-re
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Photo: Amy Womack
The bookstore provides a special section for faculty authors.