Mirror - Vol. 31, No. 04 - September 29, 2005

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The independent student newspaper
of Fairfield University
Brooklyn gang member guilty in Fisher murder
Convict faces 25 years to life in prison for '03 shooting
Mirror file photos
(Above) Looking back: Mark Fisher,
left, is pictured with sister Alexis and
brother Michael in a photo taken the
year before Fisher's murder.
(Right) Flowers of Remebrance:
Last year, on the first anniversary of
Fisher's death, flowers were placed on
the altar of Egan Chapel following a
memorial mass. John Guica, 21, who
was convicted Tuesday, was arrested
on unrelated drug charges just weeks
before the memorial mass.
BY KELLY SHEEHAN
The Fairfield community and
family and friends of Mark Fisher
'06 finally have some answers.
The leader of a Brooklyn gang
was convicted on Tuesday of mur-dering
Fisher in 2003.
John Guica, 21, now faces a
sentence of 25 years to life in prison
for second-degree murder, robbery
and weapons posession. The jury
deliberated for less than a day be-fore
they released their decision to
convict Guica.
Antonio Russo, 19, who has
been charged with firing the final
shot, is waiting for the second in-dependent
jury's decision.
The members claimed they
needed another day.
"We, as a jury, want to sleep
on it, because some are a little
undecided," Newsday reported that
the note said.
"I know the collective prayers .
and wishes of the Fairfield Univer-sity
community are with Mark's
parents, Michael and Nancy Fisher,
his siblings and other family mem-bers,"
said Dean of Students Mark
Reed. "It appears that the criminal
justice system really worked to
find and convict those responsible,
despite a number of factors working
against them."
"I hope students and others
will take some time to reflect upon
how precious life really is and how
much we have to be thankful for,"
he added.
Fisher, 19, had been at a Man-hattan
bar, Bar Harbour, on Oct. 12,
2003 with several Fairfield friends.
At the bar, he bumped into Angel
DiPietro '06 and many of her high
school friends from Garden City,
N.Y., the New York Times reported.
The two groups mixed and both
went to a nearby
pizzaria. But soon
they parted; the
Fairfield students
went,to another
bar and Fisher
chose to remain
behind with one
of the Garden
City girls, Mer-edith
Denihan. He
seemed to like her.
Fisher's Fairfield friends could
not reach him because he had left his
cell phone behind.
. DiPietro had made plans that
night to meet Abert Cleary, 21, her
boyfriend's roommate at Fordham
University. Cleary testified that
DiPietro wanted to introduce him
to her girlfriends from home.
SEE "FISHER" ON P. 2
EDITORIAL
An end to
the mystery,
but not the
pain
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Hungry FU students now offered "Virtual Grocer"
BY JAMES NGUYEN
Between ballroom dancing, Eu-charistic
Ministers, taking five classes
and not having a car on campus, Sarah
Howe '07 has trouble finding the time
or the means to do her grocery shop-ping.
But as of last Thursday, students
like Howe no longer need to leave
campus in order to purchase a bottle
of detergent or a box of cereal.
"VirtualGrocer.com" is an online
grocery shopping system where stu-dents
can fill out a form of what they
want online, print the form out, and fax
it to the Stag Snack Bar. The order is
then packed and available for pickup
24 hours later.
"I'd say if the student doesn't
have a car, and they don't like what
the cafeteria has to offer, this service
has the perfect convenience for a busy
student," said Howe, who spent $10
testing out the service.
Most students, however, do not
have access to a fax machine. David
Hebert, director of retail operations,
said that students can also drop off the
completed order forms at Stag Snack
Bar between 7 a.m. until 11 p.m., seven
days a week but there is no way to
electronically submit an order.
"It's only online in the fact that
you key in what you want and print
off the form," said Howe. "Until they
make it so that you actually fill it out
and email it on the website, it's only
quasi-online shopping."
Timeliness was another issue in
which Howe had to deal with, despite
the order sheet stating that orders are
packed within 24 hours.
"I ordered it on Saturday around
6:30 p.m. They said they would give
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Katie McCarthy/Mirror photo illustration
Senior Mugless Night?
A senior Mirror staffer
reflects upon a favorite FU
tradition: cheap beer.
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