To the Editor:
I would like to begin by applauding Liz Bae and her article, “Connecticut Post Misses the ‘Point’,” which was published in your Oct. 20 issue.
As a Fairfield University student and a resident of Fairfield Beach Road, I feel that it is important that students take a stand and become vocal about their views. I live at the beach and, having formed a very good relationship with my neighbors, find that the Post seems to miss the fact that there are an overwhelming number of students who can, and do, live peacefully in the community.
Ms. Bae has done an excellent job in representing those of us that are living responsibly and trying to utilize our experiences at the beach as a stepping stone to independent living in the world outside the Fairfield bubble.
Additionally, her clarifications of the several fallacies in the Post points to the fact that we, as students, are severely underrepresented in articles like this, not to mention our lack of representation at town meetings that discuss the rights of residents of the Fairfield beach area.
Despite all the good accomplished by Ms. Bae’s article, I must also express my incredible dismay at Ashley Phan’s article, “Finally Getting to the Point: Life’s a Beach,” published under the Campus Life section of the same Oct. 20 issue.
This article’s sole purpose, as far as I can tell, is to affirm to Fairfield University students, administration, parents, alumni and our neighbors, the town of Fairfield residents, that students at the beach engage exclusively in keg-drinking, all-night-partying and menacing the neighborhood.
As a beach resident, and as a person who knows this to be false, I take serious offense to this depiction.
It is disheartening to realize that, in all likelihood, an excellent article such as Ms. Bae’s will be completely ignored by those members of the Fairfield town community, whose fire will only serve to be fueled by Ms. Phan’s lack of foresight.
Personally, I hold great respect for The Mirror and its influence within the Fairfield University community. However, I also find it curious that the same issue of The Mirror could feature two articles so juxtaposed to one another.
Whether or not the paper realizes it, The Mirror, as the independent student newspaper of Fairfield University, acts as the loudest voice of the student body.
When articles such as Ms. Phan’s are published, the Fairfield University community as a whole is done a disservice, and articles of substance and value, such as Ms. Bae’s, are discredited and marginalized.
Sincerely, Kristina Chomick ’06 Fairfield Beach Road resident
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