Boston Police and a Well As One Broader Charge of Maintaining a Nuisance Prejudices Within the Community
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,~ Sides clash at hearing on MaryAnn's By Bill Toole ary 16. The charges included three counts of serv however, denied most of the officers' accusations ing a minor, three counts of overcrowding, and one and implied that their admittedly college-oriented Wednesday's hearing on the fate of the Cleveland count of hindering a license enforcement agent, as business was being singled out because of anti-BC Circle bar MaryAnn's pitted Boston police and a well as one broader charge of maintaining a nuisance prejudices within the community. handful of civic group representatives against from 1985 to present. Indeed, the debate seemed at times to focus more numerous bar patrons and employees. who claimed Several police officers testified that they wit on the behavior of Boston College students than it that their opponents' accounts were for the most nessed numerous license violations at the establish did on alleged license violations at the controver part either exaggerated or completely false. ment over the last few months and community rep· sial nightspot. The hearing was held to discuss several specific resentatives called the bar a continuing source of Saying he had been sent to the hearing by Boston license violations that allegedly occurred since J anu- disruption in the area. Employees of the club, continued on page 7 Mrs . ;,J: 'l :J111 Murc..h;one • .Jr . ?W ltj1.1_r, 11in9lon :)t . 1 ·1s er~- ..?. ::> A L·L·S·T·O·N ITEl\I.[ Published Weekly In Allston~Brighton Since 1884 Friday, May 8, 1987 Vol. 102, No. 19 35 Cents BC execs cry foul over off-CaJDpus coverage By Michaela Casey much credence to the complaints of a plaints and B.C.'s requests for and Bill Toole handful of vociferous community ac . documentation "she has yet to tell us tiVistw.'"1'M JW..apelr r If rsens ~ of one ~fie incident concerning Complaining that Boston College that incidents of student misbehavior -continued on page 16 has been "badly maligned" by the in the neighborhoods have become press and victimll:ed by the "gross ex· much less frequent and often much aggerations' ot neighborhood resi less serious than these residents dents, BC officials this week claim. maintained that their efforts to "There are some community leaders reduce off-campus disruptions have who prey upon the receptiveness of had significant-and - under· the press," Barton charged. "They publicized-success. wait for you [reporters] to call and In a Tuesday meeting they request when you do call they make the most ed with the Citizen Item, Student Af· of it ... It's just natural that they ex fairs Vice-President Kevin Duffy, aggerate." Student Development Dean Robert As an example of this "BC bash Sherwood, Community Affairs Direc ing" Barton cited the criticisms of tor Laurence Barton and News Office Marion Alford, president of the BC Vice President Kevin Duffy (top), Community Affairs director Laur Representative Patricia Delaney con LUCK community group. He insist nece Barton, Dean of Students Robert Sherwood, and News Office tended that the pre::is has given too ed that, despite her frequent com- representative Patricia Delaney. Yelena license foes switch -stance By Bill Toole na European Restaurant said this group members. Last summer, Yele two people, Alford and Washington week tl,l\t they will not object to fu na's applications for a <'even-day all Heights Citizens' Association presi Because a variance for Ye Old ture licen. ·e applications made by the liquor license and late-nig1 t entertain dent Lucy Tempesta, spoke in oppo Shamrock Inn was relatively unop restaurant. ment were denied by the city. sition to the club. posed at last week's Zoning Board of This stru1ct, given the vehemence L.U.C.K. (residents of Lake, Lake , Krinsky denied to speak on the Appeals hearing, several local ac and unanimity of local opposition to Shore, Undine, Caltha, and Kendrick record about why she did not oppose tivists who last year blocked liquor Yelena's last yt::ar, reflects a dramat Streets) president Marion Alford and the Shamrock, although she would and entertainment licenses for Y ele- ic change in attitude for these civic Corey Hill Neighborhood Association say that she did not favor the estab members Sylvia Crystal and Edna lishment. Crystal said that although Krinsky said they will either support she too was not a supporter of the or at the very least not oppose efforts by Yelena's to obtain limited liquor continued on page 16 and entertainment licenses for its ex isting restaurant operation. These neutral stances are ·very different from those taken by the three at hearings last summer on jcrnzENJ Yelena's requests for a liquor license tranfer and an entertainment license. Jn this issue ... 44 pages At those hearings, Alford, Crystal and Krinsky supported many other Parents. teachers say residents in criticizing the impact the restaurant would have on parking, no to armed guards traffic, and late-night noise in the -Page2- area. However, at last week's ZBA hear ing on the Shamrock-which, being Nurses lead the way only two blocks away from Yelena's on Washington Street, would seem at Kennedy.Memorial Some residents won't oppose future Yelena's license requests. ingly create similar disruptions-only -Spot.Up~, :Page 12- I SMART SAVERS 'GET CLASSIFIED WITH THE GROUP! ONE CALL 232-7000- 224.000 READERS PAGE2 Citizen Item May 8, 1987 W4' Jt Sweetly l/Jith W.)) Parents, teachers say '! 7:;~~ ~ Q \.~ ~ ~ ~ no to armed guards -~~"" Heart-shapeo Cake for Mom J.·--v.· , For beautifully decorated cakes r:- . By Michaela Casey .()./ for all occasions. (),/! It is an unnecessary and potentially dan • Communions • Confirmations • Weddings • gerous measure. That was the urianimous reaction of Allston-Brighton educators and parents to last week's request by members of the Boston School Police that officers be armed ~ lJ~i;w]ai,ery S?' with mace and batons. r~~) 254-111a The idea was proposed at a hearing of the 395 Washington Street, Brighton Cente'f.--- School Committee's Student Safety Sub :r committee, which is chaired by William Donlan of Allston-Brighton. Proponents as serted that the arms were needed for their own protection and that they would be used only in self-defense. Although Donlan's HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE PREMIUMS GOT group voted to recommend the issue for fur YOU DOWN? ther discussion at the next full School Com mittee meeting, Donlan predicted that Want ,to compare your present there was "no way at all" the request would be granted. hom~owners coverage at absolutely no He explained that by forwarding the re obligatiun? Does y~i; P~tent poli,~sayt¥ , quest. the subcommittee was attempting to highlight the seriousness of the school safe you '' $'s"' for tion .. smoket~, h'Otnjf ty issue and to facilitate other measures renovation & smoke alim1s? .... ~ \.. that have been proposed. Among these, he , ,. .,..._ ~• .J I said, is a plan for "second-chance schools" for students who have repeatedly threat ened their teachers and peers. Donlan said that, while sympathetic with the concerns of the school police, he himself is opposed to arming them. "I don't think it's a good idea, "he stat BHS Headmaster Juliette Johnson ed. "It would create more of an atmosphere of fear ... and there's always the danger that a person might use [the weapons] un 'Tm opposed to it," stated Mildred Reid, 396 Washington Street wisely." co-chair of the BHS School Parents Coun Brighton, MA 02135 In Donlan's view, a better approach cil. "It tells kids that we think they're d8Jl , 1-800-451-4033 would be to use metal-detector "wands" in gerous and that we're going to treat them random searches of students as they enter like criminals." and leave school. "I don't think you should introduce such Another school department official, who a practice unless it's clearly called for by a asked not to be named, expressed similar series of incidents," said former School objections to the proposal, as did Bright Committeeman Bill Marchione, whose son on High School Headmaster Juliette graduated from BHS last year. "If you per Johnson. ceive a clear and present danger, then. "There have been no incidents that to me you're justified ... but ,l don't see Bright indicate that we need armed guards," she on High as warranting it." said. "I don't even think safety officers in Despite the fact that a student was re Earn a the schools should wear uniforms. It's very cently found with an armed weapon at her militaristic and it gives the message to the son's school-Boston Technical-former kids that you're almost expecting some- · School Committee candidate Kitty Bow good rate man also argued against the guards' re thing w happen." quest. She maintained that efforts-and She said that statistics showing an in funds-should be directed at counseling and without crease in armed attacks in the schools crisis intervention programs rather than at would only support defensive weapons if proliferating a prison-like atmosphere. the guards themselves were being con Although the measure was proposed by risking your fronted. members of the school police union, the "This is going to an extreme," said John head of the department, Chief of Safety Wil son. "Our schools are not in a state of siege. liam Murray, also considers it ill-advised. investment. We're not in a police state." "Our situation has always been one of Parents concurred with school officials, self-defense training and crisis interven also contending that weapons are unwar Annual Effective tion," he observed.