I Residents go golfing for West Efid House, OLP .... 23 www.allstonbrightontab.com FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 , 2004 Vol. 9, No. 8 44 Pages 3 Sections 75¢ Let's Police bust up toga party 10 BC students face numerous charges; hoop players may have sparked melee By Erin Smith STAFF WRITER A fight between the hen a street brawl erupted at one toga-clad party-goers W Brighton residence­ and BC basketball turned "Animal House" last Fri­ day, it was a scene that could players started on the have been blamed on a toga-clad threshold of the house John Belushi and other members of Delta House fraternity. and spilled out into the But instead, police arrested 10 undergraduate women, when street, police said. their toga party at 45 Selkirk Road got out of hand after a All 10 women are 20-year-old group of Boston College basket­ Boston College undergraduates ball players attempted to crash and residents of the toga party the party without paying an ad­ house. mission fee. Police were called to 85 Lisa Tomas, Andrea Bruckner, Sutherland Road for a report of a Mary K. Denihan, Anne fight involvi ng 20 people around Schoellennan, Stephanie Miran­ 11 p.m. Friday. Upon arrival, po­ da, Nora E. Ganey, Caroline lice discovered a party nearby at Dunwoody, Kelly Madigan, Car­ oline M. Lorusso and Kathryn 45 Selkirk Road, where they ob­ Swiderski were arrested at their served about I 00 college students inside dressed in togas and drink­ STAff PHO'kl Bl TM E. JAC08SON residence and charged with being Tim McHale of Brighton, a member of the Boston Mlnstrt l Company, entertains at last week's RlverSlng. The event celebrated many minors in possession of alcohol, ing alcohol from red plastic cups things: the autumnal equinox; the llghtlng of the bridge; music; t he Chartes River; and the two communities that straddle the river, providing alcohol to minors, dis­ and beer cans. The women host­ Cambridge and Allston. See story and more photos on page 8 . turbing the peace and being keep­ ing the keg party sold admission ers of a disorderly house. PARTY, page 23 Greycliff neighbors want their T stop Edison School Petition asks MBTA to reinstate stop after trial period ends By Erin Smith Greycliff Road stop reinstated at the end Road, but reopened it because a large senior placed on watch list STAFF WRITER of the six-months trial ending October 1, citizen population uses that stop. In a cit} conge ted with car traffic, some 2004," reads the petition. By Ertn Smith In 2002, President Gt·, •rge W. The closures were designed to shave off STAFF WRITER Albto:i-Brighton re:-,idents ay they are t April, the MBTA closed four B Line about 2 1/2 minutes from the B Line com­ Bush signed the No Child Left angl) that the f\tBTA has made using public st ps at Greycliff Road, Mt. Hood, Summit mute into Boston. Thomas A. Edison Junior High Behind Act which requires stu­ transportation more difficult. A enue and Fordham Road for a six- to­ School received its first "F' on the dents in grades three through ''They [MBTA] certainly didn't do this Thi~ week, 230 Brighton residents signed ei ht month trial period under the Stop as an experiment. This is what they wanted state report card this year. eight to take annual tes1· bcgi~­ a peti1ion asking the city to reinstate the E ·mi nation Pilot Program, a response to to do," said Jack Gri nold, whose wife, The Brighton school, which ning in 2005, and tem. hers m Greycliff Road MBTA station along the B houses students in grades six to n merous complaints made about the Catherine, gathered signatures for the peti­ every classroom to hi.: highly Line. le gth of the average ride into Boston, eight, has been added to the na­ qualified. Under No Child Left tion. tional watch list of schools that "We are patron neighbors of the Grey­ TA officials said at the time. The MBTA Grinold, a Greycliff Road resident, said cliff MBTA top. We need to have the o ginally closed a fifth stop at Chiswick need improvement. EDISON, page 23 GREYCLIFF, page 10 INSIDE WORLDS OF OPPORTUNITY This is the third in" \eries on the mri­ ety ofe thnic groups linng in All.ston and Brighton. When Jick Sau Lew moved mto her Brighton home in 1970, she knew she had finally made it. Life was not easy for Lew when she first emigrated frorr China. For ~he previous nine years. ~he had been .liv­ ing in a small three-bedroom China­ town apartment \\ith her parents, hus­ ENTERTAINMENT band and fo ur children. and the culture shock was more than Lew could han­ Green Briar dle, she said. "When I fi rst came here, I cried. I pub takes a wanted to go back to Hong Kong," said Lew. 'craic' at 15th Although she did not speak much English, Lew found a job se\\ ing in a ""SEEPAGE22 downtown clothing factory, as most Chinese women did during that time period. The women "'ere. paid by the INSIDE piece, not by the hour. said Le\\. ~ne seam was worth hall J penny. meaning Commentary 11 a finished piece of 'lothing could be worth 20 or 30 cent . Talented eam­ Community Notes 7 stresses could sew 111aybe 30 piece a day, said Lew. Crime 9 1 "Every single pen11} I ha\e to thmk about. It was very h.1rd. I still remem­ \ TAFF PHOTO 8Y ERIN SMITH EntertalM1811t 15 • Mrs. Mel" feeds her 2-year-old grandson, Colby Mel, a piece of fish durtng dinner last week. Colby's great-grandmother, Yuet ber my children slet:p on the floor and I Lal, watches him eat while his grandfathet picks out some food. Jennie Lee says her son Is spoiled by his grandparents WORLD, page 10 Ubnwy Notes 5 because he Is the first bom son to carry ott the Mel name for his generation. 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