WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5, 2022 www.villanovan.com @thevillanovan VOLUME 114 | ISSUE 17
Voter Registration is Not Enough
STUDENT-RUN SINCE 1916
Kelly’s Cracks Down on Fake IDs, Students Placed on “Tagged List”
Chad Woerner Staff Writer
As the midterm elections approach on Nov. 8, campaigning is starting to enter high gear nationwide. All 435 seats in the house and 35 of 100 senators will be up for reelection, and the outcomes could have tremendous consequences for the second half of President Joe Biden’s term. Also accelerating are the calls by politicians from both sides of the aisle to vote. From the “I voted” stickers to the frequent urges from candidates, our election process is noisy with calls to simply vote. In the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, a tweet by Biden simply saying “vote” garnered more than 370,000 likes, and before the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton repeatedly sent similar messages on Twitter urging her supporters to vote. Before Ted Cruz was reelected as a Texas senator in 2018, he repeatedly pressured Texans to vote without urging them to first become familiarized with the candidates. It is true that these requests by politicians are often targeted toward constituents who are already supporters, but politicians are doing more naive voters a disservice by telling them to go vote instead of telling them that voters should of course be voting but also be educating themselves about the electoral process prior to the midterms. While we should all strive for higher voter registration, advocating to vote in and of itself is missing the larger point of any democratic election: to elect the candidates that the voter believes are the most qualified and prepared to serve their constituents. Merely urging others Continued on p. 8
Students of age who have previously used false identification at Kelly’s have to do community service in order to be unbanned. Courtesy of Claire O’Halloran
Cate McCusker Senior Editor Kendall Hayes Culture Columnist
Picture this. It’s 12:01 am on your 21st birthday. You make it to the front of the line at Kelly’s at the perfect time. With a wrinkled $5 bill in your hand and a cowboy hat on your head, you’re ready to finally be able to enjoy Country Tuesdays with your peers. You hand your ID to the bouncer with a shaky hand, as you’re still getting used to the idea that what you’re doing is actually legal.
The machine blinks red. “Sorry, you’re banned,” the bouncer says. Wait….what? With a new ID scanner in place at Kelly’s Taproom, Villanova’s famous watering hole, customers who used a fake ID in the past are now placed on a “tagged list” and are unable to enter the establishment, even if they’re now of legal drinking age. Kelly’s is owned by the same people who run Flip and Bailey’s Bar and Grill, another famous Villanova bar. The University is known for having only a few bars in the area, and students often try to push their luck at these establishments before they are the legal drinking age and attempt to enter with fake IDs.
This fall, the now-21 year old students who have visited Kelly’s and Flip’s in the past are facing a problem they never thought they’d have again: the inability to enter a bar. “We invested a lot of money in new scanners,” said Angie, owner of both Kelly’s and Flip’s, who asked that her last name not be used. “We’ve been dealing with (fake IDs) for many years, and it’s just gotten more significant. I have one (student) who presented eight different states. It’s just very difficult when you’re receiving the same name but from a different state every other night.” Angie explained that Kelly’s is constantly in fear of losing its liquor license, and
it’s doing its best to combat underage drinking. “We’re always worried about losing it,” she said. “There’s so much liability out there. We want to be good to the community, we want to be good business owners, we want to be good operators. We implemented this because we’re tired of the fake IDs.” “I’ve gone to Kelly’s twice this semester,” said a senior who wished to remain anonymous. “I wasn’t there for very long, and it wasn’t like I was belligerently drunk or anything.” This senior turned 21 over the summer, but last year her fake ID was taken at Flip’s when she tried to get in at 20 years old.
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Campus Intruder Anthony Dimaio Banned Lydia McFarlane
Co-News Editor
In an email on Sunday, Oct. 3, Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police David Tedjeske informed students of the arrest of Anthony Dimaio on the University’s campus on Friday, Sept. 30. Dimaio was issued a nontrespass order and is now banned from University property. On Friday evening, Public Safety received a report from a student about a
suspicious male walking in a courtyard of the Commons. The student did not believe the man to be a fellow student, and the student also noted that
the man was having difficulty walking, staying upright and maintaining his balance. The man was intercepted by Public Safety officers near the Per-
Residents in the Commons are feeling unsettled following the community email. Olivia Pasquale/Villanovan Photography
forming Arts Center. During this encounter, the man became aggressive and combative and was then arrested by the Radnor Police for aggravated assault, resisting arrest and several other offenses. The man was identified as the 43-yearold Dimaio from Bryn Mawr, PA. He was arraigned but released without having to post bail. Public Safety officers recognized Dimaio as the individual from a report from students a few weeks ago. Continued on p. 3
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Ethics and Empirics of Engineering Humanity Series p. 4
A Week of Fall Break is Truly Necessary p. 5
Satire: Anthony’s Party Rentals p. 7
Let’s Get Real, Nova p. 7
Social Justice Documentary Class Travels to Kenya p. 9
Kappa Kappa Gamma Breast Cancer Awareness Week p. 10
Anders Said It: Field Hockey is Surprise of the Fall Season p. 13
Men’s Tennis Competes in Lehigh Invitational p. 14
Women’s Tennis Completes Fall Season p. 14