Mirror - Vol. 04, No. 08 - October 9, 1980

              Fairfield Welcomes Dodd
by Ken Vaughn
United States Senate hopeful
Christopher Dodd will make an ap-pearance
at Fairfield University
October 14 at 11 a.m., according to
university campaign co-ordinators
Richard Marano and Tara Lucey.
The Democratic candidate will
arrive at 11 a.m. and meet per-sonally
with university President
Aloysius Kelley, S.J. After a 15
minute press conference, Dodd
will address students in the Oak
Room at approximately 11:30 a.m.
He is scheduled to depart at about
12 noon.
Marano said that Dodd, due to
square off against Republican
candidate James Buckley Novem-ber
4, has an interest in the issues
that concern students and had
wanted to make an appearance be-fore
the student body. The an-nouncement
of his appearance
comes on the heals of a challenge
by the Buckley campaign to have
the two campus organizations
hold a debate.
Besides Dodd, Marano also said
that the Young Democrats were
sponsoring a Candidates Day to-day
in the Oak Room. Starting at 3
p.m., local Democratic candidates
would be available to answer ques-tions
for about two and one-half
hours. Scheduled to appear are
United States Congressional can-didate
John Aristotle Phillips,
State Senate candidates John Fal-lon
and Richard Saxl, and State
Representative hopefuls Christine
Neidermeier, Joseph O'Brien and'
John Quinn.
Marano is also looking for
students interested in helping the
Dodd campaign. To contact
Marano, drop a line in Box 1092 or
call 226-4799.
Alumni Encourage Research
by Kathy Noonan
Three research grants totaling
$1,000 were recently awarded to
Fairfield students by the Alumni
Association, according to Richard
Popilowski, Director of Alumni Re-lations.
The Alumni Association
sponsored the program in hopes
of "supporting Fairfield's contin-ued
effort to achieve academic ex-cellence
through academic re-search
and enrichment
programs."
Proposals for research projects
were evaluated by a Student Re-search
Advisory and Academic
Studies Committee. The commit-tee,
consisting of four students,
was chosen by the deans of each
of the three undergraduate col-leges.
There was one representa-tive
from the Nursing School, one
from the Business School, and
two from the College of Arts and
Sciences. The committee met
under the supervision of Dr. Abbas
Khadjavi.
The first selected project was
submitted by F. Murray and J.
Paulhus, from the Business
School. They submitted their pro-ject
as representative of the Fair-field
Financial Honor Society.
Their research will be directed to-ward
determining why certain
businesses fail while others suc-ceed.
They plan to analyze spe-cific
data submitted by each com-pany
to the government, and from
there they will correlate each com-pany's
success or failure with the
data.
The second award of $300 was
presented to William Condon
Colin Campbell. They intend to ex-amine
the effects of fuel oil on a
marine environment.
The remaining amount of $200
was awarded to Susan Rotundi
and Linda Arena. They plan to con-duct
a sociological survey of Fair-field
University, surveying campus
residents, commuters and other
off-campus boarders. They will be
trying to prove the hypothesis that
"different resident and life style
patterns result in a diversity of
student performance, both acad-emically
and socially." Democratic United States Senate candidate Christopher Dodd will
address students and faculty Tuesday in the Oak Room.
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Taylor Aids Career Plans
Evelyn Taylor instructs concerned students about the proper way to
pursue a satisfying career. [Photo by Tata Herrero]
Mary Crisp Speaks
For John Anderson
by Philip McGinty
A course entitled "The Process*
of Career Development" is now
available to students concerned
with planning a career. Mrs.
Evelyn Taylor of the Counseling
Center teaches the one-credit
course.
The course is designed "to in-struct
students in the whole ca-reer
planning process," informed
Ms. Taylor. She emphasized that
career planning is truly a process,
rather than a spontaneous de-cision.
Students must learn the
importance of each of the steps in
this process.
Ms. Taylor explained that every
year seniors come into the Coun-seling
Center in a state of confu-sion
and panic. She believes that
early preparation for a career
allows the student to ease into the
working world.
The course is comprised of four
units which cover the basic steps
in career development. The first
unit is self-assessment in which
the student is encouraged to iden-tify
personal strengths, skills, in-terests
and weaknesses. The stu-dent
must then try to match his as-sets
with an appropriate career, re-gardless
of his major. In addition,
this step encourages the student
to examine and utilize his
strengths.
The second unit includes a pre-liminary
discussion of the dif-ferent
career environments. Here
the students are introduced to
many career possibilities.
Career strategy is covered in the
third unit. Along with coverage of
the traditional applications, res-umes
and interviews, the course
introduces some new, innovative
approaches to pursuing a career.
Unit four of the course offers
suggestions on how to best adjust
to the working world. Among the
suggestions are ways of avoiding
culture shock and hints on how to
do the best in a given employment
situation.
The culmination of the course is
an individual project in which the
student performs an extensive in-terview
with someone in the work-ing
world. The project has a two
fold purpose. First, it enables stu-dents
to experience jobs first-hand.
Also, it allows the students
a chance to set up contacts for
future reference.
The course will be offered again
next fall, for it is most beneficial to
the students in the fail semester,
concluded Ms. Taylor.
by Marguerite Downing
Mary Dent Crisp, the National
Chairperson of the National Unity
Campaign for John Anderson, ad-dressed
an audience Tuesday in
the University's faculty dining
room. Mrs. Crisp's appearance
was among several made recently
in the Connecticut area.
Urging Fairfield community
members to vote for Anderson in
November, Mary Crisp pointed out
the public's need to accept John
Anderson as a serious candidate.
Mary Crisp stated, "If all the peo-ple
who believe in John Anderson
worked and gave money toward
his campaign, things would move
forward." Crisp also stressed that,
" a vote for Anderson, is a vote for
Anderson," and not a vote for
Reagan. She felt that people
mistakenly feel that votes for
Anderson merely take away sup-port
from the Carter administra-tion
and facilitate Ronald
Reagan's election.
A Republican politician for
almost twenty years, Crisp found
her switch to the Independent Par-ty
"an easy decision to make
because John Anderson is the
best candidate." She dubbed
Reagan's Republican supporters
"electronical evangelicals, radical
right wingers, and right to lifers
whose main goal was to gain
power and control government."
She also felt that Reagan's anti-abortion
policy for the judicial
branch was "very frightening."
Overall, Crisp believed that
Reagan's platform meant a "dis-avowal
of freedom of choice."
According to Mrs. Crisp, Ander-son's
fortes include his recogni-tion
of a changing world in regard
to defense and foreign policy, his
realistic guidelines, and his
previous "solid" actions in
government for such issues as the
Equal Rights Amendment. She
described his positions on issues
as the "middle of the political
spectrum." In regard to congres-sional
support and a White House
staff, Crisp felt that Anderson
could draw "great talents" from
the private, political sector
because of his lack of restrictions
to one party.
When asked about the effects
of a strong showing for Anderson
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College GOP Greets Bush
by Ken Vaughn
The Fairfield University College
Republicans attended a political
fund raiser for United States
Senate candidate James Buckley.
However, club members got a
pleasant surprise when they talk-ed
with GOP Vice-Presidential
candidate George Bush at the
event.
Bush, who attended the event to
speak on Buckley's behalf, recol-lected
his visit to Fairfield with
club officials. Club President Sal
Gilbertie said he was amazed that
Bush remember his visit and the
■anti-nuke demonstration so vivid-ly.
Buckley personally thanked the
university organization and
Citizens for Buckley coalition for
their assistance in the campaign.
Attending the event was Gilbertie,
Dawn Totora, Mike Guarnieri,
Maura Coakley, Tom Landy, Mar-garet
Capalbo and Linda Mattrella.
The College Republicans is an
active club that has been working
on various state and local cam-paigns,
said Gilbertie. Among -fall
projects will be a Parents Day
presidential straw poll and a cam-pus
canvas. Gilbertie said he
hopes to be able to identify stu-dents
who will need absentee bal-lots
for the November election.
The canvas results will be forward-ed
to Ronald Reagan's, Buckley's
and Congressmen Stewart McKin-ney's
headquarters.
George Bush pauses for a moment with Sal Gilbertie, Mike Guarnieri,
and Dawn Tatora of the College Republicans at a fund raiser for Jim
Buckley. [Photo by Tom Landy)