Mirror - Vol. 04, No. 10 -October 23, 1980

              Dodd Pledges Student Financial Support
by Ken Vaughn
Stressing the need for more fed-eral
financial aid for college bound
students, United States Senate
hopeful Christopher Dodd prom-ised
continued support of assist-ance
for students October 14 in a
half-hour speech in the Oak Room.
Dodd, due to battle Republican
James Buckley for the seat being
vacated by Democrat Abraham
Ribicoff, brought his campaign to
the university with a one-hour
visit.
After meeting with university
President Aloysius Kelley, trie
Democratic candidate told a pre-dominantly
student audience that
a tuition tax credit will no longer
benefit the college bound student.
While he considered a tax credit of
$150 "nice", the benefit is "minor"
compared to the rising costs of
secondary schools. "By the end of
the decade, the cost of a private
institution will be more than $6000
a year and the cost of a public in-stitution
will be more than $5000 a
year," said Dodd. He added that he
would support the Middle Income
Student Assistance Act, the Basic
Educational Opportunity Grant
(BEOG) and student work study
programs. The task that now faced
the Congress was to "broaden and
increase" the assistance pro-grams
to allow more middle in-come
families to qualify for fund-ing.
No longer were loans a viable
solution because of the rising
costs of schools, thus forcing
more students to default on their
repayment, said Dodd.
Saying "there is no issue as im-portant",
Dodd told the audience
that a solution must be sought to
the energy problem. "We need to
become energy self-sufficient,"
said the second district Congress-man,
adding that conservation
could realistically reduce con-sumption
by 25 percent. Sources
like coal, solar, wind and wood
power need to be utilized to help
curtail OPEC's economic power
over the rest of the energy reliant
world. Dodd also said that a priori-ty
would be to see that the north-east
gets its fair share of money
for mass transmit operation. Cur-rently,
30 percent of the nation's
mass transit business occurs in
the greater New York area, but the
northeast only gets 10 percent of
the federal funds. As a result,
65,000 commuters ride to New
York each day or, trains that hold
only 53,000 riders. Later on, Dodd
said he opposed shutting down all
nuclear power plants due to the
Three Mile Island incident. Fifteen
percent of America's energy
comes from nuclear power, said
Dodd, and his congressional dis-trict
has more nuclear power fa-cilities
than any congressional
district in the nation.
In the press conference pre-ceding
the speech, Dodd said that
he opposed the registration to the
draft. "To have a bunch of 19 year-olds
fill out cards at a post office
is ludicrous," said Dodd. These
registrants change address fre-quently
due to school, and such
an enlistment will not frighten the
Soviet Union. Dodd also pointed
out that inadequate benefits are
forcing current service members
to leave the military. He supports
the concept of universal service,
which would allow a person to
serve his country in a number of
ways, ranging from VISTA to
Peace Corps or the military.
The six-year Congressman did
spend a little time attacking his
Senatorial opponent. Dodd told
the press that Buckley's attack
against Dodd's vote for zoning jur-isdiction
was unfounded. Unlike
Buckley's contention, Dodd said,
"The amendment precludes the
federal bureaucracy from involve-ment."
Buckley maintains that
Dodd voted for allowing the fed-eral
government to have expanded
power in local zoning. Dodd also
pointed out he had the support of
GOP Congressman Stewart
McKinney on the bill.
In front of the Oak Room au-dience,
Dodd said he was "trying
not to get involved in a negative
race." However, he said Buckley
was not doing the same. Because
he has no Connecticut record and
cannot speak on why he was de-feated
for re-election in New York,
Buckley has nothing to do but
conduct a personal campaign. "In
the last three weeks, I encourage
him (Buckley) to shift his focus
and tell us what he'll do for Con-necticut,"
said Dodd.
Students and parents were busy at the Annual Parents Day Weekend last
week. (See story page 2) [Photo by Duane Bailey]
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Fulbright Stresses New Soviet Relations
by Ken Vaughn
"Our culture presents obstacles
to understanding and dealing with
the Russians," said former Arkan-sas
Senator J. William Fulbright
as he addressed students and
town residents October 15 in the
Oak Room. The former Chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, Fulbright urged "our
government to take a new ap-proach
towards the Soviet Onion."
Fulbright says part of the rea-son
for the break in peaceful ne-gotiations
with the Soviet Union
stems from our "tenacity of pre-conceptions".
"We are the peace-makers
and they are the trouble-makers,"
said the thirty-year sen-ator
in explaining American atti-tudes
towards the Soviets. This at-titude
has prevented us from sign-ing
the SALT II agreement and re-instating
detente and diplomatic
relations.
Currently, there are two schools
of thought pertaining to the Soviet
Union, said Fulbright. The first is
the Cold War school, which pic-tures
the U.S.S.R. as the "malevo-lent
antagonist" against the
United States. The second school
is the detente method, which is
characterized by pragmatism, op-portunity
and cautiousness by
both parties. Since World War II,
Fulbright said the Cold War
school has been the one held by
the majority of Americans. This
was most aptly exemplified by the
Truman Doctrine, which Fulbright
said made countries choose be-tween
a democratic government
like the United States or a terror-filled
state. At the time, we saw
Russia as a state that "possessed
a diabolical magnetism" and
could subvert free societies, in-cluding
America.
Despite the American percep-tion,
Fulbright told the audience
that a recent report from the
Soviet Union revealed that the
Russian people have different at-titudes.
He said that the Soviets
consider the U.S./U.S.S.R. relation-ship
the most important diploma-tic
relationship, and that the
Americans and Russians are
natural allies in the Soviets' eyes.
The Russians feel that their num-ber
one enemy is mainland China,
and the recent foreign policy
enacted by the United States has
been inconsistent. Thanks to our
misperceptions, Fulbright surmis-ed
that, "After 30 years of interac-tion,
we have not made up our
minds what they are really like."
Relations seemed to improve in
1972 and 1973 when President
Richard Nixon utilized detente
with Secretary of State Henry Kis-singer.
At that time, Anti-Ballistic
Missiles were curtailed by both na-tions
and the SALT I treaty was
ratified. Soon afterwards, cultural
and trade relations developed.
However, the detente program
began to decay when Nixon was
plagued by Watergate. The further
erosion of relations between the
superpowers was evidenced by
the American grain embargo and
boycott of the Summer Olympics
in 1980 after the Soviet Union in-vaded
Afghanistan. Actually,
Fulbright said the Afghan invasion
was a continuation of their foreign
policy and they did not perceive
the seriousness of it.
While fear of a nuclear war may
deter it from occurring, the two
countries should get together and
begin negotiations towards a
peaceful relationship. "The Penta-gon
spends money to study how
to destroy Russia, but they do not
study how to live with them." He
added that although we do not
agree with the government the
Soviet Union employs, we should
recognize the legitimacy of their
government and respect their
views. \
Forum Accepting Papers
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by Marguerite Downing
The Forum, a journal of the
American Studies Forum (ASF), is
now accepting contributions for
its next publication in the Spring
of 1981.
The Forum, established in 1979
by Herb Janick, consists of stu-dent
projects and papers dealing
with different aspects of America.
The papers may be connected
with the American Studies major
which incudes related courses in
English, Fine Arts, History, Phil-osophy,
Politics, and Sociology.
Last year's topics included: an
American painter, American au-thors,
and American film and tele-vision.
Among the contributors
were English majors, American
studies majors, and a Fine Arts
major. This year, editor Herb
Janick hopes to receive a greater
number of contributions from stu-dents
in more varied majors. Dr.
Leo O'Connor, Director of the
American Studies Program, like
Janick feels that The Forum is,
"an avenue for distinguished
achievements in Arts and Sci-ences."
in the Spring, all upper
division Liberal Arts and incoming
American Studies students re-ceive
a copy of The Forum.
According to Janick, there is no
set deadline for papers this se-mester.
The only qualifications for
a paper is that it should, in some
way, relate to America, and con-sist
of a minimum of ten typed
pages.
All projects should be sent to:
The Forum, Box 792.
Hartmann Will Address
Nazi Holocaust Experience
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by Kathy Noonan
Renee Hartmann, a survivor of a
German concentration camp, will
relate her personal experiences as.
a prisoner October 27 at 8 p.m. in
the Oak Room. Mrs. Hartmann will
discuss the Holocaust in general:
how it has been treated in litera-ture,
and how it should be seen in
sociological and historical terms.
The lecture is an outgrowth of a
new course on the Holocaust of-fered
at Fairfield by English pro-fessor
Dr. James Farnham. Dr.
Farnham feels that it is important
for the students in the course to
have personal contact with sur-vivors
in order to fully understand
the Holocaust. He also stressed
that this will not be a formal lec-ture,
but rather a "conversation
with a survivor." Farnham added
that there is a tendency for people
to think of "survivors" as an
abstraction; we must realize that
they are not merely survivors but
people who share the same basic
feelings and needs as we aft do.
She feels that "the lessons of
the Holocaust still have to be
learned." The Monday ntght lec-ture
will be free and open to the
public.