Mirror - Vol. 33, No. 09 - November 01, 2007

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Lily Norton/The Mirror
Imagine all the people living life in peace: Students and professors represented Fairfield University in an NYC protest last Satuday.
BY LILY NORTON
In the passageway of a Metro-North train
headed for Grand Central Station, Jocelyn
Boryczka, politics professor and director of
peace and justice studies, stood in front of 56
members of the University community.
"You have the right to free speech in the
United States of America," she said.
Fairfield students, professors and other
Connecticut citizens gathered in New York
City to participate in a peaceful protest last
Saturday against the war in Iraq. When they
arrived, they joined 45,000 other advocates of
peace to walk the streets downtown.
The protest was part of a nationwide dem-onstration
organized by United for Peace and
Justice (UFPJ), a coalition comprised of more
than 1,300 local and national groups from
all over the country that combine efforts to
protest the war in Iraq, according to the UFPJ
Web site. Nationwide, about 100,000 people
participated in the protest.
The strong sense of unity with the other
protestors started as the group walked toward
17th Street where it congregated before the
march started.
Because of the rain, many of the signs
SEE "PROTESTING" ON P. 6
Fairfield Fulbright program finishes at the top ofits class
BY RACHEL BREAN
For the third time in
four years, Fairfield Uni-versity's
Fulbright program
has received top recogni-tion
due to the high num-ber
of students who were
awarded the scholarship
this past academic year.
Fairfield placed first in
the number of Fulbrights its
students received among
the 574 universities in the
country that are ranked as
master's degree institu-tions
in the Carnegie clas-sification,
The Chronicle
of Higher Education an-nounced
this week.
Five Fairfield students
from the classes of 2006
and 2007 are currently
conducting research as
Fulbright scholars in nearly
every corner of the world.
The Fulbright students
include Aamina Awan '07,
one of only two scholars
selected to work in Bah-rain,
a small Arab country
in the Persian Gulf. Awan
is conducting independent
research at the University
of Bahrain on public poli-cies
that encourage more
women to join the work-force.
Other scholars are
Evan Berard '07, who
is studying the societal
structure of Venezuela;
Elizabeth Blake '07, who
is studying the implications
of the beefed-up border
patrol policy at the Canada-
U.S. border; Kate Cota
'07, who is researching
literature in the Republic of
Georgia; and James Costa
'06, who is a teaching assis-
Photo courtesy of Fairfield Marketing and Communications
Future Fulbright?: Amenda Legros '08 works
with Eric Mielants, sociology professor and mem-ber
of the Fulbright Application Committee, on her
application to work in Senegal.
SEE "FULBRIGHT" ON P. 5
Ned Coll, class of'62, for U.S. Commander in Chief
BY ALI BART
Named one of the 10 Out-standing
Young Men of the Nation
in 1970 by the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, alongside Elvis Presley,
Ned Coll ran for president in 1972.
He also appeared in Life Magazine
and holds a high regard for Barbara
Walters because she was "upfront"
while interviewing him.
Ned Coll, a 1962 Fairfield
graduate, announced his candi-dacy
for U.S.
president this
past July, and
has since em-barked
on the
second presi-dential
cam-paign
of his
career.
The last
time Coll ran
for president in 1972, he stole news-paper
headlines when he produced a
COLL
rubber rat from his pocket during the
Democratic primary debate in New
Hampshire and said it was a symbol
of the poverty that he believed was
plaguing America.
About 25 years later, 67-year-old
Coll is no spring chicken among
those in this year's upcoming Dem-ocratic
primaries. However, his
target audience of college students
may bring youthful energy to his
idealistic campaign.
College campuses have "turned
into the silent majority," said Coll.
"They're really not doing much
and the reason they're not doing
much, I think, is that they're not
being challenged to do much. It's
as simple as that."
Although Coll said he fears that
the nation is losing spirit, he looks
upon his alma mater as symbol of
hope.
"Fairfield could and should be
a light to this state," he said.
Coll said he plans to reach this
audience by a campus-to-campus
tour, and the fact that he doesn't
have a car does not seem to faze
him. He visited the campus a few
weeks ago, but has yet to make a
formal speech.
His presidential bid was cov-ered
this summer by the Hartford
Courant, but he has generated little
notice from students and faculty at
Fairfield.
SEE "FAIRFIELD" ON P. 4
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