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'The Image of Fairfield" THE ^ ^V FAIRFIELD W 1 [MIRROR Nonprofit Organization U. S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 34 Fairfield, Conn. Volume 5, No. 8, October 16,1981 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430 Incorporated 1977 Peeping Tom Harasses Fairfield Co-Ed's by Mary Kay Wysocki On September 23 a scream from the Regis I bathroom summoned security officers taking a report in Campion Hall. This scream marked the last appearance of the blond, 6 foot peeping torn, approximate age 18-22, who had been menacing Fairfield University's quadrangle of dorms. "Campion girls first sighted the peeper on their hall at about 8 p.m.," said Ms. Mary McCullough, the Assistant Director of Security. "Within twenty minutes, the same man hit female floors in Northwest and Regis according to reports given by girls in these dorms," con-tinued Ms. McCullough. She noted, "The man was very familiar with the dormitory layout. He knew which floors were female as well as which entrances provided easy access." Upon reaching Regis Hall, a security officer spotted a man erv terlng a car in the Regis parking lot. Due to the man's headstart and the officer being on foot, the car was nut apprehended. Security believes it to have been a silver car, possibly a Datsun 260 or 280-Z. All the gates were open so the car's exit was not hindered; however, cars fitting this description are being stopped for security identification (as of Octo-ber 8, 1981). Along similar lines, any suspic-ious men seen on campus have been stopped and questioned as to the nature of their presence. If their presence is unjustified, they are re-quested to leave campus immedi-ately. She stressed, "We would rather chase 100 unfounded com-plaints than one that is true." All the girls who were eyewit-nesses to the voyeur ("peeping torn") were asked to help Fairfield Police Department develop a com-posite sketch. The girls worked dir-ectly with Detective Russo, an evi-dence technician for the town of Fairfield. According to Ms. McCul-lough, "Their cooperation with the police was fabulous, which is great for now (this incident) and will be Students Join Caravan To Freeze Nuclear Weapons helpful in the future." There has been a mixed reaction among the girls involved. In the week that followed the sighting, the bathroom door was propped open while showering and friends would check periodically. Recently, one girl commented, "I am not ner-vous taking a shower because he is not coming back." Two of the girls said that they are more leary walk-ing thru the semi-deserted areas of the campus. As a result, they are more observant and always looking for him. A frequent comment among girls on campus is that "this is some-thing that you shouldn't have to worry about at Fairfield." This false sense of security is what concerns many members of security and the administration. Mr. William Schimpf, Vice President of Student Services, feels that in one aspect the "peeping torn" incident was beneficial because "the experience heightened our awareness of our vulnerability. A lot of students tend Continued on page 2 Creativity Search Begins by Tom Callahan Students at Fairfield University have joined a major nationwide ef-fort by colleges to establish a joint nuclear weapons freeze. During the coming week peti-tions will be circulated on campus calling for a mutual freeze on nu-clear weapons on the part of the U-nited States and the Soviet Union. The petitions will then be present-ed to United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim by the "Caravan For Human Survival." The Caravan will consist of rep-resentatives from colleges and uni-versities around the country. They will begin in Boston, Miami and on the West Coast and meet in New York for United Nations Day on Sat-urday, October 24. The organizers of the Caravan hope to gather 15,000 signatures by the end of next week. The petition asks in part, "the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to freeze all testing, development, production and deployment of nu-clear weapons and systems." Sim-ultaneously it calls for the creation of an international disarmament or-ganization to verify the weapons freeze. The caravan is designed to call attention to the United Nations to adopt their proposals. The people involved in the drive justify their ac-tions with the results of a June, 1981 Gallup Poll. 72 percent of the respondents favored an agreement between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. not to build any more nuclear weapons in the future. Only 20 percent were opposed and the remaining had no opinion on the issue. The campaign here at Fairfield was kicked off last night with a presentation of the movie "The War Game." Starting today peti-tions will be available up until Fri-day, October 23. Interested people from all over Fairfield County are planning on arriving in New York via train shortly before noon on Saturday the 24th. The Caravan participants will meet at noon on 5th Avenue at 42nd Street. From there they will proceed to the United Nations to hear several speakers talk about the nuclear arms race. Those students who are in-terested in the Caravan For Human Survival should contact Dr. Kevin Cassidy in FOB 306, JoAnne Caffrey at 259-8161 or Nora Lundel at 255-1414. by Carl S. Gustafson At the end of each academic year, a permanent collection of student poetry is distributed on campus-the creative endeavor is entitled "Groundstar". "We hope to create a permanent record of the best writing done on the Fairfield campus during this year," Co-Editor-in-Chief Robert Breen commented. The Ground-star accepts poetry, short stories, essays, and critical sketches. "We are also hoping to expand our visual art submissions," claim-ed Co-Editor-in-Chief James Hogan Love. "We publish creative photographs, graphics, water-colors, etchings, and paintings. You do not have to co-ordinate an art work to a poem, we will handle the corresponding literary work." "We encourage students to write, and to freely submit. We will do the evaluation, the writer's job is simply to produce and submit," Breen continued. The Groundstar and the MIR-ROR in order to increase the em-phasis of student literary work on the Fairfield campus, are beginn-ing a program of interchange. If you submit a piece to the MIR-ROR, regardless of MIRROR publication, it will then be submit-ted to the Groundstar for con-sideration in their permanent col-lection. Groundstar in turn, will be submitting to the MIRROR, work that they get throughout the year for publication on a week-to-week basis. Beyond looking for submiss-ions the Groundstar has announc-ed editorial staff applications are due by Oct. 19, and a first submis-sion deadline at Nov. 28. Applica-tion details can be attained by writing to Box N. Bioethics Series Discusses Human Subjects in Research Speaking of a full Farley focused on voiced her opinion of experiments. crowd at the recent Bioethics lecture, Dr. Margaret the use of human subjects in medical research and regarding the ethical decisions related to these types (Photo by Vinny DeAngelis) by Kathryn Cahill "We can justify the use of humans as subjects in research only if there is a reasonable ratio between risk and benefit". These sentiments enveloped the speech made by Dr. Margaret Farley to a full crowd at the bioethics lecture which took place Tuesday night, October 6th. Dr. Farley, an associate pro-fessor of ethics at the Yale Divin-ity School made her comments during a seminar funded by the Connecticut Humanties Council focused on the use of human sub-jects exclusively in biomedical research. The lecture, "Human Subjects Research: An Overview of the Ethical Issues" was the first of a series of four programs to be held this academic year concern-ing the use of people as subjects in research. Dr. Lisa Newton is ser-ving as coordinator of the series and Fr. Vincent Burns acted as program director for the evening's lecture. "Experimentation is the central pillar of modern biomedicine." Dr. Farley began, "and it's hard to imagine progression in medicine without it." Citing Greek physi-cians' experimental surgery on condemned criminals as the earl-iest known use of humans in medical research, Dr. Farley declared, "the problem was already in dialogue." She referred to two famous U.S. experiments-Cotton Mather's support of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston's small pox research on humans in the 1700's, and Major Walter Reed's use of native Cubans and army recruits in yellow fever tests- -to point out that in the past, only the success or failure of experi-ments determined public reaction. It wasn't until the Nuremburg trials after World War II revealed national experimentation in Ger-many in which "every right concer-ning human persons was probably violated," said Dr. Farley, that public concern began to escalate. "In the last half of our century public reaction has plummeted." Responding to her own ques-tion, "How are we going to justify the use of human persons in research projects?" Dr. Farley said, "the key way in which we can relate to people as ends not means is to relate to their freedom of choice." However, she declared that free choice is not enough; "other criteria are needed to warr-ant the use of human subjects in research." Sorting out the risk-benefit ratio, weighing the chance of success, assuring ordinary norms of privacy, and following a just and ethical mode of selecting subjects are other considerations needed to warrant the use of human subjects in research, said Dr. Farley. Dr. Farley noted that the Nurem-burg Code of 1946 and the Declaration of Helsinki of 1960--codes that established ethical standards for the use of humans in research-today "form a baseline for continued efforts to articulate ethical norms." These codes now comprise the criteria needed to justify the use of human subjects in research. After the lecture, Rev. Walter Smith, S.J., assistant professor of psychology delivered a comment-ary. Dr. Farley and Fr. Smith then answered questions from the au-dience.
Object Description
Title | Mirror - Vol. 05, No. 08 - October 16, 1981 |
Date | October 16 1981 |
Description | The Mirror (sometimes called the Fairfield Mirror) is the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, and is published weekly during the academic year (September - May). It runs from 1977 - the present; current issues are available online. |
Notes | A timeline for Fairfield University student newspapers is as follows: The Tentative, Nov. 7, 1947 - Dec. 19, 1947; The Fulcrum, Jan. 9, 1948 - May 20, 1949; The Stag, Sept. 23, 1949 - May 6, 1970; The University Voice, Oct. 1, 1970 - May 11, 1977; The Fairfield Free Press & Review, Sept. 10, 1970 - Apr. 24, 1975; The Fairfield Mirror, Sept. 22, 1977 - present. |
Type of Document | Newspaper |
Original Format | Newsprint; color; ill.; 11.5 x 17 in. |
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Publisher | Fairfield University |
Place of Publication | Fairfield, Conn. |
Source | Fairfield University Archives and Special Collections |
Copyright Information | Fairfield University reserves all rights to this resource which is provided here for educational and/or non-commercial purposes only. |
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SearchData | 'The Image of Fairfield" THE ^ ^V FAIRFIELD W 1 [MIRROR Nonprofit Organization U. S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 34 Fairfield, Conn. Volume 5, No. 8, October 16,1981 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430 Incorporated 1977 Peeping Tom Harasses Fairfield Co-Ed's by Mary Kay Wysocki On September 23 a scream from the Regis I bathroom summoned security officers taking a report in Campion Hall. This scream marked the last appearance of the blond, 6 foot peeping torn, approximate age 18-22, who had been menacing Fairfield University's quadrangle of dorms. "Campion girls first sighted the peeper on their hall at about 8 p.m.," said Ms. Mary McCullough, the Assistant Director of Security. "Within twenty minutes, the same man hit female floors in Northwest and Regis according to reports given by girls in these dorms," con-tinued Ms. McCullough. She noted, "The man was very familiar with the dormitory layout. He knew which floors were female as well as which entrances provided easy access." Upon reaching Regis Hall, a security officer spotted a man erv terlng a car in the Regis parking lot. Due to the man's headstart and the officer being on foot, the car was nut apprehended. Security believes it to have been a silver car, possibly a Datsun 260 or 280-Z. All the gates were open so the car's exit was not hindered; however, cars fitting this description are being stopped for security identification (as of Octo-ber 8, 1981). Along similar lines, any suspic-ious men seen on campus have been stopped and questioned as to the nature of their presence. If their presence is unjustified, they are re-quested to leave campus immedi-ately. She stressed, "We would rather chase 100 unfounded com-plaints than one that is true." All the girls who were eyewit-nesses to the voyeur ("peeping torn") were asked to help Fairfield Police Department develop a com-posite sketch. The girls worked dir-ectly with Detective Russo, an evi-dence technician for the town of Fairfield. According to Ms. McCul-lough, "Their cooperation with the police was fabulous, which is great for now (this incident) and will be Students Join Caravan To Freeze Nuclear Weapons helpful in the future." There has been a mixed reaction among the girls involved. In the week that followed the sighting, the bathroom door was propped open while showering and friends would check periodically. Recently, one girl commented, "I am not ner-vous taking a shower because he is not coming back." Two of the girls said that they are more leary walk-ing thru the semi-deserted areas of the campus. As a result, they are more observant and always looking for him. A frequent comment among girls on campus is that "this is some-thing that you shouldn't have to worry about at Fairfield." This false sense of security is what concerns many members of security and the administration. Mr. William Schimpf, Vice President of Student Services, feels that in one aspect the "peeping torn" incident was beneficial because "the experience heightened our awareness of our vulnerability. A lot of students tend Continued on page 2 Creativity Search Begins by Tom Callahan Students at Fairfield University have joined a major nationwide ef-fort by colleges to establish a joint nuclear weapons freeze. During the coming week peti-tions will be circulated on campus calling for a mutual freeze on nu-clear weapons on the part of the U-nited States and the Soviet Union. The petitions will then be present-ed to United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim by the "Caravan For Human Survival." The Caravan will consist of rep-resentatives from colleges and uni-versities around the country. They will begin in Boston, Miami and on the West Coast and meet in New York for United Nations Day on Sat-urday, October 24. The organizers of the Caravan hope to gather 15,000 signatures by the end of next week. The petition asks in part, "the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to freeze all testing, development, production and deployment of nu-clear weapons and systems." Sim-ultaneously it calls for the creation of an international disarmament or-ganization to verify the weapons freeze. The caravan is designed to call attention to the United Nations to adopt their proposals. The people involved in the drive justify their ac-tions with the results of a June, 1981 Gallup Poll. 72 percent of the respondents favored an agreement between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. not to build any more nuclear weapons in the future. Only 20 percent were opposed and the remaining had no opinion on the issue. The campaign here at Fairfield was kicked off last night with a presentation of the movie "The War Game." Starting today peti-tions will be available up until Fri-day, October 23. Interested people from all over Fairfield County are planning on arriving in New York via train shortly before noon on Saturday the 24th. The Caravan participants will meet at noon on 5th Avenue at 42nd Street. From there they will proceed to the United Nations to hear several speakers talk about the nuclear arms race. Those students who are in-terested in the Caravan For Human Survival should contact Dr. Kevin Cassidy in FOB 306, JoAnne Caffrey at 259-8161 or Nora Lundel at 255-1414. by Carl S. Gustafson At the end of each academic year, a permanent collection of student poetry is distributed on campus-the creative endeavor is entitled "Groundstar". "We hope to create a permanent record of the best writing done on the Fairfield campus during this year," Co-Editor-in-Chief Robert Breen commented. The Ground-star accepts poetry, short stories, essays, and critical sketches. "We are also hoping to expand our visual art submissions," claim-ed Co-Editor-in-Chief James Hogan Love. "We publish creative photographs, graphics, water-colors, etchings, and paintings. You do not have to co-ordinate an art work to a poem, we will handle the corresponding literary work." "We encourage students to write, and to freely submit. We will do the evaluation, the writer's job is simply to produce and submit," Breen continued. The Groundstar and the MIR-ROR in order to increase the em-phasis of student literary work on the Fairfield campus, are beginn-ing a program of interchange. If you submit a piece to the MIR-ROR, regardless of MIRROR publication, it will then be submit-ted to the Groundstar for con-sideration in their permanent col-lection. Groundstar in turn, will be submitting to the MIRROR, work that they get throughout the year for publication on a week-to-week basis. Beyond looking for submiss-ions the Groundstar has announc-ed editorial staff applications are due by Oct. 19, and a first submis-sion deadline at Nov. 28. Applica-tion details can be attained by writing to Box N. Bioethics Series Discusses Human Subjects in Research Speaking of a full Farley focused on voiced her opinion of experiments. crowd at the recent Bioethics lecture, Dr. Margaret the use of human subjects in medical research and regarding the ethical decisions related to these types (Photo by Vinny DeAngelis) by Kathryn Cahill "We can justify the use of humans as subjects in research only if there is a reasonable ratio between risk and benefit". These sentiments enveloped the speech made by Dr. Margaret Farley to a full crowd at the bioethics lecture which took place Tuesday night, October 6th. Dr. Farley, an associate pro-fessor of ethics at the Yale Divin-ity School made her comments during a seminar funded by the Connecticut Humanties Council focused on the use of human sub-jects exclusively in biomedical research. The lecture, "Human Subjects Research: An Overview of the Ethical Issues" was the first of a series of four programs to be held this academic year concern-ing the use of people as subjects in research. Dr. Lisa Newton is ser-ving as coordinator of the series and Fr. Vincent Burns acted as program director for the evening's lecture. "Experimentation is the central pillar of modern biomedicine." Dr. Farley began, "and it's hard to imagine progression in medicine without it." Citing Greek physi-cians' experimental surgery on condemned criminals as the earl-iest known use of humans in medical research, Dr. Farley declared, "the problem was already in dialogue." She referred to two famous U.S. experiments-Cotton Mather's support of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston's small pox research on humans in the 1700's, and Major Walter Reed's use of native Cubans and army recruits in yellow fever tests- -to point out that in the past, only the success or failure of experi-ments determined public reaction. It wasn't until the Nuremburg trials after World War II revealed national experimentation in Ger-many in which "every right concer-ning human persons was probably violated," said Dr. Farley, that public concern began to escalate. "In the last half of our century public reaction has plummeted." Responding to her own ques-tion, "How are we going to justify the use of human persons in research projects?" Dr. Farley said, "the key way in which we can relate to people as ends not means is to relate to their freedom of choice." However, she declared that free choice is not enough; "other criteria are needed to warr-ant the use of human subjects in research." Sorting out the risk-benefit ratio, weighing the chance of success, assuring ordinary norms of privacy, and following a just and ethical mode of selecting subjects are other considerations needed to warrant the use of human subjects in research, said Dr. Farley. Dr. Farley noted that the Nurem-burg Code of 1946 and the Declaration of Helsinki of 1960--codes that established ethical standards for the use of humans in research-today "form a baseline for continued efforts to articulate ethical norms." These codes now comprise the criteria needed to justify the use of human subjects in research. After the lecture, Rev. Walter Smith, S.J., assistant professor of psychology delivered a comment-ary. Dr. Farley and Fr. Smith then answered questions from the au-dience. |