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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
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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.