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Bridgeport Mayor Paoletta
Addresses Gonzaga Crowd
Staff Report
Leonard S. Paoletta, Mayor of Bridgeport and
Fairfield University Alumnus, addressed a group
of students in the Gonzaga Auditorium last week
during a College Republican sponsored press
conference.
The Bridgeport area College Republicans en-dorsed
Mr. Paoletta in his re-election bid and
stressed his good record concerning education
in Bridgeport. Mayor Paoletta is completing his
first two-year term as the city's chief-executive
after beating three-term Democrat, John Manda-nici
by 64 votes in the last election.
The College Republicans also announced the
initiation of their national petition drive on Soviet
emigration and called for the people of this coun-try
to show support for those kept hostage under
the Iron Curtain.
Mayor Paoletta spoke about his political career
and discussed the problems he faced in Bridge-port
when he took office. "Bridgeport, like many
other cities, is one which has not yet reached its
renaissance," he asserted, "and many of the ci-ty's
problem have been neglected by the
previous administration."
Concerning the crime problem in the city, the
mayor affirmed his commitment to this issue and
stated that he is the first mayor to hire additional
policemen in several years.'
"Bridgeport has a bad reputation, but it is
much safer than people would like to believe,"
he declared. He also stated that the drug prob-lem
is a serious one in certain sections of the ci-ty,
especially the city's decayed East End, but
said that the additional police shoudl help to
ameliorate the situation.
"We have done a great deal to help the
schools in our city," the mayor said, "and our
system was rated last in area schools before my
administration. Now we are rated better but I
won't be satisfied until we are rated number
one."
The "Adopt-A-School" program, one of the
mayor's inventions where area businesses in-vest
in schools and decide how the money can
best be utilized, and the Mayor's Conference on
Education which examines the school system
annually are among his efforts to improve the
public education in Bridgeport.
The Mayor fielded questions from the student
audience and met with College Republicans
from the area concerning the help the students
promised for his campaign. Paoletta also stated
that he supports the College Republican petition
and added that the people of Bridgeport are op-posed
to the systematic abridgement of basic
human rights by many countries.
Bridgeport Mayor Leonard Paoletta received the College Republican endorsement and spoke
to a group of gathered students. [Photo by John Pastorelle & Vic Cannistra]
Roundtable Examines Korean
Airlines Flight 007 Massacre
by Steven D. Lunt
Recently, the College Republicans sponsored
a roundtable discussion on the downing of
Korean Air Lines flight 007 in the Nursing
Auditorium. Participating in the discussion were
Dr. Edward Dew and Dr. John Orman of the
Politics departments, and Dr. George Baehr of
the History department.
Coles Says Immoral
Actions Unnecessary
Dr. Coles, a well-known child psychologist, did
a lot of work with polio victims at the Childrens
Hospital in Boston. His main interest has been
on the stress experienced by these seemingly
healthy youngsters who were stricken by this
viris. One of his most noteworthy deeds was his
work with a six year girl named Ruby Bridges.
This was the basis of Dr. Dr. Coles' lecture last
Monday night in the Oak Room.
In the 1940s, the small sharecropper or tenant
farmer was forced into the cities to look for
sources of income because of ruined crops and
collapse of rural agriculture for the small farmer.
These were poor, poverty stricken, uneducated
blacks who flocked to the cities in great
numbers. Dr. Coles simply called these people,
"poor black folk." They were persecuted and
shamed because of the color of their skin. They
were kept in the lowest possible socio-economic
scale by the white power structure. Ruby came
from this type of environment.
When political pressure from Washington
became too intense for the politicians in New
Orleans, they were forced to try an experiment
in desegregation. Ruby, who was about to enter
first grade, was chosen because she lived very
close to an ail-white school. One Monday in
September, Ruby was escorted to her new
school by United States mgrshalls. The New
Orleans police department would not protect her
because they were against desegregation. The
small school was surrounded by enraged whites
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Dr. Dew began the evening's discussion by
pointing out that the Soviet action of shooting
down the airliner gives us a tough lesson about
the Soviets, but that we should read their reac-tion
more in terms of a defensive response rather
than an offensive one. He continued to say that
the Soviet government is internally as well as ex-ternally
unstable, because the government is an
unpopular one for the majority of Russians and
satellite nations' inhabitants. The result is more
or less a "paranoia" of the Soviet government.
Dr. Dew also promoted a greater understanding
of this "paranoia" among the United States and
its allies, so as to prevent a similar tragedy from
occurring. As with all the speakers, Dr. Dew con-demned
the action as inhumane and unciviliz-ed,
but he added that the United States should
not go too far in actions against the Soviets for
fear of further separating the two nations and
hindering peaceful relations to a great extent.
Dr. Baehr added to the roundtable by citing
historical situations which were similar in nature.
For example, he mentioned the Spanish sinking
of the Maine in the Spanish-American war, and
the German sinking of the Lusitania in World War
I were both causes for war. However, since this
is a nuclear age, Dr. Baehr certainly did not ad-vocate
this event causing a nuclear war. Even
though, he pointed out the downing of the KAL
airliner shows the Soviets insensitive nature. He
promoted strong measures against the Soviets
for their action. Dr. Baehr added that these
possible actions include the nationalization of the
satejhte nations' debts to the U.S. and discon-tinuatiofVQf.
U.S. bank loans to those countries,
which could further cripple the Russian
economy.
Dr. John Orman, calling himself a "super-liberal"
found himself in favor of President
Reagan's handling of the situation. Dr. Orman
suggested that because Russia is surrounded by
NATO, American, and Chinese nuclear
weapons, "Should we go out of our way to make
the Soviets paranoid?" Of course, there should
be reparations made, and Dr. Orman was in
agreement with the other speakers that the act
of shooting down the airliner was uncivilized and
inhumane, but he advocated a foreign policy of
appropriately tough rhetoric and condemnation
in the world community, but also the continua-tion
of economic relations. He went on further
to say that the best way for the U.S. and its allies
to proceed is to use economic relations as a
means of showing the Russians that Capitalism
is a much better way of providing for the people
than their Communism. Therefore, Dr. Orman
condemned the action of the Soviet military, but
agrees with Reagan's continuation of economic
ties such as the U.S.-Soviet grain deal, which
would benefit both sides and may serve to lessen
Soviet "paranoia" of the West.
All of the speakers showed that there are a
number of viable alternatives for the U.S. to con-sider.
There were a broad range of student ques-tions
and a lengthy question and answer session
following the faculty discussion.
University Determines
Harvest Drinking Policy
Dr. Robert Coles, professor of psychology at Harvard, lectured to an Oak Room crowd on
Monday. [Photo by Karen Haney]
by Thomas P. Moore
According to a new university drinking policy
adopted this year, Harvest will be divided into
two levels; the Oak Room will serve as a dance
floor for both under-age and of-age students with
a cash bar, while the cafeteria will operate on a
B.Y.O.B. basis for people old enough to drink.
"It was a good compromise," stated Bob
Sullivan, F.U.S.A. president, in reference to the
accord reached with the University Council and
Mr. William P. Schimpf, Vice President for Stu-dent
Services, the F.U.S.A. cabinet, and other
parties.
"John Roche typed up a proposal similar to
ours and presented it very well. The plan is on
trial this semester," Sullivan continued.
The bartenders for the Oak Room half of
Harvest, as well as any other large dances, will
be suggested to Stanley Kapinos, Assistant
Director of the Campus Center, by the Student
Entertainment Commission.
Other policies were also formulated. The zone
system will still be used in all Oak Room events
that serve alcohol. Rules for the use of the
Loyola Room and the Faculty Dining Room re-mains
the same. A group of people of mixed
ages must be limited to seventy-five persons. In
the Faculty Dining Room, party groups can be
up to one hundred and fifty people, all of them
being of legal age. The same applies if all of the
people are under age.
The policies that were reached were con-sidered
as a victory by the F.U.S.A. cabinet since
their proposals were accepted with few changes.
Mr. William P. Schimpf's proposals were in-corporated
except for his proposal to prohibit
B.Y.O.B. from all large dances. Mr. James Fitz-patrick,
Director of the Campus Center and Stu-dent
Activities, went on record as being against
the concept of B.Y.O.B. at any large dances, a
position he has long held.