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i"'. - ; Fairfield Alpha Sigma Nu
Inducts 1983 Members
First row: Maxine Lee, Andrew Mecca, Lee Panyak, Father Higgins, Arthur Riel, Father
Kelley, Father Kelly, Lisa LaGuardia, Thomas Gunning, Sheila Flanagan, Gayle Watterworth.
Second row: Patricia Thompson, Marlene Waradzin, RoseAnne LaBarre, Kathleen Prokop,
Kerrie Boyhan, Eileen Thomas, Jeanne Begley, Mari-Kim Wolter, Mary-Margaret Walsh,
Karen Borsos, Diane Sullivan, Marianne Peters. Third row: Steven Flanagan, Bradford
Melius, Brian Henderson, Riley Horton, Timothy Brady, Joseph Domfried, Robert Squatrito,
Daniel Vigilante. Missing: Michael Sargent. [Photo by Kevin Wolfthal]
Board Elects New Trustees
by Steven D. Lunt
Recently, five new members were elected to the University Board of Trustees for three-year
terms. They include an attorney, a former teacher who served in government, a Jesuit
professor, and two corporate executives.
L. William Miles, chairman of the Board of Trustees, commented that the new trustees
with their diversified backgrounds in business, law, academics, and government, bring
added strength to the future development of the university. Mr. Miles also thanked the four
trustees whose terms are concluding for their service to the university. The departing
trustees are Sal J. Giudice, executive Vice President for corporate relations, American Can
Company; the Rev. Howard J. Gray, S.J., rector, Weston Jesuit Community, Cambridge,
Mass.; John P. McAndrews, president, Remington Arms Company, Inc.; and Dr. Thomas A.
Vanderslice, president and chief operating officer, GTE, Stamford.
One of the new trustees, Richard B. McKeough, is a resident of New Canaan and is chair-man
of the finance committee, chief financial officer, and director for Time Incorporated.
He also served as vice chairman of the advisory board for Chemical Bank at Rockefeller
Center; and was a member of the Council of Financial Executives of the Conference Board
in New York. In addition to being involved in business and publishing, Mr. McKeough par-ticipates
in many community projects, including serving as president of the Board of
Trustees of the King School in Stamford and as a member of the board, the executive,
development and finance committees of St. Jospeh Hospital in Stamford. He is a graduate
of Michigan State University.
Joining Mr. McKeough on the board is Daniel P. Tully, who joined Merrill Lynch in 1955 as
an accounting clerk and became operations manager at Merrill Lynch's Stamford office in
1957. He advanced to account executive, office manager, and in 1971 was elected vice
president. He later moved to Merrill Lynch's New York headquarters as director of in-dividual
sales, and became executive vice president-marketing in 1979 and assumed the
added responsibility of executive vice president-offices in 1980. A 1953 graduate of St.
John's University and Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1978,
he is a native of New York City. Also, Mr. Tully is a member of the board of governors of the
American Stock Exchange, past chairman of the Stamford Hospital and a member of its
board of trustees. He served on the Marketing Committee of the Securities Industry
Association and the New York Stock Exchange Arbitration Committee.
Robert J. Brennan Jr. brings to the board extensive community and civic service. In 1977,
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by Denise Murphy
The National Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha
Sigma Nu, inducted 27 seniors to the Fair-field
chapter on Sunday, October 16, of
Parent's Weekend.
The ceremony, held in the Oak Room of
the Campus Center began with a welcome
by Rev. John J. Higgins, Executive Assis-tant
to the President and moderator of the
Society. Rev. Higgins spoke to the 150
guests in attendance on the criteria that the
members of Alpha Sigma Nu were required
to meet in gaining admittance to the Socie-ty.
From the 95 candidates, the 27 inductees
were chosen for not only having excelled
academically in maintaining a G.P.A. of 3.5
and above, but also for their outstanding
community leadership.
After this outline of the selection pro-cess,
Lee M. Penyak, chapter president,
introduced his fellow officers: Andrew L.
Mecca, Vice President; Sheila R. Flanagan,
Secretary; and Thomas G. Gunning,
Treasurer. The officers discussed the ideals
of the society, specifically scholarship,
loyalty and service to be realized in the
Jesuit tradition.
Arthur R. Riel, Jr., Professor of English
and Rev. W. Kelly, S.J. were then conferred
with honorary memberships by Rev. Aloy-sius
P. Kelley S.J., President. The pledge of
commitment was led by Miss M. Lisa La-
Guardia, a lifetime member of the George-'
town chapter.
Following the awarding of the keys or
pins and certificates by President Kelley,
S.J., Prof. Riel, the keynote speaker ad-dressed
the new members and guests. In-terjecting
typical humor, he commented car
his experiences as a lay-instructor in Jesuit
education. His inspiring speech urged con-tinued
activity amongst the inductees.
A wine and cheese reception was held in
the faculty dining room.
Amnesty International regional director and specialist in human rights in the Soviet
Union, James Rubenstein addressed an Oak Room crowd last week.
[Photo by Karen Haney]
Amnesty International's
Rubenstein Speaks
by Joseph D. DeLuca
and Paul Mirkhani
Sponsored by the Campus Ministry's
Peace and Justice Coalition, Amnesty Inter-national,
a worldwide organization
dedicated to the liberation of unjustly im-
Culver Discusses Psychotherapy
by Christine Ryan
"My main goal is to alert future therapists
to the ethical problems they may face,"
declared Dr. Charles Culver Tuesday to a
packed Nursing auditorium crowd, present
to hear a lecture entitled, "The Ethics of
Dr. Charles Culver spoke before a full
Nursing Auditorium crowd on the subject
of ethics in psychotherapy. [Photo by
Cindy Herbst and John Pastorelle]
Psychotherapy." His topic was informative
not only to psychology majors, but to any-one
who had even heard of psychotherapy.
Dr. Culver's visit from the Dartmouth
Medical School was sponsored by the Pro-gram
in Applied Ethics. He organized his
speech into three fundamental questions,
the first one being, "What information
should clients receive before they begin
therapy?"
"The client should be told everything that
a rational person would want to know, main-ly
the risks and benefits of this type of ther-apy,
and the different risks and benefits of
alternative therapies," he stated. "Since
this is a fiduciary type of relationship, there
is a special kind of parent-child trust in-volved."
Only after the client has been told
all the options can valid consent be given
and therapy begun.
The second question discussed is
whether therapist-client sex can ever be
justified. "Psychotherapy clients are ex-tremely
vulnerable to sex for three reasons:
1) it is an intense relationship developing
between client and therapist, 2) The thera-peutic
nature involved in this encourages
great openness to feelings, and 3) Thera-pists
become a highly idealized figure in the
client's eyes." Dr. Culver believes it is not
morally justified because after therapist-client
sex (TCS), therapy frequently ends
and the relationship soon follows suit. This
is followed by feelings of depression, self-disgust,
anger, and sorrow, as well as being
a waste of time and money. Such self-defeating
attitudes are not desirable in
psychotherapy. "The morality or immorality
of the act depends on the probability of
harm or good at the time of initiation of the
act. I do not believe any good could come
from this."
The last section of the lecture dealt with
the reporting of immoral behavior of one
therapist by another. Dr. Culver believes
that the biggest problem lies in the printed
code of ethics of psychologists and medical
doctors. Their ambiguity and generaliza-tions
leave the decision up to the individual.
In other words, it is not against any formal
declared code not to report an immoral act.
The only profession with a stringent moral
responsibility to report is the nursing pro-fession.
Dr. Culver believes that should be
changed soon. "Most therapists right now
would not blow the whistle, but they would
if they knew they would be punished for not
telling."
In conclusion, Dr. Culver stated that the
moral responsibility falls on the therapist.
They must receive valid consent, not take
advantage of a trusting and vulnerable
client and tell that client all they deserve to
know at the beginning. "It is strictly
unethical if the therapist does not know the
above rules and what is involved."
prisoned political dissidents, presented its
objectives and views to an Oak Room crowd
last Tuesday evening.
Joshua Rubenstein, regional director of
Amnesty International and specialist in
human rights in the Soviet Union, spoke of
the twenty year history and on going work
of the organization. Amnesty International
founded in England in 1961 by Peter Benin-son,
was originally a temporary organization
but due to the continuing needs presented
to it, became permanent in 1962. Winning
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977, the organiza-tion
continually monitors the abuse and
restriction of human rights in both com-munist
and non-communist countries
around the world.
Amnesty International's purpose is to
bring justice to people being held in prisons
around the world for their social, religious,
and political beliefs. They prefer to refer to
these people as "prisoners of conscience"
instead of "political prisoners."
Rubenstein explained the process by
which Amnesty International "adopts"
prisoners of conscience. The adoption of a
prisoner entails his or her case being
assigned to a specific regional office of
Amnesty International. This regional office
then petitions the oppressing government
and gathers support through letters from
concerned people in order to pressure the
government into releasing the individual.
In order for Amnesty International to
adopt a prisoner, this office gathers
information as to why this person was im-prisoned.
They want to ensure that the per-son
was not a terrorist, and at no point used
violence in his or her endeavors.
Rubenstein categorized prisoners of con-science
into four main categories; religious
leaders, workers, intellectuals, and ordinary
people. Religious leaders in the Soviet
Union, for example, who seek to establish
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