Mirror - Vol. 02, No. 02 - April 21, 1978

              McKinney To Speak
At
Grad.
'78
by Claudia Napp
Representative Stewart Brett
McKinney of Connecticut's Fourth
Congressional District will be the
speaker at the 1978 commencement
exercises on May 28. at 3 p.m.
Additional speakers at the com-mencement
exercises will be the
recipients of honorary degrees. Arthur
Miller, playwright, will receive a
degree for most distinguished person
in the world of learning.
i.ie public service degree will be
presented to Mrs. Evelyn Kennedy, a
key member of Bridgeport's Kennedy
Center for the Retarded.
Father James Coughlin, S.J., retiring
academic vice president and Dean,
will accept the degree for his
distinguished service to the universitv.
Congressman McKinney has been a
long time friend of the university and
has pushed on the federal level for
financial aid to parents of college
students. \
McKinney presently serves on the
House Committee on Banking,
Finance, and Urban Affairs. He is
seated on the committee's Economic
Stabilization Subcommittee. The
congressman is a member of the
District of Columbia Committee and
acts on both the Fiscal Affairs, and
Economic Development branches of
the committee. During the 1976
Congressional session, McKinney was
Times
Editor
Speaks
by John Smith
John M. Lee, business and finance
editor of the New York Times, spoke in
defense of "big business" to a group of
students last Wednesday evening in
the Oak Room.
Centering his discussion on the
Corporate Influence in American
Society, Lee perceived his topic, 'The
Accountable Corporations" as par-ticularly
interesting to University
students because of the confluence of
the "strong Jesuit liberal arts and
business traditions which help to form
educational policies at Fairfield.."
Drinking Furor Dies
Ad-Hoc Committee Quiet
elected by his peers to sit on the
Steering Committee of the Northeast-
Midwest Economic Advancement
Coalition.
His son, Stewart Jr., is now attending
the university. The family resides in
Fairfield, while the congressman is
serving his fourth term in office.
John M. Lee
' John Lee, who has been with the
New York Times since the 1950" s and
has served as bureau chief in Tokyo
and London, raised two questions
which he feels has been the subject of
serious debate for two generations.
Lee asked, "are large modern cor-porations
really enemies of the
people? Are they unjustly accused?"
According to Lee, the problem
traces its roots back to the post-World
War II era when the American
economy boomed as a result of
wartime production and business
enjoyed the "historical phenomenon
of a honeymoon with the public."
Lee continued that inflation and
unemployment caught up with this
boom due to oooulation Rrowth, and
by Marianne O'Connell
The Ad Hoc Committee of the
University Council formulated to
review the present drinking
regulations remains optimistic over
the possibilities for change in present
drinking policy, despite the fact that
they have still not submitted a formal
recommendation to the Council.
"We are definitely hopeful as to the
changes which can be made in the
present drinking laws," commented
Ad Hoc committee member Cigi
Byron. "We've received a lot of input
at our committee meetings, at-tendance
has been good and students,
faculty members and administrators
have all been very receptive to new
ideas."
The Ad Hoc Committee was created
after the University Council felt a need
to re-examine the drinking regulations
tested during Conzaga Ill's con-troversial
floor party before Spring
Break.
The committee is composed of six
student members: John DeNobile,
Vinnie O'Brien, F.U.S.A. President,
Mark Dorigan, former F.U.S.A.
President, University council member
Kenny Pursell, Carmella Inneo, and
Gonzaga resident Cigi Byron.
In addition, Dr. Katz of the Political
Science Department and Fr. McCrath
of the Math Department are faculty
representatives.
Deans Anne Marie Samway and
Henry Krell of Student Services are
acting on behalf of the Ad-ministration.
The Ad Hoc Committee is interested
in utilizing the Dorm Councils as the
possible control for drinking at floor
parties and other functions within the
dorms.
"We're trying to spread the
responsibility for the drinking
regulations," commented Carmella
Inneo. "This also could be an im-portant
stepping stone for Dorm
Council involvement."
Vinnie OBrien has expressed an
interest in orienting different clubs as
to the drinking policy. "If we could
speak to all the different groups which
will be running functions such as Oak
Rooms, then there would be no
confusion about the laws."
Dean William Schimpf is certain
there will be significant changes in the
rules and procedures.
"Our goals and objectives remain
the same. We must protect the rights
of all students and obey the state laws,
but I think that the committee should
be able to suggest a perhaps more
effective use of tripartide control."
"I am a little distressed over how
long they are taking in getting
organized. I am anxious to see this
resolved. I would like to see the new
regulations included in next fall's
handbook."
When asked about the comment
that the drinking issue has been
"committed to death", Dean Schimpf
stated, "We can not attempt to
establish a new procedure by
relegating all former laws. The same
people who criticize the University
Council for lack of effectiveness are
not willing to use it. The University
Council is able to illustrate through
this type of situation the wisdom of a
tripartide approach to government."
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modern business came to be viewed
more as " a predator" than as a
"provider" of goods and services. An
opinion, which he feels was shaped by
the increasing demands placed on
business in an age where values are
continually changing.
'lee feels that many businessmen
are being undermined by social
policies set by public complaints and
government agencies.
"Sometime in the past generation",
Lee said, "large segments of the
American population began seeing
business as a political and social
organization moving away from
private investorship. Unfortunately,
someone adjudged business as solely
profit-making and that at public
expense.."
Lee continued that now is a time
when corporations must learn to live a
"private life in the public eye."
Large corporations are required to
think politically and socially as well as
economically and they cannot ignore
such social and ecological obligations
as minority job training and pollution
in order to provide a fair distribution
of goods and services.
"A corporation that fails to respect
public opinion", Lee said, "cannot
function morally and thus
legitimately serve the public."
According to Lee many cor-porations
have become the social
instrument of social and economic
change and he sees a definite need for
interaction between the private
business sector of society and the
public. An interaction which he feels
is basically an extension of the checks
and balances system inherent in our
government institutions and
traditions.
In Lee's view, corporations desire
most of all the respect and admiration
of public opinion. Large corporations
are accountable to and must be held
responsible for the public as well as to
their private investors Lee also
strongly urges large corporations to
fight back against discrediting and
unfavorable bias He sees an accurate
portrayal of big business as essential
since business is recognized in the
U.S. as "the most dynamic sector of
society, as the provider of the general
well-being of society."
Lee aiso noted that although many
intellectuals see business as an
"enterprenuerial Capitalistic threat"
but there is not as much political and
Gizzo Resigns Post
Connolly Elected Pres.
Pat Gizzo congratulates J'rni Connolly on being elected Legislature
President, [photo by Bob Schumm]
by Bob Schumm
Last Wednesday night, the Student
Legislature elected Jim Connolly as it's
President to replace resigning senior,
Pat Gizzo. Connolly defeated junior
Blair Decker the only other candidate
nominated for the office. Jim
OShaughnessy, the new Chief Justice
of the Student Court performed the
swearing in ceremony.
social bias against business in America
as there is in Europe because we are
basically a business-oriented society.
"Business does have a conscious
and should let it show. Many large
corporations must speak out or else
risk punitive attacks which do the
most damage in the form of laws and
government regulatory agencies
which severely restrict the potentiality
of business to render the greatest
amount of goods and services."
Such government regulations, or
"over-regulations" as Lee noted them,
come in the form of government
regulatory indexes that measure how
well a corporation is providing
necessary goods and services.
"A Corporation that is mindful of
already existing government pleas and
restraints, is aware of the need for and
invests capital to secure future jobs,
and can serve two masters, the public
and the private investor, socially and
economically, is a corporation able to
get all A's on the government report
card."
Jim Connolly, a sophomore finance
major, commenting on the con-troversial
opinion of the legislature
among the student body, said 'There
is a lack of communication between
the legislature and the students. I will
try to open communication between
the legislature and all facets of the
Universitv."
Jim would like to generate more
interest among students in the
legislature. He will publish the
minutes of each meeting. He would
also like to have monthly open
meetings of the legislature to let the
students see how the legislature
functions.
One of Jim's major goals will be to
have the University's Board of
Trustees recognize the legislature.
"We are not just a club," said Con-nolly.
"We are the elected
representatives of the student body."
Jim and the legislature will work
towards achieving the Board's
recognition.
Jim stresses the need for available
legislators. He feels that the
representatives should get to know
their constituents. In addition, he
plans to tour dormatories in order to
talk to all students about problems at
the University. ^
He also expressed a feeling that the
legislature had received some un-warranted
criticisms over the past
year. "Some of the criticisms were
valid but a large portion of them were
uncalled for."
Both Pat Gizzo and Jim expressed
the belief that the outlook for the
legislature is good. By opening up
better lines of communication for
student opinion, Jim feels that this will
promote the interest of students not
only in the legislature, but also in their
surroundings as a whole.
Pat Gizzo, the former legislature
president, looking back in reflection
over his year in office, commented,
'The legislature did well as a whole It
took an active interest in many dif-ferent
student concerns through both
legislative and non legislative com-mittees
such as the drinking and
basketball ticket committees."
Pat would like to see the future
bring closer contact between
legislature members and their con-stituents
in order to bring out student
concerns.