Mirror - Vol. 09, No. 25 - February 20, 1986

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FairfieldMIRRORv Volume 9, No. 25 Thursday, February 20, 1986 The Image of Fairfield
Geraldine Ferraro and Elie Wiesel to visit University
Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic-party's
1984 candidate for vice president,
and Dr. Elie Wiesel. the graduation speak-er
in 1983, will be featured in a series of
lectures sponsored by the Humanities In-stitute.
The series of lectures will deal with
prejudice against victimized and tradition-ally
powerless groups: Jews, blacks, gays
and women. The series on "Intolerance:
Four Perspectives" will begin on April 2nd.
Dr. Wiesel, renowned author of "Night",
will open the series with a lecture on the
Jewish experience through the Holocaust.
On April 9th, Dr. John Boswell, a Yale
' history professor will speak on the shifting
attitudes towards gays and other minorities
in late medieval culture. He wrote "Chris-tianity,
Social Tolerance and Homosex-uality."
Dr. Cornel West, of the Yale Divinity
School, will speak on the black experience
of intolerance on April 16th. He is the
author of "Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-
American Revolutionary Christianity."
Ferraro will speak on women and intoler-ance
on April 21st. Most of the tickets will
be reserved for students, faculty and staff
at the Campus Center Information Booth.
Tickets for Wiesel's lecture will be availa-ble
until Monday, March 17th. The tickets
for Fcrraro's lecture will be available until
Monday. April 7th. After these dates, un-claimed
tickets will be made available to
the public. Elie Wiesel
Man of pictures to speak
Jacob Holdt wi
Oak Room.
present his multi-media production "American Pictures" tonight in the
by Kathryn King
He hitchhiked over 100,000 miles of the
United States taking dramatic photographs
of the poor across the country. He sold his
blood twice a week to finance the film for
his camera. He has compiled hundreds of
pictures of the impoverished underclass of
America into a book, a film, and a multi-media
show.
Fairfield students have the opportunity
to see Jacob Holdt present his show 'Ameri-can
Pictures' tonight at 7:00 in the Oak
Room. Admission is free. FUSA Arts and
Lectures is sponsoring the show. Ray Mar-tinelli,
co-chair of Arts and Lectures, said,
"It's going to be interesting and different."
Holdt is showing the presentation to
hundreds of schools on this tour. Dr. Cas-sidy
from the politics department knew San-dy
Chamberlain, who has followed Holdt,
and suggested him as a speaker.
The show describes the Danish Holdt's
journey across America and his unique view
of the American underclass. The show deals
with the psychological cost of racism. He
lived with hundreds ofdifferent homes from
the poorest sharecroppers to the wealthiest
people in the country. He worked with
prisoners, joined a rebellion in Wounded
Knee, followed criminals and has seen two
of his friends assasinated.
'American Pictures' is a show with nar-ration,
music, interviews and over 3,000
pictures showing a side of America many
people don't even know exists. All the
money Holdt gets for presenting his show
goes to a Foundation for humanitarian aid.
Martinelli said that the show is appropri-ate
at this time because of the Hands Across
America. Although there is no connection
Martinelli said that the theme is the same.
Reviews of the show say that it has a very
powerful message. The San Francisco
Chronicle said, "The photographs, many of
them utterly stunning, evolve into a com-prehensive
story of America's racial scene,
a story that is at once powerful and dis-turbing."
Jesuit Volunteer Corps an opportunity for students
by Jane Conover
'83 It's mid-winter and life seems depress-ing
enough without having to think about
what to do after graduation. At the risk of
sounding like an army recruiter may I sug-gest
that you take a few moments to dream
about doing something exciting, eye-opening
and fun.
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps, (JVC) is an
Stag-her in new hands
by Denise Murphy
Greg Morrison, graduate assistant for the
Campus Center has become the permittee
for the Stag-Her Inn bar. Morrison replaces
former permittee and Assistant Director of
the Campus Center, Gary Stcphenson who
left Fairfield University in January of this
year.
In a recent interview. Morrison explained
that the maximum capacity for the Stag-
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Her,us set by the fire marshal, is 200 peo-ple.
Morrison has worked for stricter en-forcement
of this limit, imposing the use
of a counter at the door allowing 180 peo-ple
to be stamped.
The policy for admittance to the Stag-Her
on Thursday nights is the same as it has been
in the past. At 8:00 all who have been ad-mitted
are stamped and may leave and
return as need be. Morrison suggested,
"Students should arrive at 8:00 to avoid
waiting in line. Students simply can no
longer arrive at 10:00 and expect to be ad-mitted."
Morrison attributes the increase in the
number of Stag-Her patrons to two factors.
"First," he states, "the closing of the Naut
has caused a great deal more students to re-main
on campus. In addition, the new
programming of FUSA coordinators Cait-
Iin O'Connell and Guy [race has drawn a
much larger crowd", he commented.
O'Connell and Irace have brought in a var-iety
ol local bands, including several groups
comprised of Fairfield students.
organization of volunteers working across
the United States and now in Belize and
Guam. I joined the JVC:East which has
communities of volunteers in the major ci-ties
along the coast from Maine to Washing-ton.
The JVC:Midwest does work in
Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland, while
the JVC:West works in California,
Washington State and Oregon.
I started work as a counselor in a hous-ing
aid center in Baltimore. I moved into
a community with two other women and
three men. We shared the cooking, the
cleaning and the stories about our daily ex-periences.
Our rent was paid by our respective "em-ployers."
We each received approximate-ly
$85.00 per month for personal expenses.
There were 80 volunteers working in the
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Students congregate in the Stag-her which has a new permittee./PAiofo by Danielle Valentino]