Mirror - Vol. 12, No. 16 - February 04, 1988

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Iran-Contra
debate
Chris Michailoff
News Editor
The Iran-Contra Hearings
may have formally ended after the
testimony of Lt. Col. Oliver North
and the issuing of a Congressional
report, but the debate still lingers
throughout the country. This af-fair
has tainted the campaign of
George Bush, and promises to
uncover more with the findings of
Special Prosecutor Lawrence
Walsh.
In the hopes of bringing a
pertinent and timely subject to the
students, Fairfield University will
play host to debate between two
experts in the field of foreign rela-tions.
On February 8, at 8:00 p.m.
in the Oak Room, Amb. Ralph
Earle will match wits against
Amb. Louis G. Fields in a debate,
which may promise to sort-out the
fuzzy details, surrounding the Iran
Contra Affair.
Ambassador Fields is one
of the top experts on terrorism, and
has served in three presidential
administrations as a consultant
and legal advisor. Ambassador
Ralph Earle was the chief U.S.
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negotiator at the SALT II Talks in
Geneva, while holding the posi-tion
of principle arms control advi-sor
to the President.
John Kane, Director of Arts
and Lectures for FUSA, began
work to have the debate at Fairfield
in December. After running a poll
in the paper, Kane decided that
'"this was a topic that students had
expressed interest in."
FUSA will spend an esti-mated
35,000 dollars to bring both
speakers to Fairfield. Kane felt
that the debate would be appeal-ing,
since it is a current political
issue, which has yet to fully re-solved.
Students elect Caroll for
FUSA President
By Lynn A. Casey
Assistant News Editor
With 581 votes, Frank
Carroll won the FUSA Presiden-tial
election Tuesday. His major
opponent, Mark Dietz, came in
second with 321
votes.
A total of
1,027 votes
were cast for the
two candidates,
plus the two
write-in candi-dates,
Mike
McGoldrick
and Paul Vigna,
who received
94 votes and 41
votes, respec-tively.
The total
was lower than
the51%of2800
students who voted in 1987.
Carroll is "very excited"
about his victory, and also thank-ful
to the members of his election
committee. Overall, he is thrilled,
and feels that Mark gave him an
"excellent race" and helped him
lead a "respectful campaign".
Most of all, he hopes that he can
"fill Chris Ritchie's shoes".
Dietz wishes Carroll the
best of luck, and thinks FUSA is in
"good hands". He wishes to be
included in the FUSA cabinet
because he believes in the FUSA
Frank Carroll
election. He feels that Carroll "can
do an excellent job" as FUSA
President, because he knows the
job "inside and out". Ritchie
added that Carroll's transition be-tween
him and Carroll wil be
"smooth", because of Carroll's
experience and his
knowledge of the
FUSA system.
Ken
Caisse, represen-tative
of the Ex-ecutive
Branch,
expressed the
opinions of the
election commit-tee
(which in-cludes
Craig
Maloney of the Ju-dicial
Branch and
Jean Halloran of
the Executive
Branch) in saying
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system. He intends to work with
Carroll as much as he can to better
the student body of Fairfield Uni-versity.
Chris Ritchie, who was
elected FUSA President last year,
was happy with the results of the
that he was "happy about the re-sults
but disappointed with the
turnout." Caisse thought the turn-out
was "ridiculous because of the
amount of write-ins". He hopes
that next year's turnout will be
more serious and representative of
the whole student body.
Rally for Peace in Central
America spurs controversy
By Kris Kovacik
Staff Writer
- A biting issue on today's
geopolitical stage is the current
endemic unrest in Central Amer-ica.
Fairfield University's re-sponse
to this was to sponsor a
Rally for Peace in Central America
on January 30 in the Gonzaga
Auditorium.
Pro-contra picketers gath-ered
outside of Gonzaga to protest
the rally, illustrating the contro-versy
and immediacy surrounding
this issue.
Dr. Edward Dew, Professor
of Politics, was the moderator of
the rally. He started with a plea for
peace. Dew affirms that the only
way for lasting settlement in
Central America would be for the
U.S. to stop funding contra aid.
After Dew's introduction, speak-ers
ranging from students to pro-fessors
and congressmen voiced
their views through songs, poems,
stories , personnal experiences, or
basic statistics.
The Peace Process was
pushed in the rally as the only
democratic method, and the con-tras
were shown as an obstacle to
peace. The contras were described
as barbaric, representing nothing
but opposition. "The merciless
maiming and killing of children,
and the bombing of power sta-tions,
are activities that can not be
called democtatic", charged Dr.
Nick Hill, Professor of Languages.
In Central America the contras
receive no formal recognition
except as mercinaries. Robert
Owen compared giving aid to the
contras to throwing money down
the drain.
Many also spoke in defense
of the Sandinistas. It was ac-knowledged
that they had violated
civil rights; but in comparison with
the rights violated by the United
States government in times of
warfare, "the violations of the
Sandinistas were minute." Profes-sor
Petry implored that the Sandin-istas
were not Marxist-Leninist,
not trying to change Nicaragua as
a whole, but instead to improve the
social structure. This improve-ment
is not to be brought about by
violent or repressive means.
Other speakers questioned
the morality of U.S. involvement
calling aid immoral, unjust, and
racist. "What gives us the right to
inforce conformity on our neigh-bors",
was a question accusing the
United States of being pro-facist in
its anticommunist policies. The
fact that 25,000 contras had been
killed raises the question of ra-cism.
It is doubtful the U.S. would
of sacrificed that number of North
American lives.
The rally concluded by call-ing
the audience to immediate
action. "Write to your congress-man
or to your senator," implored
the speakers. The upcoming vote
scheduled for February 3 further
reinforced the urgency; action had
to take place immediately. The
audience was vehemently re-minded
of the responsibility to use
their voting power. A vote against
contra aid was likened to a vote for
peace. One of the speakers con-cluded,
"Peace cannot be
achieved through violence."
Highlights this
week:
Helping those in need
page 5.
Peace in Central America
page 7.
More Top 10...
pages 8 and 9.
Intramural highlights
page 12.
Orientation '88
Co-Chairs
now chosen
By Janine Spinnato
Staff Writer
On February 1 two new Co-
Chairs for Orientation 1988 were
chosen. Elizabeth Jenkins, an
Accounting major from Westford,
Massachusetts, and Robert Tock-arshawsky,
a Finance major from
Flushing, New York were chosen
from a pool of 19 candidates, 14
women and five men.
A key individual in the se-lection
process was Jeanne Di-
Muzio, the Fairfield University
Judicial Officer. Others on the
Orientation Committee were the
Dean of Students, faculty, and the
two previous co-chairs. Each
candidate submitted a written
application which consisted of
biographical information, as well
as five questions which enabled
the candidates to express their
thoughts on Fairfield.
Group sessions were also
used as a way of screening the
prospective candidates. The pur-pose
of this was to see the interac-tion
of the candidates with their
peers and examine their listening
and speaking skills. Furthermore,
three interviews were required,
one with a past co-chair, one with
the Dean of Students, and one with
DiMuzio. A written recommen-dation
from an R. A., a faculty staff
member or a work supervisor was
also required.
The first task of the new co-chairs
is to develop the Freshman
Record, and the upcoming months
of March and April will involve
developing the entire program and
theme. They must also choose all
of their 150 committee members,
design the Orientation T-Shirts,
draft welcome letters to the Class
of 1992, and devote a weekend in
July to prepare everything for the
printers.
The '88 Orientation co-chairs
must prepare a welcome
speech to the Freshman class,
work closely with the transfer
orientation co-chairs, and finally,
write a supplement for the annual
report to the President's office,
highlighting the problems that
occured and the events that went
well.
After much hard work,
DiMuzio chose Robert and Eliza-beth
because she felt they "could
work well together, and that they
would represent Fairfield well."