Mirror - Vol. 12, No. 18 - February 18, 1988

              The
Fairfield
Volume 12, No. 18MRRORV Our Second Decade Thursday, February 18,1988 The Image of Fairfield
Drive
encourages
voting
Claudine Kiffer
Staff Writer
On Wednesday, February 24,
two representatives from
Fairfield's TownHall will be in the
Campus Center. From 10 a.m. to
12 p.m., the Voter Drive '88 will
be holding voter registration.
Senior Carmine Anzalone,
President ofthe Council ofStudent
Activities, and Junior Christopher
Chalmers, Director of Voter Drive
'88, have been working for many
months toward their goal of maxi-mum
student voter registration.
The event is co-sponsored by the
Fairfield League of Women Vot-ers.
Both Connecticut and non-
Connecticut residents will be able
to register on Wednesday. "Our
age group is the most poorly repre-sented
by votes of all age groups,"
said Chalmers. "If students regis-ter
now, they will be able to vote in
the Connecticut primaries."
Students who want to register
will be required to choose which
voting residence they intend to
claim; either their Fairfield Uni-versity
address or their home
address must be chosen. If the
home residence is preferred, then
the student will still be able to vote
in November's Presidential Elec-tion.
This is done by writing to
achieve absentee status.
Address tor absentee ballots, as
well as addresses for home regis-tration
in vaious states will be
available on February 24. Non-
Fairfield Connecticut residents
registering then will be cross-town
referenced to their own home-town.
The only requirement for
registration is an identification to
prove Fairfield University status,
"As students, we have many is-sues
facing us-the drinking age,
student aid, other local concerns.
We can't put off real world issues.
Since our age group is going to
have to live the longest with the
decisions made by our country's
elected officials, shouldn't we be
the most concerned with who is
making these decisions?" asked
Chalmers. He feels that University
students can also make a large
impact on town politics. "As stu-dents,
town officials do not take us
seriously because we aren't seen
as having voting power. Our vot-ing
district was designed to in-clude
all the students on campus.
When we don't vote, we isolate
ourselves from legislature."
As Director of Voter Drive '88,
Chalmers is afraid that a lot of
people will shy away from voting
because they feel it is too compli-cated,
and one must be a politics
major to understand the issues. On
the contrary, Chalmers affirms
that "You don't have to be ex-tremely
knowledgeable about
politics to vote. Youjusthavetobe
aware and observant of what's
going on around you."
Contemporary Authors highlight
Humanities Lectures Series this Spring
Greg Curley
Staff Writer
The Fairfield University
Humanities Institute is sponsoring
a humanities lecture series entitled
Novelist's America, to take place
over four weeks in April. Four of
the most renowned contemporary
American writers, William Sty-ron,
E.L. Doctorow, Wilfred
Sheed, and Alfred Kazin, will lec-ture
from April 7 to April 28. All
presentations will take place in the
Oak Room and will begin at 8PM.
Styron, described as on of the
greatest American writers today,
will be the first featured novelist.
He is best known for his 1979
masterpiece, Sophie's Choice.
Among his other greats are Lie
Down in Darkness and Pulitzer
Prize-winning Confessions ofNat
Turner.
Doctorow, a master at using
socio-historical material to create
his fiction, will be the second lec-turer.
He is best known for Rag-time,
the 1975 winner of both the
National Book Critics Circle
Award and Arts and Letters
Award. His other works include
World " Fair Welcome to Hard
Times, Big as Life, and Loon Lake.
Sheed, a famed comic writer,
will be the third featured novelist.
He is known for People Will Al-ways
Be Kind, Transatlantic
Blues, and his latest work, The
ties, and Bright Book ofLife.
Dr. Leo F. O'Connor, Profes-sor
of American Studies at Fair-field,
is coordinating the series for
the Humanities Institute. He sees
the series as an attempt to "bring
Boys of Winter.
Kazin will be the final speaker
ofthe series. He is a distinguished
literary historian and critic in
America. Among his widely rec-ognized
works are On Nature
Grounds. Starting Out in the Thir-on
campus some of America's
most distinguished writers." He
commented, "by bringing the au-thors
on campus we are celebrat-ing
one of the things we value - the
creative artist in the field of litera-ture."
O'Connor called the series a
"great opportunity" for students
and the general public to learn
about American literature. He
believes "the audience should
familiarize themselves with one or
more of each of the author's
works," in order that they may
receive the most from the series.
He added that most of the novels
will be available in the campus
bookstore well before the lectures.
Novelist's America is a major
project of the Fairfield Humanities
Institute, established three years
ago when the University received
a $250,000 challenge grant from
the National Endownment for the
Humanities. The University then
raised $750,000 in matching
funds. Besides sponsoring public
events such as Novelist's Amer-ica,
the Humanities Institute helps
develop new courses and pro-motes
faculty enrichment at the
University.
The lecture series will be open
to the general public. Tickets,
which are free, will be available at
the Campus Center as ofMarch 16,
and will be distributed on a first-come,
first-served basis. Alimited
number of tickets will be available
the night of each presentation.
Carroll appoints VPs
Gail English
v Staff Writer
The FUSA President-elect,
Frank Carroll, appointed his Vice
Presidents for the 1988-89 school
year on February 5. "Enthusiasm
seems to be the overriding feeling
among the new administration,"
stated Carroll.
Maria Orabona was se-lected
as Vice President ofStudent
Activities, Rusty Magner will lead
Student Life, and Karen Beeden-bender
wil head Government Af-fairs.
After Carroll had con-ducted
a search through present
cabinet members, he decided on
these three, based upon past per-formance
and dedication. "I chose
them because they have a lot of
experience and they are actively
involved," stated Carroll.
Orabona is excited about
her position. A "fun, non-stressful
environment" is her outlook in
leading Student Activities. "Frank
is fun to work with because of his
dedication," she commented, add-ing
that she has also enjoyed work-ing
with Magner and Beedenben-der
in the past. "Maria has excel-lent
programmingexperience with
FUSA. She is personable and a
pleasure to work with," Carroll
said.
Magner is presently Direc-tor
of Athletics and,Carroll af-firmed,
"He has excellent working
relations with the campus admini-stration."
Magnercommentedthat
he is elated that Frank asked him to
be a V.P., "But, at the same time,
I'm nervous because it's a lot of
work." He is looking forward to
working with Carroll and the other
Vice Presidents, and wants to
carry on with Chris Ritchie's suc-cessful
administration.
Beedenbender was excited
and surprised when she was cho-sen
as V.P. of Government Af-fairs,
because she thought that
many others were also qualified.
She presently heads the Council of
Student Organizations (C.O.S.
O.), which encompases all of the
clubs on campus. "Government
Affairs wil be a good change from
student life because C.O.S.O. is so
overwhelming, but I enjoy that
too," stated Beedenbender. Car-roll
feels that Karen is very well-organized
and dedicated citing her
management ofLeadership Week-end
as an example.
On Tuesday, February 16,
Carroll and Orabona left for Wash-ington,
D.C. to participate in a
National Association of Campus
Activities (N.A.C.A.) convention.
"There will be educational ses-sions
and programs on how to
improve student associations,"
explained Orabona, who has
learned about programming and
publicity at past N.A.C.A. conven-tions.
One of the first orders of
business for the V.P.'s is aiding
Carroll in selecting FUSA's Cabi-net.
Then, along with the chosen
Cabinet members, they will select
the Sub-Cabinet, which, Carroll
said, will be developed to give
more people responsibility and
leadership.
Carroll felt that he made the
best decision possible. "They
have jumped right into their posi-tions
already," he stated, regarding
the new Vice Presidents. "And
have tremendous potential."
Medical Dilemmas discussed
Lynn Ann Casey
Assistant News Editor
Students, faculty and guests
were introduced to "Ethical Di-lemmas
in Medicine" by Paul
Steinman, M.D. on February 10 in
the Nursing Auditorium at 8:00
p.m..
Dr. Steinman, a graduate of
Harvard Medical School, is pres-ently
a pediatrician at St.
Vincent's Medical Center in Br-idgeport.
His experience in the
field of medicine allowed him to
present the audience with actual
case dilemmas that he had encoun-tered
during his career.
One case dealt with resuscitat-ing
a terminal cancer patient in the
last days of her life. Another case
delved into the question of the
responsibility of doctors and
nurses to treat AIDS patients
against their will. A third consid-ered
whether it was a legal right to
force a mother to have a Caesarian
birth when a natural birth would
seriously endanger hers and the
babies lives.
"Most of these questions did
not exist more than 15 years ago,"
said Dr. Steinman. They are "pres-ent-
day dilemmas" resulting from
medical advancement. He asks
"How do we get solutions?" He
mentioned that there are nowjour-nals
dedicated solely to such ethi-cal
issues. They contain "discus-sions
(of problems) and potential
ways to work them through."
There is a "general but not univer-sal
agreement."
Some such general agreements
enforced the view that "comfort
and dignity of the patient were
paramount", that the patient "can
refuse care" without resulting
death being called suicide, and that
"brain dead is dead".
But how can we work toward
more solutions? The doctor pre-sented
threeideas: "First, we must
learn what is going on-we must
learn, talk, and teach." Then, we
must "establish guidelines, prin-ciples,
and policies in advance."
Dr. Steinman continued by saying
finally "We should make knowl-edgeable
people available for con-sultation."
To deal with ethical issues, St.
Vincent's Medical Center has es-tablished
a Human Rights Com-mittee,
"a step in the right direc-tion."
Dr. Steinman said that
despite efforts such as this, "dis-agreement
will continue among
experts." He concluded by stating
that he hopes he has helped (us) to
begin to face these dilemmas."
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