Mirror - Vol. 13, No. 17 - March 16, 1989

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Volume 13, No. 17MIRRORV Our Second Decade Thursday, March 16,1989 "I've got enough fights on my hands"
Ta-Ling: China's Resistance To Change
John Keating
Staff Writer
Dr. Lee Ta-Ling, a pro-fessor
and historian from South-ern
Connecticut State Univer-sity,
spoke about the meaning
ofrevolution in China on Thurs-day,
March 2, in the Nursing
Auditorium.
Dr. Ta-Ling began by ex-plaining
"revolution" to the au-dience.
He stated that "revolu-tion
is a word never clearly de-fined."
He proceeded to ex-plain
how various political per-suasions
give people different
opinions on what a revolution
actually is. He said he would
speak of revolution "on a much
broader scale."
Ta-Ling gave a com-plete
and extensive history of
China, speaking of the many
dynasties and tumultuous hap-penings
in the country's past.
He stated'how Chinese history
runs in a cyclical pattern, with
powerful dynasties giving in to
more powerful dynasties.
Theprofessor mentioned
how "there's a resistance" in
China against economic and
social change. The Chinese,
having suffered humiliating
defeats by the British, French,
Russians and, most of all, the
Japanese. Because of this they
havebeen forced to open their door
to the world in an effort to modern-ize.
Dr. Ta-Ling spoke of the
troubles China had with moderniz-ing
at first due to conservative
resistance. He mentioned how the
Chinese originally thought of
Westerners as "the big, hairy ones"
but how that image has begun to
change.
"Evolutionary change is out
- enter revolutionary change," said
the professor about Chinese re-forms.
This is because it was
impossible for any reform in China
to start at the top of iciety and
work its way down to the masses.
The people couldn't accept any
change until they were the cause of
that change. For this reason China
remained very much a backward
nation.
As far as modern China,
Lee Ta-Ling spoke of it as being a
new chapter in Chinese history.
China is now a nuclear power, yet
it remains a very poor country.
As far as the happiness of
the Chinese people, Ta-Ling felt
that was a hard question to answer.
In his words, "China is still search-ing
for a path to happiness and to
prosperity."
Speaking of modern Chi-nese
students, Ta-Ling had some
very interesting things to say. In a
recent trip to China, he noticed the
persistence of the older students,
yet he was "Disappointed with the
new class of Chinese students."
He discussed how the
younger students lack incentive,
considering how the average col-lege
graduate in China makes the
equivalent of $ 18 a month and the
average taxi cab driver makes the
equivalent of $1000 a month!
After his lecture, Dr. Lee
Ta-Ling conducted an open dis-cussion.
He addressed such is-sues
as Chinese human rights, the
Cultural Revolution and Chinese
egalitarian principles.
Dr. Lee Ta-Ling has co-authored
the booksHuman Rights
in the People's Republic ofChina
and Reform in Reverse: Human
Rights In the People's Republic of
China.
Fucigno Highlights Drug Awareness Week
Tom Rhatigan
Staff Writer
From February 27 -
March 1, the Peer Counselors
sponsored Drug Awareness Week.
Their purpose was to increase the
awareness of the drug and alcohol
problem at Fairfield.
Drug Awareness Week
was led by Chris Rinko and his
team consisted of twelve mem-bers.
One member, Laura
Haywood, talked about the drug/
alcohol problem at Fairfield; "It's
more prominent than people think."
She said, "a lot ofpeople use drugs
and alcohol, but not many people
can admit that they have a prob-lem."
The week long event was
highlighted by three events. On
Feb. 27, Joseph T. Fucigno, the
Community Service Representa-tive
for the Guenster Rehabilita-tion
Center, gave a lecture in the
Nursing Auditorium.
Fucigno beganhis lecture
by talking about the effects alco-hol
and drugs have on the individ-ual.
"Alcohol affects you physi-cally,
mentally, and emotionally,"
he said. "When one begins to
become dependent on alcohol, he
starts to look inwards and until he
is able to admit he has a problem,
he can't be helped."
Most alcoholics deny that
they have a problem. Many would
say something like, "I coundn't be
an alcoholic, I only drink on week-ends."
Fucigno was not interested
in what, when, or how one drinks.
He listed three major questions
that are important to see if one has
a problem: Can you stop after one
drink or have you ever stopped
after one drink? Does your per-sonality
change after a few drinks?
and Do you drink by yourself?
Fucigno then spoke about
the Guenster Rehabilitation Cen-ter,
where he works. He said its
goals are to help the individual
maintain a sober and fulfilling life
outside the Center, and make sure
they attend, as well as understand,
Alcoholics Anonymous.
One of Fucigno's former
patients, Barbara, then spoke about
what drugs and alcohol does to
someone mentally and physically.
"All my friends were doing it and
it did make me feel good," she
said. "But now I realize how good
it it to be straight."
Barbara stressed the
importance of AA and how one
should not get back into old hab-its.
"You can't stand still," she
said. "AA keeps me fromregress-ing.
It is always there for me."
The following day, the
Drug Awareness Team presented
Bright Lights, Big City, which was
shown in the Nursing Auditorium.
It is a movie about a New York
City yuppie who attempts to es-cape
the realities of life through
drugs and alcohol.
The last event of Drug
Awareness Week was an infor-mation
session on drugs. A po-liceman
spent the afternoon at
Fairfield answering questions,
giving out pamphlets, and talking
about the problems of drugs and
alcohol in our society.
Winans Trades Secrets On Insider Trading
Steve Siwinski
Contributing Writer
OnTuesday,February28,
Journalist R. Foster Winans lec-tured
on insider trading and ethics
on Wall Street in the 80's. Five
years ago on this date he discov-ered
that he was being investigated
by the SEC. After serving his
prison sentence, he wrote the best
selling book Trading Secrets,
which was also the title of the
lecture.
Winans started his career
by writing for local small town
newspapers in Texas, New Jersey
and Washington. Later he moved
to New York and got ajob with the
Dow Jones news service, which he
referred to as "the slave galley of
the Dow Jones empire." Eventu-ally
he was noticed by the Wall
Street Journal and given the col-umn
"Heard on the Street."
Winans admitted that at
first he felt "awkward playing with
the big boys" but was fascinated
by the splendor ofWall Street. He
loved the idea of writing an article
and then watching the stock rise or
fall in contrast. "The stock market
seemed to make a lot of sense," he
said.
"The real money,"
Winans stated, "is made over
twenty years." However, no bro-ker
is going to invest his money for
a period of twenty years. He ex-plained
that people go to Wall
Street for the action and the thrill.
It is not soley about making money.
Winans then proceeded
to explain that "every generation
has it's decade." The decade ofhis
own generation was the sixties. He
feels that the idealism of that dec-ade
has been replaced by material-ism
in the eighties. In addition, the
eighties have been plagued by ster-oids
in the Olympics, a failing war
against drugs, the Iran Contra
Affair, and corruption on Wall
Street. In Winans' own words,
"anything and everything today is
about money." He later stated mat
"the jaded eighties have turned the
roaring twenties into a pale tea by
comparison."
During the eighties, ac-cording
to Winans, "corporations
were getting beat up in the interna-tional
market." As a result, loyalty
to employees seemed to stop and
business became impersonal.
"There is no personal pride in the
product any more only the money
that it earns." Winans then ex-plained
that individuals began to
adopt this sort ofcorporate behav-ior.
"Survival, profitability, and
efficency" became important to
the individual as well as the cor-poration."
"Greed is sort of institu-tionalized
on Wall Street," re-marked
Winans. As depicted in
the movie Wall Street, everyone
rationalizes by saying "everyone
else is doing it." Winans explained
that he too felt this way when he
got in trouble.
Winans says he got in
trouble for the same reason a lot of
other people on Wall Street get in
trouble. He felt like he was get-ting
behind and needed to get
ahead. He saw everyone else
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School
Newspaper
Confiscated
CPS-A New Jersey Institute
of Technology official, anxious to
impress a group of high school stu-dents
thinking of enrolling at the
school, confiscated copies of the
school paper and kept them out of
sight until the prospective fresh-men
left campus.
The Feb. 17 edition of The
Vector, the student paper, reported
that a student member had been as-saulted
and robbed near the New-ark
campus a few days earlier.
Admissions Dean William
Anderson, apparently worried the
story would tarnish the visitors'
view of NJIT, ordered a student to
take the papers from their display
bins and store them in the admis-sions
office.
"It is hard to believe admin-istrators
could be so unthinking and
so ignorant of free press rights,"
said Mark Goodman of the Student
Press Law Center in Washington,
D.C.
"It was unfortunate. It
shouldn't have happened. I'm going
to do everything in my power to
make sure this won't happenagain,"
Dean ofStudent Services Constance
Murray said.
Anderson's action, Hanna
maintained, was another example
of NJIT officials downplaying
campus crime, adding that if new
students don't know crime is a prob-lem
on the Newark campus, they
could get hurt.
"Being in Newark, we are
aware of crime," replied NJIT
spokeswoman Arlene Gilbert, but
she said NJIT has a lower crime
rate than other New Jersey campus
and that it has improved its security
recently.
Vector Editor-in-chiefMark
Budzyn discovered the newspapers
were missing from thier bins, and
when he asked about the papers at
the school information desk, he was
told the admissions office had taken
them just before a Feb. 19 open
house for visiting high school sen-iors.
When he asked about the
papers at the admissions office,
Budzun says he was stonewalled.
Angered, Budzyn placed signs on
the bins that said the papers were
confiscated by the admissions of-fice.
The newspapers were re-turned
a few hours later, after the
open house campus tours ended.
-> Anderson met with several
Vector staff members Feb. 21 to
discuss the issue, and although he
told them he "realized it was a bad
judgment call, he didn't sound all
that upset," Hanna said.
"He wants people to see the
best of the institute," Hanna said of
Anderson. "He doesn't understand
this is censorship. He doesn't
understand our responsibility to let
people know."
Although the Student Press *
Law Center's Goodman thir'rs the
paper's staff could sue, Hanna says
The Vector staff is satisfied with
Anderson's apology and the ad-ministration's
guarantees that pa-pers
won't be confiscated again.