Mirror - Vol. 17, No. 05 - October 22, 1992

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FairfieldMRRORV Volume 17, No. 5 Thursday, October 22, 1992 Looking for trouble? Look in the Mirror
Dukakis Challenges America's Youth
Debra De Shong
News Editor
Former presidential
candidate, Mike Dukakis is
readying for the future and he
challenged America's young
people to do the same.
Tuesday night at the
Quick center, Dukakis sad,
"Voting isn't enough. You have
a responsibility to do more."
Dukakis advocated that young
people contrribute to the coun-try
by getting involved with the
candidate they support as well
as devoting their lives to a ca-reer
in public service. Such as
politics, health care, education,
or law enforcement.
Dukakis said, "Don't
sit on the sidelines and com-plain
because if you do, we
should be the ones to complain
about you." One way to mobi-lize
young people is the plan
currently proposed by Gov. Bill
Clinton called the National Ser-vice
Corps. Underthis plan, any
student who needed money for
college could borrow it from the
federal government and then pay
it back in one of two ways. The
student could pay through in-come
withholding once they are
working, or the alternative
Dukakis favors, paying off the
loan in a service corps where the
student receives vouchers to-wards
the loan. Dukakis said,
"This could be an exciting fu-ture,
what is missing now is a
sense of excitement. It's like
postpartum depression, we've
had the baby and now we're de-pressed."
Dukakis asked the au-dience
of young people if this
sounds like a reasonable request
and was met with a resounding
yes. He feels it could be the most
exciting movement since the
Peace Corps was introduced by
President Kennedy.
With much enthusiasm
and vigor, Dukakis laid out why
he feels this election is capturing
the attention of young people.
He attributes the dramatic in-crease
in registration of young
voters to the fact that young
people are seeing that presiden-tial
elections can affect them.
"Students are having a collec-tive
nervous breakdown when
they spend thousands of dollars
on an education and then they
go out into a terrible job mar-ket,"
he said.
Dukakis also equates
the relative youth ofClinton and
Gore for the upswelling of sup-port
from young people. "Young
people are responding and re-lating
to them," he said. Both
candidates are in their forties.
Along with his mes-sage
to young people, Dukakis
offered his views of this years
presidential campaign. The big-gest
differences in this campaign
and the one he participated in
are the overwhelming urge by
the American people to concen-trate
on the issues, "personal
attacks j ust aren' t cutting it," he
said, and the miscalculation by
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Jesuits Honor Fairfield's Brightest
Rosalyn E. Van Tuyl
Staff Writer
Think it takes just a
high GPA to be inducted into
Alpha Sigma Nu? Think again.
The twenty-four members ofthe
class of 1993 who were inducted
into Alpha Sigma Nu, The Na-tional
Jesuit Honors Society, last
Sunday, October 18 had the high
GPAs plus a whole lot more.
These students represent a wide
array of interests and back-grounds
and they all share a
common bond: commitment to
excellence in academics, ser-vice,
and loyalty to the Jesuit
ideal.
Seniors who are aca-demically
in the top 15% of the
class at Fairfield are invited to
apply for membership.
After that, academics
does not figure into the selec-tion
process. The key factors
are the essay that each is re-quired
to write and the quality
and breadth of the candidates
campus involvement.
The essays are care-fully
reviewed and scrutinized
by the Candidates Committee
made up of Fr. Thomas Regan,
S.J., the faculty advisor, Class
of 1992 ASN members, and Pat
Danko, coordinator of the soci-ety.
The Committee then
examines the candidates lead-ership
on campus. It is not
enough to be signed up with a
lot of clubs. "The committee is
looking for active involvement
and tireless dedication." said Fr.
Regan.
This year, out of 115
Laugh Yourself
To Health
Inductees to Alpha Sigma photo: K. Guterl
students who rank in the top
15% of the class of 1993, 80
accepted the invitation to apply
to the society. The society will
accept as many as 30 students
per a year, however this year
only 24 were selected for induc-tion.
"This group is incred-ibly
busy and committed," said
Fr. Regan, "They represent the
very finest of this school and
they are a group we can all be
proud of."
Each year the society
takes on a project. Last year the
members tutored children from
St. Charles school in Bridgeport
whose parents have AIDS. In a
similar vein, this years mem-bers
will work with the Boys
and Girls clubs of America to
tutor children.
This years members
are James Bodor, Christopher
Browne, DiAnne Clous,
Michele Cofield, Shannon
Cross, Michael Dallahan,
Rebecca Egan, John Fink,
Laura Fleissner, Stacy Ives,
Edward Kent, Shonda Leonard,
Patricia Lyp, Robert Maina,
Ara Maranian, Julie Masow,
Jennifer Paventi, Emily Matera,
Xaophenh Nhatavong, Wendy
Precious, Kurt Sandine, Beth
Scribner, Frances Tranchese,
and Carol Webb.
Megan Harvist
Staff Writer
Have you had a rotten
day? Are you feeling a little
under the weather? Why not try
laughter?
This was the subject of
the Freshman Forum that was
held on October 15 when Joyce
Anisman-Saltman, a laughter
consultant and lecturer, gave her
talk entitled "Stamp Out Seri-ousness...
Laughter: Rx for
Survival." She holds three
graduate degrees and is currently
working on a doctorate program
entitled "The Enhancement of
Learning through Humor."
At the beginning ofher
talk, Anisman-Saltman asked
for volunteers from the audi-ence
who had had a particularly
bad week or month. She then
made the audience give them a
standing ovation. After this,
she talked about the good ef-fects
that laughter has on the
body: it gives you rosy cheeks
because it activates the capillar-ies
underneath the skin and
makes you look healthier. It
also activates the pituitary
glands which release endorphins
and ecepholins, natural pain kill-ers.
Anisman-Saltman dis-cussed
the power of a mind-body
connection. To illustrate
this, she used the example of
Norman Cousins, a professor of
medicine who promoted the
power of positive thinking in
getting better. When he was
diagnosed with a terminal ill-ness
he checked himself into a
hotel and rented comedy mov-ies.
He "laughed himself back
to health" and lived for years
beyond what doctors thought he
would.
"The stories were very
convincing," said Cathy Curran,
'94. "It makes you feel less
helpless knowing there is a way
to control your health."
Several stories and a
few standing ovations later,
Anisman-Saltman gave the au-dience
advice on how to bring
more laughter and happiness
into their lives. Her motto is
"Never put off until tomorrow
what you can eat today." She
also suggested sleeping with
someone funny-looking so you
can laugh first thing in the morn-ing.
Somedon'tsAnisman:
Saltman pointed out were not to
read the newspaper because of
all the depressing news and
never to buy something that
doesn't make you smile when
you try it on.
Lastly, she suggested
making a list of 20 things we
like to do and try to do as many
as possible in a day. Anisman-
Saltman can do 18 things on her
list daily. Considering that she
has been speaking on laughter
for nine years and in 23 years of
teaching has never missed a day
due to illness, maybe we should
take her advice.
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