Mirror - Vol. 20, No. 06 - October 26, 1995

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FairfieldMIRR©R Volume 20, Number 6 Thursday, October 26, 1995 The Image of Fairfield
They've come a long way
25th anniversary celebration
Christine Hamel
News Editor
The Fairfield Univer-sity
student government polled
the student body on the idea of
being coeducational in April
1967. The outcome of the
vote was a landslide defeat.
When the male students re-jected
that idea, there was the
thought of having a separate
women's college. The Board
ofTrustees eventually decided
to make Fairfield a coeduca-tional
institution. Twenty-five
years ago, 234 women were
admitted to Fairfield Univer-sity
as undergraduates.
This weekend, Fair-field
will pay tribute to these
women, from the first 234 to
the present female under-graduates.
The ceJebialR be-gins
with Cok'.f Roberts'
keynote address. Tickets are
sold out to see the lecture, but
there will be a live simulcast
in the Barone Campus Center
Oak Room. Tickets are not
necessary to see the simulcast.
Dr. Ellen Umansky,
the Carl and Dorothy Bennett
Professor of Judaic Studies,
Dr. Denice Yanni, assistant
professor of communication,
and Dr. Jo Yarrington, assis-tant
professor of fine arts will
speak about "The Women We
Have Become: Women's
Studies in the Academy." The
panel discussion will take
place at noon on Friday in
Canisius 15.
Also on Friday, the
Alumnae Forum and Women's
Studies will sponsor a net-working
reception for alum-nae,
faculty, and students at 6
p.m. in the Barone Campus
Center Faculty Dining Room.
Broadcast News will
be shown at 8 p.m. Friday in
the School of Nursing Audito-rium.
This is part of the film
series "Twenty Five Years of
Women in Film." Sponsored
by the University's Humani-ties
Institute, the series also
celebrates the twenty -fifth an-niversary
of coeducation at
Fairfield. A discussion led by
Dr. Richard Regan, Dr.
Maggie'Wills, and Nicole
Palker'96 will follow thefilm.
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
"The Women We
Have Become" takes place at
the Center for Financial Studies
all day Saturday. Tickets for the
conference are sti 11 available and
cost $30 for faculty, staff, and
administrators, and $ 15 for stu-dents.
Reservation forms are
available at the Alumni Rela-tions
Office in Southwell Hall
and at the information booth in
the Barone Campus Center. For
more information, call Janet
Canepa in Alumni Relations at
ext. 4280.
At 9 a.m. Saturday,
Lisa Mainiero, professor of
management, will speak on
"How Successful Women Get
to the Top".
Afterthe session, there
are a variety of lectures on
women's issues. Later on,
former Assistant Dean of Stu-dent
Services, Anne Marie
Sanway, will speak about life at
Fairfield in 1970.
The all-day sessions
will give the entire Fairfield
community an opportunity to
meet alumnae and to talk about
careers, health, and spirituality.
On Sunday at 7 p.m.,
there will be a Harvest Mass in
the Egan Chapel of St. Ignatius
Loyola. The Rev. Paul Carrier,
S.J., will serve Mass. At 8:30
p.m., the Rev. Cynthia Carr '83
will lead Protestant services in
the Egan Chapel of St. Ignatius
Loyola. 'She is the associate
pastor of the First Congrega-tional
Church of Vernon.
There will be year long
programs on women in the arts,
literature, science, nursing, busi-ness,
and politics. Some of the
events planned for the year in-clude
the 25th Anniversary Is-sue
of a Women's Studies Liter-ary
Magazine at Fairfield and
the film series "Women in Film
1970-95" running all year long.
The Fairfield Univer-sity
Glee Club will feature works
by women composers in con-certs
on December 1 and 2, and
April 20. The April 20th con-cert
will feature a premiere per-formance
of the choral work by
composer Judith Lang Zaimont
commissioned in honor of the
25th anniversary .
On March 23, the Un-dergraduate
Conference on
Women's Studies will take place.
The Keynote Speaker is Regina
Barreca, author of They Used to
Call Me Snow White... But I
Drifted.
For more information
or to offer an idea on the celebra-tion,
please contact either Lucy
Katzatext.2840orKathy Nantz
at ext. 2271.
All events are made
possible with the help of a gen-erous
grant from the Fairfield
University Humanities Institute.
Olin Lecture Series
increases environ-mental
awareness
Jenifer Corr
Staff Writer
The tenth annual Olin
Lecture Series on the
Environment is underwa- n
the Oak Room. This year's
topic is "The Chemical
Manufactures Association
Initiative on Responsible
Care." It is about the effort
made by chemical industries to
develop a code of
environmental protection to
which it is required that all their
members subscribe.
Professor Lisa
Newton, director, of applied
ethics and the program in
environmental studies, said the
goal of the series is, "to raise
the awareness of the problems
of the environment in the
student body, as well as the
community at large, and to raise
the level of dialogue from an
atmosphere of confrontation to
one of cooperation and
coordination."
The first lecture,
which took place on September
26, featured David C. Smith,
president of the Council for
Ethics in Economics. Smith
spoke about, "Self Regulation
as Public Policy: The Ethical
Obligation." Smith argued the
point that self regulation could
be good policy.
Charles A. Aldag, Jr.,
senior advisor to the Chemical
Manufactures Association,
gave a talk entitled,
"Responsible Care: Up to the
Ethical Challenge" on October
24.
On November 14, Rita
Lomasney, chemical engineer
and manager ofthe Connecticut
Technical Assistance Program,
will be giving the lecture,
"Reducing Pollution:
Alternative Manufacturing
Technologies." Lomasney will
discuss the experiences of
chemical companies have had
with implementing responsible
care.
After every lecture
there is a chance to discuss
many topics with the speaker.
After the discussion, the
audience is invited to a wine
and cheese reception where
they can talk further with the
speaker in a casual
atmosphere.
Olin Lectures on the
Environment are made
possible by a grant from Olin
Corporation Charitable Trust.
In 1984, Professor Newton
applied for, and received, a
grant enabling the University
to create an environmental
studies program. The
departments of history,
philosophy, biology, physics,
finance, and economics have
worked together to establish
courses and curriculum'for
the program. The grant
money, which is given on a
year to year basis, goes to the
Olin Lecture Series, a seminar
on the environment, and an
Earth Day celebration.
Whatever money is
left over goes to the resource
center and to "Pondside."The
resource center is a collection
ofbooks, videos, andjournals
on the environment available
to all members of the
University. "Pondside" is a
publication of student papers
from Ear'' Day. O.'HI
Lectures, and the seminu
The reason t he OI i n I .ectu res
attract such prominent
speakers is the fact that they
integrate the perspectives of
biology, business, and
philosophy. The scientific
speaker presents the factual
basis for the problem
discussed that year. The
business speaker comments
on the costs and economic
consequences ofthe problem.
The philosophical speaker
discusses how policy should
be structured.
Professor Newton
welcomes all student input
on the lecture series, the
newly approved
environmental minor, and the
upcoming Earth Day
celebration. Students are
asked to urge the Residence
Hall Council and FUSA to
support these events.
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