Mirror - Vol. 20, No. 19 - April 18, 1996

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FairfieldMIRR®R Volume 20, Number 19 Thursday, April 18, 1996 The Image of Fairfield
Six seniors receive leadership awards Hindsight
provides
guidance
Cheryl Wozniak
Staff Writer
The Alumni
Association has chosen six
seniors to honor at the Student
Awards Dinner on Thursday,
April 18th at 7 p.m. in the Oak
Room. The recipients of the
awards, Mark Reed, Maria
Santomauro, Stephen Borla,
Mark Mahoney, Mark Potter, and
Frank Riccio, were each selected
on the basis of their leadership,
service to the community, and
commitment to the Jesuit ideal.
Reed was awarded the
St. Ignatius Loyola Medal, which
is the highest honor given by the
Alumni Association to a
graduating senior. This award is
presented to the student who best
exemplifies the true spirit of the
Jesuit education provided by
Fairfield University.
As president of the
Fairfield University Student
Association, Reed created the
Multicultural Branch of the
Cabinet to increase FUSA's
dedication to diversity. He also
aided in the development of
"Midnight Madness," a pep rally
which took place at the beginning
of the basketball season to help
increase school spirit.
Along with his vast
duties to FUSA, Mark has
become involved in many other
facets of the University
community. He has participated
in First Year Experience, served
as co-chair of ° dentation, and
was selected as a mission
volunteer.
In addition to his
extensive involvement within
the University, Reed was
selected to the National Jesuit
Honor Society, Alpha Sigma
Nu, as well as the mathematics
honor society, Pi Mu Epsilon.
Santomauro's
commitment to service and
volunteerism both within and
outside of the campus
community, has earned her the
William J. Kranier'60
Humanitarian Award.
Santomauro has been co-chair
of the Hunger Clean Up for the
past two years, served as
freshman facilitator for three
years, and as an Eucharistic
Minister for three years.
Involvement with the
campus ministry has led her to
be a part ofthe mission volunteer
program where she worked for
two weeks at the Alpha Boy's
Home in Jamaica. Her
membership in Pi Mu Epsilon,
Jack row: Mark Reed, Mark Mahoney, Frank Riccio. Front Row: Mark
Potter, Maria Santomauro, and Stephen Borla.
the mathematics honor society,
portrays that just as much of her
dedication goes to studies as to
service work.
Outside of the school
setting, Santomauro has spent
her past six summers
volunteering for one week at
the Mid-Hudson Valley
Company near her home. While
there, she works as a counselor
to the young campers who are
stricken with cancer or are
hemophiliacs. She plans to
continue her volunteer work
after graduation as well.
Lastly, four students
have been chosen to receive a
Student Achievement Award
for their commitment to a
particular program,
organization, activity, or
project. Each of the students
who have been selected for this
award have macj a difference
to the community in their won
unique way.
Borla is one ofthe four
students who will receive this
high award. His concern for
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Earth Day lectures announced
Christine Hamel
Managing Editor
To celebrate Earth
Day 1996, Robert Kennedy Jr.,
senior attorney with the Natural
Resources Defense Council,
Dr. Barry Commoner,
environmental scientist and
1980 Presidential candidate for
the Citizens Party, and Dr.
Mark Sagoff, the senior
research scholar at the Institute
for Philosophy and Public
Policy at the University of
Maryland will be giving
environmental lectures on
Monday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m.
in the Quick Center.
The lectures will be
culminating a day full of
activities aimed at promoting
awareness of the environment.
"Earth Day 1996: Retrospects
and Prospects" is the result of a
cooperative work among
several environmental interest
groups. Some of the groups
that are involved include the
Program in Environmental
Studies, Student Environmental
Association, InterResidence
Hall Government, and FUSA.
Outside sponsors are involved
as well. Some outside sponsors
are the Olin Corporation
Charitable Trust, Pestalozzi
Foundation of America, The
Nature Conservancy of
Connecticut, The Nature Center
of Westport, and the
Environmental Associates.
A reception will take
place at 5 p.m. on Monday,
April 22, before the evening's
lecture in the Oak Room in the
Barone Campus Center.
Students, faculty, speakers,
guests of the seminar, and the
University community are
invited to attend the reception.
Other events
scheduled for the day include
"The Student Initiative" at 1
p.m. at the Barone Campus
Center, highlighting crucial
problems of the environment.
At 3:30 p.m. "The Seminar on
the Earth" will discuss politics,
economics, science and society.
Kennedy, son of the
late Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy, has earned a
reputation as a resolute defender
of the environment especially
in holding governmental
agencies responsible for their
actions. His lecture is entitled,
"From Activism to
Cooperation: The Roles of
Industry, Law and
Government." Kennedy
emphasizes the challenges that
lie ahead and offers practical
suggestions for dealing with
such issues as global warning,
the greenhouse effect and water
pollution.
Commoner serves as
the director of the Center for
the Biology ofNatural Systems
at Queens College in New York.
Commoner will present a
lecture entitled, " We Have
Brought You to This Day: A
Retrospective on the
Environmental Movement." He
is a prominent environmental
scientist and is widely known as
a writer and lecturer on the
relationships between
environmental and energy
problems and economic and
political issues.
Sagoff is a Pew Scholar
in Conversation and the
Environment and a'so serves as
president of the International
Society for Environmental
Ethics. His lecture is
entitled," The Perspectives ofthe
Humanities: Philosophy of the
Environment."
Admission is a $2
donation which will benefit the
Salvatore Bongiorno Scholarship
Fund. For ticket information,
call the Quick Center box office
at ext. 4010. For more
information about Earth Day
1996, contact Dr. Lisa Newton,
director of the Program in
Environmental Studies at 254-
4128.
JoAnn Gometz
News Editor
Fairfield University
juniors will have a better
knowledge of the ins and outs
of their chosen fields from now
on, thanks to the Hindsight
Alumni Mentor program,
which began its inaugural
campaign last week.
The Hindsight
program is a joint venture of
the Fairfield University Alumni
Association and the Career
Planning Center, but it is
entirely student run, under the
guidance of three members of
the Class of 1997, Elena
Pienkowski, Greg Vierheilig,
and FUSA Vice President for
Student Life Chris Rhode.
Letters were sent to
the Class of 1997 to notify them
of the program,and of the three
orientation sessions to be held
April 18 and 22, and May 1 at
6 p.m. at the Career Planning
Center. At these sessions,
students will be given the
chance tochoosetheirmentors,
anonymously, and to become
acquainted with the program.
Over 200 mentors
have already signed up for the
program, representing, among
others, the fields of nursing,
teaching, science, writing, and
management. They represent
such companies as General
Electric, Merrill-Lynch,
Johnson and Johnson, and the
FBI. One mentor responded by
cellular phone from the floor
of the New York Stock
Exchange. Nearly all
graduating years from '63 to
'93 are represented.
According to
Pienkowski, the program
developed from the students'
requests for more exposure to
people in the fields that
Fairfield graduates are likely
to enter. When the Alumni
Association and the Career
Planning Center were
approached about providing
support for the program they
responded enthusiastically,
agreeing to support the program
in many ways, not the least of
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