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Commission Sets Hearing
For Additional Townhouses
by Richard Swietek
Fairfield moved one step closer in their
attempt to build additional townhouses in the
field just above the baseball diamond, when the
Town Planning and Zoning Commission an-nounced
a hearing in the near future to discuss
the issue.
The hearing, which is scheduled for Tuesday,
October 25, will be held in the Riverfield School
on Mill Plain Road at 8:00 p.m. At this time the
possible construction of 24 new townhouses will
be debated and questioned.
Plans for the complexes were prepared by the
firm of Fletcher Thompson Architects and were
forwarded to a zoning code and enforcement
staff who reviewed the blueprints and gave their
approval for this meeting to be called. Those in-terested
in examining the plans may do so at the
Town Planning and Zoning Commission office
during working hours.
Although this can be seen as a step towards
breaking ground, Provost John Barone stated,
"The staff has only given approval for the
meeting to take place. It will depend solely upon
what the town members and those on the Town
Planning and Zoning Commission say after hear-ing
our proposal."
If the town does give its approval, another
notice will be released to area papers giving
notice of the building, and two weeks following
that the university can begin construction of the
new facilities.
Anyone can attend the October 25 meeting,
and in a release issued by the Zoning Commis-sion
they stated, "At this public hearing all per-sons
will have the right to be heard."
U. N. Journalists Meet
To Discuss World Press
by Denise Murphy
Eighteen journalists and broadcasters chosen by the United Nations from developing countries
all over the world visited Fairfield on Wednesday, October 12. They came from nations ranging
in diversity from Barbados to Singapore along with several local journalists, selected Communica-tions
students, GradComm faculty, and members of the administration.
The meeting of journalists from various nations was brought to Fairfield through the Graduate
School of Political and Corporate Communication. The assortment of reporters were from South
America, Africa, the Mediterranean, Near Eastern countries as well as Europe.
Having been in the N.Y. area for one month, their visit will continue for another month during
which time they will learn about all possible aspects of American mass media. Included in their
schedule of events are trips to the N.Y. Times and the major networks of NBC and ABC, along
with daily briefings in the U.N. Each journalist has also maintained frequent correspondence with
their native country.
Mr. Luis Felipe Salamanca Castillo, a Columbian newspaper reporter, has been in contact with
the Contadura Group, an alliance formed by foreign ministers from Columbia, Venezuela, Panama,
and Mexico in order to arrive at a peaceful solution to the conflict in Central America. Mr. Castillo
said that he admired America's high technology, but was sorry that his country only entered the
news when problems arose. He wished that "good information" might be delivered to the American
public.
Mrs. Carmon Lucia Rocha Dummar, a radio announcer in Fortaleza, Brazil, stated that the main
difference between U.S. media and the media of her country is "specialization." Mrs. Dummar noted,
"The media is similar in both countries with regard to competitiveness. However, no organized group
of networks yet exists in Brazil." Mrs. Dummar also explained, "Some years ago, great censor-ship
existed. Now there has been a change in the political situation, but the government is still respon-sible
for issuing licenses and renewing them for a ten year period. Therefore, they censor the media
in another way, yet in general, mass media supports the government."
According to Dr. Mary Francis Hoban, Assistant Dean, GradComm, this is the first opportunity
the journalists have had to leave New York and many of them had never before been on an American
campus. Dr. Hoban stated, "Interaction with present GradComm students and students studying
at Fairfield from abroad created a casual friendly atmosphere where the journalists were able to
mingle both professionally and socially. Also, Fr. Mooney, Academic Vice President, was able to
attend, making this a 'university event' in manyTespects."
Michael Novak lectured on his concepts of Democratic capitalism on Monday to a crowded
Oak Room of students and faculty. [Photo by Chris Flint]
Novak Speaks in Oak Room
On Democratic Capitalism
by Christine Ryan
After being introduced as "the Republicans'
favorite Democrat" because the candidates he
supports invariably lose, Michael Novak
delivered a lecture Monday night, sponsored by
Fairfieid College Republicans and the Politics
Club. Novak, currently affiliated with the
American Enterprise Institute in Washington,
D.C., spoke on the ideas in his book, The Spirit
of Democratic Capitalism.
Mr. Novak's points were centered around
American society and ideals that support it. He
divided his speech into three parts, the first con-cerned
with the poor. Novak said that Adam
Smith believed in finding the cause of wealth, not
the cause of poverty, and that the world would
only be united behind the despised class—the
commercial and industrial class. He continued
by saying that to be successful, there must be
distributive justice. This can be arrived at by "our
new moral obligation of production and develop-ment."
Along these lines, Mr. Novak felt that the
gap from which we suffer is in economic
theology. He concluded by saying that Catholic
social teachings of the church just do not unders-tand
this responsibility of production and
development.
McGuire Boosts Fundraiser
by Richard Swietek
NBC sportscaster Al McGuire brought his
outspoken humor and basketball knowledge to
Fairfield last Wednesday to help the Stag basket-ball
team in their fund-raising efforts.
In a press conference before his meeting with
students, McGuire offered his comments on the
upcoming college season. He began by saying,
"I don't like the way you guys (Fairfield) are start-ing
out up at Michigan State because I picked
them as the sleeper this season in college
basketball, but I think you'll be over .500 and
you've got a way-out shot at a post-season
berth."
In looking at the national scene, McGuire
listed Kentucky as his number one team
because of the return of Sam Bowie as center.
Behind the Wildcats McGuire listed Memphis
State, the University of North Carolina,
Georgetown, Houston, U.C.L.A. and Iowa.
McGuire listed his All-American team as
having Michael "Mr. Primetime" Jordan and
Waymond Tisdale in the backcourt, along with
Akeem-Abdul Olijawan, Patrick Ewing and Keith
Lee as the big men up front.
NBC Sportscaster Al McGuire spoke to a
university audience on sports and motivation
in life's pursuit last Wednesday evening.
[Photo by NBC Sports]
McGuire then gave his opinion on the rule
changes which will be in effect when the first tip-off
takes place. The former Marquette coach
came out adamantly against the automatic two-shot
foul in the last two minutes of a game. "That
won't be there next year," commented McGuire.
On the other hand the ex-Knick felt having on-ly
three time-outs in a TV game will be a big
plus. Television time-outs are called with 16,12,
8 and 4 minutes remaining in a ball game, and
often coaches would wait until the end of a game
to call all five time-outs. The new rule McGuire
feels will make for a more exciting last few
minutes.
McGuire also felt the new MAAC rule which
restricts the coaches movement on the sidelines
is one that the coaches like. "It's an exception
now, but it will become a rule," stated McGuire.
When asked about why he left coaching after
leading Marquette to the 1977 NCAA title, he
simply stated that, "In my life I wanted multiple
careers."
"I do miss the uncertainty of a really close ball
game," said McGuire, but he added, "I would
never go back." The graduate of St. John's
University mentioned the pressures involved in
coaching. "You can't play not to lose, a coach
must play to win," emphasized McGuire. Right
Continued on page 4
To illustrate his point surrounding the
weakness of Catholic teaching, the teacher and
writer of religion and politics, again quoted Adam
Smith. He said that Adam Smith compared the
societies of North and South America. South
America was richer in resources by far, and con-tained
people of a "higher cut" who were runn-ing
their world. On the other hand, North
America was poor in soil and natural resources.
The people lived a harder Puritan life of immi-grants.
Looking at these facts, one would predict
that South America would flourish, but Adam
Smith predicted just the opposite. He felt that
North America would proceed to "un-precedented
prosperity and unparalleled liberty
because of ideas and their novel organization."
"That," according to Mr. Novak, "is what makes
our system work."
His second topic was the fundamental system
that Adam Smith foresaw. This consisted of a
three-footed system of political, economic, and
moral systems. Members of one system need
not know anything about another. "In fact, it's
a requirement that politicians know nothing
about economics," Mr. Novak stated. He also
declared that the American system was meant
to be that way, consisting of a series of checks
and balances. Mr. Novak felt that we founded
our country's motto because "in God we trust,
and nobody else."
The closing of his lecture was centered around
the two streams of spirit that he sees existent in
America: cooperation and creativity. He believes
that Americans are not collectivists, and not in-dividualists,
but of a new social personality type.
"Fundamental to our lifestyle is the spirit of a
richly communal nation of joiners." The real con-tribution
of capitalism is not the individual, but
the corporation. The second major idea is that
of flexible creativity. Without free expression of
new ideas, the economy is stifled. "The cause
of wealth is not nature or resources but intellect."
Mr. Novak concluded by saying that he does
see in any of the 160 countries in the world to-day,
a political system that will solve poverty. He
then proceeded to a question and answer period,
where much of the controversy centered around
his Latin America policies. One person question-ed
the forcing of Western culture upon the world,
and Mr. Novak replied that the cultures were
malleable and similar. The next person quoted
an article two years ago by Mr. Novak that
declared that the reason that Latin America was
poor was that their culture was too different from
Europe's and he questioned the discrepancies.
Mr. Novak stated that they were "similar and dif-ferent"
and left it at that. He was presented at
the end of the lecture with a plaque for his ac-complishments
surrounding religion and public
policy by the College Republicans.