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Jean Harris lectures on
" Crime Can Begin in the Crib"
Nicole Rivard
Campus Life Editor
"Most people don't
realize criminals never had the
opportunity to acquire socially
learned behaviors. You think
one way and you think criminals
think the same way, that they
had the same good coaching
that taught you your values,"
said Jean Harris, noted author
and prison reform advocate.
Harris's lecture,
"Crime Can Begin in the Crib",
was held on Tuesday at the
Quick Center. Harris had spent
12 years of her own life
following a lengthy trial in
which she was found
responsible for the death of
Herman Tarnower, M.D. Harris
claimed that she had intended to
kill herself, not Tarnower, after
suffering emotional degradation
during their 14 year romance
which ended when he rejected
her for his much younger
medical assistant. She found out
just hours before undergoing
quadruple bypass surgery in
1993 that she had been granted
early parole by Mario Cuomo
because of her failing health
and remarkable work she had
done while serving time.
Her life has been full
of ups and downs but Harris
prefers to focus on the ups. In
prison, she decided to make
herselfuseful and not waste time.
She devoted herself to teaching
parenting skills to young
mothers among the inmates at
the women's correctional facility
in Bedford Hills, N.Y. She also
became an advocate for children
whose mothers are serving time.
These topics were touched upon
in her lecture with particular
emphasis on the value of
nurturing during a child's early
years; a more preventative than
curative approach.
"Many perpetrators
feel no remorse. Because no one
has cared for them, they care for
no one. It's part of a process that
begins in early childhood,"
Harris said.
Harris said most
criminals don't spend every
hour of their lives committing
crimes. Their poverty
distinguishes their lives from
the lives of other people.
Therefore crime is a social
problem.
Harris also said the
gap between the rich and the
poor is widening mainly
because of education. "There is
no level of subsistence for poor
uneducated young people," she
said.
Harris hopes we will
not let the wheels of progress
run over certain members of
society, and helping children is
crucial because what happens
during childhood affects the rest
of their life.
Parents' Weekend a success
Kristin Sullivan
Staff Writer
Parents' Weekend,
the weekend recognized every
autumn to familiarize families
with college life at Fairfield,
was held this past weekend.
Thousands of parents came to
campus to participate in the
festivities. According to Su-san
Olsen, the co-ordinator of
many activities for Parents'
Weekend, "Everything was
great. Things went very
smoothly, especially dv lun-cheon."
The weekend offi-cially
began on Saturday morn-ing,
when the Rev. Aloysius P.
Kelley S.J., University Presi-dent,
gave his President's Ad-dress
at 10 a.m. in the Oak
Room. After Kelley welcomed
the students and their families,
academic sessions were held
on campus to acquaint parents'
and students with the various
programs and activities that are
available at the University. Par-ents
and students had the oppor-tunity
to meet with professors
and department heads to discuss
areas of study.
In the afternoon, a lun-cheon
was held for students and
their families in the Barone Cam-pus
Center Dining Hall. Follow-ing
the luncheon, students were
invited to spend some free time
with their families, showing them
around campus.
At4 p.m. Kelley served
the Parents' Weekend Mass in
Alumni Hall for the students and
their families. The Mass in-cluded
a performance ofthe Glee
Club and Chamber singers.
Events for the evening
occurred in the Quick Center
with entertainment by comedian
Tom Parks. In the Oak Room,
hypnotist Russ Burgeouss per-formed.
At 10:30 p.m., parents
and students gathered in Alumni
Hall for Fairfield's first celebra-tion
of Midnight Madness. Mid-night
Madness inaugurated the
start of the basketball seasons
for the Stags and the Lady Stags.
On Sunday, students
and their families had brunch in
the Barone Campus Center Din-ing
Hal! Afterwards, they en-joyed
the sounds of the Fairfield
University Glee Club and Cham-ber
singers. Following the con-cert,
students were inducted into
Alpha Sigma Nu, the National
Jesuit Honor Society.
The events planned for
Parents' Weekend proved suc-cessful.
Since so many families
came to Parents' Weekend and
the activities were so extensive,
"this Parents' Weekend was the
best yet," Olsen said-
Rev. Tracy speaks
at Mooney Lecture
Chase Martin
Staff Writer
Distinguished
theologian, the Rev. David
Tracy, STD, will deliver a
speech about "God and
Tragedy" tonight at 8 p.m. in
the Kelley Theater of the
Regina A. Quick Center for
the Performing Arts. A
member of the Diocese of
Bridgeport, Tracy's speech
is free of charge and open to
the public.
The lecture honors
the memory of the late
Christopher J. Mooney, S.J.,
Fairfield University's
academic vice president,
1980-87, and Professor of
Religious Studies, 1980-93.
Father Tracy's
books and lectures are known
throughout the world.
Holding a licentiate and
doctorate degree in sacred
theology from the Gregorian
University in Rome, he is
now a professor ofTheology
at the Divinity School at the
University of Chicago and
the Andrew Thomas Greeley
and Grace McNichols Greely
Distinguished Service
Professor ofCatholic Studies.
He also taught at Catholic
University of America
located in Washington D.C.
A past president of
the Catholic Theological
Society of America, Tracy's
many accomplishments
include writing books such
as "The Achievement of
Bernard Lonergan," "The
Analogical Imagination:
Christian Theology and the
Culture of Pluralism,"
"Blesses Race for Order,"
"Dialogue with the Other:
The Interreligious Dialogue,"
and "Plurality and
Ambiguity: Hermenutics,
Religion, Hope."
With Hans Kung
and Johann Baptist Metz, he
co-edited "Towards Vatican
III: The Work That Needs To
Be Done." He also co-edited
another book entitled "The
Challenge of Psychology to
Theology" with Steven
Kepnes.
He also has lectured
at learning institutions
throughout the world, in cities
such as Beijing, Dublin,
Geneva, and Rome. Here in
the United States, Fairfield
University welcomes Tracy,
as he has also spoken at
Boston College, Catholic
University of America,
Harvard, Notre Dame,
Princeton Theological
Seminary, St. John's at
Collegeville, and Yale. He
has been featured as a cover
story in The New York Times
Magazine.
This will be the
second annual Christopher j.
Mooney lecture in Theology,
Religion, and Society, a series
sponsored by Fairfield
University's Department of
Religious Studies and Office
of the Academic Vice
President.
A former colleague
ofMooney, Dr. John E. Thiel,
describes him as an "eminent
theologian." With a degree
from the Catholic University
of Paris Law, Mooney had
been the author of many
books. Towards the end of
his life he withdrew from
issues of law and religion •
Mooney went back to his
early interests in religion and
the natural sciences.
At the time of his
death, his final book,
"Theology and Scientific
Knowledge: Changing
Models of God's Presence in
the >Vorld' w>u almost
complete. : i'icl, IOW chair
of the Religious Studies
Department, put together the
finishing touches ofthe book,
which will be available in the
spring of 1996.
His book includes a
foreword by Thiel, anc an
afterword by Margarei /-*.
Farley, Mooney's closest
friend, and currently a
professor ofEthics at the Yale
Divinity School.
Farley was the
speaker at the first annual
Christopher J. Mooney
Lecture in Theology.
Religion, and Society.
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