THE MIRROR Independent student newspaper
Week of October 16, 2019
Vol. 45 Iss. 6
Fairfield Dedicates a Week to Mental Health
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By Gabrielle Arlotta Contributing Writer
Fairfield University hosted Mental Health Awareness Week throughout campus, running events from Sunday, Oct. 6 to the following Sunday. Students, faculty and guests filled each day with useful lessons and resources that the Fairfield community can utilize. The project did not come alive on its own, as the intention for Mental Health Awareness Week from the start has been to make it a collabatory event. Mark Celano, Ph.D. and Alana Coscia, Psy.D. from Counseling & Psychological Services spearheaded those efforts by connecting with the Health Center, Campus Ministry, Fairfield University Student’s Association, Active Minds and the Stag Peer Support Group. Celano and Coscia stated via email, “Representatives from all collaborating Jordan Burnham departments met as a group in mid-September to brainstorm ideas for the week.” In recent years prior, Counseling & Psychological Services has coordinated outreach, prevention and educational events for Mental Health Awareness Week on campus, but typically restricted to one day events. To ensure that a larger number of campus-community members could have the opportunity to participate and be exposed to the department’s message, C&PS worked diligently to spread out the events. They were spaced throughout the whole week, at various times of day and locations on campus, Celano and Coscia explained. Although reformed, the goal has remained the same: to raise awareness about
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opened up to students about his mental health journey on Wed, Oct. 9 in the Oak Room. Minds and Campus Ministry were also in mental health issues, including the reduction attendance. of stigma around mental illness and seeking Active Minds, a new club to Fairfield’s help. campus, is one chapter of many that are recogA Sunday evening mass at Egan Chapel nized nationally. came first. The mass remembered those First year Megan Falvey, a member of who struggle with mental illness and those Active Minds, stated, “Everybody is affected who have lost their lives to suicide. Campus by mental health,” and spoke on her clubs iniMinistry teamed up with Active Minds in tiative to help those affected by suicde in any an attempt to hand out 11,000 sticky notes. way, shape or form. You can visit their website Each note was to represent the estimated to learn more about the organizations mission. 11,000 college students who pass every year to The multi-location informational suicide. The two organizations urged students to tabling event kicked off the school week on Tuesday. Students picked up flyers and write positive messages on the notes to either pamphlets at the tables represented by various be handed to peers or stuck around campus different organization members and leaders in order to spread the messages for those in need. The mass was followed by a multi-location informational tabling event, where Active Continue Reading Fairfield On Page 2
Opening Visions with I.D. Aruede
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Vine the city and reveal the Scandanavian synth-pop duo wonders of the art inside. coming to Connecticut. It embraces the commuOn Friday, Oct. 10, I.D. Aruede, the co-chief operating nity and the world as a Page 16 officer and chief financial officer of the Whitney Museum of whole. American Art in New York City, spoke at the Charles F. Dolan During the last twenty minutes of the event, there was School of Business Event Hall as part of Fairfield University’s a panel discussion with Eliasoph, Professor Danielle Ogden, Open Visions Forum: Espresso. This was a Regina A. Quick and Carey Mack Weber. Ogden is an art history professor at Center for the Arts event in affiliation with the Fairfield UniFairfield University and an art consultant dedicated to workversity Art Museum. ing with artists and establishing relationships with new and Philip Eliasoph, Ph.D, professor of art history at Fairseasoned collectors, and Weber is the Frank and Clara Meditz field University, welcomed the audience to the event. Senior executive director of the Fairfield University Art Museum. Diallo Simon-Ponte, an English literature major with minors Ogden asked Aruede, “There is a lot of risk-taking and in art history and economics, introduced I.D. Aruede to the vulnerability in the museum field. Could you share something stage. in your life where you failed and how you learned from it?” I.D. Aruede left his home country of Nigeria after high Aruede nodded. “Failure…” school and moved all the way to the United States. He planned At this comment, Eliosoph smiled. “Your worst nightPhoto Courtesy of Quick Center for the Arts to live with his cousin, who he had only met once before as a mare!” I.D. Aruede, Co-COO and CFO Whitney Museum of Art. child. A week before Aruede was going to move, his mother Aruede laughed, and then said, “After I left my job in tional fabric of the Whitney. got a call that his cousin had gotten married. What a disaster, finance, I felt like a failure at that moment...My first office was This is why the Whitney’s move from Madison Avenue he thought. He was going to move in with newlyweds. clearly a converted closet...But now I don’t view it as a failure.” to its current home in Greenwich Village was so important. He made the move to the United States anyway. To this He views it as a win. From 1966- 2014, the Whitney Museum looked more like a day, he has found a supportive and loving extended family Senior Emily Slama, an international business mafortress. The world has changed significantly in the 48 years with his cousin and his cousin’s wife’s family. jor with minors in legal business law and ethics, said that since the museum had been built, and the Whitney needed to Aruede majored in accounting at Morgan University, Aruede’s speech made her realize how accessible the art world reflect that change. a historically black college, and he received his master’s in can be. But before this change could come to life, there were business administration at the Wharton School of Business at “His entire presentation made me so hopeful for the some financial issues to tackle. The Whitney had to go 125 the University of Pennsylvania. future, not just for me, but for students everywhere. Now I am million dollars into debt for a new building. After working in finance on Wall Street for several interested in seeing all the different aspects of the art world… Aruede and his colleagues decided to increase fundraisyears, Aruede realized he wanted a career change. He applied I feel that it is going to be one of my major focuses going ing for the Whitney to 225 million dollars, making sure that to work at the Whitney. And he got the job. forward…I am excited!” Slama said. these funds would cover the debt and leave enough money to “My job is a means to an end,” Aruede said. As CFO, Senior Matthew Waldemar, an art history major, said expand the Whitney’s educational and outreach programs for Aruede ensures that the Whitney has the funds to fulfill its that Aruede’s speech gave him perspective on the industry. children in the community. founding ethos: supporting artists first. “What I loved the most about his speech was when he In 2015, the Whitney moved to its current location This was the original idea of Whitney founder Gertrude said that you need to invest in what you love, because that’s in the Meatpacking District, near its original location in Vanderbilt Whitney, who opened the museum in Greenwich what brings you joy, success and fulfillment, however you Greenwich Village. The new design of the current Whitney is Village in 1933 to help artists, often supporting them before define success,” Waldemar said. inviting, with open spaces and bright glass walls that reflect their work received acclaim. Risk-taking is part of the institu“He showed me that I can really do anything.” By Mimi Loughlin Contributing Writer