European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse By Hugh a. Mulligan associated press. Aleah Jet whines Mlo the South Bend. Ind. Airport to Phack a theologian irom Iho Notredame Campus for consultation Wilh senior management of a Wesl cobol Limber giant on environmental ethics. In fort Lauderdale Fla. A stretch Limo Wilh a bar and to Sot whisks Mai Knoll a tics de Wroblewski. Who has spent much of his life in to african Mission Isetts. Oil to join corporals executives at a we Wong seminar on values and ethics. As Dawn Breaks Over Capitol Hilf More than a dozen congressmen Sii Down Al a prayer breakfast to meditate on government service which president Bush in his first week m Ohice declared 16 be Noble Catling a Public Trust 1 and appointed an eight member commission to Dame a now code of ethics for enlightened oficial behaviour on april 17, the ethics committee of the House of representatives formally accuses speaker Jim Wright a Texas of g9 possible violations of rules governing outside income and acceptance of gilts. On the other Side of the Potomac Beefy backs and build linemen with Iho Washington redskins gather in come Bjick Darrell Green s living room to Pray for Lellow athletes lighting a drug habit Manhattan s Trinity Church from its Vantage Point at the head of Wall Street now runs an outreach Center headed by David Schmidt an Ott Scisi to help firms like Standard Oil and Champion Intel National develop programs for responsible corporate behaviour the american medical association reports i hat 90 percent of major hospitals in the United Stales now have a sail ethics consultant or regularly meeting Olics committee ethics is Tod hot right now says Iho Rev James Joyce at the Jesuit office around the Corner from the new York Slock Exchange where at noon on tuesdays investment barters Market analysts and various management types bring a Brown bag lunch Lochew Over Iho moral implications of tender offers forced. Acquisitions plan it closings and insider trading ethics is certainly enjoying a huge comeback Tom America says philosopher Lisa Newton of Conno Calicut s Fairfield University it s almost a says Schmidt. Beginning i his school year Harvard business school now requires All Lisl year candidates to decision waking and ethical values course taught by nine senior faculty members. and Exchange commission chairman John Shad gave Harvard a $20 million endowment to Leach future traders and Money managers the difference Between right and. Wrong. Barry Bingham jr., former editor and publisher of Iho courier govt my in Louisville. By. Has launched Fine Lac a newsletter Lor professionals in print and broadcast news dealing in actual Case histories of ethical problems con Tinling Media in the United slates Dyni Elliott director of Dartmouth s Institute of ethics has spent months in Iho newsrooms of Tho Philadelphia in cd of. Tic courier journal chs to in Portland. .maine., and similar clients coaching journalists on How to think morally when the Lough calls1 come in near deadline. Should to reveal the name of a rape victim7 go with the gory pictures of a fatal Accident on the interstate protect the source blowing the whistle on City contract scandals Lisa Newlon of Fairfield University wrote Tho study guide for Public broadcasting s critically acclaimed 10 part series on ethics in America that featured such As Lormeau s attorney Rudolph Giuliani supreme court Justice Ariton Scalia takeover specialist t Boone Pickens forme u n Delegate Jeano Kirkpatrick Gen William Westmoreland surgeon general c Everett keep civil rights activist c Vernon Mason and Kasha Fine Graham of the Washington Post Schmidi of the Trinity Center spent several months going through the in House training program of a leading Wall Street investment Lim to to Able to Lalk their language and serve As midwife Al the birth of a values program. There Are companies no that have positions of High corporate responsibility Seal cd by theologians and philosophers he says Socrates Loday might have his own pairing space and his name on an office door As an ethicist instead of walking Barefoot in the streets of Athens to proclaim his message of know thyself like Jesulla John Langan a Georgetown s Kennedy huge coir Institute , to might to a values consultant to chemical flank the nation s fourth largest or like Chuck Powers to might have his own consulting firm resources Foi responsible management to provide hands on training for business managers and policy makers concerned about whether the Golden Rule is obsolete in drawing the Bol Lorn line. Powers epitomizes the Pilgrim s Progress of the modern ethic Ian or oleic is As they Are now interchangeably called in personnel Job descriptions he went from the la Cully of the Vale divinity school to vice president for Public policy Al Cummins engine Tho. Indiana diesel manufacturer that was the first to introduce a compari wide ethics training program. Powers next was recruited by Industry and government to Lound the health effects Institute and clean Sites innovative non profit organizations looking into problems of motor vehicle exhausts and cleaning up toxic waste dumps. His Wilo Barbara Ley jollies a psychologist in organizational behaviour with clients such As american can get Aetna and even Iha internal Revenue service is his partner in the Consul Ling firm which does not a Verlisa but depends on client referrals. Is livelihood in ministering to the troubled soul of Industry the Bottom line is that we made Mono last year say a Barbara to Flor. Webster defines ethics As the philosophy of human conduct with emphasis on the determination of right Iron wrong " ethics pitches its Lent on the High ground beyond and sometimes contrary to whal the Law allows. David Schmidt head of the outreach Center of new York s Trinity Church on Wall Street. Page 14 the stars and stripes Fred Friendly former lbs Nat Bott hosted the Rece the 10-Psrt series explored ethical behaviour and Ait a sunday of
