Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University The ommeC nt Campus Journals and Publications 1987 The ommeC nt, November 12, 1987 Bridgewater State College Volume 65 Number 8 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (1987). The Comment, November 12, 1987. 65(8). Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/596 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. lll&11t11 The Comment Bridgewater State College November 12, 1987 IVol. LXV No. 7 Bridgewater, MA "Which wav did he ao?" Printing ·Arms race problems adressed: postpone Star Wars yearbooks "flawed" ByEdWard By Bryon Hayes According to Yearbook editor The "A Week of Education on Ronald Pettit "production of the the Nuclear Arms Race: 1987 yearbook will be delayed November 9 - 15" lecture series five weeks and students will began Monday night in the Green receive their books in January." Room of the Campus Center. The yearbook office received The event was sponsored by the 1054 books on Wednesday, Union of Concerned Scientisits October 28, but Pettit decided to (Photo by Deb Willis) '(UCS). return the books after discovering Students wait for the bus in front of the Conant Science Building late, last The topic for the evening some major defects. He reports Friday afternoon. "Computers and Star Wars," was that there was a serious problem presented by Dr. James Fink, a with the red background screens dividers were splotchy and very long. For alumni to have almost three weeks to reprint and member of UCS. He began by on the first 16 page signature of spotted. This was not quality books falling apart after a few rebind the books and they will determining the current factors, the book. printing." years is not a good thing. We arrive back by mid-December for positive and negative, in which .:~rst 16 p~ges 0£ tij; rifi •n p2Qition .1~~,iu4j~~~~t:Y:111~ want to senu them back to be distribution as early as January. the nuclear arms race is situated. background screens were not Pettit found the book's binidilgs rebound." Taylor Publishing ·is the The positive forces are: the . consistent with the red screens in to be less then satisfactory. Pettit will be shipping the company that Pettit ha~ been conclusion of the Intermediate the back of the book and the "The binding was extremely books out Thursday afternoon to working with to get the yearbook cont. on p. 3 graduated grey screens on the loose and will· not stay together Dallas to be rebound. It will take cont. on p. 3 Campus Center doors smashed By Ed Ward Social welfare Students walking through the lower floors of the Campus minor announced Center last Friday may have noticed a few shattered glass doors. Two of the broken doors By Mona R. McNamara require students to deal with were located in the lower foyer people." That is one of the facing both the front of the Upon returning to· BSC this reasons for the minor in Social building and the movie lounge fall, students found that many Welfare. and a third by RG4 beneath the changes took place over the According to Dr. Dorothy auditorium. summer. These changes in­ E. Howard, Professor of Social Campus Center Director Dr. cluded additions to majors and Work, Richard Veno was reluctant to minors. What does this mean "The advantages of a Social release information Friday about to students? It means that the Welfare minor are endless; the damage. department of Social Work is when graduates deal with Due to possible legal announcing a minor in Social clients, they will be less complications, however, he was Welfare. This is a minor for all conscious of themselves and unable to release any details, students; it's goal is to present more conscious of the client except that no one was injured. a clear under- standing the of whom they are attempting to Maintenance: personnel at the human services field and how serve." Campus Center reported that one functions in it. damage to the foyer doors resulted Social Work has been an Bruns and Howa!d ex­ because of a probable dispute independent major since 1977. plained that the minor works . between two individuals leaving However, it has been a part of just as any other minor. the Rathskeller on Thursday the Department of Sociology Introduction to Psychology night. They could not, however, since 1972. This was due·to (PY 100) or Introduction to provide any information about the fact that social work was a Sociology (SOlOO) are the the broken door near RG4. fledgling department in the only prerequisites to be a Other maintenance personnel early 1970's~ mino;r. There are four required aware of the damage stated that "The department is growing courses that begin with In­ although there had been no injury very fast," according to troduction to Social Welfare. this time, there could be injuries Professor Aida Bruns, de~ Students must also take several .in the future. They claim the partment chair. "Many students electives; the topics covered for doors in the foyer are unsafe are going into the human the electives may range from · (Photo by Deb Willis) because they swing too fast and The foyer doors as they appeared after being services fields. Or they are in child welfare to substance could cause an injury if students service related fields that abuse. smashed Thursday night. are not careful. 2 The Comment Thursday, November 12, 1987 News Meal - less meal planned '.Ii~ on Thursday, November 19, toNorthAmerica. ;"JIStlrEJSS·. Oxfarn America celebrates it The tragedy exists in our own . tf · annual day of "Fast for a World country as well. Nearly 32.5 Harvest." This well known million Americans live below the organization is an international poverty line. The United States is agency that funds self-help the only industrialized country development projects and disaster where children make up the relief in poor countries. Oxfam largest segment of the poverty America's Fast for a World population. While no one is sure Harvest provides a symbolic way how many Americans are to participate in the struggles of homeless, estimates range from the poor and hungry around the 600,000 to 3 million, and the world. Fast for a World Harvest number is increasing. is held each year on the Thursday This year, the BSC Catholic before Thanksgiving, a time Center is once again challenging when people in the United States the entire community of traditionally celebrate their abun- Bridgewater State College to dance with family and friends. become involved. The goal is a The facts are sobering. Inter- "Meal-less Meal." On Thursday, nationally, many people involved November 19, every member of in growing the world's food ~n't the community is invited to fast afford to feed their own families; from the noonday meal. This every minute, 30 children die for sign of concern can provide one want of food and inexpensive more opportunity for solidarity as vaccines, while in that same a community. minute, the world's military On Monday, Tuesday, and budgets absorb $1.7 million of Wednesday prior to the day of public funds. 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Also, he pointed out "These are relatively inex­ around. New weapons will not strategic arms with the meeting the two largest flaws: the SDI pensive and would travel with work. We must find a way to between President Reagan and system has no means of being any satellite we placed up there." share this planet if we are to Soviet Premier Gorbachev; and a tested, and it invites Soviet Fink concluded that he feels the survive." new generation of Soviet and countermeasures. American leaders. "Once any computer system is Yearbook editor Ronald Pettit The negative factors are that the, developed, it must be tested; any Meal - less meal planned U.S. abandonded the Salt II (computer) science expert knows limits, even though the treaty that. SDI can not be tested unless cont.