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Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University The ommeC nt Campus Journals and Publications 1981 The ommeC nt, January 29, 1981 Bridgewater State College Volume 55 Number 1 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (1981). The Comment, January 29, 1981. 55(1). Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/506 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Blood College Beach The Suicide Reviewed Comment ;"~.; ! Volume LV, No.1 B ridge wa t e r State January 29, 4-98~ ·THE LONG YARD by Gil Bliss Old Yankee farmers refer to the does not take one of the Registrar's safeguard their property. they have shortest distance between· two computers to realize that these resorted to erecting a fence. They points in terms of "As the crow departments represent a substantial have given up trying to keep tres flies." BSC students' have betrayed percentage of the total college popu passers off their lawn. Referring to Outward their Yankee sense of practicality by lation. At this time the students the various confrontations with tres deducing that the shortest route found themselves in the uncomfor passers, Mrs_ Plentus states, "The between the new Burnell School table position of trying to make a kids laugh at you and smirk." For and the campus is a path that begins class in Burnell in ten minutes after fear of late night retribution they no at the rear of the gymnasium park leaving one in, for instance, the longer attempt to interfere with stu Bound ing lot, and ends on Burrill Ave. This Grove Street Building. One doubts dents. Ernest Plentus notes, "You would not be a problem except for that many members of the adminis pay you r taxes, you try to keep your the fact that most of the path tration have tried a similar trek on a place nice because it's near Cl col crosses private property. regular daily basis. Despite the fact lege, and you get nothing back." Ernest and Lorna Plentus (ages that college students are supposed The Plentus' originally called the To 82 and 75, respectively) own" the to be in top physical condition for Bridgewater .. Police "Department, property at 81 Burrill Ave. and are lads and lasses of our tender age, but nothing ever came of it. The daily treated to a colorful parade of the fact remains that one cannot' college has ignored the situation. BSC students trying to make it to make it from class to class in the Campus Police Chief Randy Graca Burnell class on time. They don't view the time allowed. It is impossible to realizes the problem but knows that parade with binoculars, either. The arrive on time by pursuing the it is human nature to look for the couple are able to watch students college-sanctioned route (through easiest way across anything, and trampling down the path at a dis gym lot, over tracks, through Great suggests that the state cut a path tance of only 12 feet from their Hill lot, and up Burrill Ave. to Bur through a wooned grove that is on window. nell). This reporter personally state property, and perhaps remove Before examining the specifics of covered the ttNO routes and disco the temptation to trespass. the situation, leC::; look at the buck vered th3t it takr?S an ·2:j'~tra five n1~1"'1~ V.Jithin a cou:..;le 0: ma"ths,Nc',t, gro6nd. Last September the college utes to go the Great Hm parking lot England's mud season win be upon opened its new model lab, the Bur route, and given the faculty wrath us. The Plentus' will sit helplessly by, nell School. At that time, all of the historically vented towards late stu watching out the window as their foHowing departments aiso moved dents, one is not surprised that they lawn becomes a quagmire of mlld their offices anp most of their upper take the short cut. Consider the churning under the rushing feet of level classes to Burnell: Anthropol plight of the hapless student who is students cutting through to MAlOl. ogy and Sociology; Psychology; unlucky enough to have his classes A disgraceful condition exists, made Social Work; Elementary Ed_ and divided betweel! the two distant more disgraceful by the fact that col· Early Childhood; Teacher Prep.; campus' areas. lege and town authorities have Math and Computer Science; The Plentus' have lived in their ignored it. Secondary Ed.; and Special Ed. It house for 13 years. Attempting to Th Ma·n o/-a Thousand Fleeces To Speak On February 10, 1981, it gives the Senator Proxmire is the author of Bridgewater State College Student fOLIT books: Can Small· Business . Union Program Committee great Suruiue?; Report from the Waste pleasure to present Senator William land: America's Military-Industrial Proxmire from Wisconsin; Complex;. Uncle Sam, Last of the William Proxmire has been in Big Time Spenders. and·. youean politics since 1950, when he was Do It! elected to the Wiscon'sin State Senator· Prbxmire is the former Assembly. He was elected to the Chairman of the Senate 'Banking United States Senate in 1957· in a and Housing and Urban Affairs special election; to ·fill the.seatleft Comn1ittee .. He will be speaking on vacant by the death of Senator "The· Dubious Achievements in Joseph McCarthy. He was re Government". Proxmire will elected the following year to his Hrst undoubtedly draw, knowledge for full six-year term .. and again reo this lecture from his monthly· pres· elected in 1964, 1970, and 1976. entations of "The Golden Fleece Wisconsin's Senior Senator Awards". This award is given to the . earned his undergraduate degree part·of gbvernm~nt which, inSena" from Yale in 1938 and a Master's tor Proxmire's mind, has wasted the Degree in Business Administration taxpayers money., cum laude from Harvard Graduate The lecture is sure to be iriterestc School of Business in 1940; and a ing and informative for an up-te-date SUo Master's Degree from Harvard in plain tall" view of·· the Federal I Public Administration; Government in Washington. Page 2 THE COMMENT January 29. 1981 / Commentary The hostages are back. The nation breathes a collective sigh of relief. 1 Students Take First Flight Jimmy' Carler leaves his presidency on one of its few bright notes. Why then am I not as emotionall~l caught up in the thing as seemingly every other red-blooded, yellow ribbon bearing card carrying American. I thought about it the other day and decided that it is the media that is to blame. The media that I claim to be an external part of. Somehow I get a sinking feeling that before the course of this thing is through, we will knm\.' everything from the dress size of Kathryn Koob to how many letters from home they didn't receive. Why is this'? Is it out lust for a new American hero? [s it a reaction from the armchair TV viewer who does not do anything himself, and is amazed that others can show patriotism By Lisa Gonsalves In a tangible l,.I.'ay such as being locked up for 444 days? I have thought Bridgwater State's New Aviation branches off into" two specific Bridgwater started out sma!! in Sep frequently the last fev.. ' days of another American hero, Charles Lind· Science Major has gotten off of it's directions-Management and Com tember. but according to Ann O!i\,l bergh. He v.:as a man who became America's idol by getting out there feet with the first flights of freshmen mercial Piloting. Tom Ferry, the first era it is a very interesting program and doing it himself. Tom Fern,' and Ann Oliveria. These student to take a single flight is inter and continues to grow. Not many I can't really fault the media though. They mirror our interests, and flights take place twice a week, ested in the Commercial Pilot area, other colleoes in the area offer such blow them up so that everyone can take part. If people in California IO\.l~d weather ~ih'l1g ,at Wiggins Air while Ann Olivera is leaning more a program~as the Aviation SciencE' to skateboard. then dad gum. the east coast will too, through the maglc ways in Norwood. The students towards the Management aspect. A Major, and as time goes on more of the media. They should just Jet these unfortunate people begin to lead take their flights with instructor Ken private pilots license comes with the and more interested students will • normal lives again. but the)'! have just as much a chance as that as I have Tucker in a Tomahawk Piper, which course and is available with either find their wa!.' to Bridgwater State of takinQ the Avatollah hostaQe. GWB is a small two person plane. branch. College. The Aviation Science _Major. The Aviation Science program at Classified Ad Form CIRCLE HEADING: For Sale Letters to the Editor Housing Wanted Lost and Found Unfair Treatment by the Services Persooals Student Union Program I Ride/Riders Towards Minority Group Other__ ~ _______________________________________ The Student Union Program has !::Slacks viewpoint. Once you ge't in, Must Ad to read as follows: _____________________ aJway~ turned their cheek bone the your saying doesn't matter the other way towards the Black majority of the committee. Your Protest Minority and the Third Wprld point of view isn't fit for their Students at Bridgewater State standards. Many rock and roll College. students do not like disco. Disco is a I have been going to Bridgewater Many events have taken place at soul music for particularly the Black State College for about a year now.