The Comment, December 4, 1986
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Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University The ommeC nt Campus Journals and Publications 1986 The ommeC nt, December 4, 1986 Bridgewater State College Volume 63 Number 9 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (1986). The Comment, December 4, 1986. 63(9). Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/616 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. •THly Menu-Jusf when you thought It iwas safe...... p ..6 Bridgewater State Coilege h n Dec. 4, 1986 Vol LXlll no 9 "Take a chance on me" Indelicato moves free hour again By would be cancelled, and that the Brent F. Rossi "number of students affected isn't significant if you look at the President Gerard Indelicato whole." has again announced a change in Indelicato said that he wilJ the schedule for free hour. It had work with the Registrar's Office beeri rescheduled from Tuesdays over the summer to change the and Thursdays at 11 a.m. to Fri- free hour to a yet more conve days at 3 p.m. nient time. He is now consider- It was brought to Indelicato 's ing Wednesdays at 2 p.m. for the. attention that participation in Fall, 1987 semester. This would clubs and organizations on cam- increase the length of classes in pus would decline greatly, as this time slot on Mondays and most commuters are gone by 3 Fridays. p.m., and many resident stu- · Free hour was moved from dents go home for the weekend. Tuesday mornings because two Indelicato has now moved free independent studies cited the hour from Friday afternoons to ·underutilization of available Thursdays at 3:00. space. Before he could ask the He said that this short term state for more buildings, Jndeli Swim Coach Joe Yeskewicz looks on as Sharon Wa/eik of the Bridge move "wouldn't affect the sche- cato said he had to use what he water State College Water Polo Club picks the winner of their 50150 dule too much. Only 22 sections has efficiently. He said that one raffle. Pam Dunbury was this year's winner of $45. are affected ... and these are thirteenth of the class time each seminars and activity classes.,, ·week is being taken up by free tte saia n1a\.. noµc .01 .. Jhcse hour. Chorale Society to. hold Ch.ristmas concert By ties including a Christmas. Con The Chorale program consists to sing along with the chorus in a upcoming t~ur of Austria, Hun Heather Eggert cert on Friday, December 5th. A ofa variety of musical selections. few traditional Christmas carols gary and Romania, which will be pre-performance recep~ion at From Rachmaninoff's "Ave during the concert. happening in the Spring. These Years ago, there was the tradi Tillinghast Hall will be offered at Maria" to "Fantasia On Christ The Chamber Singers will be will include madrigals by various tion at BSC of students going 6:30 p.m. and refreshments will mas Carols" by Ralph Vaughan presenting some beautiful cemposers, such as Thomas caroling around the campus and be served. At 7:30, there will be a Williams to "My Lord What A Christmas music including Morely, John Dowland and musically celebrating the coming tree lighting ceremony and car Mornin' ", a spiritual by Harry "How Unto Bethleham", a tradi Countess Ada De Lachau. oi the holidays. With all the oling on the Quad, followed by a f. Burleigh. tional Italian piece with transla We hope you will be abJe to changes that this school has candlel~t procession to Horace The Chorale has been practic tion by Robert Shaw and "Ding share in this rejuvination ·of the und~rgone in the past hundred Mann Auditorium for an even ing especially hard on their Dong! Merrily on High", a Christmas Spirit at Bridgewater years, it. seemed as if that tradi ing of holiday music, and a major work, "To Us A Child Is French holiday tune. Also," Ave State College by joining us in an tion has .been lost. punch reception following. Born'~, cantata No. 142 by Maria", by Jean Movton will be evening of celebration, tradition Slowly but surely, some peo This Christmas,' the Chorale Johann Sebastian Bach. They sung by the Chamber. As well as and music on Friday, December ple have begun, with the help and Chainber Singers have are very proud of the outcome these seasonal selections, the 5th at the Horace Mann from the Chorale Society, to try worked very hard for this con and are looking forward to shar Chamber Singers will be giving a Auditorium. to bring the traditiori back by cert and are proud to be a part of ing it in their upcoming concert. special preview of some of the presenting an evening of festivi- this rekindling of old traditions. Also, the audience will be invited songs that will be sung on their Fiore speaks at first Fun and conversation with Presidential Lecture WBCN's Charles Laquid ra By dential Lecture Series, held By . ' morning show on the · popular before F. Scott Longo on Nov. 19. The lecture series the show asking for direc Brent F. Rossi Boston station. Then Laquidara tions). gives faculty members the From there, his topics of quietly walked up the side of the Did you know that Bridge opportunity to present their conversation went every which Charles Laquidara, morning ballroom .and began ·in a very way in no water Normal School's. first personal academic interests to particular order. radio personality (he.hates to be unusual way: principal, Nicholas Tillingh the college community. He spoke about the relation called a "disc jockey'') for "Before 1.begin,"said Laquid . ship between himself ast, taught both Ulysses S. This lecture was titled and man WBCN-FM, packed 'em in at ara, "would it be too much.trou agement at the station. Grant and Robert E. Lee at "From These Beginnings: The the Student Union Ballroom on ble if everyone kinda moved "I can do West Point? Formative Years of the anything I want," Monday, Nov. 24. forward?" 4 Or that graduates 1 said Laquidara .• ' They ·pretty of Bridgewater Experiment." You really had to be there to So everyone slid their chairs to· much give free reign. n Bridgewater Normal School Dr. Fiore explained the politi'." me get the feel of what Charles Laq the front of the room; the front One thing that helped establish the U niver- · cal and social circumstances makes Laquid uidara is like. Listening to the row. was only two feet from the ara unique is his determination sity of ·Illinois, N ortheas.tern in the establishment of a crowd, you would have thought stage. to fight for the common University along with schools teachers college. He man. that he was a Club Soda per It's very difficult to report Through the in Japan and Mexico? explained how unique· it was character of Ger former. Laughter could be heard about his talk. Laquidara began aldo Laquidara, These facts, and many to have a college established he' telephones throughout the entire two hours. by speaking about his car, a late various ·people more, were revealed by Dr. specifically for the training of and agencies to Before coming onstage, a tape model BMW with .a phone in. it try to cut through Jordan Fiore at the first Presi- 11 Cont. p. 2 bureaucracy, was played with clips from ·his (he was·. heard calling the school 1111 Cont. p. 2 2 The·Comment Thursday, December 4, 1986 Fiore speaks on the history of BSC 11 ConL from p. 1 ington (later moved to Fra attended the lecture. tuted the Presidential Lecture University after serving in teachers. It took the hard mingham), Barre (moved to Dr. Fiore feels that Bridge Series, was pleased to have World War II. work and political influence Westfield), and Bridgewater. water State can be the best Dr. Fiore speak. Fiore came back to Bridge of people such as John The result of ·this experi state college in the country. "When we talk about the water in 1957 as a professor of Quincy Adams and U.S. ment is Bridgewater State He cited the fact that "every pride and tradition at Bridge history and has become one of Senator Daniel Webster. College, which is located only major teaching college in the water," said Indelicato, "Dr. the most respected faculty In l 838 the state legislature I 00 yards from the original Middle West and the Northw Fiore is the example." members on campus. In the agreed to the establishment of one room "normal school." est Territories had Bridge Dr. Fiore is a graduate of half century he has been at "normal schools" as a three Dr. Fiore truly moved the water graduates on their Bridgewater State, Class of Bridgewater, Fiore has year experiment. The three I 00 or so faculty, students, faculties." 1940. He recieved his Master's become the foremost author schools were opened in Lex- and administrators that Dr. Indelicato, who insti- and Doctorate from Boston ity on BSC history. 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