Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University The ommeC nt Campus Journals and Publications 1984 The ommeC nt, October 19, 1984 Bridgewater State College Volume 58 Number 16 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (1984). The Comment, October 19, 1984. 58(16). Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/543 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. In Our Time With Tom Wolfe By Jeffrey Linehan the eighties. He is best known magazine. Before his lecture, Mr. Wolfe Staff Writer for his books The Electric Kool· On October 3, the Student granted The Comment an exclu­ Aid Acid Test, The Pump Union Program Committee sive interview. After an enjoya­ House Gang, and more recently, presented a lecture with Tom ble dinner in the Rathskeller, The first thing that you notice his national best seller, The Wolfe in the Student Union Bal­ Mr. Wolfe and I discussed a about the man is the way he is Right Stuff. He is a steady writer lroom. In a very humorous and wide variety of issues in what dressed. Dapper. Snappy. Just in both The New York Times often enlightening presentation, could best be described as an two of the many adjecives that Magazine and Esquire; this Wolfe addressed a malady he informal ap.d. very friendly could describe his appearence. month alone you can find an termed "cultural amnesia", and atmosphere'. ~He was more than But there is so much more to this article in Harper's, and his cur­ the extraordinary inversion of willing to answer all of my ques.:. man than his clothes, and that is rent novel, The Bonfire of the morals and the changes in atti­ tions, which he did in great the second thing you realize as Vanities, is being published in tudes that have occured in detail. he enters the room. There is, one serial form in Rolling Stone America in only a decade. See WOLFE p. 11 Photo: Ed Donahue might say, an aura about him that demands respect, but at the same time a charisma emanates from around him as well. It is both charming and irresistible, and definitely most amiable. The personality of Tom Wolfe is intricate indeed, and not even he himself can be sure about all its the hidden facets . Wolfe has been called a faith­ ful chronicler of American life, October 19, 1984 · Vol. LVlll No. 16 observing it during the sixties, through the seventies, and into Student,~ Win Big ... By Kimberly J. Murphy effect-it's against the law. They News Editor won't allow for people to give away their rights." Hadge also was asked .if he On Tuesday, October IO, the thought that, from a legal point Student Affairs Committee met of view, if the college was invio- to discuss dormitory regulations lat ion of tne Massachusetts state an.d the Judicial Appeals pro- law regarding the landlord's cesses. The Committee, consist- notification of seven days before ing of Chairperson Walter a tenant could he evicted? Siwik, Dr. Robert Cahill, Carol "There is no doubt (about it) ... I The highlights of the 1984 Home­ Furr and Student Tmstee-Mm---~·ffotet i'ttNel6'At1t1 '8~ Dftisg1rn'lflit•F ~--1-et0wmTTr1"1Wi·ef!)!kJfflJ:/ .. :inpJy(j~d: l tC)p) thew P. Donoghue, discussed State college that occupy the The Bears. defeat at the hands of college policy, specifically the dorm rooms are just as much a Curry, (top right) The winning eviction policy, along with other tenant as any other tenant, '~gray areas" as ·outlined in New whether at a private complex, a float of the . parade belonged · to Dimensions . the Student three family home or whateve- Kappa Phi Omega, and (right) the Handbook. r ... and so if the landlord in one crowning of this years King and Over 30 students, consisting of those types of homes, settings of Student Government wanted to evict a student, the Queen; Jeff May and Kerry Kiley. members, Comment staff, and minimum requirement by law is,' other interested students, for non-payment of rent has to attended the meeting in support be a fourteen-:day notice: any Photos by Deb Santheson and Mike Storey of Trustee Donoghue's concern other reason has to .be thirty-day that student_ rights were being notice. And after the notice is violated by the present policies. given and if the person still Student Governent Association refuses to get out, the landlord President Daniel Magoon, First has to bring eviction proceed- China Trip "Successful" Vice-President David Carreiro, ings. So that would take a cou- and Student Attorney .Donald 'pie of months to get them out, or M. Hadge also assisted Trustee even get to the. court room. · By Carrie Kulick College's Computer Science members as early as.September. Donoghue in the presentation of "What Bridgewater State Staff Writer department, recently returned of ne:xt year. the case on behalf of the Co)lege has been doing is treat- from their eleven day visit to When asked if the delegation students. ing the students as though they Shanxi College in China. achieved it's objectives, Presi­ When asked if there are any were less than a legal tenant. College President Adrian The venture was quoted as dent Rondileau responded "Yes, gray areas in the Handbook that And I don'.t think that they had Rondileau, Vice-President of being a "successful" one. Foun­ although learning about the need ironing out-areas that are the legal right to do that. Chap- Academic affairs Robert Dil­ dations for a student-faculty structure of the college and left open to interpretation by the ter I 86, section 17, makes it clear lman, Joyce Leung who is a pro­ exchange agreement between about their education will be Ad minis tra tio n, Attorney in the law that the law recog- f es sio nal librarian at the BSC and Shanxi Teachers Col­ inevitable, just as they are learn­ Hadge stated that ~'. .. I would nizes the student' as a tenant. Maxwell library, and Dr. lege in China .have been laid., ing about · ours, it goes far say yes to that. As to now many The only, thing that the statute George Sethares, a faculty This could mean e~changes for beyond looking at documents apply to the dormitory land- does in th.e very last sentence is member of Bridegewater State both students and a few faculty See CHINA p. 11 lord/tenant end of it, I am not rather that give the student a quite sure. Bµ.sically the regula- thirty-day notice, it says that tions/ conditions in the Student before you can. terminate their Students to vote on SSAM Handbook, I think that I would tenancy, you have to give them a compare them to conditions ofa See STUDENTS p. 10 lease'. I believe the residency agreement talks about the Stu­ Referendum Question dent Handbook:'§lti'that the stu- . dents do. have an obligation By Gregory Mathis ing the interests· of state college encountered. overall to follow the regulations Staff Writer · stud~nts in the state legislature, Over the last year, SSAM has because it's part of an agreement the Bo;;ird of Regents, the board helped students in the tuition that they entered into. But if cer­ of Trustees, the Governor's fight over the. summer, has tain of those agreements are A referenda will be at Bridge­ Office and other decision mak- helped with voter registration against the. Jaw, or violate the water ..State College asking stu­ ing organizations. and financial· aid. law in some way, then even dents if they are willing to Last week the Student The dollar fee that students though the students have agreed support a dollar per student per Government Association voted pay at the beginning of each to them, they ,still cannot be semester fee to support a State to add SSAM to it's constitu- semester will be sent to the done, becuase if the law says S tu d en t Ass o ci at i o n of tion, making it an extension of SSAM headquarters. in Boston that there are certain things you Massachusetts. the SGA, also allocated $1,000 · to expand the working staff of can't agree to, and even if the SSAM is a statewide student to SSAM to help defray some of · , student agrees to it, the law says advocacy organization promot- the costs that SSAM has See SSAM p. 10 that that !lgreem~Qt. has .. no 2 ~ The Comment ..Friday, .Oct~be.r)9, 1984. JACK ANDERSON AND JOSEPH SPEAR WEEKLY SPECIAL Phony case built against whistle blower Kappa Phi By Jack Anderson ert O'Brien, asked an underling to and Joseph Spear find a way to get rid of Hnatio. heart disease. The book, which con­ WASHINGTON - Whistle The employee who was assigned tained 250 artery-clogging egg reci­ Omega Thanks blowers - those courageous gov- the chore was apparently experi- pies, was sent by CIBA Pharmaceu­ ernment employees who risk their enced in bureaucratic self-protec- tical Co. jobs exposing corruption and tion. She put O'Brien's instructions "I thought it was a sick joke," incompetence in the bureaucracy down in writing: said one physician. Second· Audrey Kriegman, CIBA's direc­ - are routinely subjected to retail- "O'Brien requested that I check tor of medical services, acknowl­ atory harassment by the bosses with personnel to see if we could edged that the cookbook mailing they have embarrassed. fire. above-named employee was in bad taste.