Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University The ommeC nt Campus Journals and Publications 1985 The ommeC nt, April 16, 1985 Bridgewater State College Volume 59 Number 7 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (1985). The Comment, April 16, 1985. 59(7). Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/531 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. -~~ ....... ·----- co April 16, 1985 vol LIX no 7 TENURE .OUTRAGE •• By tary school for children from turn the negative review. various committees are to be for­ labors and effective'' teaching Carrie Kulick Bridgewater. An additional Special Com­ warded to BSC President abilities. Editor-In-Chief Robinson, the only teacher at mittee on Tenure composed of ·,Adrian Rondileau, who in turn Bridgewater School Commit­ and the school with a doctorate, has Dr. Robert Dillman, Dr. Mur­ will make a final recommenda­ tee member· Paul Chouinard, a Timothy Driscoll been working· there for almost ray Abrahmson, Ms. Mary tion to the Board of Trustees at a parent of one of Robinson's Managing Editor five years and henceforth is eligi­ Myers, an outside party as later date. former students, summed up the ble to be considered for tenured requested by Robinson, and Dr. An unprecedented number of parents' fellirigs to retain Robin­ At last Wednesday's meeting status. He initially received a Stephen Traw subsequently concerned faculty, parents, and son " ... so that the future children of the Board of Trustees, nearly negative tenure review from Dr. voted 4-1 to uphold Traw's students turned out in over­ of Bridgewater will have an 100 conGerned parents, faculty, Stephen Traw, the principal at initial recommendation. Even whelming support of Dr. Robin­ opportunity to learn from such a and students turned' out in sup­ the Burnell School. As a result of though Dr. Robinson requested son. A petition was presented to top-notch teacher." Bridgewater port of Dr. Charles Robinson, a this negative review, Robinson the removal of Dr. Traw from the board, signed by members of State College student Scott Esau teach'er at the Burnell Labora­ requested that an Ad Hoc com­ the Special Committee on Robinson's 5th grade class, presented a letter to the Trustees tory School wh_o is in the process mittee (provided for in the Tenure due to a possible conflict beseeching them to "Save Dr. signed by himself and other Ele­ of being denied tenure. faculty union contract) consist­ of interest, Executive Vice Presi- Robinson". Several actively mentary Education majors rein­ The Burnell School serves as a ing of members from the Burnell . dent Ed Meaney, whose onus it involved parents of students at forcing the aforementioned model teaching laboratory for faculty be formed to review this is to decide such matters, denied the school also spoke out in concerns. BSC students training to become recommendation. This commit­ the request. Robinson's behalf, for they have Many prominent BSC faculty teachers, as well" as an elemen- tee unanimously voted to over- The recommendations of the seen first-hand the results of his Continued on page 4 RAT TRAPPED?? H,:y by thirty-five legislators when *The Commissioner of Kevin Dwyer \n\i;<)<:.\u<::i~d. \n<.-:.un\.nce would ~romo\g,ate. a Staff Writer The 'biJI would also make · ..pJan ofoperatiQn" t:prthe J lJ A. t.-'Dram-Shop" liability statutory The· bill sets a date of June .l, Two weeks ago, it was m the Commonwealth. Cur- 1985 for the establishment of the reported here that the .Rat wiH rently, Massachusetts has com- plan. This date is, however, close on May 20 at 12:01 a.m. rn 0 n , I aw "Dram sh 0 p" dependent upon swift enactment That still stands~ However, the guidelines, imposed by .the State of the bill. larger issue of the RaCs reopen- Supreme Court. (Dram-Shop *The JUA would be gov­ ing in. September or sometime . liability is the precedent under erned by a board of directors thereafter has yet to be resolved. which a. bar can be held reponsi- consisting of thirteen members: "As you may recall, the entire ble for drunk driving patrons eight representative!; of the problem centers on insurance: involved in automobile insurers, four representatives of. ·more specifically on the Rat's accidents.) those holding licenses to sell and inability to get their liquor liabil- Other _conditions of the bill serve alcholic beverages, one ity coverage continued. include: insurance producer. Since our last issue, steps have *Caps of $500,000 per per- *Policies shall be for the been taken to help alleviate this son and $1,000,009 per incident term of one year. problem. Massachuseets State plaCF·d on recoveries against Said Dr. Rick Veno, Director Senator Linda Melkonian, Co- licensees (restaurant or bar of the BSC Student Union, chairperson of the Senate Insu- owners) by individuals injured "Many things have to happen ranee Committee, . has intro-· by the actions of an intoxicated before t.his legislation is passed duced legislation that would patron. and we get our coverage." create a joint underwriting asso- *A one year statute of lim- Dr. Veno ajtended the April 9 ciation (JUA) for liquor liability itations imopsed on "Dram- hearing concerning this bill at coverage. This proposal-Senate Shop"actions(oneyearfromthe the Stae House., He told The bill No. 2165".'was cosponsored date of the incident). ·:ominued on page J very good. Many students expressed their new found . understanding .of handicapped students'- problems to Ms. Audino .. after participating in GUIDE TO FEAT·URES - Don MacMunn and his dog Honey pose· during the Hearing Dog one· of the events. Demonstration · Disappointing however, were the· small audiences 'that showed. up for the guest speakers and the AWARENESS '85 unexpected lack of participation ·on the part of faculty me~bers. "successful" ·The members of The :O~<f' Editorials 2 By . Overall the program, titled Awareness Coalition and the News Briefs 5 Roger Spring Awareness '85, was successful. Student Services Office would Staff Writer This success was largely due to like to express their gratitude to Entertainment 8 the efforts of c.oalition members those who took the time to· get Sports 10 During the w~ek ,preceeding Mea Audino· and Sandy Gero­ involved and to encourage them Easter (April I to April 4) the koulis, who along with· Nancy and anyone else who wishes, to · Living 13 Disabled_ Awareness Coalition, Clay and Patti Lynch of the Stu­ participate in their Wheelchair Classified 14 working in cooperation with the dent Service Office, were respon­ Basketball Game, tentatively Announcements 16 Student Service Office, spon- sible for most of the planning rescheduled for May 2nd. sored a variety of events which and production. Many of . the events were were aimed at increasing aware---- Turnout for the physicalaciiv­ videotaped and will be played on ness and understanding of some ities, which included a wheel­ the televisions in the Student of the many problems encoun- chair obs~acle course and a Union foyer in the coming tered by handicapped students: ·nearing· dog demonstration~ was weeks. '1 ! ; ' ;. ·;··'! 'I(. ••, i'' \ ,.i,r ! ' 2 The Comment Tuesday, April 16, I 985 . '? "'!' ~ "' ·.• ",\ letters to the editor ~ •• A few months ago a friend of ours, William Schmiedel, was taken from us tragically in an automobile accident. In his memory .. we have established the William Schmiedel Memorial Fund to be given to a student in the field of Sports Training. We would like to. raise a minimum of $1.000 in order to have an ongoing a ward and plaque, however, we are far short of our goal. In order to help · raise the money we have organized a raffle in which there will be a $75.00 1st prize, $50.00 2nd prize and $25.00 3rd rize. We hope · that you will consider giving to this very meaningful and worth­ while cause. Conributions in his memory may be made to the William Schmiedel Memorial Fund B.A.A. and brought to room 10 in Wood Hall or to the table in front of the book store in the Student Union from 10:00-12:00 during the weeks of April 16 through April 26. Thank you. Timothy J Pappalardo Carrie Kulick Tyler Laughridge Jeanne Douglas Editor-in-Chief (fundraisers) William Schmiedel Congratulations are in order for Michelle Lombardo, the newly elected Editor-in-Chief of The Comment for the fall semester. She applications for several positions (sports, Dear Editor, is curr~ntly acc~p~ing entertamment, hvmg, and news editors, as well as for business This letter is written in Writers are still and will always be needed!! If your response to an article which ~anager). mterested come down to the office and see what its all about. appeared in the April I issue of There are plenty of opportunities available. The Comment. The article, writ­ sunerl this time to give the entire staff a great big pat on ten by Kevin Dwyer.was titled I would like ~t good job" in writing and getting this "Rat To Close" and appeared on The views expressed as Com­ ~he back for domg a "damn The countless hours they put in of their own time the front page. mentaries and Letters to the Edi· issue together. These Jn the article, the insurance tor are soley the opinions of th1 often ~o~s .u~appreciated by the college community. in the companies were held entirely author, . and are not necessari~r dynamic md1v1duals have grown in skill and in style. Even these people are still responsible for the possibility of those of The Comment, its Edi· final race towards the end of the semester, giving their 180%.