Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University The ommeC nt Campus Journals and Publications 1981 The ommeC nt, October 29, 1981 Bridgewater State College Volume 55 Number 17 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (1981). The Comment, October 29, 1981. 55(17). Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/491 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. l I l -j THE COM ENT i Dear Joe, page· 3 Triumph! page 7 Vol. LV, Issue 17 Bridgewater State College October 29, 1981 Bridgewater Junior Saves Life of Friend by Michael Ricciardi Joseph Cifello is a police officer the woman from· choking. Joseph for the town of Rockland. He is also knew that this was only driving the in his junior year at BSC. Last choking material farther into her Thurs, Oct 22, Mr. Cifello was one throat. After what seemed like of forty honored guests at a banquet hours Cifello, pushing the chef out sponsored by the American Blue of the way, tried three times unsuc­ Cross, Blue Shield. He and the cessfully to dislodge the food from other 39 guests personally received her throat. On the fourth try he suc­ .awards from Dr. Henry Hiemlech, ceeded in dislodging the food from inventor of a first aid maneuver the woman's throat. It was not until known as the "Hiemlich hug". some time later that Joseph fully It all began some four years ago realized what he had done. "When I when Mr. Cifello was at home got home it hit me:.1 had saved a watching a morning talk show. The human being's life." He confessed it guest was a Dr. Henry Hiemlech was a wonderful feeling to see this who was demonstrating a new tech- woman, who had known him as a nique t6/~aving a person who was child, walk out of the restaurant. ~ choking to death. Joseph went out "I never thought," said the thirty- soon after and bought several books eight year old Sociology major, "that · - Andrew Young Lectures November:.-5 on. the subject of first aid. He said, four years after I saw Dr. Hiemlich "Somehow I knew that someday I on television, I would one day have would need it." That someday came the honor of being in the same room · The Student \Jnion Program 1965, leading directly to the passage Churches, at) executive of SCLC, a few years later when, ata restau~ with him."(This interviewer is glad Committee proudly presents a lec­ of the Voting Rights Act that ye(lr and Chairman of the Atlanta Com­ rant with his aunt, a woman at a to have had the honor oflleing in the tµr~ with Andrew Young, .Former and to revolutionary political munity Relations Commission. nearby table was choking on her same room with Mr.<:•.).. Ambassador to the U.N .. The lec­ change in the South; the Poor Peo­ In 1972 he was elected to the U.S. food. The chef came out, an• in a Joseph Cifello will also be appear· . ture will take place Nov. 5, 1981 at ple's Campaign of 1968; the move­ House of Representatives from the panic began to hit the woman on the ing on a future edition of WBZ's 11 am i the Student Union Ballroom. ment against U.S. involvement in Fifth Congressional District of back, thinking that this would keep ~'People Are Talking". Ambassador Andrew Young has the war in Vietnam ; and numerous Georgia, ·becoming the first black been involved in public pollcy issues campaigns of voter registration, Congressman from Georgia in iOl and social change all of his adult life, economic development and labor years. He was elected with the sup­ as a clergyman, civil rights leader, organizing in the North and South. port of a coalition of black and white Congressman, United States At the Southern Christian Leader­ voters. and was re-elected in 1974 Representative to the United ship Conference (SCLC) he and 1976. In his first term in Con· Nations, and private citizen. directed .the Citizenship Education gress, Mr ...Young was a member of In the 1960's, Mr. Young was a Program, which provided commun­ the House Banking and Currency close associate of Dr. Martin Luther ity organizing arid ,leadership train­ committee and its subcommittees King Jr., participating in the major ing to thousands of people who went on International Finance, Interna­ civil rights movements of the time. on to lead the change which swept tionalTrade, Mass Transportation, Among these were the Birmingham the South. and Consumer Affairs. In his second Movement of 1963, which led to the Ambassador Young has also term, and until he left Congress to Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the dis· been a pastor in Alabama and Gear· become UN Ambassador, he was a mantling of segregation in the gia, the Associate Director of Youth member of the House Rules com­ South; t_he -~elma Movement of Work for the National Council of mittee, which reviews all major legis- ( Continued pg. 4) . Massachusetts Department of Education Visits BSC by Richard Lussier During the week ofNovember23, semester of student teaching. This taking education courses all at once. 30 education professionals acting effectively takes 3/10 of the stu­ It is not uncommon to see such a under the aegis of the Mass. Depart­ dent's entire undergraduate expe­ stud~nt with two or three per ment of Education will visit Bridge· rience to complete. The visitors semester. One student is carrying water State for the purpos~ of from Boston will evaluate the pro­ five. - evaluating three of Bridgewater's grams for compliance with the new One of the program's recognized professional education programs: standards for teacher certification. assets from the stu('.ient point of Elementary, High School and Physi­ Each course in the required view is the accessibility of the pro­ .cal Education. The programs ar_e sequence of courses addresses dif· fessional education staff. Paper­ currently a.ccredited by_ NCATE ferent aspects of the standards. work problems are usually promptly and the entire college by the New The. program has experienced attended to and the Office of England Association of Schools and orily minor administrative difficulties Teacher Certification, directed by Colleges. (The re-accreditation pro­ to date. Students are ideally Anne Byrne, is quick to arrange for cess for the entire school will begin expected to sequence courses over the most. efficient handling of pre­ again next year and is carried out a period of three years taking practicum field experience prob- every ten years as· a matter of roughly two education course per 1ems. Professor Robert routine.) semester. The revised program was Fitzgibbons, chairman of .the Dept. The High Sd)ool Teacher Educa­ phased· inover.·a two-year period, of High School, Middle School and tion program has undergone signifi­ thus precluding scheduling. difficul­ Adult Education, continually cant changes under new ties for most students. However, stress~s to students both privately certification regulations which must some members of the senior class and in class to see him personally for take effect by September 1982. By who had transferred from other col­ any problems coordinating the. new law, the program must .include 21 leges or who had decided to enter requirements for certification. His the program as juniors are caught office is located on the second floor hours of professional education 1 Cheryl Tripp courses, foughly 60 hours of pre· midway between the old and. the of the Burrill Ave. building. practicum experience, and a full new. As such many students are (continued pg. 4) Homecom·ing Queen '81 2 The Comment October 29, ·19s1 Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, Dear Gay and Proud, In response to the Editorial on the In refere nee to your letter on Oct. Who is to say we are not being supposed apathy on campus 22 you wanted a response, well here truthful to ourselves? We tell very towards homosexuals, we of the it is. As you know the issue of gays few people or possibly no one that heterosexual monority would like to on campus came out into the open we are gay because that's our per­ express our opinion concerning via The Comment. sonal choice. If you remain unde­ your situation. We beleive that your First, how could you expect gay 'tected because of fear, that's cool! If preference is not in the Natural students to "come out" and tell the that's the way you feel O.K. .... but Order of things. We find your con­ college what their sexual preference don't tell us we are not being "truth­ stant editorials on your "plight" is? Especially in society today, des­ ful" to ourselves. unenlightening and uninviting. pite the fact that homosexuality is In closing, I'd like to say thanks for We're not close minded nor ultra­ more open, people still do not fully your editorial. You told us how you conservative on the subject. Pride understand our lifestyle, if at all. felt and that's what you wanted to indicates a willingness to stand up Secondly, Bridgewater State Col­ do, but if you don't get the ·against any and all opposition. Any lege is an extremely small commun­ responses that you have hoped for, When I was little I hated Halloween--more than gym--more than the hesitancy on the writers part to ity. Its hard enough to live the way don't be upset. You want others to chunk turkey and gravy they served in the school cafeteria every Thurs­ reveal his identity to the general we are now, to come out into the respect you for your thoughts, then day.