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ALMIEDA REC ROOM SAVEDpage 3

BEATLES CD'Spage 4

In this issue:

JOE PISCOPO AT SPRING WEEKENDpage 4

JOHN MONGILLO CONTEMPLATESCOMMENCEMENTpage 5

VOLUME VIII ISSUE X May 12, 1987

ObituaryThomas J. Paolino Student Apathy Hits Home

6.) We surrender allresponsibility to any athleticclubs to the AthleticDepartment.

7.) We ask the Dean ofStudents to oversee theC1a.~ses !1nd !heir 9fficers.

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5.) We surrender anyjurisdiction over WROG, theMessenger, and the Yearbookto their respective Boards ofDirectQ~s. .

I'W,e hereby authorize the

OliOWlDg:I.) We give up the right toapprove Student judicial BoardmeIl)bers to the Student LifeOffIce. .

2.) We ask the Office ofStudent Activit.ie~. to overseethe Student Activities Council.3.) We surrender our rights inregards to the Parking Fundto the offices of PhysicalPlant and Security.

4.) We surrender .. anyjurisdiction over advertlSlDg toTony F:.erreira. .

or decrease these funds. If anew student government is notI'ormed by the end of theacademic year 1987-88, theStudent Activities Fee will nolonger be collected and nomoney will be allocated.

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-frowever, we have madeprovisions for the academicyear 1987-88. The StudentActivities Fee will still be

.collected and it has beenappropriated to all currentclubs and organizations py thecurrent Student FlDanceBoard, and approved by theStudent Senate. This moneywill be distributed andadministered by WilliamO'Connell. Mr. 0' Connell hasagreed to be the "caretaker"of these funds, and has noauthority to witho.ld, increase

The following is astatement prepared by theExecutive Board of theStudent Senate, after theypassed unanimously a bill todissolve the StudentGovernment Association.

Let it be known that asof May 6, 1987, the StudentGovernment Association ishereby and forthwi.thdissolved. This includes theStudent Senate, all studentgovernment committees andboards, and any other clubsand organizations under theiurisdiction of the StudentSenate. This is done due tothe lack of interested or~illing students to participateID student government.

To: The College CommunityF-rom: Michael J. Cunningham,

Senate ParliamentarianDate: May 7, 1987Subject: Student Senate

a vibrant and dynamicinsti tu tion."

Paolino was instrumentalin obtaining funds for thebuilding of the Thomas J.Paolino Recreation Center,dedicated on May IS, 1983.

He served as an associateiustice of the Rhode IslandSupreme Court for 21 yearsuntil his retirement in 1977,and was a member of thestate and American BarAssociations. An author ofbooks on Rhode Island law,Paolino also served as aRep'!blican nation.al·committeeman, a campajgnstrategist for Dwight n.Eisenhower and a seniorassocia te justice.

"He was a man whoaccomplished a great deal tobe proud of in bis lifetime,"Mayor Paolino said, "but mostof all it was his interest inguiding the careers of youngerpeople in which he nad thegreatest impact...He was a manwhose wisdom, common senseand calming influence servedas a vital and preciousresource."

Paolino is survived by'his wife, Florence (DolcePaolino; a son, Dr. Thomas .Paolino of Providence; twodaughters, Loreen Lepore ofCranston and Linda Paolino ofBarrington; three sisters, andfive grandchildren.

Services were heldTuesday, April 21 at SS Peterand Paul Cathedral inProvi,<ience. The burial tookplace~n St. Anne's Cemetery.

Judge- Thomas J. Paolino..

Roger Williams College markedthe end of an era Saturday~April 19, with the death 01Judge Thomas J-,....,Paolino, thecollege's former chairman ofthe Board of Trustees. He dieda t his home on Orchard Drivein Cranston at the age of 81.

"He had a special lovefor Roger Williams College,"said Paolino's nephew,Providence Mayor Joseph J.Paolino, during the eulogy."(He) moved the school fromrented space in the YMCAbuilding downtown to a $40million waterfront campusoverlooking Mount Hope Bay.He helped the colle2e hecome

Unit 1 "To Become Intercultural"by Sue Costello

Center Applauds Tutorsby Ann Pace

RWC Unit I will becomea home for freshmenin ternational students inSeptember 1987. If thechange is effective, there willbe one international studentand one American student perroom.

As of Monday, April 27three American students hadsigned up for the chance tolive in Unit I. Diana Morerais one of them. She believesthat the freshmen inter-na tional students shouldbenefit from the Inter-culturalLiving Unit.

Morera states, "They willnot know anyone on campusand this will give them achance to meet some people.

The International Center islocated in 'Dorm I and thestudents can go over there ifthey have an v orohlem,"

RWC ESr. (En'g.iliih as aSecond Language) InstructorStacia Lengas agrees with thenecessi ty of the dorm'stransition. She notes, "Thisliving arrangement providesthe international students withmore of an opportunity topractice their English." Sheadds, "It may also help themto better acclimate into theAmerican culture."

There are other benefitsfor the students. ForeignStudent Advisor Scott Yonanstates, "The main purpose ofthe Inter-Cultural Living Unitis to give internationalstudents a place to stayduring vacation."

"In the past, they havebeen on their own or livedwith 10-12 people for a week."

This unit providesfreshmen internationalstudents' with an additionaloption for housing.

Yonan concludes, "If theydo not sign up [to live in thisunit] then we will feel theydo not need it."

More than forty RWCstudents have given much timeand energy toward helpingfellow students achieveacademic goals in the LearningCenter thiS semester. Eachtutor is very appreciated fortheir dedication andwillingness to help otherssucceed.

Director of the LearningCenter Deborah Robinson, aswell as those students beingtutored, would like to takethis time to briefly honor andpay a special thanks to twoof the outstanding R WCstudents. These students areRay Claus, and ChrisCommans.

Ray, a 1988 graduate, hashelped many students getthrough accounting classes byaiding them in homework andpreparing for tests, givingthem extra work to practicewith. Ray gives up to tenhours a week to the LearningCenter tutoring approximatelyseven students. His major isaccounting and has had aninterest and the ability in thesubject for quite some time.When asked why he haschosen to tutor, Ray answers,"For the· fun of It." Rayholds a better than average

GPA and has recently begunan internship in Providence.He hopes to keep on with theaccounting firm where he isinterning, and desires a futurejob after graduationsomewhere in Eastern NewEngland in the accountingfield.

Chris Commans, a 1988graduate, has been with theLearning Center since it firststarted 1D September. He hasgiven more than one hundredhours of his time to studentsin need of help in coursessuch as Calculus II andDifferential Equations. LikeRay, Chris spends about sevento ten hours a week in thecenter helping students ingroups or by themselves. HeIS a Civil Engineering majorwho likes to tutor to "checkback" to the material for hisown sake, to review.

Chris recently finished ajob at a civil engineering firmID Danvers, Ma. He hopes toget a job in the engineeringfeild after graduation.

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Page 2 May 12, 1987EDITORIALS

When 'It's'Time to Move On

See You In September

OPINION COLUMN:

Gary DanieleAnn PaceMichael Sisco

Stephen Martovich

John Mongillo

The one element I'm'having trouble letting go of isthis: the feeling that on thosedays when I've really had it­- I'm out of steam, out ofenthusiasm

jout of patience

with myse f -- I can alwaysfind someone willing to listen.In the offices, the hallways,the union, on the green... thereis always at least one personwho can see that look on myface and say "Hey, it lookslike you're having a bad day.Tell me about it."

•only by degrees and veryslowly, into a new mutualappreciation. We changegradually, and Y'.hat onceappeared unfamIlIar nowblends into our experience likesunlight into shadow, slowlybreaking through the crack ofan openIng door.

Over the years, as we've 'helped each otlier through thedaily trials of learning, acommunity inevitably formsthat is as much a part of thecollege experience as thecourses we take. We pass, if

by Cindy Ballou

Goodbye to the click­clack-clicking of dozens offingers patter,ing at once oncomputer kevs and theoccasional xxx??!l*&**! when aterm paper gets sucked intothe black hole of the universe.

Photo

Lance ClementDoug Cloutier

Contributors

Doug Cloutier

Voted Student Senate Organization of the Year 1986Edi tors

Henry Alderman Co-Editor-in-ChiefStephen Martovich Co-Editor-in-ChiefJennifer Ferland Business Manager

Reporters

Cindy BallouLance ClementSue Costello

And while we're on thatsubject, goodbye to themassive puddle whichunerringly forms in front ofthe Classroom-Lecture building(I'm still saving up for rubberboots).

At the rISk of' appeadngmaudlin, I've been feeling acathartic need to saysomething sticky like: "Thanksfor the memories." Andthough, as an "older" (notancient, just older) student Ihaven't been entrenched incampus 'life, still I'vedeveloped attachments which,if not broken, aresymbolically resolved atgraduation.

- , So I say:Goodbye to myriad rainy

days carrying projects whichwill be tlioroughly soaked bythe time I rea91i class.

The Messenger would like tothank Dr. Topf for being theFaculty Advisor for thissemester.

The Messenger is a' bi·monthly publicationby and for Roger Wiiliams College Students.

A Member of the New England Collegiate Newspaper' Associatio~

THE MESSENGER

Address all Correspondence to:The Messenger Roger Williams College, Bristol, R.I. {)2809

Gradua tion.Among other definitions,

the dictIOnary, describesgraduation as 'improvement·exaltation of qualitIes; to passby degrees and changegradually."

Perhaps the latterdescril?tion is the mostrealistIc, for certainly, nothingas vast as an education canbe conferred through thesimple passing.o.f diplomas. ,

Editotiilk _APATHY--- -

The Student Senate's place at RWCwill be a thing of the past next yearbecause of apathetic students, Not manypeople feel they can admit being anapathetic student. Since. Roger WilliamsCol1ege is an institution for higherlearning there should be many forms oflearning going on here. The definitionof learning does not only include howeffectively we can reproduce informationgiven to us in a lecture. It includesthe practical experience that we can takewith us after leaving RWC.

One way that a student can obtainthis practical experience is throughstudent clubs and organizations. In aprevious editorial this subject wasaddressed pertaining to The Messenger and,our lack of student participation. Inresponse to our editorial we were able togain one more member. We ever sograciously volunteer many hours each weekto bring the col1ege a newspaper.

This practical experience can betaken with us when we leave RWC.Employers are looking for a person thathas more than just a good GPA. Whatwould you say in an interview when theperspective employer asks, "What extra­curricular activities have you beeninvolved in at RWC?" The person whowould eventually have this job would besomeone with hands-on practicalexperience that one can gain here, if onewishes to do so. This is whereinvolvement in student clubs and

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organizations is a necessity.Some organizations in the past have

become defunct because of apatheticstudents. The Business Club, the Ski Cluband yes, The Messenger fit into thiscategory. But luckily, -there were' somenon-apathetic students that wanted theMessenger to. be revived. Hopefully theStudent Senate will someday be revivedlike the Messenger was by non-apatheticstudents.

Why does most of this generationbelieve that things should be given tothem on a silver platter? The mostcommon excuse from an apathetic studentfor not joining an organization here isthat "I don't have the time to getinvolved." When on any given Tuesdaynight at 9:00 for example. thetelevisions are on in many dormitoryrooms with' Moonli&htin& on. Did you everthink that this one hour per week, couldbe more productive?

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NEWSMay 12, 1987. Page 3

1987 Pulitzer Prize WinnersFrom the Hartford Courant

Joseph

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8.)We nereoy DISSOlve anaabolish any and all studentgovernment c<?mmit~ees .notprevIously mentloned including:Parking Appeals Board,Student Finance Board,Student Affairs Board andScholarship Committee.

9.)We hereby recall all ourrepresentatives from any andall college committees andcouncils. There will be nofurther official studentrepresentatives until there isa duly elected studentgQvernment to appoint them.

10.) We ask Dr. Karen Haskell,Dr. Lorraine Dennis, MrWilliam O'Connell and MrMarc Capozza to assist anystudents interested inreserecting studentgovernment, and to. insurethat any potential studentgovernment meets therequirements established inour Constitution.

It is assumed that theparties acceptillg theseresponsibilities WIll returnthem in the event tha.t a newstudent government arIses.

It is the most .shamef\!1and regretable thing th.IS·Senate has ever I}ad to do Inits history. It IS poped by'the. members of thIs counCIlthat the absence of aresponsible studentgovernment will not b~ 10llg,but that at least, In ItSabsence the student body ardthe entlre colleg~ communItywill realize what It has lost.

Rec Room Preserved

by Lance Clement

"Hell No, We Won't Go.",was the slogan for theStudent Senate's revolution.The dance studio wantedAlmeida's rec room because ofa leaky floor and a collapsingroof. The students wanted agame room in its place.

"I had the vendors comein and move equipment intothe rec area because the VicePresident said it was all rightto," said Student SenatePresident Jeff Frye.

The retaliation went onfor weeks until the studentseventually got the rec roomand the dance studiopersonnel found a plaeeoutside of the campus.

"The students are happy,and I for one am .Jllad the}got the room back," Frye said.

The following day, theDean of the College spokewith Frye saying the studentscould not have tfie rec room.

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"The signs for the 'HellNo We Won't Go' started afterthat", Frye added.

JOURNALISM

Public Service ThePIttsburgh Press

General News Reporting-Akron Beacon Journal

Inv~stigative Reportinb-DanIel R. BIddle, H..Bissinger and Fredrick N.Tulsky of The PhiladelphiaInquirer{' John Woestendiek ofThe Phi adelphia Inquirer.

EXPlanatorp Journalism - JeffLyon and eter Gorner of theChicago Tribune.

Specialized R~Ij;0rting - AlexS. Jones of e New YorkTimes.

National R§pQrtin2 - TheMiamI Heral ; lhe New YorkTimes.

Commentary CharlesKrauthammer of TheWashington Post WritersGroup.

Criticism - Richard Eder ofthe Los Angeles Times.

Editorial Writing - JonathonFreedman of I he Tri.bune ofSan Diego.

Editorial C.l!rt¥0nin~ - .BerkeBreathed ot he ashIngtonPost Writers Group.

Soot News PhO\9graohy KimKomenlch ot the SanFrancisco Examiner.

Feature PhJ?t~aphY - D~vidPeterson ot he Des MOinesRegister.

SOiyial CitationPU Itzer Jr.

ARTS

Fiction - "A Summons toMemphis," by Peter Taylor.

Dr~ma - "Fences," by AugustWI son.

History - "Voyagers. to theWest: A Passage In thePeopling of America on the

Eve of the Revolution," byBernard Bailyn.

Biogra~.Jp - "Bearing theCross:artin Luther King Jr.and the Southern ChristianLeadership Conference," byDavid J. Garrow.

Poetry - "Thomas and Beulah"by Rlla Dove.

General Non-Fiction - "Araband Jew: Wounded Spirits in aPromised Land," by David K.Shipler.

~usic - "The Flight intogypt," by John HarbIson.

*Why Take It With You?

In May, as emotionsstart to run high overupcoming exams there will beone less worry for those whohave too much to take home.The answer has come in theform of a campus storage'facility.

Items will be acceptedduring exam week andavailable for return during thefirst few weeks of September.Space will be given on a firstcome first serve basis and isvery limited.

There will be restrictionson flammable materials, butjust about anything else willbe accepted Including:

refrigerators, drafting tables,• carpets, shelves, mattresses,

bicycles, etc. ;:,maller i.temssuch as stereos, wInterclothes, and books will bestored m provided boxes.

The cost will be minimal.For example a half sizerefrigerator will be about $12for the summer. A deposit of50% is required withadditional charges for bIllssent home, and significantdiscounts for tnose who paym full.

Although items may notbe retrieved over the summerby an~one, they will be safelysecure In a reinforced steel,water tight trailer on campus.

(see the ad on page 7)

The Messenger

wishes to congratulate all graduating seniors.

We would also like to extend sincere thanks and appreciationto our co-editors Henry Alderman and Stephen Martovich fortheir fine and much appreciated service, as well as to otherstaff members and students who have helped with theproduction of The Messenger in any way.

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ENTERTAINMENTWINGIN' IT AND HAVINGFUNBY JOHN MONGILLO

AAmerican HeartV Association

Research works.

psycl1.edeli~ souna alreadycrc<epmg Into today's music(wItness: the Bangles' "ManicMonday").

. When the Beatles brokeup 'n 1970 no one could havepredIcted they would dominatepop as much by their absenceas they did by their presencePop has seen a number oftrends come and go since ofcourse, but nothing has comeclose to the Fab Four'sche.erful genius. You can stillhea~ theIr influence -- instraIght-ahead rock to themos. t .s p raw lin gexpenmentahsm -- in almostevery record of the eighties.

Martin was involved inreworking the middle periodrecords -- "Help!," "RubberSoul," and "Revolver" -- thatare due out in stereo thismonth.

The next group ofreleases is due in June, withthe 20th anniversary of themost notorious release of alltime: "Sgt. Pepper's LonelyHearts Club Band." And eventhough "Pepper" is theBeatles' most overrated album,it will probably be a boon to~D sumlper sales, spurringmterest 10 other CDs andsign~lling a r«vival of

Piscopo spoofs David Lee Roth

"Of course I would ha vechanged things," Martin saystoday,"if I had today'stech.nology. But the actual

Capitol's history withthis band is anythmg butgenerous. In the sIxties,Beatles records weredisassembled and re-sequencedfor the American audiencecreating more records -- andmore profits -- from the sameamount of material Britishfans got.

But this time around,Capitol is doing things right.Even though the first fourrecords were released inmonaural instead of stereo,producer George Martin-­who worked with the groupduring its heyday -- isworking on the futurereleases.

The lleaues were ourfirst recording artists andthey probably are still ourbest. So when Capitol Recordsbegan rele.asing originalBeatles mUSIC on compactdisks last month, peopleeverywhere began to invest inCD players so they could hearJohn, Paul, George and Ringowith the highest possiblefidelity.

The first four British. albums -- "Please, Please Me,"

"With the Beatles," "A HardDay's Night," and "Beatles forSale" -- were released in theiroriginal form. They mark thefirst time this mUSIC has beenavailable in the U.S. with thelayouts and arrangements theBeatles themselves intended.The remaining albums will bereleased in installmentsthroughout the year.

So is writing ascreenplay.,"Eddie (Murphy) and I justfinished a ~reat script," saysPiscopo. It's called "TheGood Old Days" and its basedon the characters we did onSNL - Solomon and Pudge."He adds, "I write the fIlmstuff because none of thescripts that come in are goodenough...at least to me."

It is shortlx aftermidnight and Joe P,SCOPO isspendmg his last fewmoments at Roger WilliamsCollege politely answeringquestIOns before heading tohis next gig in Chicago.Dressed casually in sweats anda t-shirt Piscopo appearssurprisingly unfatIgued. Justforty minutes ago he finishedan energetic set consisting ofstand-up comedyimpersonations, rap music androck and roll which heperformed with his six p.ieceband from New York. Thiscrowd tonight." says Piscopo,"was a rock and roll crowd."

We are not used toseeing Joe Piscopo poundingout a drum solo on his Ludwigdrums, or blowing feeling intoa saxophone. Instead, we'reused to seeing him in moviesand those killer Miller Litecommercials. For the multi­talented star~ and formermember of "aturday NightJ.,ive. (} 980-1984), performmghve IS a change of pace."

Phil Donahue (the list goeson) but a "personality" whohas been a sportscaster, actorand writer.

Asked what he considersto be his strong points andweak points in his act.. thereis a pause before Yiscopoanswers. "I lust have funwith it (his act). I don't liketo think what's weak andwhat's not weak," he says.

What do Springsteen and~inl\tra, who Pis~opo calls "an!nStItutIOn", thmk of theImpersona tIOns?

"Springsteen doesn't mindthat I do it. I got the wordfrom Dave Marsh, you knowthe rock critic. He said Brucereally dug it."

And Sinatra?"Oh Frank digs it, man"

he says. "It's amazing. Hedigs it a full hundredpercent."

Piscopo explains that alot of what he does on stage~epend~ upon the crowd.One tIme I was in Daytona

and did 40 minutes of stand­up... killed them. So, itshard-.to say when you go out...You-Just have fun. You justhave-to wing it," he says.

Tonight's crowd seemedto be a bIt of a surprise forthe 35 year old star, whoseoriginally_ from PassaIC, NewJersey. He relied mOre on hisSinatra routine than on hisstand-up.

. "Those. guys (the ~rowd)tonI.llht got It when I dId thatrap, says Piscopo. (He thendoes a lluick imgersona tion of

PI'SCOPO I'S . stops Frll\nk), he:tt ba y, the broaduSIng sp It" said 'wait alike this one in Bristol, R.I. minute' because I'm too youngand his next one in Chicago for that."as "warm-upsl" experimental Definitely. In fact, itsbits here ana there to get entertainment directed moreready for his 12 city Miller toward Piscopo's parents thanLite Tour \JUly 9- August IS). a college crowd.In fact, a ot of tonight's acts "How did they get it?"

. have never been seen before. \Ie as.ks, and addin2, "They"I didn't know what I was Just dIg the character."doin~ tonight so it was pretty PISCOPO'S managercool, he says. "I tried out p.alite.ly interrupts and says,some new stuff. The rap thing It'S tIme."was new. We were wingin' it, Joe is asked one final questionman. We didn't know where about his gig at R WC.we were going and it was "Yeah, it was just a nicevery exciting! a lot of fun." surprise coming up here... You

Words ike "fun" "man" really can't dnnk on campus?"and "dig" seem to be' a big he asks. He made a jokepart of Piscopo's vocabulary. earlier tonight about having toHe is soft-spoken and seems go off campus to drink, andto be completely at ease with then driving back.himself on and off the stage. I explain that drinkingAfter two minutes with the policy is the same on mostman, you forget you're talking college campuses' it's awith an all-around performer, reflection on the society.who not only imitates the "I kind of understand"likes of Frank Sinatra, Bruce jokes Piscopo. "I think youSpringsteen, David Letterman, (Photo by Lance Clement) sh~uld .only .be allowed to

It Was 20 Years Ago Todayby Tim Reilly (CPS)

qualIty of the recordings I'mvery p!el\sed wi!h, listenIng tothe agam, gomg back allthose years. . they hJlve atremendous dnve and VIvacityand cleanliness which I'm verypleased about."

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THE TOUR'S OVER BUT THE BAI:'lDSTILL PLAYS

taste in my mouth. You knowI ha ve friends a t othercolleges who are taking iteasy, enjoying these last fewhours..."

I told him to relax, havea couple of whiskeys and"don't let the sound of yourown wheels drive you crazy"(I borrowed the line from anEagles tune, "Take It Easy")When you're frazzled alreadyth.ere.'s no ne~d to keeps!Ickmg your fmgers in thehght socket.

. I thought the maddogsenIOr made a couple of !i0odpoints. Right now there s alot of teachers and studentswho are just going throughthe motions. They're not intowhat they're dOing becausethe workload is too much.The other day this girl toldme. about a paper she had toWrIte.

"I could care less how itcomes out," she said. "I justhave to do it."~ to do it? What

about~ to do it? Oh, thewondefTlil process ofeducation.

Thought. The bulk ofthe school work should betowards the beginning of thesemester, not at the end. It'slike bemg on an airplane.You hope to touch down easy,not crash doing 400 mph.

Okay. So what's thedeal with classes being heldon 12/23/87. I won't be herebut still I'd hate to discoverthat students sat in theclassrooms on the 23rd whilePresident Rizzini - dressed as

Santa. Clal1s - made visitsshoutIng Merry Christmas!

The other night I'm inthe lib.rary working on somelast minute work (some B Swqrk wa~ what it was) whenthIS senIOr approaches meHe's harried-Ioqking, there'sbags under hIS eyes bigenough to hold loose changeal\d he's talking a mile ammute. He spoke from hisheart so I took a break frommy work: and listened. Hewas talkIng about some,thingI'll call, EDUCATIONAL MESS.For t!Ie most part this is whathe saId:

"What's it all about?" hebegan. H~ was e?,cited andhaa that httle whIte soit in

the corners of his mouthLovely,. .

I I mean, I can't wait tog~t the bleep out of here.It s sad, too, because I'm asel)ior and I'm going to missthIS place. But I can't helpfeeling thi.s way. I'm runningaround hke a madwomantrying to finish my work. It'snuts - everything is crashingdown on me. I'm looking fora job, sending out resumesand basically trying .10graduate all at once. Why theIiell do teachers pile up thework all at once at this timeof they year, when they knowthat everybody wants to jumpon a plane and head for someplace warm? Why? Is itreally necessary?"

I told him it wasn'tnecessary.. "l;Iere" I a.m," he startedm .agam, bustmg my keistertrymg to leave college on apleasant note, but instead Ithink I'm. going to leavecollege WIth an unpleasant

The End of a Four Year Gig. By John Mongillo

This is for those folkswho work in the computerroom. Thanks.

Sure I'm going to miss90ll<;ge. For me leaving RWCIS lIke saying so long to alarge Italian family who hasraised you on four years of'Pasta, good conversatIon, andplenty of laughs to boot.

So, you might ask, whybother to leave this family oflaughs at all? Why not­Johnny - hang out anotherfour years in this land ofl!mbo, comRlacency, and goodtImes. We I, because one has!O move along. After all, lifel.s qne. whole process ofmOVing It along." In "Piano

Man" Billy Joel sings, "...whenyou're 21 and stIll lourmother makes your bed wellthat's too long..." And i youhap.pen to be a :?8-year-oldsenIOr who's stIll usingcrayolas... well, that's toolong.

I must have started thiscolumn - my LAST column­f orty-t.wo times in search ofWrapping up ':fiy college careerw.Ilh something grea t - apIece that doesn't belong onthe bottom of a bird cageBu.t I decided that I wasn'igomg to go for the home runthe glamorous long ball whichbaseball fans admire so much.Irstead,. I'm. going to hitsIngles In thIS column. (Bythe way. I think too manypeople In this world arelooking for the long ball andfail to realize that if yo'u hitenough singles you can beequally as effective).

Merry Christmas!"I don't know who thinks

up these brilliant ideas butthere are many ways to wipeout this 12/23/87. Many. Ifstudents spend the early partof next semester throwing dogcrap at the library's windows(or something equally as sick)I'll guarantee that they'll doaway with 12/23/87.

If you're persistentenough you can change almosta.nytfiing. It's rea11y' thatsImple. PERSISTENCE.PERSISTENCE.PERSISTENCE....

Com1)1encement is a 10:30am.. ThIS sounds like thedomg of another genius. 'rO:30am. IS an ungodly hour' forthose of us (parents, studentsand friends) who win becelebrating the. night before.Why not hold It at 4:30 am.,that way we can keep theparty moving along inoverdrive. Hell we won'tbother to downshift this baby.

But. honestly, 1:00. Rm.sounds fme to me. Even forthe CREATURES OF THENIGHT the hour is reasonableand maybe the folks atgradua tion won't be so dopedI!Q. So....start the rumor.COMMI:.NCEMENT IS AT 1'00PM. COMMENCEMENT IS AT1:00PM COMMENCEMENT ATONE....

Well, for some of us thisfour year gill is coming to aclose, and 1t s time to moveonto other things. For thoseof yo,! returning nex! year Isay thIS: hang out wltli yourteachers, MAKE thIngshappen, and when people askyou where you go to schoollook them dead in the &e andsay, "Roger Williams College-

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!o++++++++.f:o+++~++o!o++++.++++++++**+~+++1f:o+++++++++""++++++~EdItors Fall For Covering Too 'Much -- And Too Little -. OfTheir Campuses (CPS)

Questioning a high schoolprincipal's right to control thecontent of a "Jab paper."

. "It has. nothing to dow~th. censorshIp," contends Dr.WIlham Sutterfield, provost ofTJC's Metro Campus. "I thinkMr. Arqett just wanted tohave hIS own campuswidepaper."

Ball State's Knott thinks~he T'C. case is odd becauseadmInIstrators usually

,understand and appreciate (thepI:ess' adversarial relationsnipWIth government) better thanyoung people."

Arnett has started analternative paper for the timebeing, but says he ishandicapped by a McSpaddenruling that students who workon The Horizon cannot workon Arnett's paper.

The curren t Racquetstaff intends to appeal thedecision to the student courtand to the Arts CommitteeCooley says. '

"Student governmentshould have no say in whogoverns The Racquet: heargues.

Bush was upset that TheRa9Quet "r<;fused to print" anartIcle wrItten by senatorsabout a proposal to havestudents pay a surcharge ifthey take more than 128credits within four years.

"It's not just BarryMcNulty, it's the wholeStudent Senate that's not'happy with the coverage"says Vice President Tom Bush'.

Mass CommunicationsProf. Pa tricia Muller, howeverthinks the vote to replaceCooley may' have been invalidbe9ause~ If the group was'gomg oy Roberts' Rules ofOrder, .there wasn't theQuorum necessary for a legalvote.

editor Dennis Cooley, who wasrunning to be edItor againthis fall, Cooley says.

McNulty went on to leada successful effort to 'replace

Supreme Courtin 1987 it will

similar case

The U.S.that later

on asaysrule

In LaCrosse, studentPresident Barry McNultybecame so upset by TheRacquet's coverage of studentgovernrqent that he threatenedto appomt someone to overseeeverything the paper prints,recalls Barbara Teml thepaper's entertainment edltor.

a positive image for theschool," reports David Arnettwho was Mitchell'spredecessor.

Arnett himself had beenfired a month earlier

dfor

a 'guing McSpadden di noth lve the right to review TheI :orizon's content after ArnettI ad finished editing it.

"I would file suit today'f .I could," Arnett says,ddmg he plans to do so "in aouple of weeks." TheI.merican Civil Liberties Union,as agreed to represent him.

Mitchell lost her jobIfter arguing McSpadden;hould not have alteredreporters work without theirknowledge.

TJC President AlfredPhilips

hwho claimed control

over T e Horizon's content in1976, when he was offendedby an editorial favoringbuilding of a reform schoolnear campus, refused tocomment on the controversy.

His hand is forcedArnett says, since Philipswon't respond to requests toreinstate students' editorialcontrol of the Horizon.

"It is our newspaRer,after all," says VivianMarston, Philips' secretary.

. TJC refers to TheHonz.on ~s a "lab exercise,"meaning It can regulate thepaper's content as readily asIt ca.n regulate the content ofany Its classes.

:;rwo student newspapersfell mto trouble last weekone for trying to cover toomuch campus news, the othersf or allegedly not coveringenough.

Administrators at Tulsa(Okla.) Junior College firedth~ secpnd student newspaperedlt~r m .a 1)1onth, .apparentlyfor QuestlOnmg POlICY."

Student politicians at theUniversity of Wisconsin at LaCrpsse replaced the studentedItor of The Racguet, thecampl!s paper, for notdevotmg enough news space tostudent government activities.

It was the third recentexample of student pressturmoil. Conservative studentsfailed in an attelUpt to assumecontrol of the Dally Cardinalat the Yniv~rsity of Wisconsinat MadIson m mId-March.

Student governmentssays David Knott] president ofthe College Meaia Advisors"tend. .to be. a lot morereS!rIctive (m newspanerpohcy) than administrators."

"Young people," he adds"try' .to exert their perceivedpolitIcal clout, usually becauseth~y have a personal axe togrmd." ,

But the case a'i' tulsa hesays, is "just .incredible." '

. There, _ journalismInstructor M. RogersMc.spadden fired HOrIzonedItor Dana Mitchellapparently for not "projecting

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with Nancy A. Hood, ACSW Alcohol Notes

bed, monitor their breathing.

5. Keep your distance.

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1. Keep the personcomfortable - however, don'treinforce the dunkingbehavior.

2. If the person is pu t in bed- make sure the person isIyil}g on their side, not ontheIr back.

3. If possible, assess whetherthe person is in a lifethreatening health crisis. Ifso, .get help - advisory and/orpohce.

4. If you put a person to

6. Don't attempt to constrainthe person.

From: Alcohol Manual forResident Assistants

Michigan State University,1976

DO'S AND DON'Ti FOR THI~l&s~ E OF

DON'TS

1. Don't give the person anydrugs (not even aspirin) tosober them up.

2. ,Don't give the personcoffee, tea or other liquidstimulants to sober them up.

3. Don't give the person acold shower - the shock maycause the person to pass out,injuring him/her self.

4. Don't try to run, walk orexercise the drunk person. '

5. Don't keep the personawake.

The economic cost associatedwith misuse of alcohol in theUnited States alone is

Hea vy drinking duringpregnancy can adversely affectthe offspring of alcoholicmothers.

Excessive drinking may be acall (or help. Determiningwha t IS wrong for the personand offering assistance can bea way you can help a l1ersonwho IS Indirectly asking for it.

estimated at 25 billion a year.

In recent studies whichanalyzed. the effects of alcoholon socIal converstaion ofyoung adults, age 21-30, it wasfound that after a few drinksthey t.alk more and listen less.Tl).ey mt~rrupt their colleaguesWIth t.helr own statements andpay httle attention to whatothers say. Alcohol does notreally help you to meetpeople.

Alcohol has become the drugof choice by youth. By 12thgrade 95% of men reporthaving used alcohol, while 40%have used marijuana.

One of the first warning signsof an alcohol abuse problem isoften a "blackout", i.e. wakingup in the morning and notremembering what your friendssay you did.

Ac"or.ding to nationalstallstlcs, among all adultsabout 1/~ are nondrinkers?

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J:'1qy percent of trafficaCCIdents are alcohol relatedand that among young peopleinvolve.d in fatal crashes, 2/3have hIgh levels of alcohol intheir blood.

Most types of beer contain 4%pure alcohol, while ordinarytable wines contain up to 14%.Vodka, gin

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rye, bour on and scotchwhIskeys usually contain 40­50% alcohol. Your mostliquors, one ounce from thebottle contains about 1/2ounce pure alcohol, and ittakes the body about one hourto burn up the alcohol in aone ounce drink.

Alcohol in moderation doesnot appear to have any illeffects, One controversialstudy found that people thatdo not drink seem to have ahigher early death rate.

One of the first warning signsof an alcoh.ol abuse problem isa greatly Increased toleranceof alcohol. It may take 10 or12 beers to produce the sameeffect as 5 or 6 beers used to.

Freight-.car loadings are down28% whl1e alcohol consumptionis up 42%? Which only goesto p.rove that more peoJ>le aregetting loaded than freightcars.

DID YOU KNOW THAT...

One in three suicides involvesalcoholism?

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Dear Readers,In my last column, I

wrote about differences andoppression. A few of youspoke with me and said thearticle stimulated xou tothink more on the subject anda couple of you wrote In.

I will try to respond toI you and express some more of

my thoughts on the subject:I've experienced both the/ainof being oppressed an ofthe oppressing. In some casesI have been ol1pressive toothers out of my ignorance asa member of a majorityculture - I've been insensitiveand una ware. Although it hasbeen a llainful -learningexperience, I am grateful tothose who have spoken up and90nfronted me with myIgnorance.

What makes it difficultto be open to differences? Ibelieve it is scary perhapsbecause it startles us intorecognition that we too aredifferent and through beingopen to' the differences ofothers we may open the doorto exploration and change inourselves. That is scary. It'sless threatening to dIscountthe ways in which we aredifferent or to build wallsmade out of negativestereotypes. To discount thedifferences is to invalidate toacknowledge them withoutjudgement - to affirm.

To embark on this pathof openness is not an easytask. The wounds are alreadythere. People who have beenhurt by oppression mar beunderstandably distrustfu andsensitive. The negativemessages from society - the!laily . in~ults - the'InternatlOnahzed messages ofdegradation keep the woundfestering.

How can be healourselves: through supportgroups for oppressed people;for m.ajprity culture, thr0l!gh­a wl1hl}gness to questlonstereotypmg; to open ourselvesto understandin.g andawareness; and for me, Prolonged drinking of alcoholthrough open dialogue. alters male sexual behavior.

The liver is stimulated and inNancy Hood is a professional turn produces a substanceon the staff of the Center for which steps up it's destructionCounsel" a d St d t of the male sex hormone. . , '

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