Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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iFlorida Sun Most Popular SOUTH — The Southern camp consists of students who wish to escape the cold North to bronze themselves in the sunny South. New Orleans, Florida, Bermuda, Bahamas, Carribean, Acapulco are just some of the Southern sun spots BCer ' s frequent. Fort Lauderdale frovides a meeting place for the lorida-bound BC traveler; New Orleans draws numerous BC funseekers every year; Bermuda offers the infamous college week. Appalachia and Haiti have given to BC volunteers an enlightened sense of the word care. This passed year the Tangerine Bowl enticed BC travellers to the South in December for football, sun, and fun; Cheers for BC and for bronzing! The South, however, isn ' t only for sun tanning, and many a BC traveler has enjoyed playing tennis, swimming, sailing, water skiing and shark feigning. Not all BC students, however, face the North-South dilema at the onset of each vacation. The majority of BC students travel homeward to be with family, friends, and familiar settings. Despite the North-South rivalry, every BC shident whistles HOME SWEET HOME sooner or later! — by Lynn Varsell Lisa Giannone, Sue Bressi, and Julie O ' Brien rejoice at making it to the Sunshine State. Bob Laufer and friends pose for a shot beneath Cinderella ' s castle at the doorway to the Magic Kingdom. A group of BC sunbathers soak up the rays on a poolside terrace. STUDENT LIFE 25

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Vacations Skiing Rules Winter Months The battle between the North and the South continues into the 1980 ' s at BC, although the Confederates and the Yanks nave long put down their guns and abandoned their battlefields in favor of a firm handshake and positive reconstruction. There has been a revival of both pro-Northern and pro-Southern sentiments at BC since the recent air fare price wars, and students have undertaken an active role in this war by choosing sides. Due to academic obligation, student participation is limited to vacation time; during the December-January, February and the April breaks, students give wholeheartedly of themselves to either the pro-North of pro-South camp. Each camp has its own battlecry; from the Northern camp comes the inspirational motto: THINK SNOW and from the Southern camp comes the rallying cry: THINK SUNSHINE. The uncommitted camp can be heard whistling: HOME SWEET HOME. NORTH — The Northern snow country is vacationland (weather permitting.) The December-January and February breaks are strategically planned to benefit skiers and snowfreaks storm the slopes, dreanung of Kahlua-and-coffee parties during the evening. Snow spots The northern snow country is vacationland. The December-January and February breaks are strategically planned to benefit skiiers and snowfreaks who storm the slopes, dreaming of Kahlua-and-coffee parties during the evening. that provide loads of fun are: Vermont ' s Mount Snow, Sugarbush, Stratten, Stowe, Okemo, and Killington resorts. New Hampshire ' s Attatash, Sunapee, Loon resorts, Massachusett ' s Mount Tom, and Connecticut ' s Sundown Lodge. Canada ' s bugaboos also lure the daring, although some avid skiers prefer to ski the northwest — Colorado and Wyoming. When April break is snow struck, as in Spring 1982, BCer ' s grab their ski vests and gear and head North for their last fling. The North, however, does offer more than alpine and nordic skiing; snowshoeing, snow mobiling, snowman building, ice skating, woods wandering, winter watching are pastimes that evoke fond memories. Jim Alem, Randy Talbot, and Paul Stem prepare to hit the trails at Sugarloaf . Tom Gaidish cuts through a mogul run known as The Goat at Stowe. Tom Screamer Brooks glides over fresh powder at New Hampshire ' s Mount Sunapee. Paul Gudelis 24 STUDENT LIFE

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Careening In And Around Boston The letter arrives in the summer. As a junior or senior you are allowed to enter the lottery to possess a resident staff parking sticker. You send your entry in and hope for the best. For commuters it is no lottery that is dealt with — instead one must merely prove ownership of a car. The hitch is tnat one may not keep the car overnight (trouble for those burning the midnight oil at the computer center or other places). If you are a resident freshman or sophomore, then to have a car you have tne choices of renting space in a neighborhood garage or playing parking roulette with tne Newton police looking for legal parking hours. So while those having cars at BC do not share in the means of bringing their cars with them, they do share in the trials and tribulations of DRIVING IN AND AROUND BOSTON. The driver in Boston discovers there is one rule of driving, and that is there are no rules. To understand the lessons of survival that one is taught while driving in Boston we shall follow the experiences of a mythical sophomore, named Tim, on upper campus. This is his first encounter with Boston driving. The experiences you are about to read about are true (tney have, however, been condensed into one driving episode and dressed up or exaggerated a bit to make them somewhat interesting). Weary eyed from getting up early every morning to move his car from the No Parking from 8:00am to 6:00pm side of the street to the No Overnight Parking side, and then back again at night Tim makes his way again to his car. For two weeks the only travelling that he has done is from parking spot to parking spot. He now has a mission, to attain the text book that the bookstore sells for $32.95 (and that, he hears, Barnes and Nobles has for $7.50). Thus we observe him setting out, he heads down Tudor Rd. then turns left on Beacon Street. At College Road he turns left again and SCREEECH slams on his brakes as he narrowly avoids hitting the entire third floor of Welch as they run across the street (racing to the Eagle ' s nest to get 3 donuts, a piece of carrot cake and a Tab before their 9:00 o ' clock classes). Sighing with relief after avoiding that near tragedy near Roncalli, Tim sets off calmly. Moving down College Road he gazes into his rear-view mirror and sees ... OH NO!! filling the mirror is the front grill of a Carroll Bus that seems to be accelerating into Mach 2. Accelerating quickly himself, our hero, his heart pounding, races through the stop sign at Comm. Ave. without looking and veers down the road toward Boston. The bus rolls left and continues on its shaking way to Newton. Oh help! Tim gasps; not but three minutes into his journey and he has already risked life and limb twice. Not letting up speed he barrels down Comm. Ave. and suddenly sees the traffic lights by St. Thomas Moore turn yellow and then red. Moving too quickly to stop he races through the lights and looks m his mirror to see if any police were watching. What he sees mstead are five cars that follow him through the red light. Our hero begins to learn the rules of Boston traffic. Driving down Comm. Ave. he notices that there are no speed limit signs, and moving with traffic he finds that he is going 50 miles an hour down a city street. When he reaches Chestnut Hill Avenue he stops for the light this time and moves into the middle lane. When the light turns green | he begins to move forward and finds himself cut off by the car to his right that is trying to turn left and by the car to his left that is trying to turn right. He is observing a major law of Boston driving — that is, turns must be made from tne most extreme lane from the direction that you wish to go. Finally movmg through tnat mess he drives further and reaches downtown without too many incidents (just barely avoiding one car as it cut across from the other side of the street doing a U-Tum and trying to outrun an oncoming trolley). That is what he decides he likes about Boston Drivers, he thinks — they have no fear. It is as if everyone believes and acts like they are St. Thomas Moore is always a challenge to both the driver and the pedestrian. All cars become invisible when they travel through th e intersection below Higgins Stairs. driving tanks. Once downtown he comes to a red light. Stopping for it he causes a severe hazard for the cars swerving around him and going through the light. It ' s broken! he hears one yell. That IS another lesson that he learns — either traffic lights are considered merely traffic ornaments left over from Christmas or that if they continue to remain red for more than twenty seconds, they must be broken. When the light does turn green he notices that instead of a single green light, what he sees is a group of green arrows that are pointing m every conceivable direction M anyway. What does this mean? he ( thinks. Checking the one direction left out he peers cautiously into the sky and moves down the road. Perhaps they have a lot of trouble with people taking