University of Massachusetts Boston - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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ECI-IOS Can you imagine the founding fathers saying that the major source of authority in tyourl life-your employer- can make you drop your pants and urinate as a condition of getting or keeping a job?--Geofrey Stone, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago in Newsweek lMay 5, 19861 - The day I left Vietnam I tried to come to terms with what I had done there. I don't know if I ever have . . . I felt guilty because of what I had done in Nam, guilty over leaving my brother to take my place and maybe to die in my place, and guilty because I was glad that it was my friends and not me.-Vietnam veteran and UMB student Bob Long, contrasting his experience to Sylvester Stallone's movie Rambo I knew the answer. There it was, on the bottom of the grader's remark sheet, the last paragraph of the essay seems designed to antagonize any grader. Indeed, it was, and that is the point. I baited the graders with a remark designed to pique them. Or, if they had no sense of humor, to antagonize them. I guess they had no sense of humor. But does that mean I can't write? No.--UMB Political science major David Otto, on his experience taking the writing proficiency exam fEd.'s note: David Otto later appealed his grade result and won.J I can't figure out why they call it Academic support . Academic discouragement seems like a more appropriate name for the office for perhaps, Academic Dilemmal.-David Otto on seeking assistence from Academic support on his exam If five or six of his people get together in a bar and decide to blow someone up, Arafat cannot do anything about it.-said one western ambassador in the region commenting on Arafat's lack of control over his guerrillas fNewsweek, April 7, 19861 But the eerie part was this dramatic lack of things happening. This huge industrial complex was devoid of peo- ple.-Dr. Robert Gale, invited to the Soviet Union to treat radiation victims, describing the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster Darling, I haven't got the key to open the cell door. Do you know who has the key?-Nelson Mandela, South African political prisoner, replying to his granddaughtefs pleas after rejecting South African President P.W. Botha's offer to free him on the condition that he renounce violence A friend of mine told me the other day that he found the worst thing about getting older was the loss of his fantasy life.-'LIFE columnist Loudon Wainwright

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