Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Sept. 19, 1977 to June 20, 1982. It ' s been half a decade. The class of 1982 came from 40 states and more than 75 foreign countries. Michael Dukakis was governor of the Common- wealth. Jimmy Carter was President of the United States. Eighteen year olds could drink in Massachu- setts. And you believed them when they told you how great co-op was going to be. Some of you dropped out or dropped back before graduation. Edward J. King is governor of Massachu- setts. Ronald Reagan is President. The legal drinking age in the state is now 20 years old. And you stopped believing co-op was going to pay for your education a long time ago. You ' re ready for graduation and the real world. Twenty years from now you ' ll want to remember how it was in the beginning and at all the places in the middle, everything that led up to the cap and gown and the trip to Boston Garden. The first time you saw Northeastern it was a confus- ing mass of gray bricks and concrete. It seemed you would never find your way around. During the first week it became second nature to rattle off your name, home- town and major to the person who stood in line next to you at the bookstore or the cashier ' s office. How did you live in a room slightly bigger than a closet with someone who had the opposite taste in music and interior decorating? Remember thinking how getting along with your roommate was going to be infinitely easier than surviving cafeteria food? Who was the first person of the opposite sex you met during happy hour at the Cask or Punters? How did it feel as you headed for the Cask after your last final exam of the quarter? How many hot afternoons in early June did you lay out in the Quad or by Stetson Beach studying the effects of solar energy on the human body? Remember Springfest and all night parties that went into the next day? How many times did you wait at Park Street for an hour for an Arborway car as six empty Cleveland Circle cars rattled by? You started driving to school only to find you had to be in at 6 a.m. to get a parking space. Boston is a city of crowds: Filene ' s basement, a Celt- ics or Red Sox game, Quincy Market, and Faneuil Hall. In the beginning you didn ' t mind the crowds as you went about discovering the city. Say the North End, Kenmore Square, and Back Bay. Each one conjures up images from the past five years. Co-op was the reason you came to Northeastern. When you met with your co-op coordinator for the first time he told you there were no jobs near your home, but if you wanted to change majors .... The first time you went out on a co-op interview, you clutched your meager resume and hoped the employer wouldn ' t notice your only experience was a summer job working at McDonalds. After you got that first job you realized the fancy title was just another word for gofer. You wondered what making coffee had to do with being an engineer. But it was all worthwhile that first summer when all your friends were still working at McDonalds. There are things about Northeastern that cannot be explained. They must be experienced. Everyone used to ask you if you were in school during the summer because you flunked all your courses. Remember telling people you were a middler and explaining no, it wasn ' t a disease? You tried to explain about co-op and two divisions and why you had to go to school for five years when all your friends from high school were graduating in four. No one, not even your parents, ever really un- derstood. It ' s all behind you now, just memories. And someday, when you want to recall the events of the past five years, they ' ll all be here, in the 1982 Cauldron.

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What is the worst aspect of Northeastern? There are few places to sit ■7 and study. H l Donald Dahl HQ H Chemical Engineering 86 Living in the city, and es- pecially the part of the city we ' re located in. Joan Newkirk Recreation 83 There ' s not enough advis- ing for transfers. Karen Dietz Human Services 82 There ' s too many people it ' s crowded. Maureen l oDonough Civil Engineering 82 The library is not ade- quate for a school this size. Pam Muldoon Physical Therapy 82 The red tape, housing, and going to school in the summer. Mary Jo Lapointe Pharmacy 84 Every time you turn around they want more money from you. Nancy Allonen Speech and Hearing 82

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About This Book Freshman Sophomore Middler Junior Senior Page 18 Page 52 Page 106 Page 154 Page 204 The theme of the 1982 Cauldron is Half A Decade. By dividing the yearbook into five parts we have attempted to show what happens to the typical Northeastern student during each year. Freshman year is easy. Move-in day, orientation week, dorms, commuting, finding your way around the city and the university are all here. By sophomore year you ' re ready to move into the wonderful world of co-op as you search for that elusive first job. Joining activities becomes a way to get something on your resume. You ' re no longer content to live in a dorm or commuting has become a hassle. You move into a university apartment or join a fraternity or sorority. Sophomore year is also when you have to start explaining why you ' re in school during the summer. By the third year, if you ' ve made it this far, the inevitable question arises What ' s a Middler? Generations of students have spent many agonizing hours trying to think of a suitable explanation for what comes after sophomore and before junior. Middler year is when campus housing becomes unbearable and you start looking for an off campus place. The drinking age became an issue middler year when many students, a few months away from their 20th birthdays, were legal one day and illegal the next. Sports are in middler because, well, we couldn ' t think of any better place for them. During your junior year depression sets in as you realize all your friends who went to normal four year schools are graduating while you still have one more year. But junior year is also the time when academics become important as you begin to wonder if you ' ll have enough credits to graduate. In the senior year, logically, we put the senior portrait section, all of you who did it for mom. But senior year is also the time to think about graduate school, a job, and life after co-op. The events of the world and the university over the past five years are included in a reality section for each year. Staff pages, the people who worked hard all year long to assemble this book, are at the end. If there ' s anything you can ' t find, it just didn ' t happen. WEIXXMETO NCSfTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY GIFT OF THE CLASS OF 1976