Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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— - — i BU«Q Freshman Year 21

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Reflections . . . ftr hen we started school Kevin White was mayor, Ed King was governor and no one had heard of Madonna. When your mom, dad, Aunt Dolores and your dog Sparks, drove you up from Pittsburgh, Huntington Avenue was not the street it is today. When we came to college, not only was it Ronald Reagan ' s first term in office, but it was also a time of happy hours, drink specials, and a drinking age of 20. College was getting into Sidelines (Sideswines) when you were 18 by showing a food card. It was having shaving cream fights with the boys ' ' from the third floor of Stet- son West Center, and the endless, poorly tim- ed false fire alarms in the dormitories at 3 a.m. And Salmonella. That first quarter we attended school, Kariotis was the Classroom building, Cullinane was the Botolph building, and the quad was asphalt, not imported Harvardian brick. And when you made your first com- mute to the Campus of the White Brick, you parked your car in what is now called the Snell Engineering Building. In the fall of 1982, there was no Sourhwesr Corridor, and there was no Burger King in the Ell Center. The game room was on the third floor right near the big t.v. where the best soap operas on campus have played since Marlena and Roman were married. ■ — Carol Beggy 20 Freshman Year

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ARCHIVES 1982-1983 BREZHNEV DIES GANDHI KILLED Leonid Brezhnev, 75, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, died of a heart attack November of 1982. He was a leader for 18 years. He led a fur- thering detente, especially with Richard Nixon. As his health worsened, Soviet policy took a radical turn including the invasion of Afghanistan. This led to a cooling off of relations between east and west, so that at his death tension was extremely high. India ' s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own guards as she walked through her gardens on Oct. 31, 1984. News of her death sparked bloody religious riots throughout the country, killing nearly 1000 persons in the week following her death. For 20 years she was the most predominent figure in her country. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru had similarly dominated India, the 20 years prior. She was reportedly killed by militant Sikhs, who were calling for a separate state. Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, who assumed the role as Prime Minister upon her death, was shot at in October of 1986. However, he escaped without injury during a meeting to mark the 1 17th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi ' s birth. FALKLANDS RAID British paratroopers and marine commandos stormed ashore in the Falkland Islands May 21, 1982, to free her colonial territory from an Argen- tine invasion. In the face of British military superiority, the Argentine army surrendered 24 days later. The invasion peaked a war resulting from fruitless negotiations over the Falkland ' s sovereignty. Argentina supported a sovereign Falklands, while Great Britain wanted it to remain her colony. The Argentine seizure of the Falklands on April 2, 1982 propelled the British into im- mediate action. The British death toll reached 255 with 177 wounded; the Argentines lost 746 lives. An estimated $1.4 billion worth of British ships 2 and equipment was lost in combat, but Prime e Minister Margaret Thatcher ' s popularity soared. Above: Leonid Brezhnev. Upper Left: Indira Gandhi. Lower Left: Britain ' s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. •ERA — Despite polls showing 2 i of American men and women approved ERA (the Equal Rights Amendment), it fell short of passage by the necessary 38 states.