Southeastern Massachusetts University - Scrimshaw Yearbook (North Dartmouth, MA)

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'34 'e 1 ,ff ii K ' C w I g Fred J. Garnish T-e'renceP Garvey Cynthia ART TEBBETTS Chris: How do you feel about working in the SMU bar? Art: Oh, I enjoy it. lt's provably my most favorite thing l've done in all my years here. lt's a real nice way to meet people, and everybody 'knows who you are. Chris: Has SMU changed your attitudes toward people and Art: That's a terrible question to ask somebody who's about to graduate, 'cuz l'm really nervous about life in general and l have no idea what I'm gonna do when l leave SlVlU. That old senior depression is settling in. lt's hard to say if SlVlU's changed me. l've grown while l've been here. l don't know whether l would've grown the same had l not been here. Back in the early years of turmoil here, I got into some politics and developed a bit of political awareness. l'm more into me now, developing my interests and thoughts. l think a lot of people around feel the same way. Because of that l don't think we'll have any more big movements like we had before. Chris: Do you have any reflections on the past political movements that occurred on campus? Art: I think they were good. I think a lot of people entered into it with a naive concept of what was going on. Getting into the movement helped to sharpen their political awareness. l believe a lot of the poeple like me who liked the movement got in to work for change, and thought they could do something important and relevant, found out after 2 or 3 years that you can't change the Government, it's just much bigger than any of us thought. You can't do it by marching and stuff. Chris: Do you feel those movements managed to change things on campus back in the Driscoll era? i Art: Well, we were fighting an evil that was highly visible. It took a couple of years. I think most everybody who came to SMU back during the Joe Driscoll days was from New Bedford and they lVl A Hambu

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had learned to have respect for authority. So it took them awhile to build up to the point of being able to attack an authority figure like Joe Driscoll. He was highly visible, you know, everybody agreed that he was rotten. When they got rid of him they got this Don Walker who was a saviour come to save SIVIU. He's a lot more quiet, alot more subtle and slick. He seems to be doing some good things, and he might be doing some shady things. We don't know. He's not the kind of person you can start a protest about and say Iook, he's done this, and this, and this . He gives authority out and sits back while others carry things out. Walker's also made a lot of other changes...like power changes within the structure. I don't think as many people are aware of what's going on under Don Walker as they were under Joe Driscoll. He's a lot more subtle, a much better politician. I don't know whether that's good or bad. People don't know whether or not they're getting the shaft. ris: Do you think as a whole that the University is o tc I think so. If we get the Kennedy library we'Il be doing great. We'II be a real powerhouse University. I think there's a new consciousness on campus now, People aren't going to settle for being little ol' SMU like when we first started. Don Walker's come from bigger schools and he's got big ideas for how he'd like to see the college grow. I don't think he's gonna stay here forever. I think he's gonna stay and do as much as he can do personally and then go onto some other college. There's been an awful lot of changes on campus since I've been here...beside the number of buildings that have gone up. I remember when it was a beautiful big woods with one crummy cement building in the middle of it. lt's turned into a really beautiful college campus. I love driving in at night, I still feel like I'm coming into a spacestation 1:1 l.,,-,--fN I5 ,H I I I Gioiosa g Jane E Godfrey Doreen IVI Gonsalves T