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

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QQ ADtl'1Ol1y C. Alfl9l'O Jgoanne ,Nl Alfonge RlCHARD J. WARD, Dean College of Business and lndustry Students at SIVIU have the unique opportunity to become catalysts and innovative leaders in the surround- ing community. With a college degree, each person has developed a broadened capacity to think wisely, to seek wider horizons, to educate others into productive courses of action and beneficial change. You take with you the ability to perceive, to choose among complex alternatives and to decide to act in an intelligent and ordered manner. Above all-and this distinguishes you from the less fortunate who have been unable to add to their edtcational experience-you should have developed an insatiable curiosity about the world around you, about your fellow man, and about the particular envir- onments, both social and on the job, in which you will live and function. You are among the less than 50'XvOf young people your age in the United States with a college degree. Moreover, you are among the less than 102, of young people your age in the world who have a college degree. Your degree, therefore, carries with it not only the honors and the broader capacity to produce constructive change and to enjoy life in its many remificationsg it also has created, I believe, a serious obligation for you to use your broader capacity and ability to organize and formulate problems and means to solve them. Finally, though you may think this an exaggeration, your education brings with it a duty to educate others with whom you come in contact who have not had the benefits of this experience, and the ability to demon- strate both sounder judgement and moral courage to lead others into more rational as well as productive pursuits. Ann S. Cambra ,Roger L Bruneau Jo Anne E Bourgeois

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4 i yr 'W A- 'si Steven G, Carriere Colleen lVl Caswell Flavio F Cosme Chris: You're really native to the community then! Do you hold on to the old cultural background and incorporate it into your daily lifestyle? Paul: Yes, the Chinese background particularly. lVlost of our meals are Chinese..we don't sit down with forks and eat pizzas. We have chopsticks and eat rice, sausage, stuff like that. Chris: Do you see a difference in the way you would pursue studies and the way Americans do? George: Oh yes. Sure. The Chinese way of studying is having to memorize everything. They don't get involved in other books until the first one is memorized. You have to memorize everything in class and work real hard. But in America you just get what the Professors taught you, read some and when'it comes to finals or exams you study maybe the night be- fore. l think we really have different education- al systems. I wouldn't say the American way is the best. Although they do have a tendency to father a wide range of knowledge. Like what vve have here is Textiles, but besides Textiles we have classes in humanities, social sciences, may- be psychology. I think it's good because you have a broad, general knowledge more than just what you might specialize in. v Chris: SMU is noted for it's Textile dept., do you feel feel this dept. is a good one? Paul: There's always room for improvement. lt's get- ting better. Programs are being changed around. We have a new dept. head. Chris: How do you feel about the campus as a whole? Do you feel isolated over here? George: l think we have a general problem on this campus with a lack of communications, not only between Group one and Group two, but right in this build- ing alone. But in general I don't think we are getting a good integration of students. Every- body tends to stay within their dept. People don't want to get involved either. l'm involved with the Graduate Students Association and, al- ways, it's only a few faces that want to do the work. So many students come here and don't do anything but wait to get out. This is bad. Chris: Do you think this happens at other schools as well? George: No. l came from 6 iU0l0f COHGQE arid we had 50 many things going on: basketball, softball, lAllC9 P- HGQQGVTV Robert J Guarnieri