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

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. il JI ,, 3 ' gs-Q .gm T J if 1? if ff -4 .- 533. 4. gg. ffshii R' gf si, ' ' .A M ff . . , 9,5 A , .ff g ' . 4, 153. c . .. . ' sqm, N S' I feel very contemplative right now so I can 't get very angry... but I still havethesame thoughts under any circumstance. Involved as I was, I never came face to face with what I always knew existed. The apathy and total unorganization which runs this school, and more importantly, every other underlying system which tends to support our way of life. The word 'apathy' is a nasty word to many people. It implies a laziness and boredom with their environment. So... they don 't use it and even worse, they reject and deny its existence. Over the past year I contributed to the Thea- ter Company, the Women 's Center, tlze Student Senate and its com- mittees, a couple of student litera- ture magazines ISMUT and TEM- PERL and several agencies offcam- pus, to mention a few. In just about all these organizations I came up against snobbery, egocentrism, red tape, frustrations unbounded, a lack of responsibility and commit- ment from the average student and total chaos! It's really,,,uhm... terrible. And exhausting. Fighting this within the organization is bad enough, but to have to fight the people who aren't involved and don 't want to be involved and then bitch about not getting the full extent of what they 're paying for is...RIDICULOUS. It 's irrational. Il- logical. Overemotional. Mary Hart- man. But I know all this .... So I go home and talk to my cat...we call him monster and kitty.. and my mouse Rudy. Then I feel better. That's why I love them. They're not like anybody else. Pat Manning

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lon theatre people! They 're just people. Instead of going to work in an office, they happen to go to work in a theatre. It's terribly cliqueish and in-bred, it 's that, but I don 't think the people in tlze theatre consider it a very special thing. Workers in the theatre are just workers. One of the remarkable things about theatre parlance is that actors, or anyone in the theatre refer to everything that goes on in the theatre as 'worki For instance, 'Look, go away, young lady, I've got plenty of girls who can do the 'work'.' Or, 'Look, have you got any 'work' coming up next season? They refer to everything as 'work '. The outside world thinks of it in terms of art, illusion, gIamor...the props 'work'. 'Does this glass 'work' in the second act? It's not a snobbish world and people like to put that label on it...That's why I get annoyed with the kids backstage when they give me any crap about their 'art'. Or when they come backstage for nasal sprays or cough medicine or throat sprays...give me a break, huh, kid.?.0r they give you the temperament...'0h, I can't play tonight, I'm not feeling it...' -Get out of my life, willyaR..'I'm not feeling it'...what's that got to do with it ?Get out and do it! How would you like to believe that everyones out there feeling it2fust go do it well because you have to do it. That's a very British point of view, by the way. The British theatre is healthy today because tlze British have a very healthy respect for tlze work-a-day of theatre. They respect it as a 'work' thing. And they don't mix it up with actors' studios and scratching your anus. Someone asked Noel Coward once, Mr, Coward, what is my motivation in this scene? He said, 'Thursday ' Which is payday. Right now, you get a feeling that no one cares. It's very frustrating. It 's a feeling you get that no one in the administration is paying much attention. I want to quit, you know. Every six months. They really don't give me all that much money. They really don't. This is my fifth year and never a penny 's rise - Do you understand?Not a penny. And you feel like you're going in for no good reason. No one pressures you, essentially no one ever bitches or complains to me - I give them nothing to complain about. However you get this feeling you 're just rattling around there. That's not a good feeling. I think we 're headed into some rather gloomy times. The quality of life is deteriorating. I can remember when the United States was king shit - and that's what it was, you did not debate that. You lived that way, and you felt that way, and other people saw it that way, but the world changes. I think there are just too many people. There are how many Chinese sitting over there?Frigh tening number. There 's not enough food, not enough energy, tlze environments being screwed up beyond repair. I remember you could drive from Fall River to New Bedford, and essentially you were driving alonga wooded road. It is now a mishmash of garbage. Route Six. Just a mess. Your're going to have a lovely macadam world to live in by the time you 're sixty. Enjoy it in good health. I'd like to change it, but I don 't know how. Tom Higgins Auditorium director Formerjourneyman Broadway 'gripl one time editor SMU scrimshaw

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, 'mx When I was a kid I played hockey all the time while everyone else played basketball. The other kids all though I was crazy ...hockey is just a part of the whole academic thing. I 'm not Don Cherry, my players aren 't Bobby Orr... We 're here to have fun. Joe Prenda SMU hockey coach