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

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dorm heard it, all day and all night long. He just played it. Constantly. They were crazy people. They were very unique crazy people, though. There was the Birdwoman, she had a lizard, a tree toad, a cockatoo...She wanted to bring her boa constrictor. Now get this, her roommate hated anything that wasn't human. She hated bugs, she hated animals, she just coulan't stand them. And one day the Bird Lady left for the weekend and she asked Laurie to feed her toad. She was supposed to feed it live flies. It was really cute. I think -Shefinally got Somebody else to do it for her,though. Then they lost the toad. The toad went and hibernated, he came back again eventually. At the same time she loved all these lizards and stuff she was deathly afraid of furry animals. Caterpillars, y'know? Just freak her right out. In the same hallway, it was in my suite, we had a rabbit, a cat, and two gerbils. One of the girls in my suite, the first thing she did when they

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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

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got tlze rabbit was crochet it a little jacket. They had a leaslz for it, tlzey took the rabbit for walks, they'd get the rabbit high...they had the two gerbils, one of them croaked. This place makes me laugh. 1t's...crazy. I can 't wait to get out of here. I won 't have to eat this food anymore, I won 't have to look at all these... crazy people, won 't have to go through all the stupid fre alarms... What's really sad, though, is out there in tlze world, there 's just as many creeps and crazy people. Joan Blue Resident Advisor, Yellow House Visual Design major What did I learn ? Well... I was more involved in I guess what tlzey consider extra-curricular activitiesmbeing involved in all this bullshit up here, these newspaper jackasses...I just saw more of the university from the flipside, which made it all the more pointless...see these flaming morons running around here, trying to run the place...So I think I learned more from tlzat side of it on what happens outside than people who just go to class and go home. They're just learning what the university is teaching tlzem, they 're not really making use of the university to learn about real life. . . screwups. What do you do witlz it fan Art History degreel? Well, what you should do witlz it is get ajob in Art History. You should go on and get your Masters or P. H. D., or whatever...And then you can teach. You know, the age-old solution: What do I do now? Well, I know, I'll teach! Except there are no teaching jobs. And, Iguess, if! had the interest and motivation I'd hunt out a position where I could combine my photography with the art history that 1've learned. Those are pretty rare, too. It's a rare job, you really have to kind of stumble across it. You can search and search forever and all of a sudden you run into some guy and he 'll say, Oh, yeah? Igot a job for you! But then that's part of the problem with the urziversity, it doesn't get you ready for any of that stuff They don 't tell you they're going to throw away your resumee, when you go for a job. They don 't tell you these things. You 're lucky if they even mention the word 'resumee' in class. In courses I had, there was no orientation toward the fact thatwhen you graduated, you were going to have to find a job. They just kind of avoided the whole subject. It was too difhcult, y'know? What are you going to tell them? Some guy,whos studying for four years to be a whatever, and he gets out there and he's going to find no job. Ifyou tell him halfway through, Oh, you're not going to Und a job! Kid's going to say, Well, fuck it, I'm not going to waste my time doing this bullshit, I'll go to Mechanic School or something! And then where will all the English teachers be? All the psychology professors? They'll have no one to teach. They 'll be out of worfi So they keep the myth going. 1 would say my time here was well spent, in spite of the university. I learned the things I learned here in spite of what tlzey were trying to do. Actually Iguess that's the way you should do it. A college education is a very strange thing. You come to it in a position where you're getting a product and you 're not even in a real informed position to know whether you're getting a good product or not. You pick a college, you go by hearsay, reputation that you read in some,..whatever. You have to make a sizeable financial committment to the school before you find out what it's like. Ifyou go here it costs you a couple hundred bucks-three hundred, whatever it is now-you go somewhere like B. U. It costs you thousands of dollars, and then you find out, Shit, this place is no good! What do you do? There 's no money-back guarantee. You know? There's no refund policy. They don't give you back a year and say, Well, we 're sorry you didn 't like it! That's it, you've lost a year, you've lost money, you've lost the whole thing, but you just have to hope the place is going to be right. And even once you get in there you may not be able to evaluate. They don't teach people to evaluate their education. People seem to be conditioned to accept what is poured out on them. Come to be educated, we're going to teach you! It's not like any other kind of consumer product, where the customer is always right. The university is always right. You 're paying them, and they 're telling you what to do. It seems crazy. You know, I liked my arrangement here much better. They paid me. That was more like it. Mark Mattos Photo Editor SMU Yearbook, SMU Torch Photographer for SMU Theatre Co. and occasionally other campus organizations Art History major