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

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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

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lReply to question: What did you get from SM U?l I got run down and got every disease in tlze book now, because 1'm so weak and malnutricious lsicl from running around like a turkey for five years. No, 1 don 't know... What did I learn from SMU...1 think my department lBusiness! is all right... as sonze of them go .,.. some of the departments over tlzere are for tlze birds... lot of gulls go to class. I think tlze Business Department lzas some really good people tl1ere...I don 't know... You can learn so much nzore in otlzer ways...1've always been tlze kind of person who learned not so nzuch from the book, in tlze classroom, but from experiences, and I think that's one tlzing tlze business faculty lzas... They don 't just teaclz you from the book, but you learn from their experiences...Their personal experiences from their job, and everything...That's why I thouglzt tlzey were good faculty...Tlzey gave you a lot of tlzeir own background...And you learn a lot from it, because it's like an informal way of learning .... A lot of tlzat is due to tlze fact tlzat many of tlzem were part-time faculty tlzat worked on other jobs and then came and taught courses, so you got everything right off tlze fire...Since my major was nzanagement, I think 1 learned a lot nzore in nzanagement in other areas .... Otlzer places... And most of tlzat was in tlze campus center building...tlzeatre...because most people, a lot of them go through tlze courses and out...but then missed a lot...because they didn 't have tlze practice...A lot of places don 't, a lot of schools, you can 't get it. SMUyou could get it, 1 think, you could work on it, because it's so young, that there 's a clzance to work. SMU is young, tlze organizations at SMU were young, small, just starting, so tlzer was a chance to just go riglzt in, and build. If anyone wanted to start a club, or anytlzing...you could start it. Thats where a lot of people missed tlze boat. Tlzey should lzave gotten nzore involved...of course,, SMU was a commuter school, so a lot of people just went from lzonze to school and back and then to work and tlzat was it, whiclz was a shame. Of course, that's changing now...but at tlzat time, there were so many possibilities with tlze Torclz and tlze theatre and all those groups...concert series...they missed a lot if they didn't get involved, I think...Now, I'm not saying tlzat each of these organizations always were developed to tlze best tlzat they could lsicl by any means...nzaybe they could have been developed a lot better by more people who were willing to work...but at least it was sometlzing to strive for, somewhere to go-and you could learn about so many different tlzings...wlzen I was in the newspaper I didn't know anything about it. Of course I started by writing articles, but I can't write at all... they were just in fun. Then Igot into tlze rest of it, 1 got into tlze graphics part which I didn 't know anything about... when 1 was in lzigh school I did some work on tlze year-book...Layed out in the year-book...that was nothing...so I learned it all there, not tlzat I know a hell of a lot but I understand it, and 1 know what can be done...say later on I have a restaurant and I want to make menus or something for example I know the things that can be done...Maybe I can 't do them, but I know tlzat I can have someone else do them and I know what 1 want and 1 know how they can go about doing tlzat and I can say well, you can do this, you can do that, and so forthwofcourse, my jun was in the management-type end of it, organizing it, getting things rolling...it was a lot of fun. And, of course, you work with so many different kinds ofpeople, tlzat you learn a lotfrom tlzem. And, most of tlze people involved in these groups were people from out of this area. Ifyou think about it, people in The Torch, when 1 was in The Torch, canze from someplace else to SMU. It was true with tlze theater. Even tlzough there were more people at SMU from this area, it was tlze people from out of tlze area who got involved in these things. They did these tlzings, 1 guess , since they were torn away from home, they didn't have tlzat to go back to, to fall into, to be comfortable in. And I guess, since they were torn away from that, they could really get involved, it became a part of their life that was missing. Friends, a group of friends where everyone was working towards tlze same...It was like a family, you know? A family they didn 't have lzere. This was true of tlze theatre, too. 1 know its touglz for tlze people around here who have to work, and everything, but...it nzight be good for them if tlzey could nzove into tlze dorms or something...just to get tlzat kind of opportunity that would allow them to go into those kinds of tlzings. lWhen asked if he would have become a 'hippie' if he had started school a few years earlier! I don't know. That's a good question. I've never been 'wild' in tlze lzippie sense-1've always been extravagant for sure. I don 't know , everyone was so riled up in tlze Driscoll era, where Driscoll Hills! go, and everything...maybe 1 would have gotten into it, but 1've never been tlze kind of person tlzat would work at sonzetlzing like that. 1 know it nzight have been a good thing to do, to get all against Driscoll, and get him out, and clzange things, but l've always worked in a nzore constructive-well, I know constructive isn't quite tlze word, but- you know, a more physical sense of seeing something happen, developing something, building something, some kind of organization-you know, working along tlzose lines. Something more tangible, you can see...maybe I would've, I don 't know...but I just got tlze end of it, as it was, and a lot of people lafterl this had been over, a lot of those active-type people, restless people, were sort of looking for other ways to go, other directions to go, now tlzat tlzis was over with. Some people never found tlzem, many still at SMU, and will never find them, because tlzose ronzantic days are gone for them. But, a lot of otlzer people did, and that's where this constructive push to build tlzese organizations and to build up tlze Campus Center, that's where I tlzink a lot of these people came from, tlzat started this big push, nzore or less...and get tlzat place developed and running right. However it is, right now... Now, 1 think, it's clzanged. At first it was, as welsicl said, tlze more activist type with Vietnam, and tlze demonstrations and tlze strikes, and Driscoll and everything out and then tlzat era ended, and then we went into an era, a time where students were more concerned about building these