Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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The late sixties saw demands placed on the administration by the students and the occupation of the Administration Building and Massasoit Hall more than once. These actions resulted in arrests for trespassing, suspensions and even some expulsions. 11

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Pentagon Says Draft Inevitable The Army's top personnel officer has informed Congress that a return to the draft »s inevitable According to Lt. Gen. Robert B. Yerks the declining size of the reserve and increasing difficulty recruiting men and women into the active force leave the nation with no other choice. “The only question. says L: Gen Yerks. :s when.” • • -••-I. mililxrv CAKE National Protest Mobilized Year of The Child nm dm - “ CARE this week !!!nma bam oiUcuklly announced its worldw-idt cTn bui , I™ ««• (OT.Ch d™'- Register to Vote: Don't Vote to Register . The Students for a Libertarian Society has charged that In the hundreds of pages of Congressional testimony on the draft. not o e Representative •• either for or against conscription -• makes any real effort to Justify the global corn- next war Title IX It Will Affect Your Future » v Paula Rooney Nows Editor • Title IX is nos Just women s legislation equal opportunity in education is the bottom line. ‘ r Edward S SteiU. Director « Oit tlr« naval fleet P1 1 ‘«‘«national program tc w exist, th. c,arn0G t u!597y support oi mZ tfltionec ,he Itttemauonal Year of the Child Duri°8 « «hose CARE Mates wm i programs whjch (jeal with needs and the problems of children will receive high priority in each of the 37 developing nations where we operate, reported Leon Blum CARE'S New England Director Blum noted that the majority of CARE aid and development Title In addition Drinking Law etics. y in- •ecent erious i big federal financial assistance. Patricia L Geadelman. or ihe authors o: Equality in Spot Women, calls Title IX a :r source of legal support to gain protect equal opportunities girls and women in athletics The NCAA and certain cq m uik presidents are taking are against women's collegiate s 9S to because such women s progr v v; . • from they contend, are lnjunou r, rnc»« Pn Mv personal (Hying men's programs » »j,h thb new and prtsUglous lobbyBB C»M» agreement un | ;— AolMed from Tilt Nuclear Power: The New Reality Education Amendments Act. was U •» «. «ysrsK discrimination m edu catm rftnnallftns children . and he said that CAKE programs and activities . receiving or beneftUing t by Dr. Peter J. Polito As a consequence of the nude' accident at the Three-Mile nuclear power plant solvarua on Wednesd the latest of now events , the ' as tieenenco .«ie th nuclea ,gh there is ..nent among die exp V me radiation from the radio uve fission products of a nuclear power plant is extremely hazardous to pubbe safely, a great range of views as to the im new ca cc 0 8 rH'! plant « .rf B public is left confused, icir w ras ed, and even ignorant of issues O’ iple questions which v .ou1'- Pressed regarding the - V n» are: que0’ sufl .safety owever. the second q ,uite subtle and remains .wered, for we realize tha .. we cannot be ab- solutely safe. All of us realize that

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1972 saw the first student elected to the Board of Trustees. This move allowed the senior Student Trustee full voting priviledges and a junior Student Trustee-elect the right to sit in on meetings but not the right to vote. The school’s pub was established when the legal drinking age in Massachusetts was dropped to 18. School officials felt that this would reduce the risk of students driving to and from off-campus drinking spots, and thus allowing rigid control of alcohol consumption by the campus. 1973 saw the donation of $300,000 by Mrs William C. Bemis for the completion of a biology building that was named for her late husband. The next decade saw an increase in student enrollment, a student exchange program with China, the establishing of new majors, a freeze in the tuition, room and board rates, a crisis and a near crisis. On May 11, 1979, the Memorial Field House was condemned, ordered closed within 24 hours and then to be razed. Fortunately, the school had been informed of the problem 2 weeks earlier and plans for a new 3.6 million dollar structure was underway. As it turned out the new P.E. Complex ended up costing 5.3 million dollars and was completed 29 months after the condemnation of the Memorial Field House.