Suffolk University - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Lillian Andruszki Crime and Delinquency a new decade times, worst of times.

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William Abcunas Psychology Ganiyu Akeredolu Accounting Richard Alberts Accounting James Alexander Psychology Michael Almquist Accounting Shoshigh Amirkan Finance and Banking Start of The Review. . . best of Suffolk made no headlines in 1979-1980. The Univeristy sat con- tentedly behind the State House, letting Ed King take out from Dini ' s and charging it to the already suf- fering taxpayers. But while Suffolk sat, the stu- dents had their eyes and ears con- stantly alert. This was the year young and old simultaneousely cursed and prayed to God. September blew up Ridgeway Lane with warnings of economic disaster approaching. President Jim- my Carter did his best to keep his controversial family out of the headlines, but he could not stop his faltering policies from hitting page one. October came to Boston, and so did a man called John Paul II. For a few short hours, people pushed their worldly problems aside and tried to consentrate on the develop- ment of their souls. Viva il Papa, Viva! This was the year a non-Italian Pope crusaded across the United States to preach the gospels. He was met with love, respect, and a little defi- ance at some out-dated dogmas. But, whatever he said, whatever the message he spoke of, he was lis- tened to by millions. Boston held elections in Novem- ber, and once again, Mayor Kevin White did not have to give up his throne. He is settling comfortabley into an unprecedented fourth term, a term he says is his last. Edward Kennedy made his bid for the presidency at Fanveil Hall, in front of thousands of cheering people. This was year Ted could not lose. Carter had run American policies into the ground and lis- tened to his advisors, aptly called the Georgia Mafia . Many of Cart- er ' s top people gave advise that only deepened the hole the U.S. was waking up in. And just when the economy made people think the worst had arrived, a country rich in oil, populated with poor people, un-

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der went a revolution and took 53 Americans as hostage inside the U.S. embassy. The country . . . Iran. A once powerful shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, was forced to flee Iran by the Islamic revolution. An eighty year old man, Ayatollah Khomeni, was set up as the all power in Iran. During the shah ' s flight, he be- came ill and the United States ad- mitted him into a New York hospi- tal, a humanitarian gesture for an old ally. This gesture enraged the Iranians so much they took the em- bassy personnel hostage under gunpoint. They demanded the shah be returned to them where he would face execution for his crimes against the people. The shah left the U.S. and only one country in the world would take him in, . . . Egypt. The mili- tants holding the hostages now de- manded his money in exchange for the hostages, as well as an apology for U.S. intervention in Iran during the shah ' s regime. Finally, all de- mands were lost between the rethoric from Washington, and an unstable government, incapable of making any coherent law. During December, Soviet troops invaded a stepping stone country to the ocean. Afganistan was over-run and occupied; the Soviets justified the take over by saying the govern- ment asked for it ' s help. The same leader who supposedly asked for the Russians help, was shot to death as he was hiding from the in- vasion. Kevin Belanger Management Stephen Benham Accounting Arthur Bernard History Laura Bernard Marketing Coleman Barry Crime and Delinquency Edward Barry Psychology w