Suffolk University - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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As the last of the school year was winding down, students had to face the world outside of Suffolk ' s small campus. Draft Fever was a very catchy disease in Congress, and pent up emotions of an entire na- tion over the hostage crisis prompted a very disasterous move by President Carter. While the United States slept one April night, helicopters flew into Iran in an Entebbe style raid. They never reached the embassy. Somehow, three of the ' copters crashed into each other and the mission was scraped. Eight charred bodies were left behind, the result of an ill timed, ill equipt mission. After a public display of the bodies in an Iranian town, they were finnally returned to the U.S. for burial. But it took intervention- ists from several European churches to negotiate for their re- turn. Carter took the blame, but he could not give the lives back, nor did the hostages come home. (Cyrus Vance resigned; eleven young people were trampled to death in Chicago at a WHO con- cert; and Pink Flloyd was selling millions of albums about someone building a wall around himself to hide. Larry Bird soared for the Celtics; the book They Call Me Assassin , pointed out the wrongs of profes- sional football; and two movies about the horrors of Vietnam, Apocalipse Now and The Deerhunter, were breaking box of- fice records. One received an Acadamy Award.) A maverick from Illinois named John Anderson left his Republican cohorts to grab his presidential bid on the Independant ticket. Ted Kennedy refused to let go of his faltering hopes, and Carter beemed ear to ear. Iran was forgotten for the moment. H. Michael Carney Journalism James Caruso Philosop hy Mary Jane Cassiani Crime and Delinquency Claire Cameron Marketing Andrew Campbell Government Thomas Cannata Management 28

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Jean Clark Social Work eff Clay Journalism Bernice Coady Maria Cogliano Management May glided in and finals were around the corner. Anti-draft rallies and Iranian rallies were put out of mind. Seven months of hysteria made a weary nation even more so. Suffolk students took time out from classes to throw some frisbees around the common and drink wine from a paper bag. They took time out to stare back at a world that looked at them. (A Commission was formed in the State House to in- vestigate kick backs and pay-offs from building contrac- tors to politicians. Gov. King grew more and more alien- ated from the people who elected him. An occupation attempt was made May 24 at Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire. Try as they did, the protestors could not storm the plant, but were beaten back by state troopers, cold weather, and bad organization. New wave was washing over Boston, and a punk club called Spit was raking in the profits of the latest craze. Would the Sox do it this year? Baggy blue jeans hid svelte figures as Klein, Vandervilt, and Jordache swayed with every step of the fashion season.) Suffolk president Thomas Fulham announced his res- ignation and students speculated on the identity of the new one. The Rams basketball team made a good effort, but the elusive championship remained out of reach. The wom- en ' s team did not win a game at all. Good news for the sports activities, however. The swamp hole called Ridgeway Lane is slated for renovation and a gym will be installed, along with work out space for the hockey team. Speaking of the team, the Goats, varsity status was bestowed to them after a long battle and a very impresive record for the first time in a long time. President Carter and Senator Kenndey lashed out at each other in campaign speeches. Howard Baker, Phillip Crane, Robert Dole, John Connally, and finally George Bush dropped out of the republican race to let a 69 year old actor, Ronald Reagan, blunder his way toward the White House. John Anderson was the victim of several attempts to push him out of Carter ' s way in the form of ballot chal- lenges. All these obstacles did not dent his spirit or his quest for the White House. As it stands now, it is a no win situation for the vot- ers: No one trusts Kennedy because of his past. Carter and his cronies have bungled every crisis his administration was faced with, and his policies made the U.S. a laughing stock a 1 over the world. Reagan is too old and can ' t act his way into the White House with all the slips of the tongues he has made. It ' s said that old cowboys (actors) never die, they simply fade away. Not so for Ronnie. The hostages seem to be forgotten. At this writing, June, 1980, they are still not home . . . Thomas Colantuono Management John Collins Accounting William Condon Government 30