University of Massachusetts Boston - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Carole Hughes, Chairperson lv N... f ... A 'af' '- A S U i .. The firsT SAC meeTing ThaT Carole Hughes aTTended as a newly-elecTed eighTeen year old sTudenT represen- TaTive was seven hours long. IT was cerTainly horrendous ThaT firsT year, she recalls. MeeTings were sTeeped in emoTion and, from Time To Time, even The SAC Chairperson would sTorm ouT of The room, reduced To Tears by The dogma and bickering. AmidsT The conflicTs ThaT year, no one really cared whaT Carole had To say: To The people in power on The commiTTee, she was anonymous. She came back for more The nexT year and was puT down Then as well. She came back for a Third year and was elecTed Chairperson. Carole Hughes, arguably The mosT Tenacious figure in UlVlassfBosTon's sTudenT governmenT, presided This year over The smooThesT running STudenT AcTiviTies CommiTTee in memory. She was perfecT, said John McDonald, a SAC represenTaTive from HunTingTon Ave., The meeTings would never run more Than an hour and a half. And she was always available before and afTer The meeTings. Carole puT in aT leasT forTy hours a week for SAC: This was on Top of a demanding managemenT curriculum. Carole goT SAC back To basics, as she saw iT. The SAC Chair, in her view, should be involved wiTh keeping Things running smooihly- and noT be involved wiTh poliTical causes or inTeresTs which precipiTaTe crisis. The Chairperson should sTick To her parameTers and The Sub-commiTTee Chairs should sTick To Theirs. ln oTher words, Carole discovered, whaT had been in SAC a long-losT arT, The skill of delegaTing auThoriTy. Carole's leadership was calm and sTeady, her manner wiTh The commiTTee members was friendly and accessible. Clearly, despiTe her consTanT jokes abouT haTing iT all, Carole Hughes is a naTural aT managing people. Thus SAC has been a successful proving ground for Carole's fuTure career in managemenT. IT will always be wiTh me, she says wiTh a smile. Harbor Campus 49

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The STudenT AcTiviTies CommiTiee sf wg jx 1 The STeering CommiTTee FronT row: Michael CarlTon, Chairperson-Media and PublicaTions5 Billy Taylor, HAC AssisTanT-To-The-chairgg Paul Reeves, Chairperson-CommuniTy AcTion. Back row: JaneT PonTes, Park Square AssisTanT-To-The-chair: Tracy Doyle, Chairperson- Recognized STudenT OrganizaTions5 Carole Hughes, Chairpersong Cheryl Bowen, Chairperson-CulTural EvenTs, PaTTy Wyse, SecreTary: Carla lllanes, Treasurer. The STudenT AcTiviTies CommiTTee is composed of TwenTy-four sTudenTs elecTed annually from The various colleges wiThin The UniversiTy and by The sTudenT body aT large. Once elecTed, The new commiTTee members seT up Their working sTrucTure. All members choose one of The four sTanding sub-commiTTees To siT on Clvledia and PublicaTions, CulTural EvenTs, Recognized STudenT OrganizaTions,and CommuniTy AcTion5. They also elecT from wiThin a Chairperson, SecreTary, and Treasurer. The officers of The commiTTee preside over The meeTings, work closely wiTh sTaff and sub-commiTTee chairpersons, and ensure ThaT all The programs and evenTs sponsored by SAC are properly run. The primary mission of The STudenT AcTiviTies CommiTTe is To recommend and impIemenT programs To enhance sTudenT life on campus. The monies To fund These programs are derived from The yearly acTiviTies fee charged each sTudenT. ln planning programs and evenTs The commiTTee members Try very hard To Take inTo consideraTion The varied inTeresTs of The whole sTudenT body. Some of The programs sponsored by SAC This pasT year have included The beginning and end of semesTer parTies, a mulTi-culTural concerT, and mime and TheaTre groups. The SAC has also helped sTudenTs keep abreasT of UniversiTy issues by funding such informaTional enTiTies as The Mass lvledia, WavelengTh, and WUMB-am. ln funding in excess of sixTy clubs This year The SAC has given many sTudenTs The opporTuniTy To develop new inTeresTs while geTTing To know Their fellow sTudenTs beTTer. They have also helped To creaTe a posiTive sTudenT image in The greaTer UlVlassfBosTon locale by giving supporT and funding To several communiTy acTion groups. All in all iT has been a producTlve and rewarding year aT SAC. 48 I-larbor Campus

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Pdtricid Wyse, Secretory 4Qx.f18iin. N! Potty Wyse is this yedr's secretory for the Student Activities Committee. A 4977 grodudte of Bunker Hill Community Col- lege, Potty worked for four yedrs ds d privdte secretory be- fore deciding to return to school for d Bdchelor of Science degree in Accounting here dt U.lVlossfBoston. As the SAC secretory. Potty is second in line to ond shores the responsibil- ities of the chdirperson. She is responsible for tdking the min- utes dt edch committee meeting ond for running the meet- ings when the chdirperson is dbsent. When dsked, Potty sdid thot she's enjoyed her term in office, hos leorned d lot from her position, ond thot oil in dll, lt's been o most rewdrding exper- ience for me. 20 Hdrbor Cdmpus Cdrld llldnes, Tredsurer fdff' 'Us x if Cdrld llldnes holds the position of treosurer this yedr on the Student Activities Committee. Hoving spent her childhood in such ploces ds Germdny, Brdzil ond Bolivio, Cdrld first come to the United Stotes to study ocednogrdphy ot Stockton University. Hoving chonged her cdreer gools, she trdnsferred to U.MossfBoston to pursue d Bdchelor of Sci- ence degree in Pure Mdthemdtics. During her first semester here she storred in the University production of Rubyfruit Jungle, she spent the next two yedrs ds d member on the University's Student Assembly, where she pldyed OD octive role in the development of stdndord procedures ond poli- cies for dedling with sexudl hdrdssment. As the SAC treosur- er, Cdrld keeps tdllies on monies left in the vorious contin- gencies. i.e., Medio ond Publications, Community Action, Culturdl Events ond Recognized Student Orgdnizdtions CRSOsj. She olso porticipoted in the preporotion of the dn- nudl budget for FY'83: she feels thot the fdcility ond brevity of meetings this yedr is d good indicotion of how well the committee prepdred the budget.