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

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The Social Events Committee Carole Hughes M . we , nw gg., 1, fy 1 I fZf'?Y-'.i5?1' . 1 :Sm i Ev XF? in , V 2-,rx Ill 1 1 oem 7- w r' .':,2 1 l' Z , 3. ,,,, .W U ' l Social Events is an ad-hoc group of students that oper- ates out of the Cultural Events sub-committee of Student Activities. Working from funds allocated by SAC, coordina- tor Carole Hughes sponsored six major social events this year, including a costume party for Halloween, an end-of- the-semester party in December, and a day long party held outside in May. The Social Events committee screens bands to play at the events, trying to provide a wide variety of music throughout the year. Some of the bands that have been featured are Hypertension, The Habbit, The Eleventh Hour Blues band and The Linehan Brothers. Most events have an attendance of about six hundred people and are staffed by students who sell tickets, check l.D.s and try to keep the numerous kegs of beer flowing freely for the evening. Music, dancing, refreshments and a good time are always found at a Ulvlass social event. . 3' f' .i . . it 1' , if J kl r M -,,,. -- I l Social Events Committee ll Front row: Billy Maple, Nancy Malenfant, Bob Darling, Paul Regan. Back row: Gavin Malenfant, Patty Wyse, Tracy M: Doyle, Joan Reid, John McDonald. Harbor Campus 27

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The Tickef Series The Tickef Series is a discounf TickeT service operafing ouT of The Culfural EvenTs sub-commiffee of STudenT Ac- Tivifies. Locafed in The I.D. Office and run by sfaff mem- ber Joel Fowler, The service provides sTudenTs wlTh Tlckefs To off-campus evenfs in The areas of Theafre, dance, and sporfs, aT savings of up To 3596 off The usual purchase price. Working ouT ofa budgef allocafed by The Sfudenf AcTiviTies Commiffee, Joel chooses evenfs ThaT are sure To sell ouT: he does This by keeping abreasf of whaT's happening in The BosTon area, and by soliciTing sfudenfs' opinions. Some of The more popular offerings This year have been Evlfa, The Nuferacker Sulfe, My One and Only, Masfer Harold and The Boys, and The BosTon Celf- ics Baskefball Tickefs. Through The Culfural EvenTs Sub-commiTTee on STudenT AcTiviTies, The Film Series offers movies free of charge aT The Harbor Campus Throughouf The academic year. Under The direcfion of Helena Ragone, a differenf film is feafured each week, shown Tuesday and Wednesday affernoons in The large Science Audiforium and Thursdays in The Pub. All of The films are ordered eoch summer for The upcoming aca- demic year. Helena feels Thaf To make The Film Series suc- cessful, lT is necessary To bear in mind The diverse nafure of The audiences here when choosing films for The year. Since each week's film is shown in The Pub on Thursday afferl noons, Helena's job is noT an easy one. She says Thaf films which are noT Too deeply sfeeped in ploT and Theme CThe Refurn of The Dragon, The No Nukes Concerf, Sfar Wars, Sfripesy are more successful in a pub seTTing. Buf in order To cafer To all The differenf inferesfs here aT U.MassfBosTon, one cannoT choose only lighfhearfed films for The sake of The Pub audience. Therefore, a number of more serious films qAmacord, The Lasf Mefro, The Magus, Play iT as iT Laysj, while noT Too successful in The Pub, have been very well- affended in The large Science Audiforium. Helena feels Thaf iT's been a very good year overall, and Thaf The TurnouTs To mosf films have been impressive. She's Talked wifh many sfudenfs and has received much feedback on whaf people wanT To see. We believe ThaT HeIena's recepfiveness To our sTudenTs' inferesfs has helped To make This year's Film Series one of The mosT successful ever.

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The Media And PublicaTions Sub-CommiTTee Michael CarlTon, Chairperson Michael CarlTon seems perpefually amused. There's always a half smile on his face, regardless of whaT he's discussing. He swaggered in To be inTerviewed looking like a cowboy from a beer commercial. His face defi- niTely fiTs The plainsman parT- iT's a weafhered face wiTh deep lines which make him look older Than his TwenTy-six years. Michael CarlTon is noT The mosT pop- ular person in SAC- a facT which he clearly knows and which seems To amuse him as well. Of course, no chair- person of The Media and Publicafions sub-commiTTee has ever been very popular, because To ThaT sub- commiTTee goes a disproporTionaTe share of SAC's impossible Tasks. On The one hand . . . Michael says wiTh a grin, you are The mediaTor of inTeracTions befween organizaTions which are independenT and profiT mak- ing, yeT on The oTher hand you have To deal wiTh a sysTem essenTially wiThouT compeTiTion. These cam- pus organizafions are The Mass Media newspaper, The WavelengTh magazine, and The PoinT Press prinT shop. The Three are pseudo businesses- each is To be profiT making, yeT each need SAC subsidies To survive. ideal- ly, They should also be a self-conTained sysTem, wiTh The publicafions using PoinT Press TypeseTTing, for ex- ample. Capifalism dealT This concepf a severe blow when Mass Media found iT could buy PoinT Press ser- vices from The ouTside business ureal world for one quarfer The price. CarlTon's smile belies The sTruggle which Took place. We did leT Them CMass Mediay go ouTside: we did puT PoinT Press ouT of business, he says, and adds, Three businesses which inTeracT wiTh- ouT price fixing! You can'T blame Them. They were forced inTo iT. Having a decenT business in a sTaTe siTuaTion Michael breaks info laughfer, is impossible. CarlTon noTes, for example, ThaT The graphic arTs indusTry works wiTh immediaTe deadlines, while jusT geTTing a sTaTe purchase order approved Takes six weeks. Michael Tries To keep iT in perspecfive, SAC is a liTTle bubble inside a big bubble inside a bigger bubble, he says wiTh a giggle. He becomes oddly serious, however, when he is asked abouT The effecT his work in SAC has had on his life. Michael comes from a depressed area of The souTh shore. He has worked in a varieTy of jobs, The lasT of which was as a supervisor in a warehouse. Coming To UMB was a process of geTTing ouT as he puTs iT. As frusTraTing as his SAC experience was, he sees iT as an imporTanT parT of ThaT process. SAC enchanced my abiliTy To deal wiTh people: how To argue, persuade, manipulaTe, and generally geT my poinT across, he says, as his smile refurns. 28 Harbor Campus rvl' i K