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

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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

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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 lvlass lvledia Front row: Steve Wagner, Sue Macchi, Valerie O'Keefe, Peter Davoli. Second row: Chris Milan, Ron Gillis, Sharon Singer-Nese, Seth Salinger, Sue Mitnick, Ron McDonald. Back row: Diana Swallow, Ben Hughes, Maryann Kascia, Kristen Bagley, Denise Delory. The Mass Media has been weekly witness to a year of relative quiet, when compared to the tumultous years of the merger with Boston State. As the large and noisy story subsided, however, other smaller but no less important issues were able to bubble to the surface. ln a whirl of turmoil and accusation, the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Recovery came into being, while the next generation of soldiers were told to register for the draft or forget financial aid. A proposal for minimum admission standards elicited protest at the possibility of city students losing ground to better prepared students from suburban schools. As important in its own way was the pulse we took of the campus via its fashions and its clubs, its theatre and its artwork, the faces of its children and the stories of its foreign students. ln sports, we covered the attention getters, hockey and basketball, as well as the low-key ones, the swimmers and the intramural players, and the hardworking individuals. On the newspaper, the cycle rolled on as new faces appeared and old ones left. The new people, as always, are charged with keeping watch on the issues that affect us all. Particularly important are those things that don't splash loudly enough or high enough for the big media, but do create currents in the life of the student. The story might originate with a federal policy that discriminates against the urban student, or it might be caused by a professor's unfairness, but whatever the cause, the story must be covered. Harbor Campus 29