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

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The Healthblizromotion Center L. to Fl.: Deb Picciufo, Angela Zamora, Lorna Beaumont, Jane Tevnan. The good right arm of University Health Services it the Health Promotion Center. The Center serves UMB by providing students with information and referrals, on-campus and off, about their health concerns. The intent is to promote peopIe's awareness about their wellness, spiritually, psychologically and phsiologically. The heart of the Center's service is to reach out to the campus community and inform students about what's available to them to help better themselves as human beings. New to the Center this year is an extension to their Stress Management Workshops dealing with relaxation training, where students actually experience 45 minute guided relaxation. Another addition has been workshops and information about sexually transmitted diseases. According to coordinator Vicki Soler the 84-85 school year has marked a substantial increase in activity at the Center, and more and more students are taking advantage of the HPC's on-going workshops in Weight Management, Smoker's liberation and Stress Management. After a few rough years, room changes and name changes the Center has solidified into an intregal part of the University, providing a standing commitment to the students. The HPC coordinates the Blood Mobile activities on campus, organizing times, dates and sign-ups. Blood drives on-campus are usually very successful. Almost all of us will have good reason to remember how the HPC served us and kept us informed about every breath we took while at UMB.

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of Public Affairs The Masters of Science Program in Public Affairs gets its ad- ministration and faculty support through the McCormack Institute. The Masters program has three chief purposes: to give students a con- cise and accurate focus of politics and economics on both local, state and federal levelsg and giving its students the technical, professional, managerial and analytical skills to be effective public servants, as well as analyzing current policy issues. Whatever the area of public affairs, the McCormack Institute has put to work on it. From day care to tax structures, from urban educa- tion to industrial revitalization, the staff is holding up its original com- mitment to the state and the community. As part of its hard work the Institute promotes scholarly research and papers on public policy by publishing the New England Iournal of Public Affairs. It is proud to be the first such journal sponsored by UMass!Bostn. Photos by Mark Jarret Chavous Iesse Iuckson Senator lohn Kerry The Iournal publishes at present twice a year ind soon hopes to become a quarterly, featuring scholarly articles from a wide range of authors. The winter spring 85 issue published articles on Public Education in Boston, by Ioseph Cronin, and Seabrook: A Case Study In Mismanagementf' by Irving C. Bupp, to name a couple. The Iournal was greeted by applause from far and wide, and sighted by the Globe columnist Ian Menzies who said the Iournal will fill an enormous academic and socio-political void in this region: one that, it is to be hoped, will lead to greater understanding and cooperation among the New England States. What the McCormack Institute does for the visibility and prestige of the University is remarkable. It can attract speakers like Iesse Iackson, Cary Hart and Iohn Kerryg it can get 300,000 dollars in state alloca- tions per year: it can get three million dollars in endowment money from the U.S. Congress: it can attract a faculty with extremely high credentials: it can support important and vital policy research, and it can straighten the spine of UMass-Boston, so that we who graduate from it can feel secure in the idea that our degrees are respected as highly as the other outstanding universities in the Boston area, New England, and the nation.

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'l'llE I 'ILLIAN JUINER CENHIEII At no other time in modern American history has the American public and political system been in such turmoil and division as during the Vietnam War period. The effects of Vietnam still reverberate through society, and remain firmly planted in the minds of the peace seeking world at X 1 V. 'VX l w B Dk. L. to Ft.: Patrick Englehart, T. Michael Sullivan, Frank Boback, Julia Perez, Marc Noel, Mary Shienfelt, Kate White, PaulAtwood. population. The William Joiner Center at UMB is tightly focused around studying the effects Vietnam had on veterans, civilian and the world's societies, as well as the effects of war in general, and using these issues to better relate to the world peace effort. The center was named after Vietnam veteran William Joiner who was the University's Director of Veterans' Affairs until his untimely death at age thirty-eight of cancer, possibly related to his military service. Since its beginnings in 1982 the Joiner Center has had as its mission to support the thousands of Boston area veterans,and those already enrolled at Ullvlass, who make-up one tenth of the student body, in pursuing higher educa- tion with college preparatory courses, counseling and tutorial services, as well as developing and offering courses related to issues of war and its effects. With the study of war and its ramifications as its primary objective, the center offers related courses through the History, American Studies, Political Science and English Departments, as well as at CPCS. The center also supports original research, is developing courses in special war-related topics and holds lectures, Colloquia and conference related to war and social consequences. Recently the center received Massachusetts legislative funding to purchase the film archives from WGBH of its na- tionally acclaimed series: Vietnam: A Television History. The some 500 hours of film and the 50 volumes of documents and writings have propelled the center, and the University, into the forefront of Vietnam studies nationally. The collection will be stored at the new state Archives building which is due to be dedicated in the fall of 1985, and is located next to the Harbor Campus. This year the center has been busy not only with its regular day-to-day activities, but has also co-sponsored a semester long series on Central America lwith its many parallels to Vietnaml, an Agent Orange Symposium, a teleconference on nuclear issues, and a speech by a retired Marine Colonel against nuclear proliferation. In its somewhat short existence the Joiner Center has helped bring considerable notoriety to UMB because it is the first such center focusing its activities on the war in Vietnam, which for many of us is an all too recent memory, and for veterans it is a memory that they will never escape from. For those veterans the center is a way to overcome and make use of their Vietnam experience in an intellectual and creative manner to find an inner peace and do work in the direction of world peace.