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

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L - - crcs R . Photos by Mark Iarret Chavous and Inn Daisx One of the biggest issues to hit UMass!Boston this year was the shut down of the elevators at the Down- town Campus. While an elevator breaking down is no news to any UMass student, a deliberate barring of ele- vator use is. Iudged to be unsafe, the administration had them shut down after numerous reports of elevators flying past selected floors. Maintainence at the 13-floor Downtown Campus building has never exactly been what one might call breath-taking. The shutdown was viewed by many CPCS students as the first major step in what would ultimately be complete abandonment of the Downtown Campus building. Not about to take this lying down, CPCS stu- dents organized a passionate protest and marched to the State House. Once there, state officials and legislators greeted the crowd of CPCS students and sympathetic Harbor Campus students and later promised to repair two of the ailing elevators. CPCS does not plan to let this issue fade and is prepared to march once more if 250 Stu- art Street is threatened again. I ee Mark Inrret Clzazrous ,SAVE OUR C Hflfl X F1

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ECI-105 I don't think things are ever the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.-Deborah Eisenberg, Critically acclaimed author ' The building is horrible, it's falling down. I think it's because of the separation of the Harbor Campus from CPCS. We're neglected.-A CPCS student, commenting on the condition of the Downtown Campus building One thing for sure is that nobody wants to be a stranger.-Vietnamese freshmen Trung Dong in a Mass Media Stranger in a Strange Land column They have struggled, they have perservered, they have succeeded, and today, they come before you in ' triumph!-UMB CAS Dean Richard Freeland introducing the' CAS graduates at 1986 commencement The court would not do to heterosexuals what it has done to homosexuals. Many of the justices are heterosexuals themselves.-Art Buchwald column, commenting on Georgia passing a law making sodomy a crime, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court M If we don't have a source, are American women willing to give up their diamonds?--White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, attempting to alibi for why the Reagan administration refuses to impose' sanctions on the racist re- gime of South Africa, the world's largest source for diamonds . 4 ' fEd's note: Congress overrode -a Reagan veto and imposed the sanctionsj One day, my boss, from Greece, asked me to do some job. I couldn't hear a word of what he was saying. I questioned, What? It was like I started the Third World war. That guy exploded, gesticulating, Why don't you look for another job? I am sick and tired of explaining or repeating everything to you. I got mad inside that day and I cried and cried and cried.-Haitian freshman Gerard Iean-Leger, describing his first work experience as a dishwasher-busboy in a restaurant. lean-Leger was a doctor in his native Haiti before coming to the U.S. in 1975 I The Mass Media.l When we reached 'zilch' and 'zillionaire', it was like havingthe finishing tape in sight in a marathon.-Robert Burchfield, editor of the just completed fafter 29 yearsj supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary QTIME, 51191852 v We could hear the sound of the gunfighting from the villages. More and more soldiers came to our town. For the first time in our lives, we understood the real warp it was quite different than our fighting games.-Southeastasian UMB student Em Truong recalling wartime childhood 6 The Mass Medial I worry about whether there will be enough .rice on the table, enough milk for my grandchildren, real basics. All the little details. Where do we buy the rake?-Imelda Marcos, wife of exiled Phillipine President Ferdinand Marcos, commenting on life in new home of' Hawaii. Mrs. Marcos is said to'have had as much as 2000 pairs'of shoes during her time as First Lady of the Phillipines , The lady has a problem . . . but then again, what 100 year-old lady does not have an age spot here and there?-From American notes of TIME, regarding the 566.3 million restoration of the Statue of Liberty

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