University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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■feoston Red Sox 1978 The record shows that the Boston Red Sox lost the pen- nant in 1978. Numerous rea- sons could account for their failure. Some will think, at one time or another, that the Sep- tember Slide was caused by 1) the manager, 2) lack of hitting, 3) lack of consistent pitching, 4) Hobson ' s Horrors, 5) injur- ies, 6) the absence of the mir- acle worker Bernie Carbo, 7) pressure from outside sources or, 8) the New York Yankees, who happened to play better ball when it counted most. For the first half of the sea- son the Sox played extremely well. The pitching staff which had been subject to daily spec- ulation in pre-season by the media carried the team. And the hitters exceeded every- one ' s expectations, led by Jim Rice. At the All-Star break the Sox were in a commanding lead. Since no team had ever come back and won a pennant after being down eight games at the break, the Red Sox seemed the heirs to this year ' s flag. But after the All-Star game, strange creatures could be seen in uniform. Practically overnight the manager turned gerbil, the first baseman bal- looned out fo proportion from a diet of pepperoni pizzas, and a Spaceman crashed into the Boston bullpen, which, from that day on, was enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Along with these additions a contagious myopia spread through the team. It seemed everyone was affected. Not only did it affect the Sox ' field- ing and batting, but the myste- rious disease blinded the Sox off the field when they read the American League standings. They couldn ' t see the Yankees slowly creeping, gaining ground on them. The culmination of all this came on October 2. The Yan- kees edged the Sox in the standings, and the scramble was on. Art Simas Carl Yastrzemski, Edward King, and Senator Kennedy State Elections He was liberal. He was honest. He mastered the state fiscal crisis. He also lost. Michael Dukakis was the only incumbent governor of the state of Massachusetts in recent history to lose an election in office. Edward J. King, formerly of the Massachusetts Port Author- ity, defeated the former governor in the Democratic primaries in November and went on to win the state election in November against Francis W. Hatch of Beverly. Discovering a $450 million deficit, he in- creased sales and income taxes after promis- ing not to increase taxes during his campaign. The state employees were not granted a pay raise, and social services were trimmed by the governor, upsetting the liberals of the state. Edward Broke ' s renomination for the Unit- ed States Senate against Avi Nelson of Brook- line, a local radio personality, created a prob- lem for incumbent governor Dukakis. Brooke ran into trouble with his own party over his support of the Panama Canal Treaty, his posi- tive position for federally financed abortions for poor women, and the divorce suit with his ex-wife Regina. Liberal Democrats supported the incumbent senator while opposing Nel- son, who was in favor of anti-bussing and anti- taxing legislation. A total of 30,000 people voted in the G.O.P. primary, many of them Democrats who switched their party to support Brooke. In all, approximately 270,000 people voted in the 1979 primary election. Though Brooke won over Nelson in a 6 percent margin, Brooke lost to U.S. Representative Paul Tsongas from Lowell in the general election. Since the Democrats who supported Brooke left the party, the support for Dukakis was heavily damaged. Former mayor of Cam- bridge. Barbara Ackerman received 2% of the vote, Dukakis 47%, and King 51%. Francis W. Hatch of Beverly won the prima- ry election over Edward F. King in the Republi- can election, only to be defeated by King in the general election. Hatch received 208,387 votes to King ' s 247,660 votes. The former football player scored better in some Massa- chusetts areas, but was behind where the Democrats were strong four years ago, espe- cially in Western Massachusetts and the Five College area. Since Proposition 13 had passed a few months earlier in California, the conservative ideals in America blossomed, with Massachu- setts in the front lines. King ordered a hiring freeze on all public agencies, including UMass. The guidelines specified that no posi- tions, transfers, or reinstatements, as well as initial openings. The University had a committment to the students to hire more faculty when necessary for discussion classes, and the students em- phasized their rights to receive a proper edu- cation. The freeze was owed to agency bud- get cuts. During the opening months of King ' s ad- ministration, several of his major decisions backfired. Four men appointed by King were forced to resign. One was tied to the Mafia, another dealt with Union funds, causing a conflict of interest. A third associated with a lawyer convicted of fraud and arson, while the fourth was forced to resign due to fraudu- lent degrees from prestigious European uni- versities when he was actually a high school drop out. Twice, the Governor shot down a 6% in- crease in cost of living funds to AFDC families (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), only to pass an overdue increase of 7% in August of 1979. During King ' s moves toward the AFDC increase, the Governor ' s Commis- sion on the Status of Women voiced opposi- tion to King ' s measure on the cost of living increase. King turned around and fired the 22

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Interregnum Regnum From the balcony of Saint Peter ' s Basilica, on Oct. 16, 1978, the news was announced that John Paul II had been elected by the College of Car- dinals of the Roman Catholic Church. Reacting to the news from Rome that the second pope in 54 days and the first non-Italian to be chosen in 456 years, historians sharpened their quills. For Karol Wojtyia, life in Poland was hard. His mother died when he was nine, and he was brought up by his father, who subsisted for the most part on army sergeant ' s pen- sion. Though many Cardinals and Popes have been trained from early youth in the hothouse atmosphere of minor seminaries, Wojtyia went to an ordinary high school. While he at- tended Mass each morning and headed a religious society, he had equally strong adolescent passions for literature and the theater. He was the producer and lead actor in a school troupe that toured south- eastern Poland doing Shakespeare and modern plays. The Nazi occupation of Poland closed the Jagiellonian University of Cracow, where the young Karol Woj- tyia had begun to study philology. He spent World War II working in a stone quarry and a chemical fac- tory. A devout tailor interested him in the writings of the 16th century Spanish Carmelite mystic, St. John of the Cross, and in 1942, the year after his father died, he decided to begin studies for the priesthood at an illegal underground seminary. While that was risky enough, Wojtyia also became active in the anti-Nazi resistance. A high school classmate, Jerzy Zubzycki, now a sociology pro- fessor at the Australian National Uni- versity of Canberra, said of those years: He lived in danger daily of losing his life. He would move about the occupied cities taking Jewish families out of the ghettos, finding them new identities and hiding places. He saved the lives of many families threatened with execution. At the same time he helped organize and act in the underground Rhap- sody Theater, whose anti-Nazi and patriotic dramas boosted Polish mo- rale. In 1946, the Pope-to-be was or- dained a priest, just as the Soviet- backed Communist Party was begin- ning to smother all opposition. After completing two years of doctoral work in philosophy at Rome ' s Pon- tifical Angelicum University, he re- turned to Poland as a parish priest and student chaplain. Later, in 1954, he began teaching at the Catholic University of Lublin, the only Catholic center of higher edu- cation in any communist country, and soon became the head of the ethics department. He was appoint- ed auxiliary bishop a few years later, and in 1962, at the age of 42, he was elevated to the post of Archbishop of Cracow. He first established the international regard and contacts that were to make him Pope during the Second Vatican Council (1962- 1965). During the Council he made eight speeches, the most memora- ble in favor of religious liberty. Church honors followed a Cardinal ' s red hat in 1967, election as one of three Europeans on the council of the world ' s bishop ' s council in 1974, and an invitation to conduct the Len- ten retreat for Pope Paul Vl ' s house- hold in 1976. At home in Poland, Karol Wojtyia is considered to be a resilient enemy of Communism and a threatening figure to the party as a powerful preacher, and intellectual with a reputation for defeating the Marx- ists in dialogue, and a churchman enormously popular among younger Poles and laborers. Before his elec- tion to the papacy, it was widely ex- pected that the regime would exer- cise its veto power to block him from succeeding Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski as Primate, the leading figure of the Church in Poland. Wojtyia has written four books and more than 500 essays and articles. A Polish publisher is planning to put out a thin volume of his poetry on the theme of the fatherland. In the area of philosophy, the Pope is an expert in phenomenology, a theory of knowledge that bases scientific objectivity upon the unique nature of subjective human perception. He has written a major work on it, PER- SON AND ACT (1969), which is being translated into English. Summarizing the Pope ' s complex thought, Anna- Teresa Tymieniecka, a Pole who heads the Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research, said: He stresses the irreducible value of the human person. He finds a spiri- tual dimension in human interaction, and that leads him to a profoundly humanistic conception of society. The new Pope is known as a staunch conservative on specific is- sues of doctrine, morality and Church authority. On the birth con- trol issue, he went on record against all artificial methods in his book, LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY (I960), before Paul VI took the same posi- tion in his much attacked HUMANAE VITAE encyclical (letter to all the churches) of 1968. But the book also emphasized the personal love relationship of the married couple, in all its dimensions, an advanced view for a pre-Vatican II archbishop. Wojtyia wrote in 1977 that Jesus Christ is a reproach to the affluent consumer society . . . The great pov- erty of people, especially in the Third World — hunger, economic exploitation, colonialism — all these signify an opposition to Christ by the powerful. When asked on West Ger- man TV in 1977 whether Marxism could be reconciled with Christinity, Wojtyia replied bluntly: This is a curious question. One cannot be a Christian and a materialist; one can- not be a believer and an atheist. As the Communist attitude of mind has pervaded his world, people might expect of him a somewhat rig- id response, theological conserva- tion and intransigeance. Theological development does not thrive under conditions of siege, but there is nothing to suggest that personal ex- perience such as his — steeped as it is in personal suffering — will stamp out theological enquiry where it is most needed. In his first sermon as Pope, John Paul subtly outlined his objectives: The absolute and yet gentle power of the Lord corre- sponds to the whole depth of the human person, to the loftiest aspira- tions of intellect, will, and heart, does not speak the language of force and expresses itself in charity and truth .. Fr. Michael Twardzick Wg M IP ' IHI IIHI ■ ■ H -v i . | PI K M| M 1 1

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Dukakis-appointed forty member committee, replacing them with anti-ERA, anti-abortion conservatives. But in April, Governor King was scheduled to meet students at UMass. The Costs of Quality Education , a panel discussion spon- sored by the UMass School of Education was a part of the week ' s education forum. Howev- er, the Governor made his journey to North- ampton instead, to visit Leed ' s Dam. King was quoted as saying he feared that he might have a pie or other debris thrown at him and his staff. The majority of students at the University feel that the Governor is much too conserva- tive in his view, thereby affecting the quality of education. After all, if the University of Massachusetts is managed by the State, should not the State take pride in its facilities and not cater to the private universities in the area? This is one question the Governor and his administration should look into, for if the Governor says, Everything I ' m for, the peo- ple are for, then the Governor should re- evaluate his position on several issues and not just the issues of his close business asso- ciates. Mark Curelop The Duke ' King Calls the Shots Of all the news events during the 1978-79 year, none sparked as much interest on the UMass campus as the raise of the legal drinking age. What began as campaign promise of Governor Edward King turned into a reality as the bill to raise the drinking age quietly appeared in the Boston Statehouse. Students across the state quickly mobilized to protect their common form of entertain- ment. Various measures were intro- duced that would have raised the age from 18 to 19, or from 18 to 19, then to 20 and then to 21. In the midst of the controversy, four teen- age girls were killed in a town out- side of Boston when the car one of them was driving crashed. The alco- hol level in the 17-year-old driver ' s blood was the highest ever recorded in the state, as proponents of the raise were quick to point out. Fac- tors in the incident that were conve- niently ignored were that the girl ' s older sister bought the excessive amounts of liquor and that the girl had been stopped for drunk driving once before, but had her license re- stored. Persons against the increase said it is the parent ' s responsibility to monitor the behavior of their chil- dren, and the state ' s responsibility to create stiffer penalties for drunk driving and provide more education about alcohol use and abuse. The controversy reached a zenith when the perpetrator of the bill. King, was invited to speak on cam- pus during an educational forum. At the last minute the governor opted to visit a dam in Northampton in- stead, because, he told a reporter. Remember Who in ' 82 Boston, March 8 — Gov. King holds up drinking age bill after signing it into law at the Statehouse. The bill raised the drinking age in Massachusetts to 20-years-old, effective in April. We didn ' t want to get pie on our suits. Demonstrations on campus and in Boston proved fruitless, and on April 16, 1979, a 20-year-old drinking age went into effect. The effect on traffic fatalities, which the increase was supposed to prevent, was not known but the increase had obvious effect on campus bars. Splits between low- er and upper classmen were predict- ed, as well as increased drinking in the dormitories. Under-age students left campus in May thinking of ways to obtain fake I.D.s The photo speaks for itself. 23