Vol. I, No. 1
SALVE REGINA COLLEGE / NEWPORT, R. I.
October 1975
Kubitschek, Sweeney And Cook Are Affiong The Many New Faces During Fall Setnester by Patrice D eVeau Miss Terri Kupitschek, who received her BA and Master's degrees within four years, Mr. Charles Cook, a former FBI agent, a nd Mr. Wayne Sweeney, the recently appointed Director of Student Activities, are among the new and exciting members of the college community here. Having completed requirements for her Master's degree at Ohio State University in one year, Miss Kubitschek has 1 returned here this year as a faculty member. M i s s Kubitschek graduated from here in 1974, having earned her BA degree in three years. Her major was En~lish and minor, Theatre. She. felt that Journalism was a most practical field and therefore decided to do her graduate work in that area. Ohio State has the largest enrollment of any university in this country, approximately 60,000 students. This is such a great contrast to Salve that at first, Miss Kubitschek was somewhat bewildered. However, the school of journalism is not a very la rge program and so she found her world was narrowed and made adjustments without difficulty.
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Most of her courses dealt with newswriting; others focused on the theoretical side of journalism. She feels the best and most stimulating e x p e r i e n c e that she gained was working as a reporter on the Ohio State paper, The Lantern, for the summer quarter. She covered a woman's beil.t and was responsible for two articles a week. About this course, Miss Kubitschek stated, "Working on this beat, I met some fascinating people, some intelligent and dynamic women, so that my consciousness was raised to the problems which confront women today and the ways in which they' overcome them." Miss Kubitschek's contract here is for this semester. She is presently teaching two English composition classes and one section of the Freshman Core. She greatly appreciates the opportunity of being able to teach and her classes are providing more than experience for herself. She feels that English composition is a review of the critical evaluation of writing and the core offers a chance to get back into the swing of reading and relating ideas and philosophies. Charles Cook Retiring after 25 years in the FBI, Mr. Charles Cook has joined the SRC faculty this semester and has been appointed the chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice. Mr. Cook entered the FBI in 1950. During these past years he has been stationed in Seattle, Washington, New York City, and Washington, D. C. His job focused mainly on criminal work, but he was also involved with domestic and security relations and espionage. The majority of Mr. Cook's earliest years with the FBI were spent on the street. In comparison to today, he feels there was less chance then that people would act adverse to agents, for the
Charles Cook FBI is held in less awe today by the general public. Working in Washington, D. C., headquarters for his last six years, Mr. Cook served as Principal Legal Counsel. He advised agents a nd also did some lega l teaching. When asked if his years wfth the outfit were exciting, he replied, "It was exciting at times, but like a doctor, you get a little immune." He believes an agent must be dedicated in order to endure the 1ong, hard hours. Domestic Security In regard to the investigations presently b e i n g conducted in Washington, Mr. Cook admits that the FBI has committed illegal acts, such as burglary with the goal of obtaining someone's financial or membership records. He does not claim that this is correct, but he believes it is justified and necessary for domestic security over which the FBI is responsible. In addition to · his responsibilities as chairman of the Department of Criminal Jus tice, Mr. Cook is presently teaching three courses here: comma nd school, evidence, and criminal procedure.
Wayne Swooney Mr. Wayne Sweeney became a member of the administration staff here this past July, w hen he was employed as the Director of Student Activities. He possesses an intense interest in guiding a nd working with people. Since 1964, he has been teaching a nd advising students at va rious schools in this area, such as Mumford, Sullivan, Thompson, a nd the Newport County Regional Center for Retarded Children. He was also employed by the Newport School Department in the spring of 1964, as a group lea der. in 19'13, he received his Master's degree in Counselor Education from Rhode Island College. There are more than thirty orga nizations classified as student ·activities here, over w hich Mr. Sweeney is director. Students submit requests pertaining to a'ctivities to him a nd he cooperatively works with them to achieve the desired end. In the short time that Mr. Sweeney has been employed here, he has accomplished a great deal. He developed a policy for student financial accountability. T h i s policy was adopted to provide a mechanism through which student financial control can be exerted over allocated funds. Both Mr. Sweeney a nd each orga nization are required to keep accurate accounting of the money allotted to each activity by the school. Mr. Sweeney revised t he policy for reserving SRC facilities. Anyone seeking the use of a facility must submit a n application to him at least 24 hours in advance. If it is not a lready engaged at tha t time, he validates the request form if possible. Orientatlon Day Student a c t i v i t y orientation day was organized by Mr. Sweeney and held on September 5th for new students. The purpose was to familiarize these students with the activities a vailable here
and enable them to join them. Each organization had a t a ble at which the representatives distributed their litera ture. It was extremely successful a nd Mr. Sweeney will open the activities day to all members of the college community next yea r. Mr. Sweeney has a lso conducted a personal growth workshop with the RA's , coordinated student congress workshops, instituted the development of an intramural ' sports club, and worked with students to compile a student activity directory, an activity calendar, and to develop film and lecture series. Although Mr. Sweeney finds himself frustrated a t times with the great amount of paper work his position entails, he realize~ it is a necessary step before he can do what he enjoys most - \\·orking with people. He is very ~at i s fied with his job here, and has found it 'to be "a real challenge. a whole new experience" which is broaden ing his horizons. Miss Kubitschek, Mr. Cook, and Mr. Sweeney all share a sincere interest in the stud ents here and are eager to aid them in a ny possible way.
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Buckley Amendment Rights Not For Everyone by Martha Wolf I cannot say what prompted me to suddenly wish to see my records. 'I'he Buckley Amendment had given students the right to see their files some time ago, yet somehow I was not moved until now to act. It· can perhaps 15e attributed to the mounting suspicion of all files everywhere by nearly everyo:rre, stemming from the almost daily exposes of the unscrupulous activities of government agencies. In lieu of the FBI or CIA, therefore, I decided to vent my frustrations on SRC. One day when I felt particularly hostile against the system, I determined to see jJ;t what those records had
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on me. I was prepared to defend to the death my right to see them, and, once they were within my grasp, to 1iy entirely off tlle handle at the first hint of a derogatory remark. At the very least, I felt sure that I would be able to detect several gaps in my records, from which all the more juicy bits of information had been carefully extracted in the fear that I might do just this. I looked forward to an opportunity to be loud, abusive, morally outraged, a Bella Abzug without the hat. But it simply wasn't meant to be. Dean Megley's reaction to my request was a vast disappointment. I sensed none of the para-
noia that the administrators of larger colleges and universities are reputed to fee l where the recent legislation is concerned. At the very least, I felt, she could have peered at m e suspiciously, she could have tried to dissuade me from exerci~ing my right to know. But she instead merely h a nded the records over, proba bly puzzled that I should be so desperate for reading material as to come to her. In a tone far from one conducive to moral indignation , she explained that it was the college's policy to remove potentially damaging remarks in any case, and that instead her problem lies in
obtaining information for the records that would be beneficial t o the student, such as the details of the extra-curricular ac tivities one lS involved in. There are many high school teachers and college professors, however, who are hesitant to write student recommendations because of the law. I thumbed through my file, finding it utterly dull. A few former teachers had offered the information tha t I was a "nice girl", and the like, which somehow just wasn't what I wanted to read. The expired student ID card and the list of all the courses I ever took didn't exactly
serve to incite me, either. It became most slowly a nd painfully evident that no dismemberment of my records had been necessary; I had led a life decidedly void of real color, of all noteworthy action . Slumped and d e j e c t e d , I shuffied down the hall, convinced that my life was hopelessly mundane, and I a potential threat to no one. No outlet for the countless frustrations of life here, not in my case. And so it is perhaps unadvisable for those of us who have not exactly led a life of intrigue to look at our recordJ;; somehow it is entirely too dishea rtenini:'.