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...within 60 Boylston street itself, the interaction between administrators and administered is missing the anonymity of a real bureaucracy. Many of the people who work there are former athletes themselves--just "a bunch of overgrown football players," as Omar Fleischaker '78, a manager of the football team, says. "You always sit down and talk about sports for ten minutes or so before you even think about getting down to business...
...nature of the administrative work itself doesn't really permit impersonality. The department caters to students and it would be impossible to reduce the players to the numbers and statistics of the Registrar's office. Francis Toland, the department's business manager, describes Boylston street as "a continual flow of bodies," students with questions and problems that have to be dealt with before the teams can begin to play...
People like Toland increase your sense that the only difference between players and administrators at Boylston Street is a few years in between. Because students who go there regularly have to be part of the sports program, they have a lot more in common with staffers than one finds in most student-administration interaction. Most of the people who work on the second floor of the building reflect this easy-going attitude. In one office, several administrators toss a nurf ball around while they discuss health insurance policies, while a conversation about the IAB filters through opposite ends...
...comparison to Toland's second-floor beehive, the student manager's office in the basement of 60 Boylston street seems pretty deserted. Janet Mitchell, the managers' secretary, says she hasn't had much to do yet this year. But when the semester kicks off, every student who wants to play in any sport has to fill out an eligibility form--they must all be channelled through her--and then, she says, it can get really hectic. Football manager Fleischaker says he used to think most of the forms players have to fill out--relating to health, academic standing and general...
Mitchell worked in several other University offices before she ended up at Boylston Street, and now she says she wouldn't work anywhere else. People there are friendly and relaxed, she says, and she has a chance to get to know students in ways she couldn't in most places. A lot of staffers seem to agree with her, and the turnover at the building is minimal. Four years ago, five women retired who between them had racked up a total of well over 100 years with the Athletic Department. And of the five people who replaced them, only...