Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is a student organization very much like the Crimson Key except for one important difference: it is the Maroon Key's job to "orientation" the University's new freshman class each fall. Now, this "orientation" includes getting the freshmen settled in their dorms and showing them around the campus, but it also includes such things as routing them out of bed at 5 a.m. to serenade the women's dorms and making sure they wear beanies for a week. Again, however, there is no serious protest from either the students in general or the harrassed freshmen...
Although UMass is located in the center of a college area (Amherst is one mile away, Smith and Mt. Holyoke each only a short drive), the student's social life revolves around the co-educational population of the University campus, where the ratio is approximately six men to four women. The social life of the campus, in turn, revolves around the 14 fraternities, which are virtually the only place where students can bring dates (no women are allowed in men's rooms, or vice versa, and no liquor is allowed anywhere on campus except in fraternities). Thus on Saturday evenings...
...students must, for one thing, resign themselves to at least two years of an R.O.T.C. course, since this is compulsory at all state universities, and they must thereby accept a campus atmosphere tinged for all with regimentation and militarism. ("It is disconcerting," said one professor, "to be talking about Plato and hear 'tramp, tramp, tramp' outside the window...
Also, the University cannot always avoid the political and religious issues which arise when a legislative body is the ultimate director of an educational institution. There can be no chapel on campus, for example, and no chaplain on the University payroll; and courses in religion can not be counted for full credit on a student's record...
...knows," he wonders out loud as he looks out of his office window across the rolling Massachusetts campus, "may-be someday a cure for cancer will be discovered down there on the other side of the pond (where the University's science buildings are located). After all, streptomycin was found at Rutgers, not Princeton," he says. "A man with brains can go a long way on the campus of a land-grant college," the President adds."There is a good deal lost for the college administrator in not forcing himself to spend time with the students," says President Mather. Here...