Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need spend only very little time on the Massachusetts campus to be aware of the dynamic growth taking place there. He sees it in the new buildings going up everywhere, in the enthusiasm everyone shows in discussing the University's future, and especially in the words and ideas of President J. Paul Mather, the man whose job it is to get some $10,000,000 in appropriations from the Legislature each year...
Despite Mather's football-can-wait attitude, however, there are certain forces working on the Massachusetts campus to build the University's athletic future in the image of the Big Ten. One of these forces is Warren McGurk, director of Athletics...
...issue of building a new stadium on the campus, for example, McGurk's ideas seem in direct contradiction to Mather's. "It's very unlikely that you'll ever see a big football stadium out here," said the President, "because the faculty would raise cain against it." The present dismountable bleachers are far more satisfactory than a permanent football stadium, Mather feels. McGurk has other ideas. Pointing to a flat field some 500 yards away from the present athletic plant, he proudly states: "That's where our new stadium will be in a few years...
Thus it seems that UMass administrators are not in complete accord on at least one issue concerning campus life. No so, however, with the University's students. On any subject, whether it be football or fraternities, they exhibit an amazing spirit of uniformity and acquiescence, apparently accepting the campus status quo as the only possible order of things...
There are on the Massachusetts campus, for example, a number of institutions that would certainly meet with strong opposition from students at most colleges, but at UMass are hardly even criticized...