Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While over half the squad pored over teams in Cambridge, a few Crimson-skirted renegades ran up a total of 20 points on the Rutgers field, third best behind Maryland (46) and defending Champion Villanova...
...meet may depend not on Villanova and Maryland runners, but on the top runners from other schools. If St. John's enters Olympian Tommy Farrell in the 880, he's a clinch to beat Carroll. But if Farrell runs the 440, as he has been doing this spring, Carroll only has to beat the same field that trailed him in the IC4A 1000-yard...
Amid the waves of campus unrest rolling across the U.S., the University of Maryland was a sea of tranquillity; not a picket had been visible on campus all year. Properly impressed, Maryland President Wilson H. Elkins last month commended his 22,000 students for "their orderly conduct and constructive criticism," and deplored "the small groups" at other campuses, "which flout regulations, oppose any authority and confuse freedom with license to do as they wish...
...should have kept his peace. Elkins' speech immediately set a "small group" of students at Maryland to feeling lonely. If there were no protests at College Park, they concluded, there must surely be something wrong with the campus. The local chapter of the nationwide Students for a Democratic Society vowed to "inject new controversy into the stagnant university system." Another group organized an Academic Freedoms Committee to "restore controversy to its proper place in academic life." The dissenters combined to form a united organization called Students for a Free University...
...what should they protest? After a long pause for thought, S.F.U. seized upon two yawning gaps in Maryland's academic life: the library closes at 10 p.m. instead of midnight, and students are not allowed to wear Bermuda shorts at dinner in the dining halls. S.F.U. began promoting a library study-in-even though the administration was already considering longer library hours, as well as abolition of all dress standards...