Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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 the fraternities become official campus hosts, and the problem is not one of exclusiveness but of over-crowding. President Mather expects, however, that the new Student Union, to be built next year, will provide some of the room now badly needed for campus social activities...
President Mather is probably aware more than anyone else at UMass of the political pitfalls awaiting the careless public educator, and he treads an especially fine line between the two political parties. Since this is an election year he is being more careful than ever, and, as he puts it, will be "just a good boy until after the election...
...despite all the hazards of his job, political and otherwise, Mather can see something really worthwhile in the growth of the school he leads...