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...indirect reply to Psychologist Frank McGurk of Villanova University, who claimed in U.S. News & World Report that Negroes have less capacity for education than whites, 18 psychologists and social scientists from such institutions as Harvard, Columbia, Michigan and the Menninger Foundation flatly denied the McGurk thesis. Though Negro children generally do not do as well in school as the whites, said the 18, their showing has nothing to do with native intelligence, but is only the result of inferior background and schooling. "The conclusion is inescapable that any decision to use differences of the average achievement of the two racial...
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...
...Yankee Conference, the league of six New England state universities in which UMass plays most of its athletic contests, McGurk sees a future of steadily intensifying rivalries and improving competition. "The athletic potential here is as good as in the Big Ten," he states...
...Reel and Rock with the Deacon's Flock" will soon be the cry in Kirkland's Common Room. The Deacons are expecting to cough up 30 bucks for the latest in jive and jazz. Rug cutter Ted (Jo McGurk) Meredith is in charge of expenditures and has put up a suggestion sheet on the Dining Room bulletin board...