Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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X PRESIDENT BRAGE GOLDING The first quarter He first saw KSU in luly of '77. And then Dr. Brage Golding came with mixed feelings of push and pull. He said he liked San Diego State and enjoyed a fine relationship with stu- dents and faculty there. I did not seek this job, he explained, but I get itchy. Moving keeps me from getting into a rut. It's good for the institution and for me. So he came to Kent in the quiet of the summer. His first impressions were of a large, beautiful campus, but he thought it looked big, bleak and emp- ty, like it needed people. Now the university bustles with life, but in the two months Golding has been in office, he has walked across campus only once. He spends most of his time tucked inside the maze of carpeted hallways and offices that branch out beyond an unobtrusive door in Rockwell Hall. He is working 70 hours a week with no days off. Most of those hours are spent on one over- riding thing: the gym controversy. f'I didn't expect what is happening now. The Trustees said this would be over, Golding said. I would have thought twice. He said that in spite of the gym dispute, he does not regret coming to Kent. He apologized for the cliche, then said, I rise to challenges. You don't take on an administrative job for love and affection, he contin- ued. What you hope to win is respect that you're an honest person. You like the kind of work, you know you'Il find a group of colleagues you enjoy work- ing with. And if you have any pride, you do it because you want to leave a place knowing it's better than it was before you came. It happened at the last two, he said, referring to his positions at Wright State and San Diego. l left with good feelings, and I want to do the same thing at Kent. But when I came I was immediately branded as a bad person. It grieves me when people get personally nasty. Besides hurting him, Golding thinks the gym controversy is going to hurt at., . .. ,, QA if-Aww