University of Massachusetts Boston - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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L, , L- ,Ni 'fm f -- CALLING OCCUPAN T OF THE MULTI- CAMPUS CONNECTION' UMASS PRESIDENT DR. KNAPP: One of the things that impresses me about this place or depresses me about it is I donlt see a place where there is an opportunity for social life or aggregation of students. THE PUB? Anything that can create a sense of student life or places where people can come together is a positive feature. It all depends upon how people behave and react to the Pub. I've been in a lot of pubs in my life in a lot of countries and you get all sorts of behavioral patterns. That's all up to the people who use it. I've started out in the program of trying to get to each campus for a certain amount of time each month. I find it very, very difficult to do so. I would like to be in a position where I'd have the opportunity to get to see students regularly. AN INVITATION? If I can find time, I don't mind a party. I would like to see several things happen out here on Columbia Point once the Kennedy Library is finished. As I understand it, there are no places to eat on Columbia Point. There's really no sense of the things that make a neighborhood. I hope that the city will get to work on the housing problem. A Fine Arts-Student Complex is on hold for the Harbor Campus. I have grave doubts we are going to get the money for it. MAINTENANCE COSTS? You're always faced with a choice when you ask for money for buildings. You're saying that that's more important than something else. One of the reasons maintenance problems always arise is that the tendency is to say, put your money into academic programs rather than to the maintenance of buildings. You reach your point, however, when the maintenance of buildings detracts from the academic program. That sets the stage for some of the things I see here. The MBM scandal really has nothing to do with the university, per se. EXPLAIN PLEASE! It does create an image problem. That's what it creates. It conveys that there's something at the University of Mass. at Boston which is not our responsibility and that's where it creates the problem. I think that's far more a preoccupation with people here, than it is with people out there. The wide world doesn't know about that. The wide world which we want to attract people with leadership to the campus doesn't know that it's a major problem. They know a lot of other things about Massachusetts, but they donlt know about that specifically. I get disturbed when I hear people talk about the geographical isolation of this area, we're not that far from Downtown Boston. There's a mental isolation that goes with Columbia Point. COMMUT- ER SCHOOL BLUES? What we've got to be sure of is more often or not if we have the qualities that attract the students. We could stay out here like a dinosaur on this point and exist with buildings and faculty and have nobody interested in coming to us. What we've really got to examine is have we got the academic programs that attract students and serve the needs of students? I don't think we do. I talked to one girl over here. She said she had talked with her parents about coming to UMass Boston because the cost was inexpensive for two years and then she was going to go to a 'goodl school. And then she got here and she found out she was IN a good school. That message has got to get out to an awful lot of people as they're coming through high school and their parents. THE MESSAGE? There is something out here that is exciting and worth coming for. One of the important things about this place is there aren't too many people who are going to look after you, as I perceive it. THAT'S A IO-4. OVER AND OUT! ' Jf N14 EQQQQQSQ 'r Q' 'o