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

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have been college sTudenTs TwenTy years ago. Non- TradiTional here means accessible and sTudenTs wiTh a varieTy of disabilifies can aTTend. Though financial aid is shrinking and TuiTion is noT cheap, many working class people go To school here. Anofher TradiTion was ThaT older sTudenTs were excluded from all buf evening classes. Any prospecfive undergraduafe over 25 was considered a poor risk. The average age of undergraduafes af UlVlassfBosTon is 26. Probably The only Type of sTudenT ThaT is noT well represenfed af UMassfBosTon are The ones wiTh loTs of Time on Their hands. lvlosf sTudenTs here don'T have Time To appreclaTe ThaT The Harbor Campus is righT on The ocean, excepf for The few sTudenTs living on boaTs in The harbor who commuTe To school in dinghys. While The corridors beTween The classrooms are congesfed wiTh unfamiliar faces, oufside There is a narrow road along The ocean. This paTh, offen deserTed, Ties The campus To The sea like a ribbon. Ofher links To The sea are found Through several sefs of double doors. In O40 for insfance, in a crowded and noisy cafeferia, an occasional sTudenT will escape The poor acousfics. You can walk Through a sef of double doors onTo a pafio which overlooks The coasT and embraces The wind off The ocean. BeauTy and ugliness are affached To The coasTline: gas Tanks, weafhered old buildings, small boaTs, a sleek whife modern library. The ocean can give you a sense of solifude, yeT ofTen ThaT feeling comes Too easily aT The Harbor Campus. lf is easy To feel alone and anonymous here. AT Times iT seems as if all The passions and inTeresTs of people are somehow noT happening wiThin The campus. Classrooms look alike, They feel subferranean, The air inside is circulafed from a disTanT source and The windows cannof be opened. One professor here yearned To open a window. He said The French have a special word for a crime ThaT was excusable because if resulfed from an acT of passion. Such would be his defense when one day he would finally Throw somefhing Through a window. Problem was, The windows have Two layers of glass and The passion defense would falfer when he would have To sfop, pick up The desfrucfive implemenf again To hurl if Through The second pane. The Harbor Campus easily deceives. Human passion and infellecfual achievemenf does noT assaulT The senses here: you have To look. For example, aThleTics af The Harbor Campus does noT spring from naTionally known Division l powerhouses, yeT sporT is everywhere. Mosf people know of The new sporTs complex, The Cafherine Forbes Clark Afhlefic Cenferg yeT who sees The consfanf sTream of afhlefes who freauenf The O20 baskefball courT, The O40 hardball courf, The sailing program in The harbor, or The racauefball courfs in 0207 Ouf behind The campus, in parT of The norfh parking IoT, a Track is under consfrucfion. Every sporT from soccer To wheelchair

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