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Despite its idiosyncracies, Bob Watson, director of Athletics, says he thinks the building at 60 Boylston Street is likely to house the department for some time to come. Athletics ought to keep a low profile, he says, taking a secondary position in a place geared primarily toward academics. A full-scale, luxurious office is out of the question, he says, unless the department's budget grows suddenly...
Right now that budget is the Boylston Street staff's major headache. Smaller than that of most Ivy League athletic departments, Watson's crew has to operate and maintain all Harvard's facilities on $3 million--the same amount it had to play with three years ago, despite inflation and the additional expense of increasing facilities for women. So it isn't surprising that Watson keeps returning to the word "Spartan" in his description of the department...
...says, austerity has meant belt-tightening rather than layoffs. True, the building itself is old, and the heating system can make working there pretty uncomfortable--one side of the building is overheated while the other side is freezing. But Walsh says she has found the general friendliness at 60 Boylston more than makes up for a few physical inconveniences...
Watson's office is up on the third floor of the building, high over the Boylston Street traffic. Sixty Boylston is set up almost exactly like a bureaucratic flow chart, with decisionmakers--Watson and two assistant directors of Athletics--at the top, intermediate staffers on the second floor, and student managers in the basement. Jean MacIver, Watson's administrative assistant, says it was organized that way on purpose when Watson moved in four years ago, so that top administrators wouldn't be constantly interrupted by students needing help with minor details. But no one is really removed from...
...desks. The line for participation tickets--sold to graduate students and faculty members who want to use the facilities maintained by the College--is already six or seven people long, and the information desk is besieged with questions about available squash courts and swimming pools. These students are not Boylston Street regulars, on the whole; no one who is really interested in Harvard athletics is likely to stop in often to ask directions to Soldiers Field. But this floor is as far into 60 Boylston as most students will ever get, and the glassed-in ticket counter will...