The constant of running a state school is its incessant limbo in the whims of state legislative politics. Always. Let alone the University System of Georgia. Let alone the Board of Regents. Or, for that matter, the strange and different political bodies of third president Kenneth Matheson’s days at the helm of the Georgia School of Technology. Arguably those politics had a hand in the very demise of second president Captain Lyman Hall, let alone the retirement of Dr. Isaac Hopkins. And though Matheson was busy shaping Tech into the behemoth we know today, a faint feeling was about him.