THE MICHIGAN DAILY T DOUGLAS LAKE: Biological Station Adds to Courses By THOMAS KABAKER Supplementing the botany and zoology department's regular pro- grams at the University is the Biological Station at Douglas -Lake, according to Prof. Alfred H. Stock- ard, director of the Station. "At the Station we try to offer courses that can -be given out of doors better than they could be given in a classroom;" Prof. Stock- ard said. The purpose of the Station, Prof. Stockard said, is to study plants and animals in their natural habi- tat to see how they can best be put to use for man. "This ideal cannot be fully realized in a class- room," he explained. Often Must Travel The average student at the Biological Station carries six hours of classes, Prof. Stockard noted. Since the students often have to travel several miles to study the desired plants or wildlife, the classes meet not by the hour, but by the day. Otherwise, the students would spend most of . their time going to and from classes, he said. A two-hour course meets one day a week. A four-hour course meets two days a week and almost always meets on consecutive days. "This is because many classes go on overnight excursions," Prof. Stockard said. Other classes may go on a field trip in the morning to collect data, and then return to the laboratories to sort and study their specimens. No Introductory Courses "The Biological Station offers no introductory courses," Prof. Stockard said. "All the students must have at least two courses either in zoology or botany or one semester of each." The Station usually offers 16 courses to its 125. students. "Half the students are from the state of Michigan, Prof. Stockard noted. Of these, one-half are from the Uni- versity, the others residing in other states and foreign countries.; "Two thirds of the students are working for graduate degrees," Prof. Stockard said. They work on their own projects. "This past LIVING QUARTERS-In, place of dormitories, the students and faculty at the University's Biological Station at Douglas Lake live in individual houses, Ideally, there are only two residents for each house, but the large enrollment sometimes forces three students to live in a few of the houses. There are 60 such residences on the Biological Station's 9,000 acres. summer we had 75 to 100 research projects in which students and faculty participated." Independent investigators also attend the Station. These are biologists, with their doctorate degrees who come to the camp to use the facilities without enrolling in any of the courses. There are 15 or 16 members of the faculty each summer, Prof. Stockard explained. Of these about six come from the University. "We' try to get and keep the best teach- Irs we can," he said. Some of the aculty members have been at the camp for as long as 35 years." Among the faculty members is a Dean of Women who doubles as a social director. "We have a very. active social life at the biological station, Prof. Stockard said. Living arrangements at the Bio- logical Station are quite different from those at the University, Prof. Stockard noted. "There are no dormitories," he said. "Everyone at the Station lives in houses. The houses are divided into groups for single men, single women and married students. We try to put only two people to a house, but enrollment sometimes forces us to put three in some." Married students, of course, live one family per house. Of these students about 25 are married, 40 are single women and 60 to 70 are single males. . There are 105 buildings on the central campus of the biological station, according. to Prof. Stock- ard. Of these, 60 are residences for the students and faculty-the rest being laboratories, classrooms, stores and health facilities. The Biological Station is located in the upper tip of lower Michi- gan. "This allows the classes to go on excursions to the North Woods and Canada, Prof. Stockard said. During the winter the popula- tion of 250 dwindles to two-the caretaker and his wife. "It it very rare that aniyonie goes up to the' Station in the winter as the snow reaches 30 inches in depth. ISA Offers Dance Course The International Students As- sociation is sponsoring dancing classes beginning this week, ac- cording to William A. West of the International Center. Classes in American ballroom and Latin-American dancing will be offered Monday nights in Lane Hall. On Tuesday evenings, beginning tonight and continuing for ten weeks, dance instruction for couples will be held at the Inter- national~Center. SAGINAW: Exhibition Features 'U' Artists. Paintings by two University faculty members are on display until Oct. 31 at the Saginaw Art Museum. Both Irving Kaufman-and'Prof. Albert Mullen of the art depart- ment will have approximately 20 works on exhibition. These include oils, water colors and drawings, which were executed during the past, two years. The paintings are mainly ab- stract expressionist in style and derived from experience of forms in nature. Prof. Mullen spent last summer in the Southwest, painting the in- digenous flora there under a grant from the 1 ackham Foundation. Both artists joined the Univer- sity in 1956 from New York. BIG CLEAN TASTE OF TOP-TOBACCO REGULAR KING Read and Use The Michigan Daily Classifieds! r a. A "Crditable"thing.. . 'IELD TRIP-Classes at the Biological Station at Lake Douglas we arranged so that students may take tripswith their instructors o collect data which they will later study in the Station's labora- ories. 'a CREDIT CARD Eqh name address student no. GREENE'S CLEANERS, 1213 S. 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