«x. x } =4 A Graduate's Advice for New Students A GRADUATE'S ADVICE By ROBERT JUNKER ONE LOOK at the University's campus should be sufficient to, tell any perceptive person that this could not be the reason that stu- dents and faculty members come to the University. And yet it is true that many students iever see much more of Ann Arbor than the ugly misplaced structures which the University calls its own. True. many dorm-disillusioned sophomores travel "the town" apartment hunting, but unless, they are wealthy, this tour never takes them out of the city's slum section. An occasional brave stu- dent will disregard social mores and go downtown (i.e. Main Street) to do some shopping. And most seniors get at least as far: west of the campus as the Pretzel Bell. B UT BY AND large, students never see the town that sur- rounds them. Ann Arbor is not a bad town at all-in many ways it is delightful and unusual, and can add immeasurably to the four year ritual. Ann Arbor is a rural oasis, or at least until the end of World War II it was. Most of the towns- people think it is. The growth of the University has brought in large numbers of faculty members from all over the country, but the town itself remains largely unl- sophisticated. Year after year it votes reactionary Republican (and believes it). When Samuel Eldersveld won the mayoralty contest three years ago, the time for a change was Continued from Page Two THE TOWN proper is a delight. Many of the houses are old, on wide, tree-shaded streets. Some of them, like the Wahr house, on Division Street, are classic. The' hills and trees, once you get half a dozen blocks from campus, make quiet Ann Arbor a really beautiful town. The traditions of the city go far back, despite all the recent immigration. The Pretzel Bell is still the classic drinking establish- ment, with pictures of University athletic teams dating back 50 years lining the walls. And of course the Bell itself is still rung on special occasions, like birthdays of the clientele. Walk down town a bit further and drop into Metzger's. Here the waitresses still speak German (or most of them). Since Ann Arbor was originally a German settle- ment, this bit of the past has been nicely if rather commercially, re- served. The wilder student ele- ment take their thrills in the ex- citing deer-horn-studded Old Ger- man, the last of the "big three" drinking establishments- YOU MIGHT be wondering, what does one do in-this rural small town for excitement? There is the usual (three movie houses cater to the sedentary, for example) and there is the unusual, like the ex- pressway, which can carry you into Detroit where things are even duller. The athletic may want to go canoeing. This ancient Indian discipline is within walking dis- tance if you're hardy. A three mile course on the Huron is provided and the canoe livery itself is classic. Within its ancient walls are four equally ancient musical instruments which are worth the trip out--a player piano, a player violin, a player organ (with cym- bals) and a player one man band complete with drums, horns and strings. A quarter will start any one of these supurb musical ma- chines straight out of the 19th Century. With all its drawbacks, Ann Ar- bor preserves much of small town atmosphere. University students provide the action, but the town itself can offer repose to the weary. Robert Junker was Daily City Editor last year. He grad- uated with a B.A. in English and will continue his studies at the Harvard business ad- ministration school this fall. SHOP FROM E CRAFTED CONTRAST-A familiar and traditional view-the high squared shoulders of University hospital rising from the graceful thicket that clusters around its complex bloc of structures-receives a new perspective framed by definitive steel girders that constitute the foundations of a new apartment construction project. "KNOWHOW" acquir ryears of bookselling e has enabled us to gathe USED TEXTBOOKS fr the Nation. Our Staff has spent m4 piling accurate informteU iest aut book requirements this Complete and mail t tached coupon to get 3 early and avoid the la rush. long overdue, but the Democrats couldn't hold this brief gain and lost last fall. All this says that beneath the gilded University ex- terior beats the isolationist, pro- vincial heart of mid-America right under our'own dorm windows. F Gorsythe Galer 201 Nickels Arcade-- NOrmandy 3-0918 ANN ARBOR is one of the few places left in our suburbia- oriented society, where one can walk from the heart of town into the country in less than half an hour. And the countryaround Ann Arbor is full of parks and lakes and farms. -Some of the farms are the rural homes of the industrial elite of Detroit, but the fact remains that the city child from New York can walk briskly out of her dorm on the hill and for Records DISC SHOP 1210 S. University NO 3-6922 OPEN EVENINGS soon reach cows and sheep and poultry in their natural environ- ment. For the less hardy, the Uni- versity maintains a zoo behind the Museum building. The country around the city is being eaten away little by little with housing developments and such. The river area behind the hospital is now full of ranch style homes and giant apartment build- ings but one can see the trees still. Continued on Page Eleven . P mDaily Vol. 1 No. 1 Tuesday, September 15, 1959 A Graduate's Advice for Freshmen by Robert Junker Page Two -1 Contemporary Art Housing Is Not Living by Jean Spencer Page Three Library System Fills Multiple Student Needs by Philip Shermon Page Four The City and the University: A Complex Continuum by Thomas Hayden Page Six Modern American Art: A New National Genre Page Eight Come In and Browse! I Open Persuaders? by Judith Doner Tunisia: Blend of France and Orient by David Errera WAHR'S University Bookstore 316 So. State St. Ann Arbor, Mich. I am enrolled in the following the fall semester, 1960: .... Page Nine Page Ten Cours -1 IM __ ' a9 HEADQUARTERS for STUDENT and OFFICE SUPPLIES OFFICE FURNITURE, TYPEWRITERS and FOUNTAIN PENS PHOTOS-Cover, Pages 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11: David Giltrow. Pages 4, 5, 9: University News Service. COVER PHOTO: The concrete but hypothetical construction pictured was a project of students in the Architecture and Design School. 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