FRESHMAN EDITION . Yl r e Seventy-One Years of Editorial Freedom :4Iai In FRESHMAN EDITION 0 FORTY-EIGHT PAGES FORTY-EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1961 FORTY-EIGHT PAGES Tight Budg et Appropriation Hinders Jxpo rnsion Capital Outlay Sum Cuts Back Building Other Institutions Boost Tuition; Legislature Examines Requests By ROBERT FARRELL A lack of state funds will prevent the University from any of its long-desired expansions this year, although it will not force drastic cutbacks similar to those at other state institutions. The rise of less than one-half of one per cent over last year's state appropriation to the University will prevent increased enroll- ment, faculty pay raises and the initiation of new programs, Uni- versity President Harlan Hatcher has announced. University expansion will also be held back by the capital outlay budget passed by the state Legislature, which provides funds only ~i~for the Physics-Astronomy and * * * * * * * * * * * Regents For Approve, Yea"r-Rouu Proposal STATE OUTLAY LOW: Campus Construction Limited Last Year RALPH A. SAWYER b. best ... instrument' 1ST Obtains New Home By JUDITH OPPENHEIM The University's Institute of, Science and Technology entered its first planning stage in late 1957, Joining the long list of pro- jects inspired by the launching of the first Soviet Sputnik. It was proposed to University President Harlan Hatcher by science departments, and is now members of several University one of the most rapidly expand- ing University divisions. Ground for the new Physics-As- tronomy Building was broken last summer, and the familiar short- cut to the library and South Uni- versity Avenue is now fenced in with preparation for construction of the new facilities. Plans are also underway for a new structure to house the Insti- tute's administrative staff on North Campus. Offices are now in East Engineering and at Willow Run. Another new Institute addition to the campus, the $1.1 million cyclotron laboratory on North Campus will house a new cyclotron which the University will receive from the government. Ralph A. Sawyer, who in 1950 became the University's first Vice- President for Research, estimates that construction and installation of the new $1.8 million cyclotron will take another year and a half. He says the cyclotron will be "the best high precision instru- See IST, Page 3 Institute of Science and Technolo- gy Buildings where construction is already in progress. Faculty Salaries First The University's highest prior- ity fo 'rany increase from last year's budget was for faculty sal- ary increases -- intended primar- ily to keep the University in its advantageous position in the com- petitive academic market. But the hike of only $147,000 to $35.4 million, $8.5 million less than the Regents requested and $1.7 million less than Gov. John B. Swainson recommended, is just barely sufficient to allow for com- mitments made during the year. And the solution suggested by many legislators, a tuition boost, dents, was turned down emphati- primarily for out-of-state stu- cally by the administration and the Regents. Pointing out that last year's fee hike had already made the Uni- versity's out-of-state tuition the highest in .the Big Ten and one of the highest in the nation, Presi- dent Hatcher said that this source of added revenue was no longer available to the University if it wished to maintain present stan- dards. 'U' Not Hit Hardest But the University, at least, was not forced into the situations of several of the other state institu- tions, all of whom suffered the same type of budget treatment at the hands of the Legislature. Wayne State University was forced to cut back from its usual admissions level of 2,000 students to only 1,600 for this fall. It also cut its medical school admissions and drastically reduced its summer school offerings. WSU received $200,000 less this year than last from the Legis- lature. Ferris To Drop Quarter Ferris Institute, operating on a four-quarter system, was forced to reduce operations for the fourth quarter of this year to about 20 per cent of the planned level and to eliminate the fourth quarter next year. The Institute was also forced to turn down already accepted ap- plicants for next fall in order to bring enrollment down to levels permitted by the appropriation. Michigan State University, the state's four small institutions un- der the State Board of Education (Northern Michigan College, Western, Central and Eastern Michigan Unversities) and the See AUSTERITY, Page 6 By MIKE BURNS Sports Editor The University's construction program moved ahead slowly last year, held back by a lack of state capital outlay funds. The $1.2 million dollar Phar- macy Rsearch Bldg., financed by federal and private money, topped the list of completed buildings. The state did provide $7 million in capital funds, which were used to start the North Campus Cyclo- tron Laboratory and the Physics- Astronomy Bldg., which will be located next to the East Engineer- ing Bldg. on East University Ave. In addition, an addition to the Student Activities Bldg. financed by student fees, was opened for business in the fall. The pharmacy building, devot- ed to advanced research, has spe- cial laboratories to handle radio- active chemicals, a sterile prepara- tion laboratory, a low-temperature laboratory and two phytotrons which can duplicate any climatic conditions. Cyclotron Lab The $1.1 million cyclotron lab- oratory, built to hold the $1.8 million cylclotron given to the University by the Atomic Energy Commission, is now under con- struction and should be in use by 1963. It will take two and one-half years to complete installation of the massive cyclotron. A smaller atom smasher, located in Randall Laboratory will also be housed in the structure. Old East Hall, condemned by the fire marshal over 20 years ago, was torn down last year to make way for the Physics-Astron- omy Bldg. Plans for the building have been completed. SAB Addition The $950,000 addition to the Student Activities Bldg. also saw completion this summer, two months ahead of schedule. Financ- ed through student fees, thethree- story, 35,000 square foot addition houses administrative student ser- vices. Attheir July meeting, the Re- gents approved preliminary plans for a cooperative housing project to hold 420 women. The state Leg- islature authorized the building as a self-liquidating project in the spring session. The Regents approved bids this summer for the new physical med- icineand rehabilitation center to be installed in the basement of University Hospital. The renova- tion and addition to the hospital will cost $1.8 million, $600,000 of which will come from the United States Public Health Service and the rest from state funds. Largest Center The rehabilitation center, when completed, is expected to be one of the finest equipped and largest in the nation. Bids 'have also been taken for 'the $1.75 million Kresge Hearing Research Institute. Stanley S. Kresge, president of the Kresge Foundation, presented the first $200,000 payment toward the building a year ago. The struc- ture will be attached to the pres- ent Kresge Medical Research Bldg. Free Issue Today's edition of The Daily is being distributed free to all University students. There will be another free edition Friday which will con- tain all recent University news and other stories of all recent University news and other stories of interest to students and the University community. RESEARCH EXPANSION-The $1.2 million Pharmacy Research Bldg., dedicated in December, is the latest structure completed in the University's expansion program, stressing science and engineer- ing buildings. Operation' Board Affirms Plan~e For Third 'Semester New Calendar To Boost Capacity, Enable Students To Finish Faster By MICHAEL OLINICK The University took its first major steps toward meet- ing the onrushing wave of college-bound youth this year by adopting radical changes in its academic calendar. Early this June, the Regents formally endorsed a faculty committee's recommendation that the University add a third "split" semester to its present operation. They called for a gradual transition into the new year-s round integrated operation that will be fully achieved by DEARBORN, FLINT: Branches Serve Local Areas ,- - _ By ARNOLD WEINGARDEN In outlining the beginnings of the University's Dearborn Center, Vice-President William Stirton, center director, stressed that "in- dustry came to the University and showed us their man-power needs. "We agreed to mark out a pro- gram with these components: en- gineering, business administration and liberal arts." Stirton said that the liberal arts program was in- cluded because the University did not want a technical school alone. It was decided to butress the lib- eral arts program with teacher certification. Total Enrollment Total enrollment for the center was planned to eventually reach 2,700 students, divided equally be- tween each of the component de- partments. Instruction is limited to the junior, senior, and graduate levels only. This plan is designed to encourage community college developments. In planning the center Stirton said that the University figured out the necessary square-footage. It was then determined that $10 million would be necessary to build the center. This money was given to the University from var- ious state industries, the Ford Motor Co. and the Ford Fund contributed $6.5 million.. There were "no strings attached to this money,"- said Stirton. "These are untrammeled gifts. We are the architects of the Center ourselves." Although it was expected that most of the student body would be graduates of community colleges, Stirton said that enrollment also comes from four year schools. There are no residence halls on the campus now. "Most of the stu- dents are commuting or are liv- ing in rooming houses around Dearborn," Stirton said. It will be at least five or six years before new buildings will be necessary, Stirton indicated. "We planned enough for the future." The graduate program is in- creasing in importance, he said. As' an example of the programs carried out at the Center, "two of the big auto companies are going into unified body construc- tion. This involves resistance welding and new metallurgy. En- gineers are needed for this. These companies want their present en- gineers trained for the new de- velopment." Quarter System The Dearborn program is unique" in that the center operates on the quarter system with alternation of classes and on-the-job training in certain curricula, notably the engineering and business adminis- tration programs. The student works one semester and attends classes the next. As the student takes more ad- vanced classes his work assign- ments also increase in challenging the student. See BRANCHES, Page 2 1965, the year that a 30 per cent rise in University appli- cants is expected. Accelerated Education Year-around operation, if proper finances are available from the state legislature, will enable a student tocomplete his under- graduate degree in two-and-one- half years, and earn his master's four years after high school grad- uation. By shortening the time re- quired for a degree, the Univer- sity can handle more students. The proposed schedule would move the. beginning,- of the first semester back to the last week in August. This term would run about, 15 and one-half weeks, ending be- fore Christmas vacation. The second semester begins im- mediately after a two-week break serving as the Christmas vacation.' The plan has provisions including and excluding a one-week spring recess. The third "split" semester will begin in mid-May and run through August. It will consist of a 16-week period divided into eight-week sessions. Split Courses Some courses would be offered the first period, some during the second and, others during both. This will'depend on the individual instructional departments. The transition to the new cal- endar will be a gradual one, with detailshworked out as experience with the new operation grows.No changes will be mtade' during this academic year, but the registration and orientation period next fall will be moved back to an earlier date. The faculty commission which proposed the calendar revisions adopted by the Regents was ap- pointed by University President Harlan Hatcher after the Regen.ts See FULL-YEAR, Page 9 Lewis Picks OSA- Study Committee Critical study of the Office of Student Affairs with -a view to structural reorganization--is now underway. A six-man faculty committee, appointed by Vice-President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis, will meet throughout the semes- ter and present their recommenda- tions to him in January. Appointment of the group to study the structure of the student affairs office is one of the steps taken by the administration in response to the, Faculty Senate student relations committee ie- port to Lewis on the student af- fairs office and the philosophy of the University - student relation- ship in general. The study group is composed of faculty members interested and experienced in the many areas that are the concern of Lewis' office-judiciary systems, academ- ic and psychological counseling, residence halls, student govern- ment. In the course of their dis- cussions, they will have the oppor- tunity to consult experts on these matters from outside the Univer- sity if they wish to. Full student participation in the committee discussions will be ar- ranged early this semester, Lewis has promised. He plans to discuss with Student Government Council methods by which students might participate. See FACULTY, Page 8 NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED: Daily Seeks. Editorial, Business Staff Members President's Welcome I extend a most cordial welcome to all students who are beginning their first period of study at the University. Detlev Bronk, an alumnus of this University, former Presi- dent of Johns Hopkins University, and now President of the Rockefeller Institute, when he addressed a special convocation in Ann Arbor on January 29, 1960, said: "As I came out from Detroit a few hours ago, I kept thinking to myself, why is it that I have such a warmth for Ann Arbor and the University? I recalled then the words of Frank Abrams when he was speaking at Oberlin a few years ago, 'This is America as we want it.' Why is Ann Arbor America as I want it? Because it's a community of reasonable people and a com- munity of intellectual people who are willing to make the hard choice between the important and the unim- portant. It is a community of people devoted to the better and deeper understanding of man so that we can build a more worthwhile life for the future of our chil- dren." 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