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VOL. LVI, No. 1 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1945

PRICE FIVE CENTS

10,000 MayEnrollinFirstost-War

Term.

Revive Student
Book Exchange
Non -Profit Organization for Exchanginr
Used Text-Books To Be Open I Days

Veterans Flock
Back To School
Nituber of Students Will Still Be Less
Than Pre-War Peak, Coed Totals Mount
While nobody knows - or will admit knowing - just how many stu-
dents will enroll for the fall term, all quarters predict a sizeable increase in
civilian enrollment, more women than men, and a possible top enrollment
of 10,000 students.
Conservative guesses are that the University will have more than 8,500
civilian students. In addition, 1,700 military students under Government
contract will be on campus, putting the total over 10,000.
Of this total, nearly 1,000 may be -

Reviving an old Michigan institu-
tion,.discontinued during the war be-
cause of the manpower shortage, the
Student Book Exchange will be open
for business today until Nov. 9 at the
Game Room in the 'League.
"The Student Book Exchange is a
non-profit organization, whose pur-
pose is to serve students," Wayne
Saari, president of the organization
said. "During the last week of the
Summer Term, several hundred used
textbooks were turned in by students.
We would like every student on cam-
pus this fall with textbooks he no
longer needs to bring them to the
Game Room as soon as possible. Each
student names what he considers a
fair price for his textbook. If the
book is sold," he continued, "10 per-
cent will be deducted to cover Book
Exchange expenses."
The Student Book Exchange will
be open at hours convenient to stu-
dents for 11 days.

Organized during

the Summer

Vets Offered
New 4-Month
BnsAd Course
Program Is Designed
To Teach Basic Facts
The returning veteran who wants
to be his own boss in his own gas
station or drug store or soft drink
bottling plant can learn the secrets
of business success in the School of
Business Administration's new four-
month course in small business man-
agement.
Designed to teach the prospective
small business proprietor the basic
things he needs to know about every-
thing from keeping books and pay-
ing taxes to getting along with his
employes, the course condenses into
sixteen weeks of intensive study in-
formation that it takes the average
businessman years to acquire. .
Prof. Charles L. Jamison, who is
in charge of organizing and ad-
ministrating the new course, points
out that "going into business" isn't
as simple as it sounds. In normal
times the chances for success in a
new enterprise are about fifty-
fifty, with more than 1,000 con-
cerns opening their doors each
business day and about the same
number failing.
"That success or failure is not just
a matter of chance," he states, "and
that's where this course comes in.
Business success depends as much on
knowledge of business as it does upon
honesty or adequate capital or the
right location. A few weeks spent in
intensive study before entering a
business may save considerable grief
and possible serious loss liter."
The course will operate on a con-
tinuous four-month cycle, with new
students enterin gthe first day of
each month and remaining in the
school until they have completed each
of the four units offered.
The first unit will begin Nov. 1, but
students who enter in December or
January start with the unit currently
offered and take the courses first
offered in November when they are
given again in March.
Each month's work is complete in
itself, and is not the prerequisite to
any other.month's work.
Work in the first month will include
business management from 9 to 10:30
a. m., followed by a study period until
noon, and practical business account-
ing in the afternoon. During the sec-
ond month business finance, includ-
ing banking transactions and credit
policies, will be studied, along with
business law.
The third month's program in-
.ludes a study of industrial relations,
cost analysis, and the principles of
buying and selling. During the fourth
month each veteran will study the
particular business which he plans to
enter, doing individual work with
members of the business school staff.
Students now enrolled in the
course have indicated that they
want to investigate the operation
of summer resorts. commercial air-

Terms the Book Exchange has 50
members at present. Anyone willing
to work, Saari indicated, automatic-
ally becomes a member, according to
a decision made at a meeting held
early in the month. There is no mem-
bership fee. "We want students to
assist in publicity, keeping accounts
and in handling books, he said. "By
next February," hestawed, "we would
like a membership woriing force of
several hundred students to meet the
Spring Terms rush.
"The Student Book Exchange was
a Union project for several years
before the war, when continued
successful operation was no longer
possible in view of the scarcity of
students on campus. With the re-
turn of so many students from the
armed forces and elsewhere, how-
ever, we feel that successful opera-
tion of this much needed project is
assured. The Union and League
have already extended us material
aid. Our membership is represent-
ative of many campus organiza-
tions and we hope that its expan-
sion will soon include all student
organizations."
Officers of the Student Book Ex-
change executive committee are Saari
of SRA, Nancy MacKaye of Canter-
bury Club, publicity; Malcolm Roem-
er of the Daily, treasurer; and Bobby
Simonton of the Congregational-Dis-
ciples Guild, secretary. John Houston
of Palmer House is store manager.
Plan Students
Day Program
For Nov. 17
.Nov. 17, International Students
Day, will be observed by University
students in honor of the 156 Czecho-
slovakian students of Charles Uni-
versity, Prague, who were massacred
by the Nazis, and the 1200 who were
thrown into concentration camps for
rebelling against the 1939 erman in-
vasion.
A tentative program for the day
has been planned and discussed by
the executive committee of the Uni-
versity's Student Organization for
International Cooperation and its ad-
visory council consisting of Deans E.
A. Walter and Alice Lloyd, Rabbi
Jehudah Cohen, Dr. Frank Littel, and
Dr. Howard McClusky.
The observance will begin at 11
a. m. with an assembly at Hill Au-
ditorium. Although the guest
speaker has not been definitely se-
lected, SOIC officers stated that
possible speakers include: Sumner
Wells, Elmer Davis, Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, or Cmdr. Harold Stas-
sen.
Students will then parade to the
Michigan Stadium just before the
Wolverine-Purdue game. Each of the
20 member organizations in the SOIC
will have a contingent in the parade.
Between halves, Prof. William Ra-
velli will lead 300 students in a for-
mation spelling out "International
Students Day" while the band plays
"United Nations Songs."
University President Alexander G.
Ruthven has been asked to make a
short speech concerning Students
Day. The entire program will be'
broadcast over one of the major net-
works.

PICTURED is the planned University Business Administration School. It is reported that the Building will be
located on Haven facing Monroe directly across from the School of Architecture. Cost of the project is esti-
mated at $1,800,000.

One hundred years ago the Class of 1845, the first to be admitted
and the first to be graduated from the University of Michigan, had
just left the campus to which you, some for the first time, are now
coming. The ground which they trod is the same as that in which
you walk today; some of the buildings are the same; but the
University of 1945, with its finely equipped physical plant, its
faculty of 800 and its staff of thousands, and its student body repre-
sentative of this and many other lands, is a far more complex organ-
ization than the simple little college of 1845.
Most of you, if you think back to the early days of this institution
at all, doubtless congratulate yourselves upon the advantages that
you enjoy in contrast to the Spartan conditions of one hundred
years ago. I do not say that you are wrong in so doing, but it
appears to me to be very appropriate, in welcoming you to Michi-
gan, to point out a few of the claims that could be (made for the
freshmen of 1845.
They did not, for one thing, have to worry about what courses
to take. There was no choice, in any case, but this was due no
more to the newness and poverty of the University than to the
facts that the social structure was relatively ample and that the
curriculum laid down for them was calculated to round off the sort
of education which was recognized as the standard for all who
could manage to secure it. You, however, live in a country with
the most diverse and conflicting social conditions; the careers for
which you can prepare yourselve are numbered in the thousands;
competition for success is multiplied many times over; and not even
the teaching profession can agree how you would best spend your
time during your college course.
Again, the freshmen of 1845 lived in a world which .had not
had to endure the torture, or face the consequences, of global
warfare. There was the wilderness to be conquered, but there was
not the problem of remaking the country, of the conquest of
poverty, or of creating international relations so firm that peace can
be maintained.
In taking this plunge into ancient history, I need not have gone
back to 1845, for in some degree the same thing could have been
said for 1875, or 1895, or 1905, or almost any year up to 1945.
It would still remain true that your own personal problems as uni-
versity students and the domestic and world problems to the solution
of which you must as citizens contribute, postively or negatively, are
harder and more crucial than those of any other class in this
University's history.
Need I then say that this calls for greater effort and a greater
sense of responsibility, on your part, than ever before? As for your
teachers, I can say for them that though they may not now see
clearly to the conclusion of all the tremendously vital new puzzles
that are troubling mankind the world over, they are supremely con-
scious of them, they possess a great store of knowledge which they
are bringing to bear upon these momentous questions, and they are
eager to work with you to the end that both you and the society of
which you are a part may be'the better for your mutual endeavors.-
Alexander G. Ruthven

Plans for New
Food Service
Building Set
Plans for the construction of a
giant Food Service Building to serve
as a central warehouse for all food
used in University dormitories, the
University Hospital and the Michigan
League have been announced by Rob-
ert P. Briggs, University vice-presi-
dent.
An architect is now drawing plans,
and the unit, which will' cost an esti-
mated $600,000, will probably be
ready for use by the opening of the
fall term next.year.
Central Bakery Included
The Food Service Building will op-
erate a central bakery and will have
extensive facilities for storing fruit,
vegetables, meat and packaged food,
as well as equipment for storing fro-
zen food. Present plans call for a
small fleet of trucks to deliver the
food and baked goods to the campus
food serving units.
The new building will take the
place of the Hospital Stores Unit,
which is now performing food pur-
chase and storage functions on a
limited scale.
Purchase of food in carload lots
will be facilitated by the unit; redu-
cing the cost of providing food for
University students and hospital pa-
tients. Other campus units may be,
added to the list of those to be servedj
by the unit.
On Fringe of Campus
The building will be located on a
half-city block on the northern fringe
of the campus, bounded by Ann
Street, Glenn Street, East Huron and
the University railroad spur.
Land purchase and construction
costs will be financed by the forth-
coming Dormitory Revenue and Bond
Issue, which will also raise funds for
the construction of two new dormi-
tories.
The five private property owners
in the affected areas have already
been notified by the University that
appraisers have been appointed to
arrange for the purchase of their
property, which includes four resi-
dences and a small restaurant, at
"fair market values." The building
on the plot is a League house already
owned by the University.

veterans.
Enrollment will still be well under
the pre-war peak of 12,132 full-time
on-campus students enrolled in the
fall of 1939.
Last year 4,804 women were en-
rolled, an increase of 1,000 over1942.
This fall women's enrollment is an-
ticipated to be 5,200, an all-time high.
Women's enrollment figures might
have been even higher if University
admission officers had not found it
necessary to close admissions to out-
state women August 18 because of a
shortage of housing accommodations.
No records of the number of stu-
dents who were denied admission
because of the housing shortage
were kept by the Registrar's Office.
No women who were residents of
Michigan were denied admission at
any time because of the housing
shortage.
Provost James P. Adams indicated
that "it is expected that the civilion
student population will return with-
in two years to the pre-war enroll-
ment of approximately 12,000. It.
may be icreased beyond that figure
by several thousand during the next
few years because of the concentra-
tion of needs of returning veterans.
It is also possible that by the end of
three or four years the continuing
civilian enrollment may reach figures
several thousand in excess of the pre-
war enrollment.
Two-Semester
Year Sought
Dr. A. C. Furstenburg, dean of the
University's medical school, said to-
day that he is "hoping that the med-
ical college here will return to peace-
time two-term programs as soon as
possible."
He disclosed that the Navy would
soon terminate its contract with the
medical college, pointing out that he
hoped the Army would soon follow
suit.
Acting in his capacity as president
of the Association of American Med-
ical Colleges, Dean Furstenburg will
recommend to that group that Amer-
ican medical colleges "de-celerate as
soon as is feasible and practicable."

Action by 'J
Eases Critical
Room S ho rtaige
Offer Willow Run*
Housing Facilities
The University has solved a prob-
lem now stumping higher educational
institutions throughout the nation-
housing for veterans.
University officials have announced
that admission applications from all
veterans, married or single, will be
considered now that adequate hous-
ing facilities have been obtained.
Solution of the problem came
recently when the University an-
nounced that facilities for thous-
ands of veterans would be avail-
able at Willow Village. A bus ser-
vice shuttling between Ann Arbor
and Ypsilanti will run regularly
from early morning until 10 p.' m.,
R. P. Briggs, University vice-presi-
dent, said.
It was revealed that one, two, and
three room apartments are available
at Willow Village.
Seventy-nine married veterans en-
rolled in the University under the G.
I. Bill of Rights are living on the
edge of the campus in 39 two-family
units moved here from Willow Run.
The "Veterans City," established
as a temporary measure to house vet-
erans until the proposed dormitory
for married veterans is completed,
opens at the beginning of this term,
It is located on a two and one-quarter
acre plot near the Coliseum, and the
plot will be fully landscaped and have
sidewalks and parking lots when the
rejuvenation now underway is com-
pleted.
In announcing the new project,
Briggs revealed that the University
is willing and expects to sustain a
loss on the housing.
Money to finance moving the hous-
es here from Willow Run comes from
a $40,000 appropriation by the Uni-
versity Regents. Transportation of
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EUROPE'S STOLEN BELLS:
Price Says He's Attempting
To Sav~e Them For Owners

When Percival Price, University of
Michigan carillonneur announced re-
cently that he was going to Germany
to study and attempt to save the
stolen carillon bells of Europe from
the scrap pile, he meant that he was
going to see that they were returned
to their rightful owners.
Apparently newspaper readers
throughout the Middle West didn't
take it that way. They have swamped
him with requests to bring some of
the bells back to the States for their
churches, schools, clubs, farms and
private collections.
A "Good Idea"
Some of the letter writers think it
would be a "good idea" to have 500-
year-old carillon bells in their back
yards to call their children to dinners.
One Upper Michigan farmer wrote
that he would like a bell to replace
his wild-west triangular dinner chime
which was snapped by last winter's
bitter cold.
And those who don't want bells
are asking Price to locate their miss-

ing relatives in Germany and the
Lowlands, as Price will probably be
the first Michigan civilian to go to
Germany since before the war.
Price, who describes himself as a
"humanitarian at heart," is afraid he
won't be able to comply with the re-
quests for bells.
They Weigh Four Tons
"These people don't seem to realize
that most of the bells I will be exam-
ining weigh anywhere from four to
ten tons apiece," he said. * "I don't
know where they get these ideas
about the tinkle of little carillon
bells."
"I don't like to make promises, but
I'll carry along these letters for lost
relatives," he said, "just in case I
happen to stumble across some of
them."
Price will first go to Hamburg, Ger-
many, where dumped on the docks
are more than 5,000 bells stolen by
the Nazis from the famed carillons
and church belfrys of the Lowland
countries.

SEPTEMBER REGISTRATION:
Resume Two-Term Year
The University will resume its regular basis of operation with
two semesters and a summer session, at the close of the academic
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