4 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1951 THE MTCHITAN DATTX PAGE TIMER .A i1 l.:I i V111VRA Lt311I1 PAGE THREE Scholarships Aid Students Attending 'U' Semester Fees Paid for Many University students who are un- derwriting their own education are often provided financial as- sistance under the conditions of one of the numerous fellowships and scholarships offered each year by the University. Most of these, however, are not available to freshmen, according to Ivan W. Parker, secretary of the Committee on University Scholarships. Among those that can be secured by deserving fresh-, men are the LaVerne Noyes and Regents-Alumni scholarships and the Horace H. Rackham under- graduate scholarships, Parker said. CONSTITUTING over 50 per cent of the total number of awards made, the Regents-Alumni schol- arships cover cost of semester fees and are awarded to freshmen be- fore they come to the University. To be eligible, students must have ranked in the upper third of their graduating class, demon- strate interest in further educa- tion, be in good health and have need of financial aid. Applicants must be graduates of accredited Michigan high schools. These scholarships are renew- ed if the student maintains a satisfactory academic average. Each case is given individual at- tention to determine whether or not the students record war- rants renewal, Parker said. The LaVerne Noyes awards are offered to students in need of as- sistance, who either served in the Army or Navy in World War I and were honorably discharged or who are descended by blood from someone who served. The enlist- ment on which the application is based must have been prior to May 11, 1918, unless there was overseas service before the Armis- tice. About twenty-five of these schol- arships are awarded each semes- ter; and cover semester fees. Stu- dents who are eligible may apply at the scholarships division of the Office of Student Affairs before Aug. 1 and Dec. 1 of the first and second semesters respectively. A Serious Conversation in Nichols Arboretum MUSICAL ROUND-UP: Marching Band Famed for Drill-Work The fast - stepping Michigan Marching Band will move onto the football field within a few weeks in a sparkling display of the precision drill work and mu- sicianship which has brought the organization fame and high re- spect throughout the nation. Students and thousands of other loyal fans will again be treated with an afternoon of intricate formations and inspiring playing as the band opens a new year of typically credible accomplishment in the realm of University musi- cal presentation. THE MARCHING BAND is but one of the high-calibre student in- strumental music groups which perform here under the able baton of Prof. William Revelli and his assistant, Jack Lee. Though perhaps less spectacu- lar,' the Michigan Symphony Band, which takes over the spotlight after the end of the football season, is of comparable musical stature and its concerts in Ann Arbor and elsewhere have thrilled thousands. Augmenting the two top-rank- ing groups is the Varsity Band which performs at several con- certs and at home basketball games. The Varsity .Band's emphasis, however, is on experience rather than actual performance as it serves as a training ground for students working their way into the Symphony and Marching bands, according to Lee. The University's bands function as extra-curricular activities un- der direction of members of the Music School faculty. * * * BECAUSE of a new change in University policy, all first semester freshmen will be eligible to take part in band activities this fall for the first time in recent years. Assistant director Lee has asked all students interested in band participation to contact him immediately at the band headquarters in Harris Hall. The 100 piece Symphony Band opens its ranks to women and differs somewhat in size and in- strumentation from the Marching Band. The bands will receive a special token of distinction this fall with the release of an R.K.O. Pathe movie of their activities. as extra-curricular activities un- movie of their activities. IF YOU WRITE Student and Office Supplies Typewriters and Fountain Pens Loose Leaf Notebooks Fluorescent Lamps 3rief Cases WE HAVE IT! all makes of PORTABLES -Daily-James Butt THE SPACIOUS UNIVERSITY-OWNED NICHOLS ARBORETUM IS AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS BENT ON TAKING A LEISURE- LY STROLL, OR OTHER TIME-OUT FROM CLASSROOM STUDIES $6,500,000 RESEARCH: 'U' Phoenix Project Swells Fund for Atom Study d *1 FFR Craftsman Ensemble Pen 3.50 Pencil 3.00 Complete 6.50 (No federal tax) " Srmth-Corona * Royal * Remington * Hermes We specialize in Repair Work on Typewriters and Fountain Pens G.I. requisitions accepted for supplies only. I- Since 1908 M OBBILL' S Phone 7177 THE HORACE H. Rackham Scholarship Fund offers many scholarships for both undergrad- uates and graduate students. The Rackham Fund for Under- graduate Scholarships annually awards a limited number of fresh- men scholarships for men, prefer- ably Michigan residents. Rackham awards on the grad- uate level include the 10 Predoc- toral Fellowships of $1,500 for exceptional graduate students and the Post-doctoral Fellow- ships, awards of $2,500 made annually to Doctors of Philos- ophy or Science for research. The Special Fellowships are awarded to exceptionally prom- ising graduate students whose graduate studies were interrupt- ed by the war and can present evidence of fruitful experience during the war period. In addition, the University Gen- eral Scholarship Fund provides aid in the various colleges in the Uni- versity. These are administeredE by the individual colleges and are; awarded on the basis of academic record and individual need., 3 C i t r 0 p p In the six years since the gia atomic mushroom rose over a g ted Hiroshima, the Universit3 $6,500,000 Phoenix Project h achieved life and strength. Designed to turn the tablesc the atomic bomb and find co structive uses for its enormo power, the idea of the Phoen Project was accepted by the St dent Legislature as a way to ma the University's war "memori more than "a mound of stone 5so to be forgotten." The idea caught the imagin tion of people all over the wor and was hailed as one of t1 brightest spots in atomic enerE research. * . . THE PHOENIX Project is nam ed afte rthe Phoenix bird whic according to legend, is reborn fro its own ashes every 500 years an rises with its youth and strengt restored. It is hoped that from the ruin and ashes of Hiroshima and Naga saki, the Phoenix Project will ris bringing ne wand powerful peac time uses of atomic energy. In early 1948 the Project in- tending to put the atom to work for peace got the sanction of the Atomic Energy Commission. With this impetus a world-wide campaign to raise $6,500,000 was begun. By the time the fund campaig nded last June an impressive re earch program was already un derway on campus and plans for; giant research building were wait ng the approval of the Regent who are expected to act on then in the Fall. Student contributions to th Phoenix Project totaled over $160, 00 and campaign officials antici )ate that additional donations an( roceeds from Project work wil nt' it- Y's as on ,n- us ix u- ke al a- ld he gy n- tion self-sustaining within the next 10 years. A CAMPAIGN spokesman said that there will probably be no effort to bring new classes into the drive for Phoenix funds but added that no contributions from interested freshmen will be re- fused. The Phoenix Project is not just a good idea for a war memorial, it is a "natural" for the University because Michigan has been a cen- ter of atomic research since the: 1920s and was chief purchasing agent for the Manhattan Project during the war. A summer symposium onI atomic energy that brought such famous research men as J. Robert Oppenheimer, A. H. Compton, Lawrence Condon, Enrico Fermi to the campus in 1923 has been followed through the years with seminars and convocations that confirm the appropriateness of centering the Phoenix Project at the Univer- sity. In addition to regular scientific work on atomic energy, the Uni- versity has provided important figures in the development of the country's atomic potential. Dean. Ralph A. Sawyer of the graduate school supervised the work of 500 scientists at the Bi- kini A-bomb tests. And Dean George Granger Brown, of the College of Engi- neering, is director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Engineering. Besides providing scientists for atomic research, the University had, until 1936, the world's larg- est cyclotron, which produced over 100 rare isotopes. ** * COUNTLESS questions and problems are hoped to be solved by the research to be done by the Phoenix Project. 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