PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SPRING, 1955 PAGE EIGHT TIlE MICHIGAN DAIlY SPRING, 1955 MVusic Unit Plans Centeri New Campus1 Site Chosen For Building By DAVID KAPLAN Architect's plans fo- an eight' million dollar music school on North Campus are now in the hands of the Board of Regents. At present, the buildings can- not be built in "any one year." Dean Earl V. Moore of the music school said. "It will take at least three appropriations from the State Legislature to build the physical plant and after funds are obtained it will take three years to complete the buildings." Needs Recognized Needs of the music school "have been recognized by the Regents for many years," Dean Moore said. Two years ago the Regents drew up a report for the State Legisla- ture, discussing preparations and appropriations for North Campus construction. The Legislature has not yet taken action on the issue. North Campus buildings, equip- ment and facilities are designed for professional instruction of at least 800 students in undergradu- ate and graduate programs, and for at least 50 students enrolled as music majors on Rackham de- grees. "Admissions could have been much higher had the physical plant been adequate to accommo- date a larger number of students," Dean Moore said. Lack of Space Lack of space has caused the music school to limit their enroll- ment to approximately 500 stu- dents. The remaining 18,250 non- music students annot elect music courses as part of their education. Facilities for the present enroll- ment is spread over 13 scattered buildings in the south campus area. "Even then," Dean Moore said, "we are not meeting the de- mands and needs of the student body." With a music school on the North Campus, facilities on south campus can be rleased for use by approximately 1,200 non-music students wishing to take music courses. This separation of services "will be more economical," Dean Moore said. "Instead of transporting non-musicstudents to North Campus for instruction for a sin- ' gle course or an individual lesson in an instrument or voice, all their facilities and instructors will be on south campus." North Campus Plans North Campus buildings include a two-part teaching slab, public performance facilities and a band shell. The teaching slab will hold ad- ministrative and faculty offices, class instruction facilities, a mu- sic library, practice studios, and areas for applied music, large en- semble and opera facilities. Administrative o.Iices include a dean's suite, conference room, clerical office and ffling space, four or five executive offices, rest rooms, a mimeograph room and a dark room. The proposed 28 faculty offices will be utilized by faculty members in Musicology, Music Literature. Music Education and Theory as well as by teaching fellows and Assistants. Occupancy Figured Occupancy of 60 to 70 per cent has been figured for all class rooms. Plans call for three semi- nar rooms, a large lecture hall, holding 120 to 140 students, three large classrooms and 10 small classrooms. The music library would be constructed to seat 600 music stu- dents with xpansion possibilities for 250 more students. Besides book stacks holding 65,000 vol- umes and study areas, the library will also have phonograph record storage area, seminar rooms, a microfilm room and a librarian's workroom. Approximately 250 practice stu- dios of varying sizes are required. These studios are planned in one air-conditioned, expandable build- ing connected to other parts of the school by an enclosed corridor. Smoking lounges will be scat- tered through the building, because smoking will not be permitted in the studios. Studios are planned as the simplest type of cell. Sound- proofing of walls, doors and ducts are proposed. No vindows will be used. Studios will be used by singers, pianists and organists. Applied Music Facilities Facilities for ap .lied music in- struction include 50 studios of varying size, which would accom- modate up to 25 students and an instructor. These studios are to be air-conditio-ied and provide two-way systems for recording Undergrads Get'Dream Library' A new "dream library"is being planned for the campus. The building, called the College Library, will house books especial- ly used by undergraduates, al- though its facilities wil be made available to all students. A request of $3,680,000 from the State Legislature has been made for construction of the building. It will be located where the Automo- tive Lab building now stands. The Automotive Lab will be torn down so the College Library may be in use by fall, 1957. Open Shelves About 150,000 volumes, made up of approximately 50,000 titles, will be placed on open shelves. The collection will include reference books, frequently - used current periodicals, and all reserved books now housed in libraries scattered about the campus. The remainder of the College Library will comprise a collection of basic source books which should be readily available to undergrad- uates. Three large study halls are planned for each level of the building. They will accommodate approximately 2,500 students and will contain individual study ta- bles, group tables, and upholstered chairs and sofas. Smoking will be permitted in ev- ery part of the building, although there will be separate non-smoking study rooms for students allergic to nicotine and fumes. Study rooms are planned for discussion groups and students who wish to study together for ex- aminations. Coffee and Typometers All rooms will be air-conditioned and coffee will be sold at a stand for students who need to be kept awake. Typing rooms will be pro- vided and students will be able to rent Typometers, about ten cents for a half hour's typing. One multi-purpose room is be- ing planned. It may be employed as a motion picture "theater" or a large meeting room. Sixteen to twenty cubicles will be provided as individual listening rooms for pho- nograph record fans. About 100 more people will find individual phonographs with ear phones available. Until the new engineering col- lege is built on North Campus, the College Library will house the en- gineering collection. All book titles are being checked so that the most often used vol- umes may be availablenat the new library. Social Science Building I --Daily-John irtzel FRONT VIEW OF ANN ARBOR HIGH SCHOOL, PLANNED FOR UNIVERSITY USE -Daily-John Hirtzel SKETCH SHOWS REAR VIEW OF HIGH SCHOOL AS IT WILL LOOK WITH PROPOSED ADDITION t When the University completes arrangements for buying Ann Ar- bor High School, the campus will have a new social science and language building. A request totaling $3,836,000 has been made to the State Leg- islature. On that amount, $1,400,- 000 will be used to purchase the building. Ann Arbor high school students will occupy a new school on Stadium and Main. Speech department classes, in- cluding radio and television work, romance language classes, offices, and the School of Social Work will be housed in the building. It should be ready for occupancy by fall of 1957. In addition, $950,000 has been $236,000 for equipment. While the remodelling program is in opera- tion, a new addition will be built. Estimated cost of the addition -is $1,250,000. In the old section, fireproofing is planned. New floors and stair- wells will be put in as well as new wiring and electrical outlets. A complete sprinkler system will be requested for rehabilitation and [ installed. ENVIA ILE REPUTATION: Literary College Maintains SSize, Intellectual Leadership SKETCH SHOWS DESIGN OF PROPOSED NEW MUSIC CENTER _ ------- used by the :parching band, sym- phony band and varsity band and will be acoustically treated for both rehearsal and recording pur- poses. A projection booth, screen and other audio-visual needs is also planned. Instrumint Storage The instrument storagehroom will be adjacent to the rehearsal room, containing lockers and spe- cially sized shelves and cubicles for the storing of varying sizes and shapes of instruments. A band music library is planned adjacent to the rehearsal room, and will hold filing cabinets for music. Also planned are lockers, show- er and uniform rooms; a property room; instrument repair room and offices. A drill field will be laid out in the general vicinity of the North Campus music school. This field will be used by the marching band for rehearsals instead of tFer- ry Field. In addition to necessities for bands, a rehearsal room for the symphony orchestra, string or- chestra and other orchestral groups will be provided. Space for seating 120 orchestra players and use of the room for direct record- ing and television is also proposed. Library facilities for orchestral and choral scores might be com- bined with the band library or placed in an' adjacent room to the symphony rehearsal hall. A large recital hall with a ca- pacity of 900-1,200 is planned. The auditorium will have a radio and television booth at the rear. In front of the stage will be space for a small orchestra of 40 players in a pit. The pit could be converted to three or four rows of seating if needed. The small recital hall is de- signed with an auditorium with, a capacity of 350-500 people, as well as a radio and television booth at the rear, Increased Faculty North Campus facilities, when constructed, will bring an increas- ed faculty roster as well as more students. "The largest call is for voice and piano instructors," Dean Moore said. At present, there : 'e 62 faculty members on equated fill time. The figure takes into account half, part and full time instructors. In- creased faculty would add 20 more instructors for an enrollment off Space Lacl Limits Music Teaching To Only 556 Undergraduate Students By EARL V. MOORE Dean of the School of Music Varied responsibilities for in- struction and service in music to students in the University rest upon the School of Music and are specifically limited at this time by the available physical facilities and equipment. Courses of Instruction (1) Courses of instruction are given for the p:eparation of stu- dents enrolled in this school as candidates for the professional de- grees, Bachelor and Master of Mu- sic, and for students enrolled in the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, who are work- ing towards the Master of Arts, the Doctor of Philosophy, the Doctor of Education, or the Doctor of Musical Arts degrees with concen- tration in music. The full-time enrollment in the School of Music for the current semester is 556; this does not in- clude music majors enrolled in the Rackham School. (2) For students in other units of the University, courses of a non-professional or non-technical character are offered to provide opportunities foi cultural enrich- ment and understanding of music as an art and a literature. Elec- tions in this category of courses is over 600 each semester, and as in courses for School of Music ma- jors, a limitation is necessary be- cause of facilities. Applications for instruction in piano, voice, and other applied music fields must be respectfully declined from this group of students for lack of teaching and practice facilities. Many Concerts (3) Concerts to the number of over 150 each year are given 'y faculty and students of the School of Music. These are complimentary to the public and provide a rich experience in "live music" for the student body and for the commu- nity. Since 1939, enrollments in the School of Music by candidates for the professional degrees have dou- bled and a similar situation exists in courses offered for non-music DEAN MOORE and universities, and larger than most of such units giving instruc- tion at the higher level. The University provides, in the several degrees available here in music, complete coverage of train- ing from the freshman level to the highest degrees at the doctoral level. Few institutions in the country maintain this coverage or provide the leadership and aculty neces- sary to maintain the quality of in- struction in these several levels. Need for Mousing The most immediate need of the School of Music is provision for housing the activities and services of this unit of the University under one roof or in a group of adjacent buildings that have been designed for the following types of activi- ties:. (1) Teaching functions. Class- rooms, studios for instruction in applied music-piano, voice, organ, etc., and administration offices. (2) Practice facilities. Practice studios for individual and small groups. The graduation standards of the School of Music require an average of 3 hours of daily prac- tice by each student; thus practice space is directly related to the number admitted for study in the r.vr'.frPC. n'n l A nn~rnnC Stellfeld Acquisition of books and music recently purchased in Bel- gium. The needs of the student body in the School of Music re- quire a divisional library adjacent to the teaching and practice facil- ities. (5) Concert and recital halls. The School of Music now has no facility of this character over which it'has control, and in which its concerts and rehearsals for same can be schedules with econo- my of students' time. At the present, Hill Auditorium, Lydia Mendelssohn T h e a t e r, Rackham Lecture and Assembly Halls, and Auditorium A in Angell Hall are used by School of Music students and faculty whenever ap- propriate dates can be found. Since these auditoriums are open for scheduling by all campus organizations, the purely educa- tional needs and responsibilities of the School of Music must compete for dates with recreational and entertainmental programs of all sorts and objectives. Since each function in a concert hall requires at least one previous period for rehearsal, and since there are approximately 150 such concerts in a given year, it is ob- vious that the needs of the Music School would fill completely the schedule of a single concert hall for performance and appropriate rehearsals. North Campus Plans The general plans prepared by Eero Saarinen and Associates at the request of the Board of Re- gents envision all of these needs in structures that would be erected on the North Campus. These plans also provide for ex- pansion of the teaching and prac- tice studio units as enrollments expand. The present designs con- template an enrollment of a thousand students on the North Campus. r This is not an idle dream. If the same percentage of stu- dents now enrolled in the Univer- sity and specifically registered in the School of Music 's maintained in the next ten or fifteen years, By CHARLES E. ODEGAARD Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts The College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts over many dec- ades has been one of the largest in the country, and at the same time it has maintained an enviable re- putation in the nation for the qual- ity of its instruction and the dis- tinction of its alumni. This reputation has been earned through the intellectual vigor and imaginative teaching of a dedicat- ed 'and enthusiastic faculty sup- ported by adequate physical facil- ities. If we are to continue to absorb an increasing number of students, as we must in some measure in view of the rising tide of the age groups reaching college years, we cannot maintain the previous lev- el of quality or achieve still higher goals unless an offsetting increase in staff and facilities is provided. Recruiting Faculty We can already anticipate diffi- culty in recruiting faculty. Smaller age groups will be the only source from which we can draw the teachers required to instruct larger age groups. There will inevitably be increas- ed competition among educational institutions for the services of these teachers, and the quality of new staff will undoubtedly be af- fected by our ability to maintain a good wmpetitive position. During the temporary relief from enrollment pressure with the subsidence of the veteran bulge we have been able to regain ground in improving the ratio of staff to students. With the steady increase in en- rollment we must keep moving forward each year with additional staff, if only to hold our ground. Upturn in Enrollment The College is now feeling the effects of the recent upturn in en- rollment which shows itself in de- mands for classroom and office space. Our student laboratories are now running close to capacity. To meet the continued increase in enrollment, new buildings will ha nppiarl oniflnkllr , a h nP. i s DEAN ODEGAARD The College has already experi- enced this process in the new Ha- ven and Mason Hall addition, where the net gain was reduced by the enforced destruction of old bulidings. The pinch of space will be very acute before any possible relief will be in sight. Looking toward the future, we hope the necessary steps can be taken to convert the old Ann Ar-. bor High School to a building for Speech and foreign languages and for the School of Social Work. A yet undetermined amount of East and West Medical may be- come available to the Literary Col- lege when the new Medical Sci- ence units are completed near the Hospital. The growing congestion in Nat- ural Science and Chemistry makes us look longingly toward these old medical buildings for relief. Randall Laboratory has n o t been completed; plans are now be- ing discussed for an addition to give more space for Physics and Astronomy. Three to Five Years None of these additions can be- come available in less than three years and most will require, at the earliest, five or six years. Large costs are inevitably involved and the Legislature has not, by this The needs of the Literary Col- lege for staff and buildings must receive continuing attention in the coming years. Its faculty carries a very heavy burden of instruction. Though the number of students enrolled in the Literary College in the fall semester of 1953-1954 was 5,707, the faculty actually taught the equivalent of 9,534 full-time students. Another way of indicating the services provided by this faculty is to say that it taught 52% of the credit hours taught in the Univer- sity. Of the credit hours taught by the Literary faculty, about 65% was to students enrolled in tl~e Literary College, about 16% to stu- dents enrolled in the Graduate School, and 20% to students of other schools and colleges on the campus. In view of 'this substantial amount of instructional service rendered to students enrolled in other units of the University it can truly be said that any faltering in the Literary College's capacity to provide good instruction will in- evitably affect other University proginms. The University Administration can be expected to make every ef- fort to obtain the appropriations for staff and buildings needed, but it is very apparent that bold moves will be necessary in these next years to provide the resources re- quired' to permit the College to maintain the level of quality of in- struction in the face of an increas- ing quantity of students. General Library To Be Reihodeled If ;present plans go through, the General Library will undergo an extensive remodelling program. A request for $700,000 has been made to the State Legislature for remodelling. If granted, the money will be used to convert the pres- ent library arrangement into a more f exible and functional one. Basement area which formerly housed the bindery now will be converted into a library exten- ,.-- Mi n To ,.n . srv o hpi i .