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MONDA'Y', SEPTEMBER 17, 1958
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Cramped by the growing pains
confronting all institutions of
higher education, the University
has called upon North Campus to
provide the ground space for its
future expansion.
Located a mile north of the
main campus, this 670-acre tract
of rolling land has faced a blitz-
krieg attack of steam shovels,
caterpillars a n d construction
crews since University President
Harlan Hatcher, in, the spring of
1952, broke ground for the Cooley
Memorial Building.
Functionally, North Campus
structures have tended toward
physical science, engineering, and
graduate education.
Four Structures Completed
Four structures of glass and
orange brick have been completed.
In the Fall of 1953, the Mortim-
er E. Cooley Building, dedicated
to the Dean of the University's
College of Engineering from 1903
to 1928, became the first complet-
ed building on North Campus.
Most of the work within the
building is conducted by the Uni-
versity Engineering Research In-
stitute in advanced electronic re-
search, ERI now carries on $8,-
000,000 of top secret government
and industry research.
Phoenix Dedicated In June
Phoenix Memorial Laboratory,
dedicated in June, 1955, in mem-
ory of University World War II
dead, functions as a . research
building for the peacetime uses of
atomic energy. Alumni and public
donations provided the $1,700,000
for the structure.
Dr. Henry J. Gomberg, assistant
director of the Phoenix Project,
says of the Laboratory, "There is
no other non-governmental labor-
atory in the country like this. In
it, we can use radiation to help
create new materials, alter old
ones, probe the structure of mat-
ter, effect genetic changes in liv-
ing materials, and interfere with
or kill undesired organisms or
growths."
Ford Nuclear Reactor, schedul-
ed for completion this year, was
financed by a $1,000,000 grant
from the Ford Motor Co. and
works closely with the Phoenix
Memorial Laboratory. When com-
pleted, it will be the nation's most
powerful private reactor.,
Inside the windowless, four-
story cube building will be a 40,-
000-gallon "swimming pool", 26
feet deep, 35 feet long and 23 feet
wide. Walls for the 'pool' will be
six and one-half feet thick for the
lower half and three and one-half
feet thick at the top.
From a bridge across the top of
the 'pool', a fuel core will be su-
spended 20 feet into water, Studies
of neutrons and their effect upon
matter procede from 'piping'
beams of neutrons away from the
fuel core, or by placing materials
near the core for neutron bom-
bardment.
Central Services Bldg.
Third structure completed is the
Central Services and Stack Build-
ing, financed by a State appropri-
ation of $470,000. This building
will facilitate the storage of the
University's older and less used
books.
Last completed unit on North
Campus was the $1,850,000 Auto-
motive Engineering Building, used
for instruction ad research in the
automotive a n d aeronautical
fields.
Two-stories high and 400-feet
long, the structure will house 17
sound-proofed test cells, where
engines will be surrounded by
"curtains of air" when experi-
ments are being run.
A committee composed of repre-
sentatives from Michigan indus-
tries will help equip the Automo-
tive Engineering Building, a fine
experimental center in a State
which is the automotive hub of
the world.
Three units on North Campus
should be completed yet this year.
Aeronautical Engineering Lab-
oratory, finished by the United
States Air Force and by funds
earned by ; the Engineering Re-
search Institute, will house three
wind tunnels.
To General Wind Velocities
One wind tunnel will generate
wind velocities up to 7500 miles an
hour-ten times the speed of
sound to be used for experiments
in the guided missile and space
satellite areas. Winds of 750 mph
and 3000 mph will be whipped up
for research and instruction in two
other tunnels.
The subsonic tunnel is a tapered
steel tube, reaching 20 feet in di-
ameter, which winds in a closed
circle for over 300 feet outside the
main building.
Equipment for observation of
beach erosion, breakwater design
and the effects of lake and ocean
waves on various structures will
function in the $4,000,000 Fluids.
Engineering Laboratory, now un-
der construction.
There also will be studies of air
polution, heat transfer, air filter-
ing solar power, fluid mechanics
and air conditioning, ship and
propeller design, hydraulics, and
chemical distillation and fraction-
ating.
Married Students Apartments
Northwood Apartments, a 396-
unit housing development for
married students on North Cam-
pus, is connected with the main
campus with hourly bus service.
This development will help sip-
hon off part of the campuses' load
of 5,000 family men-and-fomen.
The development includes two
sizeable parking lots and a play-
ground for the project's numerous
children.
In regard to future develop-
ment on North Campus, the Uni-
versity, in its projected five-year
capital outlay request to the State
Legislature, has asked funds for
three major buildings.
College of Engineering, in 1960
will ask $208,000 planning money
for a Highway Laboratory and a
Sanitary Laboratory.
School of Music will seek a $2,-
000,000 appropriation in 1957 to
begin construction on its $4,500,-
000 building of the future.
A planning money request of
$178,000 for a $4,500,000 Archi-
tecture Building will again be sub-
mitted in 1957 to the Legislature
in Lansing.
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THROUGH THE TREES-And across what was once a barren
670 acre tract stretches the University's dream of the future-the
new North Campus. In the foreground is the Automotive Labora-
tory, equipped by prviate industry for public research. In back-
ground is the veterans readjustment center. One day the entire
tract will be a complete campus with classroom space, research
facilities and living quarters.
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-Daily-Bill van Oosterhout
ORTHWOOD APARTMENTS-North Campus is to be more than an adjunct to the University.
lans for a fraternity row, a modern nine million dollar coed dormitory, construction of more
narried students apartments and recreational areas are intended to make the campus a unit in
self. Some predict it will one day be considered the main campus. At any rate it marks the begin-
ing of an era. Apartments above are typical of the married student sapartments.
-Daily-Bill Van Oosterhoutl
EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS OF RESEARCH-Top secret government and industry research are
carried on in the Mortimer E. Cooley Building, dedicated to the dean of the University's College of
Engineering from 1903 to 1928. It was the first completed building on North Campus, opened in
1953. Altogether there are four completed structures on North Campus, all representing the sciences
and engineering.
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