MICHIGAN tain Campus Problems Discussed, A broad program has scheduled this year by the 'U' Museums Offer Variec been Liter- -Daly-Richard Moss s and Little Fishes" is .the name given to the fountain at the at the University. In the background is Burton Tower. I "I" 9 L ary College Steering Committee. Established in 1947, the com-; mittee serves as a sounding board for student and faculty iopinion on existing campus problems. Its 15 student members do not have power to rule on problems but can bring out campus prob- lems and make suggestions to such organizations as Student Govern- ment Council.; Whenever matters of particular concern to the campus arise, the committee holds a confgrence for the entire campus. It discusses such. matters as counselling, in- tellectual apathy, integration of curricula, and the honors system. Meets With Faculty The committee also gets togeth- er with faculty committees, such as the preparatory honors com- mittee on making the curriculum. more flexible, and with various professors. Itsintends to meet with Prof. Robert Angell of tho ociol- ogy department this year to dis- cuss the honors curriculum. "We are going to revise our scedule to include more campus conferences, include a faculty member at our meetings in order to meet in a more disciplined fash-' ion, devise schedules, and send in- vitations to freshmen," Leslie Dietz, '58, committee chairman, said. "The committee should no longer be jUst an elite seeming group known, to a select few," she declared. Areas.Discussed Final examinations, academic questions, investigation of how to get more money for scholarships and make them known to slu- dents, effectiveness of teaching fellows, and how to decrease the discrepancy between students and faculty are some of the topics the. "committee plas for discussion this year. The board is predominantly comprised of upperclassmen and advised by Prof. James Robertson; Assistant Dean of the Literary College. No freshmen can serve on the committee. All students are. admitted by petition and inter- view. The committee may adopt a pol- icy of accepting petitions twice a' year inorder to give the commit- tee more continuity and mIore turnover of ideas and projects, Miss Dietz said. By BARBARA KAHN Whether you are a nature lover or a rock collector, whether you want to study fossils or lose your- self in Egyptian artifacts, one of the University's museums should interest you. Largest although least known, is that impressive structure on the corner of Washtenaw and North University known as the Museum of Natural.Sciences. There are actually five separate and independent museums in this building, four of which are de- voted to research and the fifth having charge of the various dis- plays open to the public. The Research Museum of Zool-. ogy, headed by Prof. Theodore Hubbell of the zoology department, is one of the largest and most com- prehensive in the nation. It con- tains more than 6,000,000 speci- mens, of which Michigan fauna are particularly plentiful. Americas Displayed There are several collections covering the United States as a whole and, in some cases, Mexico and Central' America. "Our, view of the rest of the world is synop - tic," explained Prof. Hubbell, "and used mainly for comparison pur- poses., In the three divisions, verte- brates, mollusks and insects, varied research }s continually going on. Fvolutional and natural history of animals are primary topics of in- terest in these studies, a'lthough each of the nine staff members is engaged in a different phase of work. Two types of publications, tech nical in nature, are put out by this museum. The Occasional Papers, of which 600 have been published to date, PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM - Showcase upon showcase show realistic views of life during the various periods of the earth's history. - museum outn to one. Possessing collection in the Kelsey M1 located at 43 This collect ed, as have m; seum pieces, tions which due to low fu world situatio The researc Roman towns ed this museu plete picture in a Romar for all ) or PRE-REGISTERED STUDENTS unique achi On the se seum varic such as tom household s Also, ther ed "Egyptie is found th little Egypti well as statu of various c Chief an "Book of t up one side equal the >or. Of the Books This EASY Way- Rush and Confusion at the Book- the First Day of Classes -by Fill- ie Blank 'Below and Mailing to, f 3ooks will be ready for you to pick ig Orientation Week. (Please cancel er if you are unable to attend school NEW YORK INDIAN MASK ...in the anthropology museum semester. f MICHIGAN ALUMNUS: MagazineTells of Alumni Guarantee. ALL BOOKS to be REQUIRED texts and - to supply the RIGHT book for each course -- FULLY RETURNABLE if a course is changed: i ULRICH'S has the lrgest stock of USED and New textbooks for ALL courses on cam-. pus. I f used books are available, Ulrich's will have them. - --- BOOK RESERVATION BLANK SEPTEMBER 1957 f I ,rI COURSE NAME I DEPT. NO.N Home Address Street " City I Local Address' (_ _(If Available) __ I Prefer 0" Good Used Q New Books I Signed ' - - ----- -- -------- By JAN RAHM' Alumni keep in touch with, the University through The Michigan Alumnus, published by the Alum-" ni Association. The Alumnus .is published in three editions a total of 21 times a year.: Perhaps best known of the edi- tions is the slick magazine issued monthly from October to July. It contains news about the Univer- sity, interviews withi nationally prominent alumni, news of alum- ni clubs throughout the.sworld and' achievements of individuals who have attended the University. Publishes Quarterly Four times a year, in March, May, August and December, the 100-page Quarterly Review is pub- lished. Included are stories, articles, book reviews and poetry written by faculty members, alumni and, occasionally, students. Texts of important speeches given at the University are frequently printed in the Review. Each fall there are seven weekly football editions. These four page papers give special features on. Michigan football as well as de-, tailed accounts of the games. Harold M. Wilson, '42, Alumnus' managing editor, who is in charge of the football edition, explained that many alumni get only brief reports about Michigan games. and like to read more detailed ac- counts. He said many who doRlive close enough to Ann Arbor to get de- tailed stories of the games in their' local papers enjoy the special in- sight into Michigan football as a whole that the football, edition gives. Established in 1894, the Alum- nus has won many awards dur- ing the 63 years of publication. In 1956, it was named the best alumni magazine in the Great Lakes region and ,one of the 10; best in the country by the-Ameri- can Alumni Council, an associa- tion of alumni workers from schools all over the country. are informative pamphlets which appear at the rate of about 20 peri year. The Miscellaneous Publica- tions are larger, appear from four to six times per year, and have already'printed nearly 100 reports.- Anthropology Shown The Anthropology Museum, al- though limited by small bidget, is active in four fields of research. The Great Lakes Section studies are preistoric and early historic Indian ultures around the Great Lakes, with special attention paid to Michigan. In the Orient Section studies are made of materials from China,1 Japan and, especially, the Philip- pines. American Indians from the1 United States, Mexico and Peru are the topic of study for Arche- ology; while Ethnology studies ma- terials from living peoples. According to Prof. James B.i Griffin of ,,the anthropology, de-" partment, dirctor f the Anthro- pology Museumn, the study of the New World (American Indians,1 etc.) is the field in which this department most excels. The Herbarium, :under direction of Prof. Edwin Mains of the botany departmenit, is concerned chiefly with study of the classification ahd distribution of various plants. 522,ooo Displayea With 522,000:specim6s ondis play and another 200,000 stored, the museum constitutes one of the largest college museums of its type in the country. Research is done in the divisions of vascular plants (Flowering plants or fern), briophytes (Moss, liverworts) ..lichens, fungi and algae. Special study is now being done. on thevascular plant and fungi of .Michigan. Peerhaps the best known of the five museums is the Exhibit Mu-' seum open to the public seven days a week. With Irving Reimann over- seeing matters, the :exhibit staff is responsible for all the public dis- plays. Evolution Shown The second floor Hall of Evolu- tion gives a picture of life through fossils starting from the Mid Cam- bian period. With various under- sea dioramas, it illustrates water life .in the different periods. Especially interesting on this floor are the fossil skeleton of a dinosaur laid beneath a back- ground mural illustrating the en- vironment in which he lived, the reconstructed skeleton of a masta- don, and a special alcove showing fossil plants. As one mounts to the third floor which concentrates on Michigan flora and fauna, one is rather sur- prised at the guardian of these portals-in the form of a live gila monster gazing calmly from his cage between the second and third floors. The third floor while it cannot boast of real live animals to fill its cases possesses some extremely life-like stuffed animals in their native settings. Flora Displayed Among the displays of Michigan flora was a unique display of fungi. "Pond Micro-Life" a diorama by Edwin Reiber formed a fascinating display of the micro-organisms which inhabit ponds. The Hall of Life on the fourth floor combines anthropology and biology in a series of displays rang- ing from Polynesian Artifacts to' human'reproduction and physiol- ogy. It also contains exhibits con- cerning heredity and genetics and various Indian and Eskimo cul- tures. The Rotunda display, changed about four times a year, now con- tains a colorful . exehibit _,of~ sea- shells. In, the center of the Rotunda two new show cases form a cir- cular display. In one case are to be placed objects of seasonal interest (such as the lily-like flower now resid- special interest in the Museum, and spot news items. One Sunday, for example, a specimen of the now-extinct Lab- rador Duck was displayed for one afternoon only..Due to the extreme rarity and perishability of this bird, the case was placed under guard. The Exhibit Museum, Reimann says, is engaged at the moment in several projects. One of the, most important of these is the rear- ranging and modernizing of var- ious biological, and paleontological exhibits to make them interesting to the. average student. New cases on the third floor of the museum will be used for new conservation exehipits, as well as those of wild life and fish. . Moreover, a new displ y. will be placed in the rotunda-A series of dioramas. which will. act 'as a key to the museum exhibits. Publicity Small "Although we receive little pub- licity," Reimann explains, "we have during a year enough visitors most inter ogical and the collect and the co Also nc minerals a tion. 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