GENERAL SUPPLEMENT YI *o 6 Swt a i~kiii4 GENERAL SUPPLEMENT VOL. LVI, No. 348 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Fall Enrollment To Present Acute HousingShortage Record 1 EXpected 8,000 for F Enrollment all Semester City Residences Are Canvassed For 400 Rooms 3,500 New Students To Be Accommodated With an estimated enrollment of 18,000 resident students for the fall term, University housing officials carried through the summer a drive to provide residences in the increas- ingly critical housing situation. It Was disclosed in July that "at least 400" more rooms for fall erm faculty members and students were needed if student enrollment was to be allowed to increase to the estimat- ed 18,000 as against the spring term figure of 14,350. Housing authorities turned to city residences to provide places for 250 students and 100 fac- ulty members of "junior level" status. Housing Facilities Increased Through increased housing facil- ities, principally at Willow Village, a University spokesman revealed that accomodations will be made for most of the 3,500 new students expected in the fall. The crucial point in the housing problem will be to find rooms in local residences. Last spring, 3,747 students lived in private homes in the city. Rooms for at least 4,000 will be needed if an 18,000 enrollment isgaccomodated. Unless, additional living quarters are found, it is likely that the housing shortage will hold enrollment below the 18,000 .figure. Distribution of Students A breakdown on student residence capacities in various units shows an estimated 5,400 will be placed in Uni- versity residence halls, 3,300 at Wil- low Village, 1,600 in fraternity and sorority houses, 2,000 in League hous- es and other approved residences, 300 in the new apartments for married veterans near University ospital and 4,700 in city residences. University officials revealed that 50 of X92 apartments at the vet pro- ject will be reserved for faculty miem- bers with 20 others in the Union and 30 in houses acquired by the Univer- sity for the business administration building. Apartment Buildings Planned Authority to build four additional apartment buildings for married vet- erans, bringing the total to twelve, was granted by Civilian Production Authority. officials in Washington. The new units will be built concur- rently with those already begun, Plant Superintendent Walter Roth said. Married couples were warned last spring by Dean Joseph A. Bursley that housing facilities for them will be particularly scarce in the fall. Students having houses were urged to keep them during the summer in order to be sure of having a place in the fall. Two new dormitories, capable of providing room for 1,000 students, are expected to be completed by the fall term. One of these, being built for women students, will house men for the first two years. The other new building is the married students dormitory, expected to house 300. * * * Disabled Vets Get Preference In Dormitories Disabled Michigan veterans will be given the first priority ratings for new assignments to men's dormi- tories for the Fall Semester, Dean of Students Joseph Bursley said in an- nouncing policies for the University residence halls system. Under the policy for the fall, Mic- igan freshmen will be second in order of preference and other Michigan veterans will rank third. Men now housed in the dormi- tory system will be reassigned to University residencesrunless their "citizenship" records show that they are "not suitable," he said. Although the University will have three more houses on campus for civilian students in the fall and hopes to secure additional space in Willow Village, Bursley said he could not estimate at this time how many men the Universisy will be able to accom- modate in the dormitory system. v C"1 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL now in the planning stage, will be located on Haven St. facing. Monroe St..directly across from the School of Architecture. Cost of the project is estimated at $1,800,000. * * * * * * * * * Dormitories, Vet Apartments, Academic Facilties Are Included in" U' Expansion U' Legislature Will Sponsor Book Exchange Cooperative To Save Money for Students Once again this fall the Student Book Exchange will be operated co- operatively to permit the students to buy and sell used books at rea- sonable prices. Sponsored by the Student Legisla- ture, the Book Exchange will have offices on the second floor of the Michigan League and will be open for business during registration and 'the first week of school. Large Savings Possiblek "In the past," manager Dick Bur- ton explained, "the Exchange has saved the students hundreds of dol- lars each semester and this year we are making a special effort to meet the expected demands of a peak en- rollment." Books will be collected at the end of the summer session and will also be accepted for sale during registra- tion week and the first few days of school. Because the Exchange is staffed by volunteer help, its opera- tion will only extend through the first week" of the term when the great bulk of textbooks are purchased. Student Cooperation Essential "I cannot stress too strongly," Bur- ton declared, "the need for student support of this cooperative activity. The Exchange is operated for the benefit of the students and the degree of its success- will be measured by the extent of student participation in buying and selling books." Students with books to sell should leave them at the Exchange as soon as they arrive on campus this fall. They will be asked to set their qwn prices and will be given a receipt for the books. Meet Your President If anyone asks you, the president of the University is Dr. Alexander Grant Ruthven. You will get a chance to shake his hand and drink his tea at any of a number of Ruthven Teas, at which he and his wife will play host at their S. University St. home. Notice of Ruthven Teas will be published in The Daily. out-state students. Meanwhile, Prof. Philip Bursley, orientation director, predicted that "the incoming freshman class will.be as large as pre-war" frosh classes. He added that the recent change in the draft law, exempting 18-year- olds, would tend to up enrollment. Top officials in education and government, acting in what has been considered in many quarters, the best interests of international relations, have requested that American universities make "every effort to accommodate the rising tide of foreign scholars." Dr. Esson W. Gale, director of the International Center, represented the University at a conference of educa- tors in Chicago aimed at securing cooperation of leading U.S. univer- sities in the solution of this enigma. To assure that students aren't just "shopping" for a school, the Uni- versity has initiated a $25 "accept- ance deposit" for new students be- ginning with the fall semester. Unofficial sources predicted that between 7,500 and 9,000 World War II veterans ' wil be enrolled here this fall. During the Spring Se- mester, approximately 6,200, vets attended the University. The record-shattering enrollment1 will see relatively fewer coeds at the University. It has been predicted that the pre-war ratio of four men to every woman on campus will be reinstated. The 18,000 figure represents al- most a 100 per cent increase over the fall semester 1945 figures when slight- ly more than 9,600 enrolled here. How long will the boom con tinue. Administrators here shake their heads in wonderment. Some say that the peak enroll- See ENROLLMENT, Page 4, By WILL HARDY A $6,630,00 building expansion program is now fully underway atl the University of Michigan as offic-t ials seek to accomodate a capacity enrollment for the 1946 fall semester. Three of the units now under con-; struction are self-liquidating dormi- tories. Others are vitally-neededt class-room and administrative unitss made possible by $4,800,000 in ap- propriations from the State Legis- lature. Top priority in the rushed con-, struetion schedule was given to twelve apartment buildings for the housing of married veterans and thekr wives, at a cost of $830,000, located behind University Hospital. Full Program Is Sponsored By eLegi-slature Student Committees Coordinate Activities The Student Legislature is the representative student body on cam- pus which coordinates the activities of the other organizations and spon- sors various all-campus activities. Most of the work of the Legisla- ture, according to its president, Ray Davis, is done by committees com- posed of both members of the legis- lature and interested students from the campus at large. The Legislature's International Committee is now planning a series of informal mixers which will permit the student body to become better acquainted with the 500 foreign stu- dents enrolled at the University. Spurred on by the favorable re- ception which met their programs on Russia and Turkey last spring, the committee, in conjunction with the Veterans Organization for In- ternational Student Exchange, ex- pects to continue with a series of cul- tural programs about other nations. Under the leadership of Hank Kas- sis, the Campus Committee, which is charged with the operation of the Student Book Exchange, is also work- ing for the reestablishment of a co- operative restaurant on campus, as well as the improvement of local traffic conditions. Student recommendations for cur- riculum changes and the institution of a system of student grading of in- structors will be the problems dealt with by the Academic Committee this term. Other functions of the Legislature are handled by the Publicity, Secre- tarial, Publications, Veterans, and .giyint (+nvrarnment Committees. New Freshman Class Will Be Pre-War Size While the exact enrollment figure for this fall has not yet been definite- ly determined, University officials have predicted a new all-time high en- rollment of 18,000 students. Citing the unprecedented pressure on every university and college in the nation, University Vice-President Robert P. Briggs described the crisis facing educational institutions as "our post-war emergency period." The University's international and national character is not en- dangered however, since outstate and foreign students will comprise 30 per cent of the total fall enrollment. This esimate takes into account a recently-inaugurated University noliew restricting new admissions of Other housing units are two dorm- itories, one adjacent to East Quad- rangle and the other near Mosher- Jordan Hall on Observatory street. Both units normally will house 500 students. The first will be perm- anently for the use of men. The sec- ond will be temporarily used by men during the present enrollment crisis and will eventually be for women stu- dents. Plant Superintenident Walter M. Roth has estimated that the married veteran's units will be completed December 1 and the other two dorm- itories next spring. The following educational and ad- ministrative units are also under construction: General Service Building, on State St., opposite Angell Hall, at a cost of $1,500,000, funds for which were appropriated by the legislature several years ago. It will be used for administrative of- fices now in Angell Hall and Uni- versity Hall and the top two floors will be used for classrooms temipo- rarily. Chemistry Building addition, on N. University St.;at a cost of $1,000,- 000, funds for which were provided by the Legislature in a $3,300,000 ap- propriation last fall. It will provide the University with critically-needed laboratory and classroom facilities of the most up-to-date type. East Engineering Building ad- dition, on East University, at a cost of $1,750,000 to alleviate crowded conditions and produce greater num- bers of badly-needed engineers for the profession. School of Business Administration, on Monroe street, opposite the School of Architecture, at a cost of $1,800,000. Business administration school students now attend classes in Tappan Hall, built in 1874. Maternity hospital, a part of Uni- versity Hospital, at a cost of $900,000. Members of the legislature were ap- palled by antiquated facilities used To the Class Of 1950: The privilege of entering the University of Michigan should be more precious and full of mean- ing to you of the Class of 1950 than to any of your predecessors. An institution for unrestricted learning, maintained by a free state, in a free country, is, unfor- tunately, a rare thing in the world today. It is for you who are newcom- ers, and for us who greet you and -,:1ra Rt ...4 4P-..a eVni in the present maternity unit of thel University Hospital on a tour of in- spection here before appropriations were made last year. Food Service Building, on E. Huron St., at a cost of $600,000. Excavation has just started on this unit. It will serve as a storehouse..and refriger- ation unit for food used in dormi- tories, the League and the Union. University officials last year sought funds for a $15,000,000 ex- pansion but pressing needs of other schools and state government units interfered with obtaining the full amount. In his request for funds, President Alexander G. Ruthven pointed out to state officials that no appropriations had been re- ceived by the University for an 18-year period, and that of $36,- 000,000 worth of buildings, only See 'U' EXPANSION, Page 4 'Field Cdmpus' will multiply 'U' Enrollment Expansion Is Foreseen For Extension Service The University of the future will, probably teach many times the num- ber of students who inhabit the cam- pus, by means of extension courses, according to Dr. Charles A. Fisher, director of the University Extension Service. Dr. Fisher says he wouldn't be sur- prised to see the day, very soon, when the ratio of off-campus to on- campus students would run as high as ten to one. Dr. Fisher and his assistant, Ever- .ett J. Soop, who is in charge of the Detroit center of the extension ser- vice, pointed to the fact that the Extension Service registered 13,500 students in the 1944-45 school year, while the enrollment a decade ago was only 3,500. The Extension Service attempts to give courses aimed at the needs of the people, Dr. Fisher emphasized. Demands range all the way from a request for a course for prospective home-builders through an institute given annually for Detroit area fire- men to an amateur band and orches- tra which practices regularly at the Detroit center under the direction of University bandmen. The biggest task now, according to Dr. Fisher, is to round up faculty men and funds to set up classrooms in the field. Although the idea of off-campus instruction is nothing new, he pointed out that it is an idea which is rapidly growing upon the people of this country, and has unlimited possibilities in an era of post-war development. Haircut War Is Old Story Here Barbershop Price Led TIo Daily-Union Clash. _ , , 'U' CAMPUS IN 1860 consisted of one lone building pictured above. Look behind Angell Hall and you'll find it - Mason Hail. Scientists Unite for Research Study The GI's strike against the high price of hair cuts today will find precedent in depression years when students staged a similar war against barbershop prices in the Union. On Feb. 18, 1933, shortly after the Roosevelt assassination attempt, Ann Arbor barbers begrn a price cutting war. Hair cut prices fell from 60ll cents to 50 cents overnight. A Daily front page editorial, urg- ing students to patronize home- town barbers, effectively reduced town barbers to a 35 cent max- imum for hair cropping. Only one shop retained a higher fixed price - the Michigan Union. Its price of 45 cents cash or thirty seven cents in Union coupons was too heavy, a cross for the Daily ed- itors to bear. War was inevitable. The Daily began its fight with an editorial Feb. 21 emphasizing that the Union was supposedly non- profit. The Union countered W~. claiming. they held a lower price during the flush years. The editors retaliated with a roll- ing barrage lasting until March 16, the day before Prohibition ended. A box directly under the masthead on the editorial page appeared each day, stating: "The Union is still charging 45 cents for hair-cuts. Every other shop Recognizing the interest of scien- tists in the political developments arising from their work, a group of faculty members, and graduate stu- dents in mathematics, physics, chem- istry and medical sciences Joined to- gether last year to form The Associa- tion of the University of Michigan Scientists. The scientists, numbering about 140, express in their constitution their aim to achieve "the best pos- sible utilization of scentificreenarch lative activities, provided speakers for forums, broadcasts and meetings, and sent delegates to meetings of the Federation of American Scientists.. As part of a plan to acquaint peo- ple with the implications of scienti- fic legislation, the University of Michigan Scientist's meetings have been' open to all. Scientists have spoken on the implications of atomic energy control and the National Sci- ence Foundation bill. against military control and the stringent punitive measures set forth by the May-Johnson bill which would hamper, in the words of their con- stitution, the "spirit of free inquiry and free interchange of information without which science cannot flour- ish." In their library exhibit last Spring,. "Atomic Energy-Promise or Threat" the University of Michigan Scientists expressed, in, the section called "Sci- entists Enter the Political Scene,"