GENERAL SUPPLEMENT YI r SirAo wt* is GENERAL SUPPLEMENT ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1947 a i . e r r i i ' xpects Enrollment Peak of 20,500 v, New Addition To East Quad To Hold 750 To Be Finished By Next Term The new addition to the East Quadrangle, which will house dbout 750 men students, will be completed and in use this fall, according to Francis C. Shiel, bus- iness manager of the residence halls. Every room in the new dormi- tory has already been assigned, Shiel said. Top priority in the new dormi- Story was given to disabled veter- ans. Freshmen were second on the lust, Michigan freshmen get- ting preference. Michigan vet- erans, followed by oustate veter- ans, fill up the remaining room assignments. "In so far as we know, every student so far accepted for the fall term has. a place to live," Shiel said. He warned, however, that a last minute rush for rooms I inevitable. Forsees Room Scarcity "A larger enrollment is bound to produce a room scarcity," Shiel said. "We were crowded last year, and this term we expect even more students." Shiel disclosed that the new dormitory for women students will probably be ready for occupancy in the spring term. No new dorm- itories for women will open in the fall. The married students' apart- ments in Willow Run are all rent- ed for the fall, Shiel said. The sigle students' dormitories at the Village are not all taken up yet, .although better than half the list is reserved, he disclosed. Shiel said that the dormitories would continue to double up in order-o. Accommodate more stu- dents., Cafeteria To Contine As this arrangement crowds the dining rooms, the practice of serv- ing all meals cafeteria style will be continued, Shiel said . No rooms are available on the private rooming house list, ac- cording to Mrs. Esther Griffin of the Housing Bureau. The Bureau is still accepting applications for Willow Run, however, Mrs. Grif- fen said. Book Center Provides Low Cost Supplies The Student Book Exchange, an organization designed to aid students by permitting them to buy and se'll books at reasonable prices, will operate again this fall from its offices on the second floor of the League. Under the sponsorship of the Student Legislature, the Book Ex- change will be open during regis- tration week and the first week of classes to give students an op- portunity to purchase their texts. Because the Exchange is staffed by volunteer help, it will be open only on Monday afternoons dur- ing the rest of the semester. Student Sets Price Books sold by the Exchange are brought in by students, who set the price of the books they want to sell. If they are sold the stud- ent receives a check for the book; if not lie may reclaim it or leave it at the Exchange to be sold la- ter. Good supplies of texts and outside reading books now in use will be available this fall, accord- ing to Ken Bissell, manager of the Exchange. In addition to texts the Ex- change also handles slide rules, drafting sets and other second hand equipment. Sale of new sup- plies has been discontinued at the request of the University. Other items on the Exchanige shelves in- clude such miscellaneous objects as ice skates and boots. "We will try to sell anything students bring in," Bissell said. SBE Saves Money He emphasized the importance of the Exchange in saving money for stuident. "In the past it has Building Program To Be Half-Completed in 1948 Multi-Million Dollar Job Includes Rush Schedule on Married Veterans Apartments The 1947-48 school year will find the University's multi-milion dollar building program about half completed. Top priority in the rushed gonstruction schedule was given to twelve apartment buildings for the housing of married veterans and their wives behind University Hospital. The last of these units was completed during the spring. , Scheduled for completion during the next school year are the East Quadrangle addition, the East Engineering addition, the Chem- istry addition and the Food Service Building. Some facilities in the new Business Administration Building will be available during the year. The East Engineering addition on University will be available at the beginning of the fall term. It will provide classroom, office and -- "- laboratory space for the crowded . aeronautical and electrical en- Students Live gineering departments. The Food Service Building, on WT b E. Huron will be completed about A it W 1un October 15. The building will serve as a storehouse and refrig- Develop m11enteration unit for food used in dorm- itories, the League and the Un- ion. PredictNextYear To BringDecline Return to 18,000 Is Official Guess As Education Adjustment Proceeds An all-time high enrollment of 20,500 has been forecast for the fall semester by University officials. Top administration officials expect the University's peak en- rollment during the 1947-48 school year. They say that indications point to 18,000 as the normal enrollment figure following the postwar education adjustment period. Predicting a substantial increase in the number of state resi- dents seeking education beyond a secondary level, the administrators i said it will be necessary for the University to "carry a temporary overload" to assume its share of responsibility for state education. They believe, however, that the- continuing need should be met in . part by the development of other Legislature Is colleges. No change in University policy on admission of out-of-state stu-R epresentaive dents is contemplated. This means that the University's national and Student Body international character will riot be endangered, since out-of-state and foreign students will comprise CoordinatingGroup 30 to 35 per cent of the total fall enrollment. According to Univer- Elected Twice Yearly sity officials, this represents a Village Holds 2,000 Single,_Married Vets An average of 2,000 single and married veteran students have lived at Willow Run Village, a federal housing project twelve miles from Ann Arbor, since the end of the war and the beginning of the severe housing shortage in Ann Arbor. The project, which served orig- inally to house war workers at the Willow Run bomber plant, re- sembles an army camp, with its identical dormitories and box-like apartment houses. This fact has been the subject of much cynical comment on the ,part of the ex- GI's. Rent Is Cheaper The situation, however, is not .,. bad as it appears at first glance. Village rent is somewhat cheaper than that prevailing else- where for equal living space. Bus service to the campus, while ad- mittedly not all it should be, is no longer a topi'b of serious com- plaint. The student loses about an hour a day in.transportation. The Willow Village Council, composed of students and factory workers unable to find houses in Detroit, has consistently per- formed valuable community serv- ice for the villagers. It recently began a campaign to increase the number of policemen in the vil- lage, and to repair and paint the housing units. Experience Gained Many students, particularly those studying law, have gained valuable political experience by working with the Detroit citizens for' improvement of the village. The incumbent council preident is a University law student. The village has an active AVC chapter, which has been instru- mental in getting better cafeteria service, and in sponsoring social functions on weekends for those students wh find it inconvenient to attend affairs on the campus. Offer Honors Program Here Liberal Arts Course Now Open to Juniors The College Honors Program in Liberal Arts, now being offered to qualified students who will be jun- iors in the literary college this fall will fulfill a need felt by certain faculty members and a number of students for a program of study extending beyond the limits of de- partmental concentration. Set up in 1939 as a regular sub- ject of degree concentration, the plan for the program was devised after a study of general education courses given at the University of Rochester, Swarthmore College and St. John's University. The greatest emphasis of the program is put on the reading of funda- mental texts rather than on inter- pretations of basic concepts de- rived from original works. Two additional courses, related to the subject of tutorial study, Completed by Fall Term Two houses of the East Quad addition on E. University will be completed in time for the fall term. The other two houses will be finished in October. The chemistry addition on N. University will not be completed before the second semester. Some classroom and lecture hall space, however, will be available during the fall. No relief from the crowd- ed laboratories is expected before spring. University administrators ex- pect classrooms in the South Wing of the new Business Administra- tion Building on Monroe to be ready for use in the spring term. Business administration students now attend classes in Tappan Hall, built in 1874. General Service Building The General Service Building is not slated for completion before next summer. The new building will be used for administrative of- fices now in Angell Hall and Uni- versity Hall, and the top two two floors will be used temporarily for classrooms. No occupancy dates have been See BUILDING, Page 6 * * * Addition Will Provide Space For Engineers Despite a record enrollment of 4,000, the whole engineering col- lege will breathe easier this fall with the completion of the new addition to the East Engineering Building. Although space will be still at a premium in the engineering col- lege, slide-rule-pushing students and faculty are expected to find some relief in the expanded fa- cilities. The new building will be shared by the aeronautical and eleeti ical engineering departments. Hitherto the aeronautical engineering de- partment has been located largely in the basement of East Engineer- ing Building and the electrical en- gineering department has been scattered in at least four differ- ent places around campus. The aeronautical department will expand into the basement, first and fourth floors of the new building, and the electrical engi- neers will take over most of the rest of the building including the roof. Prof. Emerson Conlon, chairman of the aeronautical engineering department, is looking forward to getting a glimpse of the "wild blue yonder." He hopes the fac- ulty will finally be able to "see an airplane in flight." But at last the long-suffering See ADDITION, Page 6 '9 , '. "satisfactory level." The University was among e the last of midwest schools to r impose restrictions on out-of- I state enrollment. FRONT OF ANGELL HALL-Angell Hall houses the offices and classrooms of the literary college. Executive offices will be moved to the General Administration Building now under construction. On normal days in-between-class smokers, amateur discussion groups and sun worshippers may be found littering the steps. Pres. Ruthven Welcomes All New Students It is my privilege to welcome you to an institution largely supported by the people of the State of Michigan and de- signed by them to provide for you the facilities you will need in acquiring an education. The educational policies of the University are determined by the faculties of the several schools and colleges and, are based upon the belief that their chief objective should be to encourage and assist the students of each generation to think for themselves. In harmony with this objec- tive, you will be well equipped to begin your college work if you understand that the poor- est education which teaches self-control, tolerance, and self-respect is better than the best which neglects the culti- vation of these qualities, and that the business of your teachers is not to make you learn but rather to aid and in- spire you to teach yourselves. If, in your life on the campus, you will continue to assume a proper amount of responsibil- ity for your own training, your college work can scarcely fail to be successful and, what is quite as important, very pleas- ant. -Alexander G. Ruthven, President of the Uni- versity. 4e FALL PREDICTION: Literary College Departmentsa To Have Enough Classrooms- By TED MILLER Prof. James E. Dunlap, chair- Despite generally crowded con- man of the classical studies de- ditions, most departments in the partment, said there is room for literary college will be able to ac- See CLASSROOMS, Page 2 commodate the anticipated in-1 crease in fall enrollment, a sur- vey by The Daily shows. T Although University officials have predicted a new enrollment I slndependent of 20,500 for the fall semester, a check of literary college depart- Body This Fall ments disclosed there is sufficient space for additional students in al1 courses except those already The University Men's Judiciary; limited in the past academic year. Council will assume its duties as Prof. Clarence D. Thorpe, an independent body for the first; chairman of the committee on un- time in the fall. dergraduate English courses' Formerly under the close super- struck the most optimistic note. vision of the Student Legislature "We expect the adjustment this and composed exclusively of Leg- fall will be almost imperceptible. islature members, the council be- he said. Having weathered huge came independent under the terms jumps in the past, Prof. Thorpe of a new constitution recently explained, the department , ex- passed by the Legislature and ap- pects future increases to cause rel- proved by the Student Affairs atively little trouble. Committee. The economics department' Under the new set-up, the coun- ' which added many sections in be- cil consists of seven students ap- ginning courses last year, mdi- pointed for one school year by the cated that further expansion Legislature Cabinet. Students de- could be made satisfactorily. siring membership on the council Noon labs will be introduced in must be students in good standing the geology department for the with at least sixty credit hours. first time this fall. The action Petitions for membership must be will be taken to accommodate ad- turned in to the Legislature pres- ditional students expected to en- ident by a deadline to be an- roll after the transfer of psychol- nounced in The Daily. ogy 31 from group two to group Powers and duties of the council three credit. At the present time include the determination of elig- the department does not expect to ibility in campus elections, hear- set a limit on registration. ings and decisions regarding dis- The sociology and geography putes arising under the election departments have experienced regulations of the Student Legis- larger classes but expect "no par- lature, disqualification of any can- ticular effect" from the hike in didate who violates the regula- enrollment. Classroom space for tions, jurisdiction in disputes be- history and philosophy students 'tween campus organizations and is no problem as yet, those depart- regulation of initiations and con- ments reported. duct of all honor societies. Declaring that no qualified students from the state have been refused admission to undergrad- uate schools here, officials saw no discernible trend toward a2 greater graduate enrollment in1 proportion to undergraduate en- rollment. Approximately 3,000 stu- dents were enrolled in the grad-1 uate school last spring. The totala enrollment was slightly overr 19,000. On the basis of early figures, the literary college is expecting a freshman class of approximately pre-war size. Normal registration runs about 1,200-1,300. Despite the overall enrollment increase, Dean Hayward Keniston expects enrollment in the literary college to be "the same or slightly lower" than the spring term figure of 7,157. "The peak of the en- rollment crisis seems to have passed in the literary college," he observed. The increased enroll- ment, he pointed out, will be ab- sorbed by the professional schools. Almost 100 students in the lit- erary college who attended school during the past year do not in- tend to return in the fall, a sur- vey shows. For the most part, Dean Keniston believes that "withdrawals appear to be the re- sult of an insufficient government allowance, especially for married veterans with children. If the gov- ernment should increase the al- See PEAK, Page 6 V"SB Assists, Student-Vets, Service Bureau Aids In Red Tape Cutting From the very beginning of the new veteran's registration at the University, the Veterans Service Bureau plays a vital part in his life on campus. He applies for a subsistence al- lowance under Public Laws 16 oi 346 at the Bureau, and there, too he is given information regarding the University and its admission procedures. The Service Bureau helps the veteran cut through red tape by referring him directly to the prop- er agency in regard to questions about placing applications, hous- ing, employment, notorization, medical care, and legal counsel- ing. Trained advisors discuss with the veterans the advantages of Public Laws 1* and 346. Vocation- al guidance counseling is made available through the Bureau of Psychological Services for any veterans desiring it. As an agency of the University the Service Bureau certifies the veteran's status in school to the Veterans Administration which in turn authorizes the payment of his The Student Legislature, found ed in the fall of 1946, is the rep- esentative student body on cam- pus. Elected twice yearly, the legis- lature coordinates the activities of- other campus organizations and sponsors, all-campus activities, as well as initiating various campus reforms. Plans For Fall Plans for the fall term include supervision of football ticket dis- tribution and enforcement of the recently passed ordinance ban-- ring bicycles from sidewalks on campus. Suggestions for changes in the lection system of. the Legislature will also be considered in the fall. Most of the work of the Legis- lature is done by committees com- posed of both members of th Legislature and interested stu- dents from the campus at large. The Campus Committee, one of the most important, plans to work for establishment of a cooperative restaurant on campus as well as the improvement of local traffic conditions. In the past year, the Legislature has initiated a system of student grading of instructors which, with the cooperation of the instructors has met with a great deal of suc- cess, according to Dick Kelly, f summer Legislature president. Other Committees Other functions of the Legis- lature are handled by the Aca- demic, Publicity, Secretarial, Pub- lications, Veterans, Student Gov- ernment and Social committees. The task of the Committee on Student Organizations is to main- tain liaison with all other organi- zations in order to coordinate stu- dent activities. Legislature officers, elected by the body itself, are, members of some of the more important ad- ministrative, legislative and judi- cial bodies which are directly within the administration of the University,' such as the Student Affairs Committee. Volunteers to work on all of the Legislature committees are needed and all interested students may contact the Student Legisla- ture Offices in the Michigan Un- ion for an assignment to the com- mittee of their choice. Benefits End In July,_1957 An analysis of the consequences for veterans of the Congressional resolution terminating the war, reveals that educational training under both the G.I. Bill and Pub- lic Law 16 expire on July 25, 1957. The President's signature on the measure also sets July 25, 1957 as the deadline for loans to veterans which may be guaran- teed by the government. Read- justment allowances under the "52-20" club expire on July 25 1952, though application for these allowances must be made within two years of the war's termina- f, UNION STUDENT COMIC OPERA: David Upton New Chief of Plans To Revive Mimes The latest) developments in the projected revival of the Michigan Union "Opera," a musical comedy scripts. Results will be announced about Oct. 15, Skinner said. If a suitable entry is received, a Night Falls Dear," "College Days," and "The Friars Song." Prof. Earl V. Moore, dean of the music' ter a six years' lapse are based upon widespread feeling that it is an integral part of the Univer- i