Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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 ARE PART OF THE CHANGE AT MSU Farriers Learn Trade In Bozeman Started in 1970. the horseshoeing school on campus has evolved into one of the best farrier’s schools in the coun-try-so good, in fact, that it has drawn students from all over the globe, even as far away as Australia. New Zealand, and South Africa. Horseshoeing at MSU is taught as a concentrated course, one quarter long, five days. 40 hours per v eek. The level of experience a student has upon beginning the course varies. The students are put in levels according to the experience each individual possesses. Although the instructor. Scott Simpson, lectures to them on theory and background of shoeing, most of the course is spent by making shoes on forges and shoeing horses. Not only are the university horses shod, but horses are brought by owners from throughout the Gallatin area to be shod. By the end of the quarter, all or most of the students are qualified to shoe horses professionally for the public. 15 Photo coverage by Cindy Crawford

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“Moo U, the Udder University.” Montana’s “Cow College.” “Silo State.” MSU has many nicknames chiding its agrarian background. But Montana State University has experienced a change o face and a change of pace in recent years. Always smaller than cross-state rival UM, MSU featured strong agricultural and engineering schools with little emphasis on the liberal arts: drama, English, dance and fine arts. But, Thank God, time has changed that. Growing faster than the weeds in the Experiment Station, MSU's enrollment blossomed from 7800 students in the fall of 1972 to just short of 10.000 in 1977. Housing occupancy hit 106% to 123% capacity in some dormitories. Off-campus rental rates soared. The theatre department, under consideration for closure in 1976, expanded and was the host for Festivention ’78, a convention for theatre departments at various universities and colleges in the Rocky Mountain Region. Students showed more interest in dance in 1977, and the School of Art gained accreditation through NASA, the National Association of Schools of Art. Guitar classes in classical style performance increased in enrollment ten-fold, caused in part by Christopher Parkening moving to Bozeman and teaching in MSU’s School of Music. MSU’s changing face ... changing pace- in enrollment, in people, in academic programs, in athletics ... dominated the year in 1977-78.