North Dakota State University - Bison Yearbook (Fargo, ND)

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T e Li Palau Fifty four thousand, six hundred and five volumes crowd the shelves of the College library, second largest book col- lection in the state. This total beats last year's by eleven hundred thirty. Fic- tion has the widest circulation. Periodi- cals are next most popular, and books on social science rank third. Serving today's thirteen hundred-odd enrollment keeps seven staff members and one part-time student busy. When the present building was erected in 1905, Mrs. Ethel McVeety, librarian then and librarian now, had one assistant to help wait on an enrollment less than a fourth as large. Science and Literature students use the library more than any other group, and Home Economics students are second best patrons. These two Schools lead partly because there are somewhat extensive departmental libraries in connection with other Schools. Recent enrollment increases are not without effect on library facilities, reports Mrs. McVeety. Fiction is wearing out under the strain, and there is a shortage of reserve books. M rs. M cVeety F.E.R.A. money has been a boon to the library. Its expenditure has kept the library open for the supper hour. A subject heading catalog and an authority list have been compiled. Poster work has been done, and many books have been mended. More help has kept the shelves in better order. Besides its popular Library Methods course, the library this year offered a class for teachers working for advanced degrees. To its collection of rare books, the library has during the year acquired some inter- esting additions, gifts of Mr. R. C. Lewis, Fargo. Among these are a group of folio size magazines dated 1851-1854. The Library ,gfqij 1936 BisoN Kgfg, ...22-.

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EARL JENNINGS, President of the Student Commission The Siudeni Commission With its chief purpose one of serving the student body as a whole and of offering a definite incentive for self-expression among the stu- dents, the Student Commission has gradually gained prestige and power until it now ranks as the most influential group on the campus. The members of the Commission are elected from among the student body at a general election. This year the Commission set out in the beginning to strengthen the power of the campus court. No drastic rules were enforced, but the group did put teeth in the rules which were already on the statute books. Gerald Stevens was appointed judge of the court with Orville Goplen and Maine Shafer as his clerks. Not only were many student violators of campus traffic laws brought before the bar of campus justice, but several faculty members as well. Formerly first offenders were not fined, but the Commission felt that there had been sufficient publicity accorded the rulings to enable all to know the rules. Therefore the judge at the second term decided to fine all first offenders accordingly. Homecoming was again under the jurisdiction of the student govern- ing body. A custom begun last year of inviting the University of North Dakota Student Commission president and Homecoming queen to the festivities at this institution was again followed and later our represen- tatives, Earl Jennings and Virginia Landbloom, journeyed to Grand Forks on a return visit. ,ggi 1936 BISON gag., 124.-.