Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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and the Light is Southern That knowledge may lead to understanding, HHCIIIJ understanding to wisdomg reads the concluding line ol' the objectives of the University. Academically Southern is not at the top, but it is not at the bottom either. In many ways the University is acquiring an academic sophistication it has previously lacked. The hulking mass of Morris Library thrusts seve-9, thick stories into the sky, and within is one of the finestg, libraries in the nation, one which handles a circulationfti of nearly 30,000 volumes a month!!! Among a full-time faculty which numbers 1012, moi!! than 59 per cent have doctorate degreesi To allow for in- creased faculty pay plus a change to year-round oper- ations following the addition of a full summer quarter, an operating budget request of 3595.5 million was pre- sented to the Board of Higher Education. This was a 69 per cent increase over the budget ol' the preced- ing biennium, and reflects the expectation oi' future growth. .. -..-M.. I Wo1'ld renowned anthropologist Miss Margaret Mead addressed the 1964 graduating class at commencement exercises in theHArenz1 fb -all Une ol' owl' -NIU !'orc'igm'rs 4lllflXlllQ iii Sllf limi- lI1CllLlI'l gruclniiu- student is ai Pli.l3. cznncliclnlr- in iiiyrolugy. ill:-vinclrr Singh Lflinlmli .hllllllllgll lAUIlSl!'llVllUIl ui' i'l1l4iI'UUII1 liL1l1llllll'i l'UIllll1llQ'9 lo lllfli 1 c some lLllJOI'lllOl'1' si-ssioiis gm' slill lwlcl in lIlLlCll'Cl1lL1lt' buildings.

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.,f' 0 . . :J .- . H 4 ., Y...- A4-1' if 6 M' if ' ,Q 1.. , Organizations. . . .262 'Hfil f -. . 1.9, .,, Wx This is Southern Illinois University, a going, growing concern: its chief function is building enlightened, crit- ical minds from the ability and potential of each student enrolled here. I-low it pursued this task this year is the subject matter ol' the 1965 OBELISK. Standing alone on a hill south of Carbondale in 1887 was one austere building called Main. Today it is called Old Main and grouped with it, around it and far beyond it are 76 other major buildings comprising the physical plant ol' Southern Illinois University. With an assessed valuation of over 115100 million, Southern lies on 10,000 sprawling acres 60 miles south of the population center of the United States. Construction alone totaled 3139 mild lion this year and the physical plant increased by an estimated S815 million. An enrollment increase of 15 per cent pushed Southern's total to 20,471 last fall quarter 113,847 ol' these were enrolled at Carbondalel making SIU the twenty-hrst largest university in the nation. z 'lihis is growth in the raw, and the end is nowhere in sight. The plight of Southern now is that of all higher education. Out ol' expansion and change must emerge ans organized, efficient institution administering not to the few but to the many, teaching not Hwhatmto think but hows to thinkf' and turning out not numbers b-uit indiviiigiisftfffw Southern and Southernis people are trying, but the result is not yet known. Nor will it soon be. Only in his- tory will people know the value of what was done here this year, and in history too will lie the value of this volume. Academics . 1 8 Activities . - 1 16 Athletics - 2 08 Organizations . - 2 6 2 CHARLES RAHE, Editor-in-Chief 0 BOBBIE STURM, Organizations Editor LAURA CHOVANEC, Layout Editor I DENNIS HENSLEY, Activities Editor KENN WILKENING, Business Manager 0 JEANN13 BAKER, Academics Editor TERRY lVIYERS, Organizations Editor 0 W7. INIANION Riots, Fiscal Sponsor

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