University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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SflllTR BARBARA ■ THE Santa Barbara campus of the University of California is unique at the present time in that it has three campuses. The old State Col- lege campus on the Riviera overlooking Santa Barbara is but a scant 13 acres. The Mesa campus is on the ocean and was to be the new site of the college until last year when a new campus was obtained seven miles west of Santa Barbara and also on the ocean. This is the Goleta Mesa campus which contains 400 acres of land. Students at the college are looking forward to the move when the cam- pus will become one of the most outstanding of the University. A schematic drawing of the long range master plan development of this campus was recently released for public view. The plan provides for considerable flexibility and for possible future expansion. Santa Barbara is fast becoming a highly spe- cialized liberal arts college offering under- graduates work. Although a lot of teachers are still turned out, the college is getting away from the old State College days. Santa Barbara has a more or less special advantage in being a part of the large and overwhelm- ing University of California while being small enough for the professors to know the stu- dents and the students to know each other.

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LICK A GIFT of James Lick, pioneer California businessman and landholder, Lick Observa- tory on Mount Hamilton, California, has been a leader in its field since 1888. Its fa- cilities are used for astronomical research by graduate students and scientists from universities throughout the world. When the observatory was built it fulfilled Lick’s provision that it should contain the most powerful telescope in the world. During intervening years larger and more powerful telescopes have been built at other obser- vatories. By legislative action on a bill signed by Governor Warren on March 13. 1946, Lick will again resume its place as one of the best equipped observatories in the world. SCRIPPS THE Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla is unique among the campuses of the University. In research and educa- tion they are concerned solely with the oceans—their physics, geology, chemistry, and biology. The one hundred and seventy- seven acre campus looks, to the passerby, like a small collection of buildings hanging out over the water. There are three major buildings, many smaller ones, and a small ship in which the many activities of the campus are carried on. About forty gradu- ate students are currently enrolled at the Institution, where they are working toward advance degrees in oceanography.

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- ALEXANDER OMYTROW of tht ASUCMC mEDICRL I IN THE San Francisco hills, north of Golden Gate park is the University Medical Center. One of the leaders in the field of medical education, the college was begun in 1862 as Toland Medical School and became affiliated with the University in 1873. The school now includes all phases of medical science—col- leges of pharmacy, dentistry, and nursing, in addition to the Medical School. Student ac- tivities are a very integral part of the center. One of the most notable students activities was the construction of a cafeteria and sup- ply store in 1921 -22. The credit for this goes to the dental students who raised the money and donated the labor to construct the chicken coop. Student activities today are stimulated by Cal Club and the recently formed ASUCMC (Associated Students. University of California Medical Center) which was organized by the Cal Club on the campus in 1947. It has been striving for the students in the various colleges on campus to get better acquainted with each other in order to have an integrated rather than a fac- tional student body.