University of California Santa Barbara - La Cumbre Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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bui(dino on a $o(id foundaiion. Organizations and activities on campus are growing. To help pay for the University Center, the Associated Students have voted to tax themselves to supplement the private pledges and provisional loans from the Regents. The Associated Students have also undertaken, for the next two years at least, a major portion of the finan- cial support and some of the administration of Camp Conestoqa, which provides camping experience for less privileged children. Our student government is gaining maturity and in- sight with experience. The annual Gaucho Grand Prix, dances such as the Playboy, Sadie Hawkins, and RHA Formal, and the Roadrunner Revue are growing into tra- ditions supplementing Homecoming and Spring Sing. New staff enthusiasm plus the guidance of a part- time Director of Publications has resulted in enlarged and improved student publications. Many student organizations are expanding, and new groups are forming. In the fall semester organizations such as the Drill Team, the Young Republicans, and the Honey Bears became very active. The Associated Men Students were reorganized. To promote a more sophisticated and realistic view of the UCSB campus, especially among high school students, the Associated Students organized a Speakers ' Bureau which went on the road for the first time in the fall of 1962. Pledges for a motion picture about the campus and students materialized, and subsequent work on the film was undertaken. The Radio Committee fought al- most insurmountable problems in trying to establish local and FM stations on campus. University growth has included the town of Santa Barbara. The Affiliates and a new Student-Affiliate Com- mittee further campus-community relations. These developments are only representative of the total activity of our various organizations. They are the foundation on which a student body three times the size of the present one can develop spirit and unity.

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uc B desimel for OYov tfi, Among the plans for the growth of the campus is a proposed design for a new University Center. It will be the heart of the campus providing a gathering place for students, faculty, and guests in a friendly atmosphere conducive to in- JFormal discussion and closer relationships. Listed in the statement of basic principles for the University Center are four main purposes: . . . (1) to offer cultural and intellectual opportunities designed to encourage the enjoyment and appreciation of the world of creative arts as part of the daily educational experience of all students, (2) to provide basic services to the campus community, (3) to foster community participation through the Center serving as a meeting place where students and faculty can join with alumni, townspeople, and parents, (4) to provide facilities for wholesome physical and mentally-stimulating recreational activities as a needed counter-part of the de- mands of academic responsibilities. The Center is only one of the many buildings planned for the expansion of the campus, which will look strikingly different within ten years. Temporary buildings will no longer stand; in their places will be separate buildings for ad- ministration, for various disciplines, a Marine Biology Laboratory, many new resi- dence halls, and a new Student Health Center. Plans for landscaping will add to the natural beauty of the campus. A foot- path will skirt the northwest portion of the lagoon and could be used for gradu- ation and academic processions. While the northwest portion of the water will be used for boating activities, the rest will be preserved for the wildlife of the area. By September 1962 some plans had already been realized, and others were becoming realities. North Hall opened for full utilization of class and office space in the Fall of 1962. The addition to the library was completed at the same time. That same semester sow work progressing on the eight-story San Miguel Resi- dence Hall, the extension of the Health Center, and the addition of a bakery to the De La Guerra Dining Commons. It is clear from the height of North Hall and San Miguel that the new direc- tion for UCSB is upward as well as outward. This new two-way growth is the result of large enrollment pressures, maintenance of reasonable walking distances on campus, and efficient land use. If the original plans for the campus site had been followed, we would have exceeded the maximum enrollment in 1960-61. When the school was moved to its present site from the Rivera Campus in Santa Barbara the maximum enrollment was set at 3,500. The first permanent structures, the Physical Science Building and Library, were planned accordingly. Temporary barracks were sufficient for classrooms, dormitories, and offices. In 1958, with the steadily increasing enrollment, plans for a small, liberal arts college were no longer feasible. The Regents decided to make Santa Barbara a general campus of the University of California, setting the maximum enrollment at 15,000. Architect ' s drawing of proposed University Center as submitted to the Regents for approval in the fall of 1962.

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%Ti{ivm Tomud This year was the crucial year for UCSB in overall development to full university status; it marked the beginning of a great forward movement toward a great goal. In July of 1961 separate Letters and Science, Engineering, Education, and Graduate colleges were organized. In the College of Letters and Sciences, Spanish acquired departmental status, and other subjects will do so as the faculty increases. Many new classes were offered. New and eminent professors are being attracted to UCSB. Our goal is a sufficiently large teaching staff to keep a small student-to-faculty member ratio. In part this will be done by increasing the number of readers, laboratory instructors, and other non-teaching personnel. Faculty members are receiving more research grants. There is an increased need for funds to support even more research in education, the sciences, and the arts, for interdisciplinary study, and for programs in which students and faculty work together. Many in the present student body are taking part in the beginnings of an Honors program and the Experimental Program — Instructors for Colleges (EPIC). Santa Barbara is the home campus for Education Abroad, now in its first year. Eighty students selected from five University campuses are spending this year in Bordeaux, France. Some students are finding a need to define an Honor Spirit; slowly and subtly this feeling may pervade the campus. The new University Center will provide places for mental stimulation, cultural appreciation, and wholesome recreation, as well as basic services. University status, money for research and scholarships, special education programs, the Honor Spirit, end the University Center are only some of the goals for this campus; all of them emphasize increasing quality with the increasing quantity. A few are distant and hazy; others are clearly outlined. Having a design from which to work, and a foundation on which to build, UCSB is striving for a comprehensive university atmosphere in which students can live and study. 10