Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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The facilities planned for this first three-year phase will increase the educational area on our campus by about 50 per cent through construction of three major projects. The Computer-Research-Complex will ease the pressure for research and teaching space in the engineering departments and the sciences, and permit us to reach new plateaus of excellence. It will, for example, provide the facilities needed to achieve our goal to become a center of excellence in chemistry, physics, and mathematics, for which we received a grant of S3.4 million from the National Science Foundation last year. A second major project is the Fine Arts Complex being designed to house the departments of Drama, Architecture, and Design. These new facilities which will include a new experimental theatre for our nationally renowned drama program will provide superb educational facilities for the departments housed in it and permit the expansion and complete renovation of the present Fine Arts building for the departments of Music and of Painting and Sculpture. The third structure being planned is a major addition to Skibo. which will concentrate on the kinds of recreational, relaxation, and activity space needed to enhance the quality of the out-of-class life of our students and which will include a modern and much expanded bookstore. Finally, let me say this. We want to develop a university community in which no member or no special grouping within it ever refers to another group as “they”. If we can have students and faculty, administration, trustees, and alumni, all emphasizing the “we” in our University community, I think we have a chance of really going farther up the ladder of distinction which is the goal of all our goals. Best wishes in the year to come. H. Guyford Stever, President

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The university—a community claiming devotion to the unremitted pursuit of the highest knowledge and beauty. It is a multiracial society tom by the rapid change of our social order. With special emphasis on the rising importance of technology, it is a port of entry for newly developing scientific research. A repository of information. it is a collection of individuals creating ideals and purposes encompassing the aesthetic and scientific progressions of our times. Here are the scientists searching for clarity and quantitative expansion in their work. Here too are the artists seeking to receive emotions from the city, from a human form, from a floating cloud, from a common shape, from a butterfly’s wing. Here are men dedicated to the primacy of subjectivity. The university —a multifarious institution held together by a common name and powered by money. We arc the artists and the scientists of the university; we arc subject to the laws and mores of its society. We recognize the value of an efficient system of learning, but often we feel trapped by the tyranny of detail or by the superficiality of generalization. Bom into a society alienated by specialization and force, we sense a purposelessness in the prejudice and fear surrounding the affairs of the outside world. Within the university we desire the mosaic of experimentation so that we may later recognize an improved world situation. We seek concentraton and relaxation, open-mindedness and dogmatism, detachment and attachment, concern and impartiality. The university provides us with the opportunity to exercise decisions. Clothed in jeans and sandals or dressed in a polished suit, carefree and young, mature and precise, we make our choices. We choose the enthusiasm of building a booth, the intensity of