Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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S I0 closely-knit campus community Iowa State's student community is made more diverse and interesting through the large per- centage of married and foreign students who form a major portion of the college population. Over one-fifth of Iowa State's 9,000 students fall into the married student classihcation. Established in tempor- ary apartment homes throughout the city or in the housing units of Pammel Court, married students approach the task of getting an education with serious determination. Involved with their monthly budgets, baby formulas, tricycles and part-time jobs, students in the married population seek a quiet place to study and enough time to enjoy their families in their eager quest for a degree from Iowa State. The 260 foreign students on campus lend a cosmopoli- tan atmosphere to the college. Representing 60 coun- tries, mostly Latin America and the Far East, many of these students study here to prepare themselves for teaching when they return home. About 7 5 per cent are doing graduate work, mainly in engineering and agriculture. Tying in with the foreign student program is Cosmopolitan Club which provides an opportunity for the men and women from various countries to become better acquainted with each other and with American students. TYPICAL OF A LARGE NUMBER of Iowa State students, Lyle Bull finds a part-time iob a necessity to help provide income for his family and money for college expenses. In addition to his 21 credit hours of class, Lyle has two iobs at the horticulture greenhouse. HOMES OF MARRIED STUDENTS are scattered in apartments and houses throughout town, as is the Bull's, or concentrated in Pammel Court, a married student housing development north of the college in which almost half of Iowa State's married students live. 2 k , x , . , .. I N: A s V, .fix , f W mm f W, ' A ' ' ' 13 Wai' W

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Married, foreign students contribute distinctive qualities to IN THE COSTUME of his native country, Rafi Salem, a student from Bagdad, Iraq, prepares his speciality, Sheesh Kabab, at the International Dinner pre- sented by members of the Cosmopoli- tan Club. l s x ...s l A mwei or FOREIGN STUDENTS f k ff College Life Around th W ld,, , G es Roving View of Cosfnopomon Club mgennog. H12 apcdgloussion Presented at a lN2:c?ili1lED TUUDENTS face a myriad of different problems Gl- xfcmed P 09f0ms presented durin th was one of many relax 9 CP? 999, providing for a 'Family and finding time to nonol students. 9 e Y901' by the interna- to stugf orge' Lyle Bull, Sophomore in horticulture, attempls some tiilnecln keep hls eye on his lO-month old son at the 'I2 cl0S9lY'li Iowa l divr-ITS centai a mal 0116-fll marrif ary al housil aPPT0 seriov budgf Srudei place in thi The 1 tail 3 tries, of th for tc per I engil forei whic and' bert: with . , U l L 5, l 52,5 A ?l:.' I l l 5 r 1 . TYl Bul for to hon

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Day by day, news stimulates opinions and sets the tone o campus life Over a coffee cup, around the campus, where students meet, conversation UUTHS to the news of the day, the events which made 1958-59 an individual year at Iowa State . . .revamped college calendar moves opening day of school up to Sept. 10 . . . Jo MacDonald comes home from Atlantic City as our Miss America . . . student body president calls the student product of Iowa State Hpolitical illiterates, moral hypocrites and intellectual hill- billies in his State of the Union address . . .Agricul- tural Adjustment Center receives S44-8,5O0 research grant . . . coeds veto campaign for Homecoming queen ...President Hilton advocates increased liberal study, addition of more culture in technical education... Home Economics Division introduces liberal course of study in honors program... spectacular blaze Oct. 19 destroys cattle barn, the Hrst of five fires causing extensive damage and suspicion of arson. .. lack of clues keeps mystery unsolved. . .state elec- tions hnd Prof. YVilliarn Murray unsuccessful in bid for governor's chair. . .VCC limits float costs to S500 . . .Stars Over Veishea votes to move indoors to present Annie Get Your Gun' '... experimental honor system begins in all divisions at start of winter quartet '... VCC defeats plan for Sunday Veishea parade. . . too much emphasis on amassing facts and not enough on development of individual think- ing,', says Dr. Pearl Hogrefe . . .YVest Point's Cordon Chalmers receives nod as new athletic directoi '... Ames loses bid for Ag Hall of Fame... Dwight Nichols named 'ABack-of-tlie-Midlands'' . .. year's heaviest snow storms isolate campus as spring quarter begins. . . 'LFocus 1959 brings the cultural to the technical. . . Balloun, Saathoff defeat last min- ute write-in candidates in all-college election... Board of Regents approves changing divisions to col- leges, Iowa State College to Iowa State University. .. legislature appropriates six million dollars for capital improvements . . . construction begins on library ad- dition . . .wrestling team places second in NCAA, claims two national champs. . .Basketball Coach Bill Strannigan resigns, freshman coach Glen Anderson named successor.