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IN A NEW ROLE HEN the last war came, Kansas State College was an average-or-better state agricultural school, enrolling about 4000 every year and feeling no need for new building or expansion programs. Faculty and students thought it was fine the way it was — and they were probably right. But when the draft hit, depopulating the ag and engineering schools, leaving fraternity houses in a vacuum shortly to be filled by faculty couples and coeds, striking repeatedly at the ranks of the faculty — then the pleasant, rather drowsy College routine was picked up, shaken thoroughly, and discarded forever. A new President, in midwar 1943, looked ahead to the war ' s end and decided that K.S.C. would be feeling severe growing- pains before long, unless some advance planning was done. So he got a program going. Curriculums were revised . . . negotia- tions for veterans ' housing began ... a long-range building pro- gram was drafted to take care of skyrocketing enrollments. . . hundreds of new faculty and administrative positions were created — a totally new Campus of Tomorrow was drafted, in ideas as well as in cubic footage of classroom space. Though realization of the plan looked a long way off when the first G.I. wave hit the enrollment lines in ' 45, it progressed. Splinterville and the Comprehensives appeared in the same year — both signs of growth. Room was somehow found for 7400 students. And today, at the end of K-State ' s adolescent period, life is becoming normal again. Everyone connected or affected by that program, conceived back in 1943, can point with pride to the evidences of its success — the steel-and-stone bulk of the fieldhouse, the growing part played by SPC, the intangible but invaluable national reputation Kansas State College now pos- sesses. Our thanks to the administration — for a vitally important job well done . . . Left — An architect ' s visiiulization of Kansas State College ' s proposed new Student Union.
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