Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Dean Garvin explains curriculum changes to education students. Open Forum and Deans Explain College's Direction Changes in the curriculum have been a major topic of conversation and explanation during the past year. Be- cause of student misunderstanding and questioning, special efforts on the part of the administration have been made to clear up the controversy. With the increased emphasis on the Liberal Arts, Macal- ester has discontinued its B.S. degree. Chief among areas concerned are business administration and elementary education. However, students who entered the College this past fall are still able to complete a B.S. degree in these fields. As class offerings are revamped, students will be offered a B.A. degree in these subjects and their career preparation will include more Liberal Arts courses. Secretarial studies will no longer be offered for credit, and the journalism major is going to be discontinued. However, students interested in publications can still obtain a journalism minor. As part of the re-emphasis, evening college courses are not going to be offered after this year. Liberal Arts Emphasis Results in Curriculum Changes Plans were on the agenda when Dr. Rice spoke fo an Open Forum Community Council meeting. 8 The two pictures on this page illus- trate two of the methods used to acquaint Macites with the curriculum changes. Drs. Rice and Garvin met with education and business students to explain and answer their questions. The long postponed, but finally held President's Open Forum in late April was an attempt to further illuminate College plans and to show the audi- ence some of the blueprints contained in this book. Those plans, to which we now turn, were long in the preparatory stage. Architects engaged for designing the additions to the Macalester campus are Perry, Shaw, Hepburn, and Dean of Boston, specialists in college planning. They have the reconstruction of Williamsburg, Virginia, to their credit, along with buildings on campuses at MIT, Smith, Bucknell, Wellesley, and Harvard, among others. Advising the architects on Mac's building needs are two faculty commis- sions: Fine Arts-Humanities, Profs. Owen, Morton, Caponi, and Sund- heimg and Science, Profs. Shiflett, Wal- ter, Glock, Hastings, and Camp. The College has also engaged a construc- tion projects manager, Mr. Roger Williams, who coordinates the various building programs.

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if pi.fi.r'!:rff5i.lfI x 1' Macalester Builds a Future: A College on the Move The year the plans came . . . 1962 will be remembered as the interim between the old and outgrown facilities, and the new and spacious buildings that are now fresh off the drawing board. As faculty committees, trustees, and administration members poured over the blueprints and contributed ideas and dreams to the architects, we of The Mac 1962 staff prepared the plans for our major production. So now, we keynote this edition by featuring Macalester's design for the future in this opening section. The blueprint theme will appear throughout the book as we record the ele- ments that went into building this year. To paraphrase an old nursery rhyme, This is the way we build our school, to make a better college? But Macal- ester is not only concerned with its physical expansion, it has been undergoing a change in its educational offerings and aims, also. The need for advancement in both of these areas has been long recognized, and plans for their execu- tion have been carefully and extensively constructed. The above picture sets the pace for the following dis- cussion of blueprints. President Rice and one of the archi- tects scan plans while General Dean, another of the architectsg members of the Board of Trustees, and Miss Owen who headed the Fine Arts Faculty Committee wait to offer suggestions. At this point, we of The Mac staff would like to thank President Rice, his oilice staff, Dean Kramer, and Mr. Burg for their help and frequently tapped sources of information. As the plans are discussed, everything is handled in the future tense. Minor changes may result as construction advances, but in general, the drawings and information are a correct forecast of the College's future campus and educational facilities. Graduates of this and the next two years will not be able to use the new buildings, but everyone is privileged to be attending the College during its most exciting era, as Macalester Builds a Future. 7

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ax New headquarters house the Bureau of Economic Studies. The UN flag greets visitors to International House. Three Operations Move To Enlarged Facilities Buying the land for the westward expansion of the campus has been a long-range project. Eventually, the College hopes to own all of the property up to Cam- bridge Street, bounded on the north and south by Lincoln and St. Clair Avenues. Tearing down the existing houses along Macalester between the Mac Presbyterian Church and Princeton Avenue, however, did not take very long. Two of the houses were sold and moved away, but the rest suc- sumbed to wrecking crews. The College has obtained per- mission from the city to close Macalester Street between Lincoln and Princeton because eventually, the Fine-Arts Humanities Complex will cover an area on both sides of the street, including the site presently occupied by the Little Theater. New parking areas are provided for in the plans, near the Complex. Despite earlier recommendations, the Little Theater will not be moved onto the athletic field, but will remain where it now is, and it will be torn down piecemeal as the new buildings encroach on its area. As it is removed, classes will be transferred into the completed portions of its counterpart. Football games will be played in an expanded Held to be located along Snelling near St. Clair. Existing bleachers will be moved to the new site shortly, and future plans include a large permanent stadium that will have entrances on the Snelling side. -c 1 5 rr 0 .4xJfffH'I,',. Admissions facilities were enlarged when the staff moved to oflices at 4'l Macalester Street. 9