Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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Coed dining allows students the opportunity to know each other in informal situations. r xv' X Ki, W it if 'Q ui -w an -.- af 4.9 'ii HP nr No longer is the student called upon to go to the professor, classes come to him in his residence. The residence halls are complete with entertainment and recreational facilities within themselves. 1 , V Q wp-If A, ,ff .Uh 2' , V ' , Q 4. i X X is gy 93 K .

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itat retries' tli.,li0gISTi'UTlOil tltzlts tits? BC Complete Filled out More We Pass Y5 ' X- wr ' gg ' t 'git' ft + Incoming freshmen were introduced to the techniealities of registration during summer counseling clinics. Duung registration a barrage of IBM cards confront the student. 4 wi at 'X , The students bring to the University an element of freshness. Their relative ignorance and im- maturity test the resilience of the University com-- munity, reminding it that every excellent attain- ment must be fought for. With its incessantly increasing enrollment, Michigan State must en- counter a major problem: the student is losing his individuality and becoming merely a number in the larger structure. At every point in his college career on this campus, the student must express his identity in terms of a given numberg personal- ities are disregarded in an infinite sequence of digits. Within the University, a student's life is recorded on impersonal IBM cardsg hopes. dreams, and ambitions are reduced to a series of mechanically-produced punch-cards. The tremen- dous increase in the complexity and rate of ex- pansion has decreed the necessity of this method, 13