Montana State University - Sentinel Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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i .SK ,X lt TL- COMPE DIU While winter quarter registration climbed to its highest peak since World War II, speculation about the new MSU president continued-as did Castro and his revolution in Cuba. Local squabbles over social standards included the Phi Delt probation for a keg party, the past suspension of a woman student for a wild party, resignation of Clint Grimes, Judicial Council chairman, and others of the council because of a Medieval moral code, and a flare-up between students and administration over crap games in Craig Hall. , .., f e ., ..,5..s I it Smokey Joe Kramer was honored by the foresters at the year's blggest social functlons, the Forester's Ball, Winter quarter broughthno near-beer for The Room but a change of its admmlstration and its name to The College Inn . 24 Ted Hulbert discusses the UniVersity's problems from a student's standpoint at one of the Friday Club meetings. The Foresters gave their annual ball and Big Bertha was stolen away. While one MSU professor attempted to describe the ideal president, and another talked of MSU progress, a freshman from Big Timber charged some members of the English department with teaching atheism and pornography . Neils issued another report . The basketball team played a hit and m season but swimmers swam swiftly and gave promise of breaking still more records. The State Board of Education approved a fee raise out-of-state students and a doctoral program in Geology. Hawaii seemed headed for statehoodg then on March 10 all local news was climaxed by the appointment of Dr. Harry K. Newb as president of MSU. iss for urn l 1 1 l L F'

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MSU's freshmen of 1958 gathered early Monday morning to begin gfienttation Week activities with a convo in the University mea er. The Berlin crisis, DeGaulle's election, Russian moon shots kept things lively on the international scene. Campus politics included mock elections, an organization of independents and a speech by Senator Mike Mansfield. But whether the talk was about revolution in Cuba or the prospects of selling near-beer in The Room , it swung inevitably to this question: who will be the new president of MSU? y. . if Y 5 1 . ,X Vhwtrc, ., 4 FE' t 2 '. Lf? ff- f S - 4 ,V 3 N W9 2.14 Mike Mansfield adds a note of national politics at a rally held on campus in his behalf by the Young Democrats led by Dave Werner tseated rightb. Don Collins and the rest of the campus went to the polls to cast a heavily Democratic vote which seems to have indicated the national trend. 23

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A xt W 4 The new TV Studio was opened for public inspection as Professor Erling Jorgenson began conducting the first classes spring quarter. lven with a new president appointed and prospects for milder weather, spring quarter had its share of action. A controversial fee increase was the hottest issue on the campus. The increase, backed by THE KAIMIN and the ASMSU won approval from the State Board of Education in spite of an appeal by a brong opposition. The flu bug reduced enrollment in classes and the National Guard, with many MSU students, helped quell a serious riot in the state prison at Deer Lodge. National newscaster Chet Huntley spoke at the Dean Stone Night of the School of Journalism. The spring arrived and in its wake came the student body elections. Below, votes are counted as the candidates waited with high hopes. fit- life-B- 4 i' 'i gl 96. . ask' as Dr. Harry K. Newburn, the newly named president, was introduced to the campus and the press by Vice President Robert Pantzer. K., 'km More mildly appropriate activities seemed to be the order of advancing spring when more than 1300 high school students descended upon the University for the 53rd annual Interscholastic competition in athletics, speech and drama. The Anaconda Company made headlines in national newspapers by selling their own Montana newspapers. With this the University slipped more or less gracefully into the time-honored ceremony of graduation and the warmth of summer. 25