University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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iLefti ELECTRIC TYPEWRITERS give the required perfect touch in cutting the 5,000 stencils made every year in the mimeographing department of the mailing bureau. Over ten thousand much -used stencils are kept on file, none guarded so care- fully as final examinations. An amazing variety of work is neatly and swiftly turned out in a volume that keeps several students em- ployed. (Right) ADDRESSOGRAPH STENCILS are cut for the many mailing lists used by the university. Thousands of pieces are sent yearly to all points in the United States and many for- eign countries. In addition to the university catalogs and announce- ments, a large volume of mail orig- inates with the services of the Agri- cultural extension to farmers of Ari- zona, and with similar bulletins pub- lished by the colleges of Mines and Engineering Left ' PREPARING MAIL is a big job, as is the task of mimeogrophing the thousands of items demanded every year by various departments of the university. The several student help- ers employed by the mailing bureau ore paid out of its own fund. A reasonable cost-plus charge keeps the bureau on a self-sustaining basis.

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(Above I CARPENTRY WORK in the university ' s own shop ploys an important part in the maintenance of the buildings and grounds. Altogether, the university owns 646,080 acres of land, on the campus section of which over thirty buildings are maintained at on annual cost approximating $210,000. Right! PARKING VIOLATIONS are really the smallest concern of the four campus police officers, who ore deputy sheriffs of Pima county and are responsible for the protection of the state ' s property. W. F. Carson, number-one mon labovei and his fellow officers Frank Frey, Ben W. Blair, and C. S. Hoffman, average 56 hours on duty each week, have one Sun- day off each month Friends of the students, they write off most transgressions with good-natured warn- ings, average hardly one arrest per year. Opening and closing buildings after hours is one of their big |obs. Right TWICE-A-DAY delivery is made to buildings on campus by Nick Wallace, university mail car- rier. Mail and parcels is picked up and sorted en- route, government mail being taken direct to the downtown post office. Campus mail averages 100 pieces per day, with parcel post packages adding another 25 bundles Lorge express shipments are separately delivered by truck Several times a year a heavy volume of official university mail is taken directly from the mailing bureau in the stadium. CAMPUS INDUSTRIES By ROGER MORGAN EDITOR ' S NOTE; Complicoted is the intricate business orgoniza- tion of the university, which disburses $2,000,000 annually, em- ploys 440 people, and owns land totalling 646,080 acres. Large scale consumption is balanced by extensive productive octivily. The university ' s primory function of teaching, educational service, and research, result in various by-products, portly consumed by the university ond portly sold in the open market. It provides for Itself police and health protection, heat, water, publications, ond enlertainment services. In the following pages, Roger Mor- gan gives you the picture story of the university ' s non-teaching activities. (261

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' ■. m (Right: FIRST-AID TREATMENT and preven- tive core furnishes the bulk of the work at the student health service, where Doctors Andes and Palmer are assisted by one to three nurses. Facilities at the infirmry include x-ray and diathermy equipment, isolotion words and general wards with a capacity of thirty beds. Students may receive core for non-chronic ailments except where extended hospitolizotion is necessary. Hundreds of physical examinations are given every year, and countless cold tablets and gargle pills are dispensed along with many other every- day remedies. (Leftj THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS come in through the windows at the business office in the form of fees and receipts for university activities. Loans to students are handled through the office, as ore all salaries paid to students employed on the campus. iLefti COMPTROLLER HARRY T. HEALY has the prodigious |ob of keeping tab on the more than $2,000,000 spent each year by the university. So well ore the books kept in balance with the budget estimates that year ' s end shows a difference of less than half dozen dollars. (28J