University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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fALL COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY MANLEY1 FINE ARTS students take a break between classes in front of the new University Theater, one of three units of the Fine Arts Building. Art and Music are the other divisions of the building, provided for by an appropriation of 81,422,000 by the State Legislature. EEK QU LITY I EXPA S10 As UA students enjoyed the facilities of a new Fine Arts Building and new dorms this year, University administrators laid plans for expansion which would require 340 million in the next 10 years. A new Biological Sciences Building reached completion, and million dollar men's and women's dorms were scheduled to be occupied in the fall, 1957 semester. President Richard Harvill, commenting on the long-range plans, said that It's not size that is important. It's the quality of the faculty and the students. At the same time, he predicted that enrollment at the University would double in 10 years and treble in 15. Expansion funds will be divided three ways: 33.5 million for land, S7-S58 million for new dorms and 330 million for the expansion and improvement of laboratories, equipment, class- rooms and library facilities. The old University walls, rapidly becoming obsolete, will be forgotten completely as land ex- pansion eventually extends north along Speedway and south along 6th Street, with the exception of business property, religious organizations, and fraternity and sorority houses. Schools of Nursing and Medical Technology will be ready for the first of next semester, while further building plans include Geology and Home Economics buildings and an addi- tion to Mechanical Engineering. Also slated for remodeling are the Library and Education buildings. Construction involving the law, physics, pharmacy, liberal arts classrooms, and agricul- tural sciences buildings is planned. Research work and state services are both at high levels at the University. Master's degrees may be obtained by students in 40 fields, while Ph.D.'s are offered in 15 fields. Budgeted research is carried on in 12 different divisions. The College of Agriculture alone has over 100 separate proj- ects. Numerous research problems considered by the Engineer- ing College include one on air-conditioning, while the BPA College is conducting an investigation on Arizona state economy. Other public services include those offered by the Arizona State Museum, Steward Observatory, Home Economics, the College of Mines, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the Radio -Television Bureau.

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The facilities, the people, the activities and the academic climate have fused to make the University of Arizona a dy- namic center of learning. With the spiral representing the elements and the seal' denoting the whole, the 1957 DESERT brings you Arizona in Perspective. 'Fl A fa l I Q in x

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LEFT: Center of student activities is the Student Union Memorial Building, erected in 1950. BELOW: Orange and date palm trees line the approaches to the Library.