University of Houston - Houstonian Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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University of Houston — A Miniature City Like Houston, the University of Houston is a complex community. It possesses many characteristics that are typical of a municipality: POPULATION—The University’s population consists of students, faculty, administration and staff. Though their interests are many and their stations in life varied, its citizens arc compatible for they have a common goal —education. They are a busy people. Eighty-three percent of them work full or part time to finance their educations. GOVERNMENT AND MAINTENANCE—The University has its own code of laws for campus conduct, a student government that legislates and allocates funds, and a campus police force that patrols the streets 24 hours a day. It is self-sufficient in that it has its own power plant and maintenance system. L E A R N I N G AND ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES—University citizens may avail themselves of its many educational and entertainment vehicles. The school community contains a hand, orchestra, chorus, theater, four magazines, a weekly newspa| er. a yearbook. a TV station, an EM station, a printing plant, a library, movie-making facilities, photography darkrooms, two auditoriums, a gymnasium, swimming pool, and tennis and handball courts. Services available to students include an optometry clinic, a speech and reading clinic, a medical office, an employment agency, bookstore, cafeteria, two snack bars, a guest house, several spacious dining rooms and a nursery school. Students learn from practical experience with driver education cars, a nuclear calibration unit and a dry oil well. M. D. Anderson Library provides modern, comfortable setting for efficient study.

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Houston’s many refineries, wells and cycling plants compose the oil capital of the world. Cowboys, cattle and oil wells have become the trademark of the Houston area. BP Houston's Main Street of 1880 bears little resemblance to the maze of buildings and shops that line the street today. 7 International Airport senes as the air gateway to Latin America and Europe.

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The Ezekiel W. Cullen Building houses the administration offices classrooms and the University’s TV station, KUHT. 9 The Science Building is one of four buildings that surround the reflection pool.