University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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TWO VICE PRESIDENTS dividi- lllc riliviTsity V artnirs l)etween llieni. William T. Miclrllrhroiik. Ifl ' t, is business ' i( ' e president, and Malcolm M. Willey is academic ice president. . mnTi i iitlier thinijs. Ville - snper ises appointments ol instrnc tors and assistant professors. ;erve on innumer- able committees. Middlebrook has -parked I ' niver- sit. ' ' s expansion projirani; he in ' ests. spends iunds. DEAN OF ADMISSIONS and Records. Rcilierl Kil- :ird Suninicr-v, inis bi ; job of rejiisterint; stntlents. recording their courses and the firades tliey re- ceive; when Ihe.v jjraduate. he records that too. . fter studeut.s leave the I ' niversity. he turns the jnh of tracin them over to . lnnini association. DEAN OF STUDENTS EH- rnniid Ci illiain.-on has been center of many and aried controversies. Uun- ninji a vast empire that in- cludes the disciplinary com- mittee and the Student Ac- tivities bureau. VilliamM)n was in such controversies as fraternity drinkinji. pau- l raids, campus visits b Sen. .Jose])h McCarthy and I ' anI Robeson. William- s(»n did not get inixeil up in Ihe i ' .; iins contro er.sy. ' Dmrt tliink fn ' shnicii ;ur tin- oiilx )rol)kMii, say.s Miss Faiicliild. I ' ve alkt ' d to seniors who answer Heavens. ' . don t know I when asked what deiiree hey expect to earn. To the assistants there is no such thing IS a silly ritiestion. Graciousness is of- ered alik - to persons who call ahoiit lost logs or inofiiers who try to get int ' or- nation alioiil their daughters male friends. The latter, iiuidrn tally, i-- against policy. ' Where shall we i)iik up the liody! ' a re])resentati ' e of a local mortuary onir asked on the telephone. He had selected the wrong ailmissioiis listing in the fac- ulty a ldress Inmk. K entunll.v, the in- formation pi ' opli- put him in tiiucli with I ' niversity hospitals and llu- a uswci ' to his (pieslion. When Hett, Williamson is on infor- mation duty. |)eople at the speech cor- rection clinic come over to practice talk- ing with her. She listens and tells them how much they have improved. Though routine tiuestions may he the easiest to answer, it ' s the real stumpers lik ' the uKU-tnary call that the girls like to handle lust. . dd picc to life, they sa . Page 23

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DR. JAMES LEWIS MORRILL, EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY, STANDS ON THE MALL IN FRONT OF NORTHROP MEMORIAL AUDITORUM A Administration Building Booth Adds Spice, Chases Boredom A modest sign across the front of the island-like booth in the Administration liuilding foyer says Information. This sounds reasonablj- commonplace, l)ut the girls who give out the answers claim it is better than television for dispelling boredom. Mabel Fairehild and her aides sn])ply data to the in((uisiti e, bewildered and enrions every day from eigiit until five. Past 22

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LEAVING THE NEW HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING ARE, FROM LEFT, RALCIE RAWN, JOAN MANSON, BEVA LEE DeGRISELLES, SHIRLEY SAMPSON DARKEST PLACE Ag College Experiments With A Milk-Giving Mechanical Cow Aitificial cows that give real milk may give old bossy some stiff competition in the near future. The first of such mechanical hovincs is holding down a laboratory stall at the College of Agriculture. Forestry, Home Economics and Veterinary Medicine. It has been producing just as much and almost as good milk as its mooing coun- terpart. Developed by W. E. Petersen, profes- sor of dairy husbandry, the experimental bovine is giving researchers valuable in- formation about the inside of a cow, once called the darkest place on earth. The mechanical animal little resembles the type which made Mrs. O ' Leary fa- mous. Petersen used a milking machine pulsator for the heart, two vacuum- expanding rubber devices for the right Page 24