University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Vietnam Week was held on campus. the West Bank was being built, female students were still coeds. and a 12aounce glass of beer cost 25 cents in 1967 when the Gopher yearbook was last published. Twin Cities campus enrollment was 38,245 that year, and the average annual tuition was about $300. In 1983 a former actor and actress oc- cupy the White House, the Golden Go- phers play night football in the Metro- dome, a robot will deliver a commence- ment address in Maryland, and a 12- ounce glass of beer costs 85 cents. Twin Cities campus enrollment is 46,383. and the average annual tuition, reflecting large increases over the last several years, is about $1,300. Without question, the world, the Unit- ed States, Minnesota. and the University have changed considerably in the past 16 years. This publication, as a reflec- tion of the 1982-83 academic year, recog- nizes these changes, while seeking to re- new the Gopher tradition begun in 1888. During the year, President C. Peter Ma- grath, other administrators. and the Board of Regents were occupied with fi- nancial concerns provoked by the state's continuing fiscal crisis. As a result of reduced state appropriations, nearly 150 faculty positions were eliminated be- tween 1981 and 1982. and faculty sala- ries failed to keep pace with salaries of- fered in industry, moving Magrath to warn of a potential University brain drain. Students also felt the impact of the University's fiscal woes with a tuition in- crease averaging 21.7 percent in fall 1982. Campus services and programs for students and staff were also reduced or eliminated to achieve the necessary budget reductions. But the University's confidence in the future and history of accomplishments in health research were evident when $156 million in hospital revenue bonds were sold to finance a new 432-bed teaching hospital. University research in earth-sheltered, energy-saving architecture continued to set standards as the new $15 million Civ- il and Mineral Engineering Building was opened in January. Only 5 percent of the tenstory structure is visible above ground. For possibly the first time in the Uni- versity's history, the campus was closed twice in one year - first on December

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the minnesota gopher 1982-83

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28, 1982, when more than 16 inches of snow blanketed the metropolitan area, and again on April 14 when a spring bliz- zard closed the campus in the afternoon. The trend toward a return to tradition- al activities was strongly evident in 1982-83 as Homecoming, Campus Carni, commencement ceremonies, in- tercollegiate athletics, and Greek organi- zations attracted growing numbers of students. Predictions that the University's stu- dent population would begin to decline in the 19805 first came true in the sec- ond summer session of 1982, with the decline - still very slight - continuing throughout the academic year. 80 1982-83 was a very different year at the University of Minnesota from the campus boom year of 1966-67 when the last gopher yearbook was published. But the Golden Gopher is still the mascot of this large, sprawling campus, and the institution's academic reputation is still superior. The St. Paul campus still has its al- most rural character and friendly, small- coilege atmosphere, which is home to the Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics, the College of Biologi- cal Sciences, and the College of Veteri- nary Medicine. The Minneapolis campus, straddling the Mississippi River, houses the rest of the collegiate units: the College of Edu- cation, General College, the Graduate School, the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, the Law School, the College of Liberal Arts, the School of Management, the Institute of Technology, University College, the health sciences. and Con- tinuing Education and Extension. Many of these units have chosen to be represented in this yearbook. 1n the fol- lowing pages, the photographs of class- room, laboratory, and campus scenes are not intended to illustrate the activi- ties of specific colleges. Instead. they are meant to be a reminder of campus life at a particular moment in the history of a great university.