University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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- ► ' ' ' • ' . ' «• ' • • ■»• •■, v -,. If! PidikV Sl ' ■ •. . j» . c » - ti ' E 1 Former students who returned to Oregon after the war find that the campus has undergone a change. To offset the sudden swelMng of registrants, University offitiols set to work to toke care of the overflow. Prominent among the new structures ore potches of Quonset huts. The huts shown here ore ones erected near the BA School. '

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THE 1947 jblished by the Associated Students University of Ore. on Eugene, Oregon ROY PAUL NELSON ScUtat m m COURTNEY 17

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lord Breaking Expansion m r Students Swarm Oregon Campus; Find Housing, Classroom Shortage By Ross Yates I ' HE LINI ' ERSITY Iiiui not seen such expansion in - -its entire history. For the fall term 5,682 students registered, an increase of 49 per cent over registration lor spring term and an in- crease of 104 per cent over the fall term for 1945. Students overflowed the classrooms. They put the ad ministration on the hunt for more teachers and textbooks. They crowded the sidewalks and spilled over onto the grass in the rush between classes. More than half of them were ex-servicemen, including over a hundred women veterans. Less than six hundred of the men were not eterans, counting the 1946 crop of high school graduates who, obeying the v ' isdom of time and tide, had decided to take advantage of a higher education until such time as the Selective Ser ' ice Act might call them into training. Manv students stood in line for meals at the John Straub cafeteria. At nights they occupied every available study table in the Librar) ' . The housing shortage was the worst problem that the University had to meet. Never before had the University refused admission to would-be students because there was no more living space available. The married veterans suffered the most. Although by the third week of the fall term all applications for admission of single ' eterans had been accepted, there was still a wait- ing list of more than seven hundred married veterans. The Universitv had five housing projects for married veterans. The largest was on the Amazon Flats and contained 248 units. It was completed in time for the winter term and was also used to house some faculty members. There were also apartments at Skinner ' s Butte, the Columbia Street apartments, and the prefabricated units on Agate Street. Across from Hayward Field there were 54 trailer houses where veterans and their families lived until they could move into more permanent quarters. Many of the regular living organizations were over- crowded. During the war several of them had lost their houses. Fall term not all of them could find a place to live. Fraternities Delta lau Delta and Phi Sigma Kappa both started the year without houses. Two of the men ' s coopera- tives, Kirkwood and Canard Club, had been dissolved be- cause thev could not get living quarters. Men outnumlx ' red women almost two to one, and still the women overflowed the usual housing units. Alpha, Gamma, and Zeta Halls, traditionally men ' s halls, housed the excess. Zeta 1 au Alpha Sorority built a new house at the corner of Fifteenth and .Alder. For the single men veterans there were the X ' eterans (continued on follounng page} 19