University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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9,859 housed in the Ramada Inn, 53 at St. Bede’s Priory, and 200 men have been accommodated in a mobile home village on Highway 12 which the owner has adapted for student residence. The remainder of the students live off campus in apartments and student homes. Q. CAN THE UNIVERSITY SCHOLASTICALLY ABSORB THE OVERFLOW? A. We can handle up to 10,000 students but we are trying now to stabilize. There are two major ways to compensate the increase in enrollment—additional staff and better distribution of students in classes. Thirty-four new staff positions were anticipated this year but we realize now that we'll need more than this. The class distribution of 10 in one class and 60 or more in another has not yet evened out. Q. ARE THERE ANY PLANS FOR EXPANSION TO ACCOM-MODATE STUDENTS? A. Yes. The Davies Center addition, scheduled for completion in February of 1977, will provide more room for students. St Rede's Priory, which house t 53 MVEC women, is located three and one half miles outside Eau Claire. A shuttle bus is used to travel to and from campus. Each room at St Bede's is divided by a partition and provides living space for four women Chancellor Haas, an Eau Clair alumnus and a member of the faculty from 1911. succeeded William R Davies os President in I960. 15

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 UWEC: Population In spring 1975, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents imposed an enrollment ceiling of 9.384 students for Eau Claire's 1975-76 school year. Last fall, UWEC began its 60th year with 9.859 students, well above the established ceiling and a record enrollment for the University. Q. WHY WERE SO MANY STUDENTS ACCEPTED. CHANCELLOR HAAS? A. We actually enrolled 130 fewer new student than in the fall of 1974 hut we were off by about four per cent on our estimate of returning students, even though we had gone by figures on continuing students accumulated over a 10-year period. Q. WERE ANY PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS TURNED AWAY? A. We turned away over a thousand students because there was no room for them, either under the ceiling, or for lack of housing. Q. WHY HASN'T ADDITIONAL HOUSING BEEN BUILT TO ACCOMMODATE THE OVERFLOW OF STUDENTS? A. In 1969 when more students wanted the freedom of ofT-campus housing, the University appealed to the Board of Regents to build an apartment complex near Howard Johnson’s. This complex would eventually house two to three thousand students. At that time, many Wisconsin schools were having difficulty filling the dorms due to decreases in enrollment. The Board of Regents decided that no more housing would be built until all available housing was occupied. Q. WHERE ARE ALL OF THE STUDENTS LIVING? A. Housing for students is at 105 per cent capacity in the residence halls with lounges converted to living quarters. One hundred students are

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I Assignment: Design and market public transit Color is a key to the ETC system The buses are colorful both inside and out and the maps, schedules and pathfinder signs are coded by color, name and number UWEC art students have pooled their talents over the past two years in a unique project—the design and marketing of a public transit system for the city. By September 1975, it was estimated that 5.000 man-hours had been spent on the Eau Claire Transit Com|»any (ETC) project. The tulent and effort of the students was reflected in a recent letter to the city by Nicholas Bade, marketing program manager for the I’rban Mass Transportation on Administration in Washington, D.C.: Congratulations for the excellent marketing program . . . (It is) easily one of the best in the country. It is comprehensive- and imaginitive.” University students got involved in the project in November 1975 when art instructor John Lawler heard of the city's decision to buy the then private transit system with federal assistance. Lawler saw this as a contemporary design problem for his advanced advertising design class. He mentioned the idea to his students who were intrigued by it. One student, a senior in commercial art. said. I personally drew an interest in the project because I had been following new graphics on planes for a long time. It would present a unique problem to solve ... a different kind of challenge. Lawler drew up a proposal to the City Council in which the students promised to produce a strong, progressive visual image for the new public transit system at no charge (except for materials) to the city. Flans included: design of the graphics in and on the buses and bus shelters, a pathfinder sign system, route maps, bus schedules, drivers' uniforms and advertising.