University of Wisconsin Milwaukee - Ivy Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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During the past three years since IVY last went to press, the most significant change in the UW-M of then and now has been the tremendous rate of her GROWTH. Today we arc a far more significant asset to our community, an urban university, offering greater facilities and better training to intent students. Do you feel this change? Arc you as fascinated as we are by the dizzy pace of our growth, the hum of steady integrated progress, the feeling of moving as Whitman would say suddenly onward and outward?” This is the spirit that thrilling-ly vibrates this campus; it is also the theme that dominates this year's IVY. 3

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trdalus, the architect of the famed Labyrinth for the Minotaur of Crete, was imprisoned 'ey King Minos as punishment for revealing the structures’ secret to the Athenians. To escape. Oaedalus and his son, Icarus, made a pair of rings duplicating the flight of birds. As they mt them on. Daedalus warned Icarus to keep a n ill die course over the sea. If he flew too high, ir said, the sun might melt the glue and the rings drop off. Soon the two men set upon their light; tut disregarding his fathers warning, and I lowing his new and wonderful power to go to iis head. Icarus soared up, higher and higher. 7oolishly. he payed no heed to Daedalus’ an-’wished commands until he dropped helplessly nto the sea. his wings melted from the sun’s teat. Daedalus reached safely in near-by Sicily. How depressing it was for students attending tire l nivcrsity ol Wisconsin-Milwaukee four years ago. to be a part of an institution which seemingly existed as a dead weight, so never any different. No changes, at least measurable to our eyes, gave us any clue that the school was growing any way but in enrollment numlxTs. VVc were hunting at our scams: faculty members stacked into small cubicles, no room for classes, erosvdcd dingy cafeterias, a library packed with students, and barely passable corridors. And then, suddenly, with little seaming, new buildings began appearing. Epsash ball ook some of the spill over of heavily scheduled classes, the science building sprang up in one short year. Today. Pierce and Garland halls have been assimilated into the university, a fine arts building is finished, and the Union expansion is now in progress. But it seems that our view was misleading: these buildings did not appear overnight as if by magic, nor were plans hastily introduces! and accepted. 5