University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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Gathering Place For Students Hagestad Student Center Juliet may have asked, “What’s in a name?,” but then, she wasn’t thinking of our Student Center. For us it’s a center in many ways. Here, this year, we found time and facilities for many things: strong coffee and good talk — and sometimes the other way around — time to read the books bought in the campus bookstore, and more talk: nuclear physics. Winter Carnival, Shakespeare, Time-Space, student elections, spring proms. There was time and space for food and play. Down-stairs, at almost any time, the billiard balls click and the ping balls pong. In the lounge areas there was always a carefree game of hearts going on — with or without cards. And then, too, here is where we learn the business of self-government. “Self-government,” by the way, is more than a hollow term at River Falls. Our Student Senate handled a budget of approximately $41,000 this year.

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North Hall South Hall Classrooms Laboratories Across the campus, past the flower beds, and over the lawn are some of the classroom buildings. These are the heart of the campus, for despite “learning machines” and other mechanical aids to imparting knowledge, students continue to gain the greater portion of their formal education in the traditional way — from professors talking with students, sharing interests, information, and concepts and demonstrating that ideas can be exciting. Of course the term “classrooms” means laboratories, too. Besides those in physics, chemistry, biology and the other sciences, there are the agriculture labs, the industrial arts workshops and a soon-to-be-completed language laboratory . College Laboratory Farm