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ENROLLMENT TOTALS 14,035 Last week of October figures for UM enrollment, as compiled
by Dean D.J. Inabnit, show a slight decrease in day time, students, an increase in evening students, by comparison with the same date last year.
The 1961 day time total is 9,409. Same date, 1960, was 9,835. Evening figures are:
4,626 for 1961; for 1960, same date, 4,337. The present academic year also reflects an increase in percentage of women students, as well as in total number of women, as follows: 1961, men 9,054; women 4,981; for same date, 1960 men 9,263; women 4,909. Grand total 14,035, for 1961; for 1960, same date, 14,172. Dean Inabnit points out that admissions standards have been tightened, as reflected by an already noticeable decrease in drop outs. Also highly encouraging, he emphasizes, is the larger percentage of returning students in sophomore, junior and senior classes.
WAILING WALL TREK BEGINS Mindful of Poet John Donne's prophetic line "Ask not for
whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee.'" deans and department heads began appearing last Wednesday before UM's Budget Committee to present suggested budgets for 1962-1963. Triumvirate bending ears to requests, pleas, supplications, arguments, etc., consists of Dr. Johns, chairman, Dr. Tharp, Mr. Cohen. Afternoon and evening hearings are scheduled through Nov. 6 in the President's conference room,
Ashe Bldg.
KEEP UM AHEAD ON UF Campus Campaign Chief Jack Bohlen issues an urgent request to all
UF campaign workers to redouble efforts to get all pledge cards in before the community campaign starts off campus Nov. 5. As pointed out by Ed Swenson, Jr., UF General Chairman, UM last year had an 80 percent representation with per capita contributions seven times the county per capita average. Added Chairman Swenson, "This year the need is greater." Chairman Jack points out that a film on UF activities is available for showing. Please contact his office in Ashe for the film. "We need your help to have UM set the pace with 100 percent this year," exhorts Captain Jack.
PRESIDENT IN ATLANTA Dr. Pearson is in Atlanta, attending sessions of the Screening
Committee of the Committee on Standards' and Reports of the Commission on Higher Education of the Southern Association of Colleges*and Secondary Schools. In December, the Association, which is the regional accrediting body, will hold its annual convention at the Fontainebleau.
UM HOST TO NEWS MEN The University of Miami and the UM Undergraduate Chapter of
Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, were hosts to delegates attending the 52nd national convention at the North Carolina game Friday night. Newsmen from all over the U.S. sat in a special section as guests of Dr. Jay F.W. Pearson and Jack Harding. Official delegate from the undergraduate chapter was Mel Frishman, president. Other chapter members and UM students interested in journalism assisted in handling convention news. Also attending from UM were Wilson Hicks, convention chairman for undergraduate cooperation, and William S. Howland, former president of the Atlanta professional chapter. UM alumnus Ralph Renick, news director and vice president of WTVJ, was chairman of a panel discussing "Wave Length Opinions."
SEEK UM CAREERISTS Representatives of 20 federal agencies are attending "College
Career Week" being conducted on campus this week by member agencies of the Southeastern Federal Recruiting Council. Aim of the three-day program is to introduce students to career opportunities in government. Representatives of Barry College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute and UM will be Council guests at a dinner at the Student Union Oct. 3i. Louis A. Miller, UM placement director, is in charge of local arrangements.
B00KST0RED FOR TRAVEL Pausing for breath after the first go-round of an eight state
and DC tour as president of the National Association of College Stores, Inc., John Galbraith, UM bookstore manager, returned to campus last week. He leaves again Nov. 2 for the rest of his journeys which will take him from Washington, D.C. to Corvallis, Oregon. At each stop, "Galloping Galbraith" is speaking to college store people on "Packaging Techniques." In between speeches he will attend the Association's board meeting at Oberlin and will confer with book publishers in New York. Unless delayed by weather or other causes he will return in time to apply packaging techniques to Christmas gifts at home.
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| Full Text | ENROLLMENT TOTALS 14,035 Last week of October figures for UM enrollment, as compiled by Dean D.J. Inabnit, show a slight decrease in day time, students, an increase in evening students, by comparison with the same date last year. The 1961 day time total is 9,409. Same date, 1960, was 9,835. Evening figures are: 4,626 for 1961; for 1960, same date, 4,337. The present academic year also reflects an increase in percentage of women students, as well as in total number of women, as follows: 1961, men 9,054; women 4,981; for same date, 1960 men 9,263; women 4,909. Grand total 14,035, for 1961; for 1960, same date, 14,172. Dean Inabnit points out that admissions standards have been tightened, as reflected by an already noticeable decrease in drop outs. Also highly encouraging, he emphasizes, is the larger percentage of returning students in sophomore, junior and senior classes. WAILING WALL TREK BEGINS Mindful of Poet John Donne's prophetic line "Ask not for whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee.'" deans and department heads began appearing last Wednesday before UM's Budget Committee to present suggested budgets for 1962-1963. Triumvirate bending ears to requests, pleas, supplications, arguments, etc., consists of Dr. Johns, chairman, Dr. Tharp, Mr. Cohen. Afternoon and evening hearings are scheduled through Nov. 6 in the President's conference room, Ashe Bldg. KEEP UM AHEAD ON UF Campus Campaign Chief Jack Bohlen issues an urgent request to all UF campaign workers to redouble efforts to get all pledge cards in before the community campaign starts off campus Nov. 5. As pointed out by Ed Swenson, Jr., UF General Chairman, UM last year had an 80 percent representation with per capita contributions seven times the county per capita average. Added Chairman Swenson, "This year the need is greater." Chairman Jack points out that a film on UF activities is available for showing. Please contact his office in Ashe for the film. "We need your help to have UM set the pace with 100 percent this year," exhorts Captain Jack. PRESIDENT IN ATLANTA Dr. Pearson is in Atlanta, attending sessions of the Screening Committee of the Committee on Standards' and Reports of the Commission on Higher Education of the Southern Association of Colleges*and Secondary Schools. In December, the Association, which is the regional accrediting body, will hold its annual convention at the Fontainebleau. UM HOST TO NEWS MEN The University of Miami and the UM Undergraduate Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, were hosts to delegates attending the 52nd national convention at the North Carolina game Friday night. Newsmen from all over the U.S. sat in a special section as guests of Dr. Jay F.W. Pearson and Jack Harding. Official delegate from the undergraduate chapter was Mel Frishman, president. Other chapter members and UM students interested in journalism assisted in handling convention news. Also attending from UM were Wilson Hicks, convention chairman for undergraduate cooperation, and William S. Howland, former president of the Atlanta professional chapter. UM alumnus Ralph Renick, news director and vice president of WTVJ, was chairman of a panel discussing "Wave Length Opinions." SEEK UM CAREERISTS Representatives of 20 federal agencies are attending "College Career Week" being conducted on campus this week by member agencies of the Southeastern Federal Recruiting Council. Aim of the three-day program is to introduce students to career opportunities in government. Representatives of Barry College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute and UM will be Council guests at a dinner at the Student Union Oct. 3i. Louis A. Miller, UM placement director, is in charge of local arrangements. B00KST0RED FOR TRAVEL Pausing for breath after the first go-round of an eight state and DC tour as president of the National Association of College Stores, Inc., John Galbraith, UM bookstore manager, returned to campus last week. He leaves again Nov. 2 for the rest of his journeys which will take him from Washington, D.C. to Corvallis, Oregon. At each stop, "Galloping Galbraith" is speaking to college store people on "Packaging Techniques." In between speeches he will attend the Association's board meeting at Oberlin and will confer with book publishers in New York. Unless delayed by weather or other causes he will return in time to apply packaging techniques to Christmas gifts at home. |
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