Apartments to Set Pace For CSB Housing in '71
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By Pat Rother
Room assignments have recently been completed at St. John's, and will be handled in the near future at the College of St. Benedict. Housing on the twin campuses is only part of the total educational experience, but it plays a very important role in a student's life. For four years the college dormitory room is the student's home—his bedroom, living room, study, den, kitchen and TV lounge all in one. As conditions change on the campus, so they affect the overall housing situation. As many institutions experience a drop in the number of students seeking admissions, St. John's and St. Ben's are showing slight increases in applications.
We recently observed the housing situation on both campuses and felt that the developments affect all involved, hence these reports.
ST. JOHN'S: A slight increase in incoming freshmen is expected, but so far it appears there will be no problem in housing. The problem will occur at the beginning of the new school year, when the number of frosh is finalized, yet there will be a waiting list of upperclassmen expecting rooms. Only after the inevitable dropouts and transfers will there become vacancies, and even then the waiting students may have been forced to find housing off campus. But the assurance is that the makeshift on-campus housing, though it may be somewhat binding, is only temporary.
New regulations on open house will be formulated next year. Since the Presidential Task Force has not presented a finalized report on suggestions for open house in 1971-72, open house regulations may cause one or two headaches next year. In any event, new open house hours will be adopted in the fall.
There are no provisions for construction of new dormitories, but rather renovation of the older dorms. Some of the St. Thomas Hall study lounges have been carpeted with new furniture added. Mary Hall's Gold Star Lounge was renovated this past fall at great expense. Proposals have been made to allow for lounges on every floor of Benet Hall. So, while there has been no expansion, existing facilities have been made more livable.
ST. BENEDICT'S: The word in housing for St. Ben's next year could be "apartment," as CSB will construct a complex of apartment houses for occupancy this fall. The apartments will be built on the site of the tennis courts west of Regina Hall.
St. Ben's plans to expand its enrollment to 1,000 students, a projected goal for institutional planning. To do this, CSB has increased enrollment from 492 in 1966 to an estimated 850 in 1971. By 1975, St. Ben's expects to reach its goal, 85 percent of which will be living on
campus. To allow for this expansion, housing facilities need to be modified. To investigate the situation, CSB's Board of Trustees asked an economic research and development firm to prepare a study on a program for housing students through 1975 at St. Ben's. The firm identified 17 functions of optimum housing for college students. These functions were related to student life (sleeping, studying, dining and relaxing, privacy, grouping, popularity), related to the college (appearance, financing, construction), and related to cost (to the college and the student).
Five basic housing types were studied: conventional dorms, suite-arranged dorms (like conventional dorms, but rooms are grouped differently), college residences for family-type living, garden-type apartments (like regular apartments) and detached apartments (separate units for small groups). Also considered were increasing present occupancy in existing dorms, further development of the present system, and more off-campus housing in the community.
Numerous other aspects of the College of St. Benedict itself in relation to the area were also considered. The firm finally suggested that apartment-type housing, which served 12 of the 17 optimum functions as mentioned above for college housing. So the College of St. Benedict will be taking the first steps in a boldly different type of student housing, by constructing a group of apartments housing approximately 100 students. The complex should be ready for occupancy by mid-September, 1971.
It is the general feeling that education is experienced outside the classroom as well as inside. The apartment idea will signal a new advance in community living and experience. The apartments should broaden students academically and socially. The occupants will be able to interrelate better and more frequently with each other and the remainder of the community.
Since this is a bold new step in college living, it is hoped that the conditions will be approached with an open mind. Flexibility, independence and community would seem to be three very focal reasons for this project. By the implementation of these three rather abstract qualities, the College of St. Benedict will be enriched, and the dimensions of college education will increase.
The first set of apartment buildings is actually part of a three-year expansion of living facilities with an evaluation of the progress occurring at every year's end. It has also been the College of St. Benedict's aims to move into this type of housing after completion of Mary Hall.
So both colleges work toward livability on campus, each in its own way, to make housing on the campus attractive and even desirable.
NEW APARTMENTS FOR ST. BEN'S
The Record
STUDENT PUBLICATION OF ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY
Vol. 84
Collegeville, MN. 56321, May 7, 1971
No. 7
286 Seniors On Threshold
By Steve Pollock
Graduation day for the 286 seniors here at St. John's is rapidly approaching. This year's proceedings, the 114th annual commencement exercises at St. John's University, will be held on Sunday, May 23.
The events of the day will start at 10 a.m. with the baccalaureate Mass, consecrated by the Rt. Rev. George G. Higgins, Department of Social Development, United States Catholic Conference. Rev. Higgins is also one of this year's recipients of the Pax
The Faculty and Graduating Class of Saint John's University arc pleased to announce (he
One Hundred and Fourteenth Annual Commencement
Sunday, the iwenty-third of May
Nineteen hundred seventy-one
. at two o'clock in the afternoon
in tbo Saint John's Ahbcy ond University Church
Collegeville, Minnesota
Christi Award that will be presented later in the day. Following the Mass will be the conferring of the ROTC commissions by Colonel James L. Brummer, United States Army, at 11:30 a.m.
After a luncheon break at midday, the academic procession will begin at two o'clock in the afternoon.
Student Walk To Benefit Hungry People of World
Have you ever seen a face of hunger—shriveled arms and legs and bloated bellies?
Two-thirds of the world go to bed hungry every night.
The youth of St. Cloud have decided to do something about it through an organization called Young World Development Program. They have planned a 31-mile walk which will raise money for the hungry of the world to be held on May 9.
The Young World Development Program is a non-profit organization which is made up of thousands of communities of .the, world. The program concerns itself mainly with the world hunger problem. It was created in 1965 by a group of youth leaders
from every continent of the world. In 1970 nearly one million young Americans walked under the YWDP raising $2.5 million of which 42 percent went abroad, 42.5 percent was used in the United States and 15 percent was used for educational purposes.
Money is raised through sponsors who pay a fee per mile walked. If you walk ten of the 31 miles, then you collect from your sponsors for example, a dime a mile or a total of SI. If you get perhaps 30 people to sponsor you each at a dollar a mile, and you walk the full 31 miles, that would be a total of $930, which isn't just a drop in the bucket.
Only the student can help. If you do this then at least you're trying
and are concerned. If you want to walk or want more information, call 252-6187. If you want to help with the youth of St. Cloud, call and they will set you up with some work. You are needed!
On the route of the walk there will be check points where the walkers will get food, water and get their card checked, verifying their walking distance. If a walker decides he doesn't want to walk the full 30 miles, cars will be available to give the walker a ride back. There will also be nurses available to take care of cuts, bruised, sore and mangled feet.
So walk for the hungry of the world on May 9 in St. Cloud. You have so much and the hungry have so little!
Commencement exercises then will proceed. Frist will be the conferring of the Pax Christi to this year's recipients. Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, professor of Hygiene and Director of Health Services at Harvard, and Rev. George Higgins, director of the Urban Life Division of the United States Catholic Conference, will receive the awards, symbolic of their efforts in the pursuit of peace.
Farnsworth, 66, was born in Troy, W. Va., and graduated from West Virginia University and Harvard Medical School. Previously he was director of health at Williams College, and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is past president of the American College Health Association, and is associate editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry and a member of the American Medical Association's Council on Mental Health.
Rev. George Higgins, 55, holds a Ph.D. degree from the Catholic University of America (1944). During the past 25 years he has moved be-
Homecoming Fare Planned for 1971
Though October is a summer away, the Homecoming Committee has already scheduled many of the festivities for St. John's Homecoming 1971.
Bob Foster, chairman, Rick Speck-mann, Student Services Committee chairman, and the rest of the Homecoming Committee have formulated plans for the big week scheduled from Sept. 29 through Oct. 2. A rundown of the events as tentatively scheduled is as follows:
Wednesday, Sept. 29
Powder Puff Football Game .
Picnic Supper
Old-Time Style Dance at CSB Thursday, Sept. 30
Talent show and pep rally at SJU Friday, Oct. 1
John Denver concert (tentative)
in the Benedicta Arts Center Saturday, Oct. 2
AKS 3rd Annual Innertube Grand
Prix (postponed from last year)
Pre-Game Seniors' Celebration
with the Alumni
Homecoming Game—Hamline vs.
St. John's
Homecoming Dance
The general outlay of the festivities has been prepared. Only particulars remain to be taken care of.
hind the scenes to defend and change the Catholic Church's social teaching involving labor unions, civil rights, the peace movement, and the lay apostolate to his most recent mediation efforts during the California grape and lettuce strikes. During the recent grape workers* strike he made 25 separate trips to ¦ California as secretary of the Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee, according to a fellow priest.
Following the Pax Christi presentations will be the commencement address, given by Dr. Farnsworth. The awarding of degrees will take place at the end of Dr. Farnsworth's address.
Closing the afternoon's events will be a reception for the honored guests, graduates, parents and faculty, probably in the Great Hall.
Al Simonett to Edit Record Next Fall
On April 29 the Record Board chose Al Simonett as the Editor in Chief of the Record for the 1971-72 academic year. After two days of discussion and interviewing five candidates, the Board, composed of Advisor Fr. Paul Marx, Presidential Appointee Mr. Stephen Humphrey, Student Representative Mike Linn, Student Government Representative Mike Murphy, and Editor Larry Kukla, announced its selection.
After this meeting it was also made public that the advisor-consultant Fr. Paul Marx is resigning at the end of the year. His resignation is primarily due to the increased amount of time that he has been spending (and must continue to spend) on his other endeavors. Next fall, therefore, Simonett will be working with a new advisor.
Al Simonett is a junior English major from St. Peter, Minn., who has quite an extensive history of journalistic experience. In high school he wrote for the school publication and also worked on the yearbook. Here at St. John's he and the Record are not strangers. He has worked on the staff in various capacities, ranging from reporter to associate editor.
When asked about his concept of what the Record should be, Al commented that he thought it should represent a "fun thing"—fun to produce and pleasant to read.
