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SECTION ft Editorials Letters Rusk Profile 3M World 5M Clune 4M School 6M Rochester, N. Oct. 6,1963 The Expanding University How Big Will the U. of R. Grow? 4 '4-, i fl ll ll ll tl if if xx ''3! V-' Sxfi K'v it rliA' In littl more than a decade a brief period in the life of a university the University of Rochester hai undergone the greatest expansion, both in size and in stature, in its history.

Last snring. in his in But, paradoxically, under-graduates today actually take fewer courses than their predecessors. The reason: the River Campus faculties two years ago voted to adopt the so-called "four-course" program, which permits students to take only four courses each year instead of five or six but gives them greater A mmm r. 1 v. i i I 1 Us tional Science Foundation's $3.5 million grant for a nuclear structure laboratory the largest single NSF award ever made to an institution.

Or the fact that last year the university's young engineering college was one of only five in the country to receive a million-dollar Sloan Foundation grant. These are some of the academic straws-in-the-wind that indicate the University of Rochester's growing stature and its soaring potential. IN RETROSPECT, the university's "era of expansion" roughly from 1951 on forms so logical a pattern that today many Rochesterians have forgotten how bitterly some of the early changes were opposed. The first big move the merger of the men's and women's colleges was strongly resisted in 1951 by a sizable and highly vocal group of students, alumni, and even some faculty and trustees. But by 1955, when coeds finally took their places on the River Campus, most of the opposition had waned.

And today, the idea of one campus for men and women is accepted without question. Less controversial, but A ii opportunity to stuay in depth and to do independent research. And, to challenge its top students even further, the university has expanded its Honors Program (one of the oldest in the country) for juniors and seniors, and a year ago introduced seminar-type "preceptorial" courses for a limited number of freshmen. At the graduate level, the U. of R.

has added some 15 new Ph.D. programs and a number of master's degree programs in the past several years. And some of these new graduate programs have been national pace-setters. EVEN THE MATTER of research one of the university's fastest-growing activities and. to the lay augural address, President W.

Allen Wallis placed him-lelf squarely behind the concept of "the expanding university." But to President Wal-Ik, as to his predecessor, Cornells W. de Kiewiet, "expansion" is not synonymous with "bigness." It does involve some physical growth, for Wallis, like de Kiewiet, has bluntly atated that Rochester and other private universities must do their share in providing educational opportunity for increased numbers of the nation's able youngsters. Nevertheless, in the minds of those who today are mapping the university's future, "expansion" here implies an upward thrust in quality much more than mere expansion in numbers. This vertical thrust, they point out, already has wrought profound changes in the nature of the university and changes of at least equal magnitude seem likely in the decade ahead. li f.

iiniiiHaii nimii PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN W. Allen Wallis and Joseph C. Wilson. Their goal is a university of expanded facilities, high degree of excellence. HiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiinniiiiiniHii This is the last in a series of special Sunday Democrat and Chronicle reports on the expand- ing University of Rochester.

Earlier articles have dealt with the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Arts and Science, the School of Medicine and Dentistry, the College of Education, and the Eastman School of Music. iiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiituiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiuiiuiiiiiiituiiiiiiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiititnuii man, perhaps its most glamorous one is seldom the topic of a "numbers-game" sort of conversation on campus. Faculty members seem to take pretty much for granted the near-quadrupling of the university's research budget (up from $3 million in 1951 to a booming $11 million today). Far more Impressive to them is the fact that Rochester this year was chosen over some of the nation's other top universities to receive the Na Time magazine recently highlighted this transformation in an article which saluted the U. of R.

as one of the nation's ''take-off" universities. According to Time, at least four such schools (the others were Tulane, Western Reserve, equally far-reaching, were such steps as the creation of the Colleges of Education, Engineering, and Business Administration from units of the College of Arts and Science the establishment of the University Computing Center and the greatly expanded development of programs for RUSH RHEES LIBRARY center of the campus. BIlllIllIlUlIIIllHlllUtlllinilfllllllllllllUltllllllllltllllllllllUtltllltlllltlllllllUIIIIllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllll Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIHU Read It Backwards IsF-L-O-G -fc Continued on Page 4M By STEVE SNIDER United Press International Writer This morning if the weather is good from one out of every seven homes in America a man or woman will set forth with golf sticks to pursue that lures thousands of clerks, factory workers, cab drivers, salesmen, housewives, office boys and the unemployed. The blind can play it well. At a recent national championship outside New York, the winner was in the 90s.

There is a one- and Washington university) "have outstripped their regional reputations and stand ready for national distinction." TO EVEN the casual observer, the University of Rochester has changed dramatically in the past several years. However, the dimensions and the dynamics of that change as yet are not fully appreciated, university officials believe. Take enrollment, for example. The university's full-time student body hit 4,500 this fall. On the River Campus alone, undergraduate enrollment has risen by two-thirds, and university-wide, graduate enrollment has more than tripled in the last 12 years.

What about quality? Nine out of 10 of today's River Campus undergraduates from New York State hold competitive Regents Scholarships. most every spectator can identify himself physically with one of the fine players. And that's the player he wants to copy." The prizes from these tournaments have become astronomical. In 1935, the total prize money on the PGA circuits was $135,000, of which lantern-jawed Johnny Revolta won $9,543 to lead the parade of pros. Today the loot goes around $2 million for the year.

In his first 21 months as a professional, Jack Nicklaus earned $145,333 in official PGA championships and in the two "World Series" of golf at Akron. armed pro of high skill, Jimmy Nichols. The 1954 U.S. Open champion, Ed Furgol, has a withered left arm. But a 200-pound beginner can swing a dozen times without touching the ball.

Harold Hewitt of Pasadena, age 82, and Layne Newman of Dallas, age 9, each have had holes in one this year. But golf's leading money winner, Arnold Palmer, hasn't. The penchant for what was once derisively known as "pasture pool" is by no means confined to men. In the last five years, the ranks of lady golfers have increased 35 per cent. They take 70 per cent of the lessons given by club pros.

XJNLIKE most tennis players, who would rather play than watch, golfers will pay good money to attend tournaments where they find personal identification with their heroes. little white Dan. They will play on 7,070 courses (some 21 of them in Monroe County) whose value is estimated at $1.8 billion. During the year they will have spent $100 i 1 1 i on equipment, special clothing or gadgets designed to enable them to hit the ball less often. There was a time when playing golf was about like operating a yacht.

If you had to ask how much it cost to play, don't play. Now 12 million Americans participate in what, when you come down to it, is a pretty silly pastime. Their numbers have doubled in the last 10 years, tripled in 15. They are still rocketing into the vast unknown. WTHY? No one knows for.

sure. Psychologists long ago despaired of reaching an explanation for the sport's fascination for otherwise normal human beings. One factor undoubtedly has been that television cameras have brought the mightiest swingers in the intft living TOOTHS for The future of golf is cloudy, particularly for the public. Real estate developers are moving in on the courses even as the golfing population explodes. Outside big metropolitan centers across the nation courses are jammed.

At Farmingdale, N.Y., for example, where there are five separate courses leading away from the Beth Page clubhouse, players must register by 4 a.m. to start a round by 10. One recent and growing innovation is night golf with short courses lighted like baseball parks. Whether that will alleviate the pressure or simply create more golf nuts is anybody's guess. 7 fe-.

Va: As for this year's 752 River Campus freshmen, not only were their median scores on the national Scholastic Aptitude Test the highest of any class in Rochester history, but on the basis of these scores, they rank in the top five per cent of the nation's freshmen. THE FACULTY, too, has expanded. University-wide, the full-time roster has doubled in the last dozen years. And what about its qual "Pro golfers come in all sizes, shapes and ages," says Fred Corcoran, former director of the PGA Tournament Bureau. "Al i ity? In 1951, 60 per cent of the River Campus faculty held Ph.D.

degrees; today, despite the fierce nationwide competition for top scholars, better than 85 per cent of them hold doctorates. And so it goes. Whether you talk about an "expanding" curriculum or "expanding" research or "expanding" graduate studies, Rochester's faculty and administrative officers alike would seem less interested in talking about "how big" than "how good." THE NEW River Campus catalogue lists some 784 undergraduate courses, compared to 643 in 1953. laiiu a close observation while thousands of dollars ride on every putt. One ancient savant, presumably after slicing a tee shot into the heather on a Scottish moor, reportedly said in exasperation: "Tis a game invented by Satan himself and gi'en a fiendish name that means the same thing spelled forward or Flog golf spelled backwards is "to strike with repeated blows.

WHETHER MAN or Satan is to blame, the end result is a pastime that run9 contrary to human nature. It's an old man's game at which the young excel Its a rich man's game that 1 1 Sunckit Air Photo by Herb Schaejfer Page Airways plane thk FRA OF CHANGE is pictured graphically in halls for women students. Right 'nter in bend ThU air view of the University campus. Lower of river, the men's residence halls. At right of Rush rented the Towers new undergraduate halls.

Rhees Library, the enlarged men's dm ng hall. Jus above to Wt of Fauver Stadium, residence Top left, Elmwood bridge and Genesee Park..