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ESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY A/ew$ July 1962 /o\. 7, No. 7 LETTER ACTION FOLLOWS LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION Michigan Resident Tuition Boosted $35 per Year In action by the State Board of RESIDENT STUDENTS NON-RESIDENT STUDENTS Education, Western Michigan Uni SEMESTER TUITION LOCAL TOTAL TUITION LOCAL TOTAL HOURS FEES FEES versity joins other publicly-supported 1-2 13.00 24,00 37.00 34.00 24,00 58.00 institutions in Michigan in raising its 3-4 25.00 31.00 56.00 67.00 31.00 98.00 tuition and fees for the forthcoming 5-6 38.00 37.00 75.00 100.00 37.00 137.00 academic year. 7-8 50.00 43.00 93.00 134.00 43.00 177.00 This move was made following 9-10 63.00 50.00 113.00 167.00 50.00 217.00 legislative appropriations to bring !! or mc re 7500 50.00 125.00 200.00 50.00 250.00 sufficient operating funds to assure There is a departmental music fee for appl ed music o $60.00 per semester for <>ne hour per faculty and staff pay increments that week of p rivate instruction, or $30.00 per semester 1or one-half hour per wee c of private will keep the University from slip instruction. ping too far from the present nation al competitive picture in securing thus the accompanying table applies $355 per semester, except ,it Vander- and retaining qualified faculty. to both groups. cook hall for which the charge for The increase totals $35 per year Residence hall charges remain at roonl only is $117 per semester. for residents of Michigan, bringing tuition and fees for two semesters to manager, states that it will record major lectures, concerts and recitals $250. WMUK to Extend Service Non-resident students will pay $55 for rebroadcast during the same more than last year, with the two- WMUK, FM radio station at week. Its new quarterly program semester total being $500. Western Michigan University, an notes, now available from the station In realigning the total tuition and nounces that it will extend its cover to any interested listeners, list eight fees schedule, undergraduate and age of University events during the new programs to be offered to area graduate rates were coordinated. next year. Martin Cohen, station listeners at 102.1 megacycles. son August 30th, and being paid off Civil War Lives Again in WAAU Book and discharged September 5, 1865. The book has been titled, A Sold Were he alive today, one of the the Sixth Infantry," and adds, "The ier's Life, The Civil War Experience more than 90,000 Civil War soldiers novelty of Johnson's account is that of Ben C. Johnson. It originally ap to go from Michigan would find his it represents the enlisted man's view peared under the title, "Sketches of work republished in an interesting point." It first appeared during 1883- the Sixth Regiment Michigan In 122-page edition by the School of 84 in the Veteran, a semi-monthly fantry." Graduate Studies. magazine. Originally appearing in the maga Johnson came to Kalamazoo after zine, Veteran, the story of Michigan's Civil War service, remaining until Sixth infantry regiment is told by 1885. He died in Lansing in 1888. Benjamin C. Johnson and has been The Sixth Michigan served almost edited by Dr. Alan Brown, Michigan the entire war in the Department of historian and University archivist. the Gulf, engaging in few decisive or As a 21-year-old in 1861, Johnson spectacular battles. "In this area the joined the Saline Sharpshooters, enemy was not only Confederate which became Company F of the troops, but broiling hot sun, miasmal Sixth Michigan Infantry Regiment, marshes and reptile infested swamps. rendezvousing at Kalamazoo August There were battle casualties in plenty, 20, 1861. but disease was the real killer ... Dr. Brown says of the story, "On the Sixth infantry lost more men the whole it is a surprisingly accurate through disease than any other Mich reconstruction of the part played by igan unit." Perhaps the most spirited part of Johnson's story is the conclusion, as any ex-soldier will recognize the en thusiasm he puts into those final days of active service and the trip home. Upon receiving orders to be mus tered out while still in Louisiana, Johnson writes: "I'll never forget that afternoon, evening, midnight and early morning. Boys threw up their hats and shouted and cheered until their throats were sore. In the evening campfires were lighted and joy prevailed throughout the night. We are going home at last, the war is ended, and the nation saved!" By train and boat the Sixth Mich igan started home, arriving at Jack- Colony Club Added To Expanding Campus The former Colony Club structure on West Michigan avenue has form ally become a part of the campus. While not all possible uses of the building have yet been explored, President James W. Miller says that A new African carving has joined the Bigelow Hall collection of interesting native initially the building will house stud art, this being the gift of Dr. and Mrs. ios of the department of art, and will Keith Bennett of Kalamazoo. The small black figure is mounted on an appropriate ped Ben C. Johnson (Continued on Page 3) estal. Foreign School Administrators to Spend Fall at WMU An international development sem inar in elementary school administra tion will bring 25 participants from around the world to the University campus between September 17 and December 14. Dr. Dorothy McCuskey, professor of education, is serving as coordinator for the program, and is most enthusi astic as to the opportunity offered the University and the community to serve these visitors. Among the countries from which participants will come are: Finland, India, Malaya, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Zanzibar, Australia, Cy prus, Ghana, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Laos, Montsorrat, Nyasaland, North ern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, Old books now come in small packages, and in her hands on three-by-five cards Miss Marie Sivak, left, holds a part of the 207 volumes made possible through a chain of gifts which she Tanganyika and Trinidad. started. Her gift of $50 to the Dwight B. Waldo Library was matched by her father, and both The venture is being sponsored by gifts were in turn matched by the Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, his employer. the U.S. Office of Education of the At the suggestion of Dr. David Sadler, center, the $200 was used to purchase micro-cards of Old English materials, most of which are totally unavailable in book form today. The Department of Health, Education scope in the center magnifies each page to readable size. Twenty to 30 pages can be placed and Welfare. on each card. Dr. Katharine B. Stokes, librarian, is enthusiastic about micro-cards because of "A significant aspect of their visit the vast amounts of shelf space thus saved. will be living in American homes," says Dr. McCuskey, who is seeking interested persons in the community who would like to have these visitors Col. J. T. Gilbert Brigham Young Band spend their three months in Kalama zoo in their homes. She points out, To Take Command of Plans Nov. 10 Visit it would be preferable if the homes Some people go for the football, were within walking distance of the University ROTC Unit but there are always a large number campus. A new commanding officer for the of people attending collegiate grid ROTC unit, Col. James T. Gilbert, iron encounters each fall who attend arrived on the campus in July to as much for the bands as anything. relieve Col. Albert H. Jackman, and This fall will be a real treat for Colony Club in turn Dr. Albert H. Jackman will football-band lovers, for in addition (Continued from Page 2) become an assistant professor of to the annual band day show October also be used to satisfy overflow needs geography and geology. 6, there will be visitations by two for office space. Col. Gilbert has now completed a other bands. The frame building is a block west three-year tour of duty as an instruc Director Leonard V. Meretta is of Wood Hall, and for several years tor at the Army's famed Command all smiles at the announcement by has been operated as a private club. and General Staff College at Ft. Brigham Young University officials Eventual plans call for the Univer Leavenworth, Kans. He is a graduate that their band will come here from sity to raze the structure, as the de of the University of Arizona, a vet Provo, Utah, for the November 10 partment of art is to be moved from eran of World War II combat ser Dad's Day game, the first grid meet its McCracken hall quarters across vice with staff service in Washing ing between the two institutions. West Michigan avenue to the $3,- ton, D.C., and service in France from The opening day of the season, 500,000 Education and General 1956 to 1959.