The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-27
Best Use of
Duriine
Dormitories For
Industrial Use
Being Debated

How the Michigan State Normal
College can best serve in wartime
emergency, is question OF com
munity as well as state interest
being debated today in an attempt
to arrive at most practical conclu-
sions. The immediate question
seems to be whether the campus
and all its facilities for advanced
education shall be continued for
purely educational purposes. or
shall the dormitories be taken
over for industrial workers:
For history, physics, mathema-
tics and general English courses
the Normal College offers excellent
facilities as possible military
training center. In one dormitory
1000 student soldiers could be com.
fortably housed and adequate class
room facilities could be arranged
for special officer training.
At the same time the regular
college work could be continued
and housing provided for regular
students.
With such a plan in mind the
State Board OF Education in SEES.
sion Thursday adopted housing
resolutions to concentrate all stu.
dent housing in campus dormitories
and so help to relieve the city
housing situation by releasing
rooms now occupied by students.
The resolution follows:
Whereas. housing space in the
City OF Ypsilanti is now occupied
by a number of students attending
Michigan State Normal College.
Whereas. housing space in the
City OF Ypsilanti is now also occu-
pied by number OF Cleary College
students, and
Whereas, it is urgent that such
space be made available TO war
workers.
BE it, Resolved. That all stu
dents attending Michigan State
Normal College after the present
semester shall be required to live
in the College Residence Halls.
Provided, That this regulation shall
not apply TO students domiciled in
their own homes. and
Resolved further. That Eleary
College students be allowed as
space permits. to live in College
Residence Halls on the same basis
as Normal College students, and
BE it Further Resolved. That
the administrative authorities OF
the Michigan State Normal College
be directed TO carry this regulation
into effect
More Industrial Rooms
In adopting this resolution in
Guiding Cleary and Normal College
students, the State Board has help
ed to make more rooms available
for industrial workers, some houses
having been only partly filled with
students.
As a matter OF protection for stu
dents, particularly women, the rule
has long been in effect that stu
dents must not live in houses with
roomers not under college regula.
lions. Therefore rooms in accept
ed student houses, could not be
made available to anyone outside
the college.
By bringing all dormitory space
under college regulation or Army
Regulation. according TO whether
certain dormitories are occupied
by student teachers or military
students. there would not only be
more rooms available for workers
outside the student group. but
there would be advantages in
handling affairs OF the college, Il
was stated.
2. p. II. A. Survey
Verifying floor space on the cam
pus. Federal Public Housing Auth
ority representatives have been
mere lOI pei SOHdl sun n -
Hoke. Patrick J. Sheehan. w. G.
VanSchaack and Howard Raftery
made careful study OF building
as a part of what Director Sher.
wood Reeder, Detroit director OF
the Federal Housing Authority,
described -, part OF general
housing survey in keeping with in
formation being gathered from I'll
war industry areas.
Status Doubtful
Whether the survey is FOR mill
tary or industrial purposes is in
refinite here as in other similar
centers. For example a dispatch
today from Wheaton, H.. refers to
the status OF Wheaton College as
being doubtful.
Apparently. President V. Raw.
mond Edman OF the college said,
the Army has made an eleventh
hour change in announced plans 10
enroll $50 cadets there on Feb. %.