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fWVOTE
TT/'YES" ON
// BONDING
/PROPOSITION No. 1
Invest Wisely In The Future Of Aluska
For Yourself And Your Children
► The students are there now. They are going
to keep coming.
I We must create educational opportunities
second to none. ■
I Research grants and contracts provide a real '
income and bring people to all of Alaska, t
> The problems of Alaska should be studied in *■
Alaska, not Outside.
THE GREAT LAND MUST HAVE A GREAT £ J
ulilvtRS,TY m
WHO SAYS THERE ARE NO
CHALLENGES LEFT IN ALASKA?
the nebd for classrooms and laboratories for the rapidly growing enrollment of
6hr SbfiS bind daughters in the main center of higher learning in the State is cletr
enbOljh, tit! there are other important issues, possibly at first sight less obvious.
consider researcn end post-graduate studies, lurromiy odout nair or tns Total
Operating expenditures ot our university fall into this category, but only a fraction of this cost
Is met by the Sfate. It comes in the form of grants and contracts from federal agencies, founda
tions and industry. The total income of this kind—and it really is income to Alaska—in 1962/63
will arridunt lo about $5 million. Such research activities are spread widely throughout the
Slate.
It is plain that industry cannot develop without modern technology, and the climate
end geography of Alaska demands special technology which can only be developed in thd
North for the benefit of all of A'askc.
With the incredibly rapid growth of modern science, the pattern of outside support for
research In American universities is well established; indeed it is quite essential to the develop
ment of the Nation s knowledge and economy. Recently there have been complaints tfi6t re
search and development spending by the Deportment cf Defense has become ebncehfrbfthJ in a
few centers on the East and West Coasts to the neglect of the rmd-weStern slates, the counter
argument was that this was justified; research investment must be mode in thoie Institution*
that have competence and have shown willingness through thtJir owr. efforts lo put the invest
ment lo the best purpose.
The people of Alaska, through their University, hove in the post given fine support to
research, but, lo benefit further from the ever increasing availability Of Outride fuflds, Contin
ued effort is required.
The University of Alaska eventually will be the Arctic fchd Sub-Arctic fcl**i*6r<fh Centbr
of ttie Free world. But we cannot attract scientists to Alaska or accept new grants for research
programs without buildings to house them. Only recently the Nation&l Institutes of Health Of
fered the University a grant of about SI.5 million spread oyer sevbn yfebrs to permit twb dis
tinguished newcomers tc come to the campus lo study the effect of the Arctic clinlate on warm
blooded ahimcls. Acceptance was marginal. There was no frfee fbfebratory space in which tflby
could worV FiHally u corner of a basement in an untiriliHdd building was patched up on a very
temporary basis. The Nalional Science Foundation has pfferOd $100,000 towards construction
of facilities of the Institute of Mcrine Science providing the State will find an equivalent sum.
Without research the modern University ccinhbt progress—and mdy not even survive.
Every country, stale end city becomes more and more dependent on that tblented fraction of
s its population equipped with the education that only con lie provided by on excellent univer
^ sity. Thus we Alaskans have two alternaiives. We can halt the progress of our university until
it can only give our children preliminary training sufficient to equf|r them to go outside to
finish their education. Or we can develop such excellence that our young people will stay and
We will attract the more talented youth from other States to Ataska.
The latter course is essential for our Slate's development-but it will take buildings
and facilities to achieve it. By voting "yes" for Bonding Proposition No. 1 you will start a
chain reaction for development of Alaska that you never have seen before.
FACTS ABOUT BONDING
PROPOSITION NO. 1
Question: What will we get if we vote
"yes" on Bonding Proposition
No. 1?
Answer l Classrooms for our children
through expansion of a build
ing started in 1958.
Cost: $1,700,000
Question Why do we need this?
Answer : Enrollment will continue going
up approximately 19 per cent
each year. Our present enroll
^ ment will double in three years.
Questioll ^ What else will we get if wo
’’"vote "yes?"
Answer Y Construction will start on a re
search complex which will be
come the center of Arctic and
Sub-Arctic Research and De
velopment for tho Free World.
Cost: $3,500,000
Question: What will this do for Alaska?
Answer : Aldska will become a center of
population. Wo most prepare
ourselves now for this respon
sibility ond Opportunity.
Question: What else will we get if we vote
^ "yes?"
} Answer A fire protection facility. Alas
1 . kans know that a froxen fire
i.V. engine can't protect their Uni
versity which already repre
sents an $11,000,000 asset con
taining irreplaceable material
In the laboratories and mu
seum. Cost: $150,000
Where would we be spending
the remaining $600,000?
Inadequate military surplus
and other warehousing dots the
campus. Some classroom space
is being used to store valuable
equipment. Your university
needs warehouses adequately
designed and placed to store
this material and release badly
needed classroom space. ,
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Y YEAR - 1955
ENROLLMENT 556