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ENROLLMENT 556
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Z/YES" ON
Y BONDING
PROPOSITION No. 1
In vest Wisely In The Future Of Alaska
far Yourself And Yom Children
O The students are there now. They are going
to keep coming.
• We must create educational opportunities
second to none. {
• Research grants and contracts provide a real •'
income and bring people to all of Alaska. *
• The problems of Alaska should be studied in ?
Alaska, not Outside. ''
THE GREAT LAND MU
^ UNIVER
.
W WHO SAYS THERE ARE NO
'CHALLENGES LEFT IN ALASKA?
The need for classrooms and laboratories for the rapidly growing enrollment of
our sons and daughters in the main center of higher learning in the State is clear
enough, but there are other important issues, possibly at first sight less obvious.
Consider research and post-graduate studies. Currently about half of the total
operating expenditures of our university fall into this category, but only a fraction of this cost
is met by the State. 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 amount to about $5 million. Such research activities are spread widely throughout the
State.
It is plain that industry eonnot develop without modern technology, and the climate
and geography of Alaska demands special technology which can only be developed in the
North for the benefit of all of Alaska.
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 Notion's knowledge and economy. Recently there have been complaints that re
search and development spending by the Department of Defense has become concentrated in a
few centers on the East and West Coasts to the neglect of the mid-western states. The counter
argument was that this was justified; research investment must be made in those institutions
that hove competence and have shown willingness through their own efforts to put the invest
ment to the best purpose.
The people of Alaska, through their University, have in the past given fine support to
research, but, to benefit further from the ever increasing availability of outside funds, contin
ued effort is required.
The University of Alaska eventually will be the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Research Center
of the Free world. But we cannot attract scientists to Alaska or accept new grants for research
programs without buildings to house them. Only recently the National Institutes of Health of
fered the University a grant of about $1.5 million spread over seven years to permit two dis
tinguished newcomers to come to the campus to study the effect of the Arctic climate on warm
blooded animals. Acceptance was marginal. There was no free laboratory spoce in which they
could work. Finally a corner of a basement in an unfinished building was patched up on a very
temporary basis. The National Science Foundation has offered $100,000 towards construction
of facilities of the Institute of Marine Science providing the State will find an equivalent sum.
Without research the modern University cannot progress—and may not even survive.
Every country, state and city becomes more and more dependent on that talented fraction of
Its population equipped with the education thot only can be provided by an excellent univer
sity. Thus we Alaskans have two alternatives. We can halt the progress of our university until
it can only give our children preliminary training sufficient to equip 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 Alaska.
The latter course is essential for our State'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
"yet" on Bonding Proposition
No. 1?
Answer : Classrooms for our children
through expansion of a build
ing started in 195S.
Cost: $1,700,000
Question: Why do we need this?
Answer i Enrollment will continue going
up approximately 19 per c»nt
each year. Our present enroll
ment will double in three years.
Question: What else will we get if we
vote "yes?"
Answer t Construction will start on a re
search complex which will be
come the center of Arctic and
Sub-Arctic Research and De
velopment for the Free World.
Cost: $3,500,000
Question: What will this do for Alaska?
Answer : Alaska will become a center of
population. We must prepare
ourselves now for this respon
sibility and opportunity.
What else will we get if we vote
"yes?"
A fire protection facility. Alas
kans know that a froren fire
engine can't protect their Uni
versity which already repre
sents an $11,000.000 asset con
taining irreploceob.’e material
iF&W -v in the laboratories and mu
seum. Cost: $150,000
Question: 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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