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YEAR - 1955
ENROLLMENT 556
BONDING
R0P0SITI0N No.
Invest Wisely In The Future Of Alaska
For Yourself And Your Children
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 MUST HAVE A GREAT
UNIVERSITY
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With the incredibly rapid growth of modem science, the pattern of outside support tor
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 that re
search and development spending by the Department of Defense has become concentrated in a
few centers on the East and West Coostr to the neglect of the mid-western states. The counter
argument was that this was justiried: research i.ivestmenl must be made in those institutions
that have competence and have shown willingness through their own efforts to put the invest
ment to the best purpose.
The people of Alaska, through their Univers-ty. hove in the past given fine support to
research, but, to benefit turther from the ever increasing availability of outside funds, contin
ued effort is required.
The University of Alaska eventneliy will he 'he Arr'-c 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 'he 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 K the campus to study ‘he effect of the Arctic climate on warm
blooded animals. Acceptance was marginal. There was no tree laboratory space in which they
could work. Finally a corner of o 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 deperrtent on that talented fraction of
its population equipped with the education that only can be provided by an excellent univer
sity. Thus we Alaskans have two alternatives. We can hait 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 tolemed 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.
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FACTS ABOUT BONDING
PROPOSITION NO. 1
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What will we get if we vote
"yes" on Bonding Proposition
No. 1?
Classrooms for our children
through expansion of a build*
ing started in 1958.
Cost: $1,700,000
Why do we need this?
Enrollment wiil continue going
up approximately 19 per cent
each year. Our present enroll*
ment will double in three yean.
What else will we get if we
vote "yes?"
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
What will this do for Alaska?
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 frozen fire
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.