Gazette, 1980-09-18

              GAZETTE
Vol. 13, No. 2, September 18, 1980
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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This issue of THE GAZETTE is combined
with LUMINUS, the publication of the
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Alumni Association. LUMINUS brings
former students news about alumni,
their Association and their University.
In this issue, there is a report on the
Alumni Annual Fund which has so far
this year received $25,000 in new
money. Page seven of LUMINUS shows
how alumni may enlist their employers
in support of Memorial.
Insert pp. 1-8
WAMUN begins a new year. A summarization of the coming year's activities, as well as a photographic "lookback" at some of last year's events.
Cable 13, Memorial's television station, will provide an in-depth look at the
various faculties.
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Harlow,   MUN's  English campus,
continues to attract a myriad of students. . in Co-op programs, in Nursing,
in Education.
Ten years from now,, ,a visualization
Ten  years from now Architect
Charles Cullum, Architects Guild Ltd.
visualizes above how the Queen Elizabeth II Library and its environs will look
ten years from now. 825 of the 2500
. planned white spruce have been planted.
There will be maples and other trees and
shrubs as well.
For a further story on the "greening" of
the campus landscape, see page 8, back
cover, of THE GAZETTE.
Picea glauca is the Latin name.
It's a small white spruce and already
some 825 of them have been planted in
the area adjoining Memorial's new
library.
In all, 2500 spruce will grace the
area. Eventually the trees will grow into a
small, but ordered forest near the patio
pavers,the flower beds and the grassy
areas that will give a park-like air to the
surroundings.
All native trees have been planned
for the Library's landscaping.
In addition to the white spruce,
seven red maple trees, Acer rubrum,
each about 12 feet tall, will be planted
this fall, as will between 30 and 40 of the
shrub Amelanchier, known locally as
chuckly pear. Reporting on the landscaping is Calvin Sparkes, Memorial
graduate, Biology, 1971, and managing
director of Green Thumb, a St. John's
firm doing the landscaping. In charge of
overall architectural plans is Architects
Guild Ltd.
Grassy areas will be seeded, not
sodded, said Mr. Sparkes, with the bulk of
the seeding to be on the eastern side of
the new Library. All in all, the area will
have 2 acres of lawn.
Additionally, he says, there will be a
tiered seating area where the visitor,
University personnel, or students, can
view the plantings, grass., shrubs, etc.
Exact materials to be used have not yet
been decided upon.
Enrollments rise at both MUN campuses
There is 12.3 per cent increase in
undergraduate enrollment at Memorial
for Fall 1980 semester, according to
preliminary figures released by the
Registrar's Office. (Figures are compared
with those for Fall semester, 1979.)
Enrollment at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook shows a 20.5
per cent increase. Statistics for Graduate
Studies are not yet available.
First year enrollment has increased
by 12 per cent, senior division by 13 per
cent and part-time studies by 16.4 per
cent.
This semester there are 1690 first
year students, an increase of 180 over
the 1510 registered for the 1979 Fall
Semester. 4292 senior division students
are registered, 478 more than the 3814
who registered during the  1979 Fall
Semester.
Part-time Studies has an enrollment
of 1412, an increase "of 199 over the
1213 of last year.
In 1980, there are 111 more students than in 1979 in first and second
year at the Corner Brook Campus. In
September, 1979, 542 students registered, while this September there are
653 students.
Enrollment figures are not yet
available for off-campus courses and
correspondence courses.
More information about this semester's enrollment will be carried in the next
issue of the MUN Gazette.
Registration  at the  Sir Wilfred  Grenfell
College  in   Corner  Brook,   Fall  Semester,
1980> By Bill White, ETV