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New Science Facilities Urgently Needed CROWDED CONDITIONS—Botany laboratory experiments must be conducted in overcrowded conditions, where students are limited by lack of equipment and space. ZOOLOGY LABORATORY—Jerrt/ Ann Morris is seen conducting research m a Zoology laboratory in the Green Science Hall, erected in 1956. For November, 1967 More Space, Professors Biggest Need By PROFESSOR E. C. POWELL, Chairman, Department of Science and Mathematics Needs for additional space, equip ment, and professors are easily seen in Chowan’s Department of Science and Mathematics. In 1956 the Department of Science and Mathematics moved into the Green Science Hall—a building made possible through a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Rufus J. Green in honor of Mr. Green’s mother, Mrs. Mary Olivia Parker Green, class of 1863 at Chowan College. This building in 1956 served a student body of 235 and a departmen tal faculty of three and was designed to meet the needs in science and mathematics of a student body of up to 450 students. In the fall of 1963, the student body had groWtt to 1155. Move to Marki Hail The members of the mathematics faculty were moved to offices and lec ture rooms in the new Marks Hall in order to make room for the ever growing needs of the division of sciences. In the beginning, Green Hall had only one laboratory for the various biological courses, two chem istry laboratories, and one small phy sics laboratory. There were six lec ture rooms and four faculty offices. However, when the mathematics course were removed from the build ing, one upstairs lecture room was made into three offices and two down stairs lecture rooms were combined into a laboratory for botany and mic robiology. The upstairs biology lab- ratory was set up for zoology, ana tomy, and physiology. This is the set up as it remains today: a total of three lecture rooms, one botany-mic- robiology laboratory, one zoology, ana tomy, and physiology laboratory, one physics laboratory (optimum capacity, 12 students a laboratory sessions), one general chemistry laboratory, one small organic and nursing chemistry laboratory, and seven faculty offices of which two are occupied by mem bers of the nursing faculty. Enrollment of 1,301 At present, the Fall of 1967, Green Hall is hopelessly inadequate to serve the needs of an enrollment of 1301 students. Incidentally, the student en rollment in the Science and Mathe matics Department stands at 1517 enrollment in tf gfgffgf gf fg fgfgffff students. Obviously, many students are taking more than a single course in this department. The laboratories are crowded to the extent that prop er surveillance of the students’ work is an impossibility, and careless hand ling of expensive equipment as well as the possibility of injury from the use of dangerous chemicals are a con stant source of concern to the labor atory supervisors. Less crowded lab- (Continued on Next Page) PAGE THREE
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