The Adak sun., May 04, 1959, Image 1

About The Adak sun. (Adak, Alaska) 1955-1976

Image provided by: Alaska State Library Historical Collections

                
: VOLUME IV NUMBER 18
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new university
MCMURDO SOUND, Antarctic
What is probably the worlds newest
all—male university opened its doorsi
here early last month with an enroll-:
•ment of 93• Founded and operated byi
the U.S. Navy, the University of an-j
tarctic , opened its first semesterj
with appropriate exercises at this;
South pole base. j
CDR William A. Lewiston, of Alpine’
Calif., Commanding Officer at LCilURDO1
SOUND, explained that university off-1
icials considered making the school:
co-educational, but decided against
it when it was concluded that the ad-}
mission of women would tend to have a;
diverting influence.Varsity atheistic;
were also ruled out, because of sche-j
duling 'difficulties and the' total;
.darkness et the Antarctic.
Students have selected 18 courses *
from the 70 offered by the Univer-j
sity’s catalogue, issued last' Feb-*;
airary. Classes will meet in one hour
periods, one to three times per week
and use USAFI courses as study guides
tal of six hours per week of regular c
host popular classes ere a review
English composition. Other popul r cc
and psychology. The University’s socor.
13ND-6502
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4 May 1959
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MIGHT! KeNGHR—Largest ship ever tc steam j
in the Pacific, the 60,uGC ton ranger re- j
presents the first Forrestal-class car
te bolster naval forces in the Western i
Pacific. Shown hero filling a substantial ;
part of the Pearl Harbor entrance channel* j
the warship, will tr: in in Hawaiian waters |
before sailing for the Far East. (AFPS)
and texts. Students are limited to a to—!
lasses, but nay attend others as spectators'
course in genorcl mathematics and college1
urses ire blueprint reading, U. S. history1
4 semester will begin July 15* (NAVNEWS)
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