GENERAL INFORMATION . 27

STUDENT LIFE

Much of the life and activity of students outside the classroom is con-
centrated in the University’s new “living room,” the Memorial Union, a
splendid building erected and equipped at a cost of $1,250,000, largely
through the generosity of more than 18,000 students, alumni, faculty, and
friends of the University. Among the physical facilities of the Union are:
cafeteria, large and small dining rooms, grill room, and lunchrooms; rooms
for games, music, committee meetings, and assemblies; quarters for stu-
dent publications and clubs; combined ballroom and banquet hall; library;
spacious lounge; barber shop; writing room; checkrooms; alumni offices;
and lodgings for transient alumni and visiting teams. By virtue of this
wide range of facilities, the Memorial Union opens to the university com-
munity heretofore unequalled opportunities for formal and informal social
gatherings of diverse types.

Upon registration and payment of his or her semester fees, including
an amount of five dollars set aside for the maintenance and operation of
the Memorial Union, each student automatically becomes a member of the
Union and is entitled to all the privileges of the building during the semes-
ter. Life members of the Union (students who have paid a total of fifty
dollars in Memorial Union fees or by subscription) are exempt from further
payments and are accorded the privileges of the building for life.

FACULTY SUPERVISION

The Faculty Committee on Student Life and Interests has general
supervision over all organized student activities, and its chairman, the
Dean of Men, is available for correspondence and consultation regarding
student affairs at all times. He will gladly confer with parents or guar:
dians regarding individual men students, and he is anxious to get in touch
with boys who are contending against illness, discouragement, financial
worries or other obstacles to successful work in college. His office issues
mimeographed lists of lodgings and rooming houses for men students, with
detailed information.

The academic and social welfare of women students is under the direct
supervision of the Dean of Women, whose office is located in Lathrop Hall,
a building designed for the use of women students. The dean and her
staff of assistants invite correspondence with parents and guardians of
women students and gladly cooperate with them in matters affecting their
welfare. For the benefit of those women who cannot be accommodated in
Chadbourne and Barnard Halls, the dean’s office prepares annually lists of
rooming and boarding houses for women students. New students desiring
rooms should report at once to her office upon arrival in Madison.