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Some campus worriers believe that when the G.I.s go, they will take with them the serious air that the campus has recently worn, leaving the field to the convertibles and the rah-rah life. Says Student David Weinick: "The jungle is closing in again." But against the encroaching jungle, if that was what it was, a surprising number of machetes were being wielded last week. Wisconsin was trying out on freshmen and sophomores a new culture survey program, with lectures on such "useless" subjects as the poetry of Lucretius.
Thanks to a $5,000 bequest from a onetime Wisconsin football coach, the campus may get a literary magazine again. And a faculty-student committee had got together to decide how best to beat a pathway back to the mind. Best suggestion so far: build a milk-bar meeting place for faculty and students on Bascom Hill—with no jukebox.
* An undergraduate of 1863 left an eyewitness report of the arrival of the first Wisconsin coeds: "They came like an army with banners, conquering and to conquer; they came with bewitching curls, and dimpled cheeks, and flowing robes, and all the panoply of feminine adornment; and worst of all, they came to stay."