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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S I073 influence on student life by providing recreational and dining facilities which were previously available to students only under commercial management and frequently under disreputable conditions. The pleasures of the students were made sources of profit to the community. It is easy to see why the profit-seeking interests so vigorously opposed the erection of this center. It is quite as easy to see also why their chief interest, as long as the center did not exist, lay in the profits they could make rather than in the excellence of the services they could give. The opportunities provided in this center, with its library browsing room, its center of art, its amusement rooms, its dining rooms, and its cafeteria, are a far cry from the conditions existing previously, and have inevitably led to an improvement in the morals as well as the morale of the student body. Except for the establishment of rules and regulations governing conduct, institutions of higher education have not until recent years been willing to acknowledge and shoulder responsibility for their students' lives outside the classroom, laboratory, or library. Even today some institutions are unwilling to assume these obligations. But increasingly colleges and universities are recognizing that students are something more than minds to be trained. In making new facilities available to students, the University of Illinois publicly testifies that it recognizes the broad responsibility for the entire life of each student while he is living in the academic community. Personnel Bureau In its report of June 1, 1936, the President's special Committee on Educational Program for Freshman and Sophomore Students recommended the establishment of a personnel bureau as part of the General Division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Committee reported that it believed such a bureau would make possible: 1. The earlier adaptation of students to the University environment 2. The solution of a great variety of social, economic, and personality problems and maladjustments [A.C.E. Report—55]
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