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Show 4. Army and Navy Organized Reserve Units. There are openings in the organized reserve units in the local Navy and Army units. Participation in these programs, however, does not give deferment from the draft to those who joined after July 1, 1951. There are some advantages, however, to a young man who enlists via the organized reserve system rather than be drafted or enlisted into the armed forces. 5. Attractive enlistment opportunities in the Air Force are open for those with two years of college. THE HEALTH SERVICE The Health Service of the College provides protective and educative benefits for every student. The responsibility for the program is assigned to the Chairman of the Division of Health and Physical Education with the assistance of the School Physician, the School Nurse, the Dean of Men, and the Dean of Women. Any student seeking solution to health problems is welcome to confer with any of these officials. The following services are available to the students of Weber College: 1. A medical examination (regarded as a screening rather than a diagnostic examination) to every student upon his initial registration in the college. 2. Special attention to students in need of medical or dental care through a follow-up program which, if necessary, will guide students or their parents to sources of medical and dental treatment. 3. Emergency care for accidents and sudden illnesses occurring at the college. 4. Health conferences and consultations with the School Physician on any major health problem. 5. Re-examinations, at reasonable intervals, for students with physical defects. 6. Protective measures against the spread of disease. Medical treatment and diagnosis are the responsibility of the home and the community. 7. Maintenance of a healthful environment for student life. THE HOUSING SERVICE An important factor in a student's success in accomplishing the programs he elects to follow lies in the environment in which he studies and finds his recreation, in his personal living quarters, as well as in his school. The College provides services for personal housing as follows: 1. Supervisory services of the Dean of Women and the Dean of Men for all living arrangements of out-of-town students. 2. Bertha Eccles Hall is open to all women students of the college who are in full-time enrollment. Linen and bedding are furnished by the College. (Cost, $15.00 a month). 3. Information regarding board and room and light housekeeping in private homes in the City. BUILDING AND GROUNDS SERVICE For the student's class work and activities the College provides an adequate physical plant and a buildings and grounds staff which maintain an environment that is comfortable, healthful, and wholesome. INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS The College Library The College Library provides a rich store of materials especially selected to serve students and faculty who are following the curriculum. The collection which is constantly growing in cultural value, includes more than 27,000 volumes in addition to a working library of pamphlets, documents, and bibliographical aids. The College, through its library service, subscribes to 203 literary, scientific, and educational periodicals, as well as to state and national newspapers. Weber College recently acquired the Howell Library of approximately 12,000 volumes. This library, which was willed to the College by the late Judge James A. Howell, includes American and English novels written before 1900. The Library is located on the second floor of the Physical Science Building. The Library is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., except Friday when it closes at 5 p.m. On Saturday it opens at 12 o'clock noon. It is closed on Sundays and holidays when the school is not in session. Bureau of Audio-Visual Aids The College maintains an Audio-Visual Aids Bureau which ad-ministers the procurement, distribution, maintenance and utilization of audio-visual teaching materials and equipment. The Bureau is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. Request for evening service may be made directly to the Bureau or to the assistant night school director in the Vocational Building. The Museums The Zoological Collection, a collection of vertebrate animals, mostly from the Intermountain Region, is housed in the Department of Biology. Preserved amphibians and reptiles, as well as standard study skins of birds and mammals from the nucleus of what is intended to become a survey collection of the vertebrates of the western United States. Several cases of mounted specimens and a synoptic survey of insects and other invertebrates are also available for study. The Weber College Herbarium is housed in the Department of Botany, Agriculture and Forestry. The herbarium is representative of the plants of Weber County and is being rapidly expanded to cover the flora of Utah and adjacent states. It also contains two hundred sheets of South Pacific plants, and several hundred plants from the eastern states. The herbarium is open to Weber College students and to others whose training is such as to enable them to profit by its use. |