On
Campus
Student population:
1,045 men, 729 women
Annual tuition:
$1,700
South Hill campus is growing, with 10 dorms, the union, the health center, Friends
Hall, the science building (now Williams Hall), and Hill Center.
Under
construction: Ford Hall, the library,
Muller Center, the East Tower for women and West Tower for men
Events: Rosedance,
Winter Weekend, Christmas Ball, Sweethearts Ball. Inter-Fraternity
Council Weekend features skiing, ice
skating, casino night, miniature golf, games. Spring Week-end
[left] features dances and a parade.
Student organizations: Twenty-two, including Student Council, Womens
Student Government, Mens Student Government, Wives
Club (for the wives of male students)
Sports:
Only intercollegiate cheerleading
and gymnastics are open to women. Varsity baseball has a 16-3
record, varsity football 6-2. Varsity soccer achieves its most
successful record, 9-2, in ICs 32-year history of the sport.
Theater: The
Glass Menagerie, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Tonight We Improvise,
The Boyfriend
News: Robert
F. Kennedy campaigns in Ithaca for the U.S. Senate.
On the Tube

Bewitched
The Ed Sullivan Show Leave It to Beaver
The Dick Van Dyke Show
On the Screen
Oscars: My Fair Lady wins for best picture,
best director (George Cukor), and best actor (Rex Harrison).
Julie Andrews wins best actress for Mary Poppins. |
In the Headlines
Ford
Mustang is introducedat a price of
about $2,500.
New York Worlds Fair in Flushing
Meadow, Queens, features 140 pavilions.
Lyndon
B. Johnson is elected president with largest
plurality in history.
Nightclub owner Jack Ruby is convicted
of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, and sentenced to death.
By July U.S. casualties in South Vietnam
have risen to 1,387 since December 1961.
Martin Luther King
Jr. (right), activist and civil rights leader, receives Nobel
Peace Prize.
Civil Rights Act is
passed by Congress, outlawing employment discrimination on basis
of race, religion, ethnicity, or gender.
Fifty-seven East Germans crawl to freedom
through a tunnel in the Berlin Wall.
Martial law is declared
in Seoul, South Korea, after 10,000 students demand an apology
for government
corruption and abuse of power.
Popular Tunes
"She Loves You," the Beatles
"I Want to Hold Your Hand," the Beatles
"Hello, Dolly," Louis Armstrong
"Pretty Woman," Roy Orbison
"I Get Around," the Beach Boys
"Everybody Loves Somebody," Dean Martin
Sports
The Saint Louis Cardinals defeat the New York
Yankees, 43, in the World Series.
The 18th Olympic Games are held in Tokyo.
. . . the Pages
Fiction best-sellers: The Rector of
Justin by Louis Auchincloss, The Spy Who Came in
from the Cold by John Le Carré, Armageddon
by Leon Uris, Julian by Gore Vidal
Nonfiction best-sellers: The Kennedy
Wit by Bill Adler, Harlow by Irving Shulman,
Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur, My Autobiography
by Charlie Chaplin |