- A student population explosion is upon us. We see the signs of it today in a freshman enrollment 25% greater than last year, and we are not in a position to meet it. The survey points out that the University of Kansas will require more classrooms in 1962, will run out of laboratory space in 1963. This, in spite of an efficiency in the use of facilities, it ranks the University at the 94th percentile in a nationwide comparison, in which the 80th percentile is look upon as excellent management. In the past five years, the University has made a massive attack upon the problem of student housing. Spaces for nearly 2,000 additional single students, and 240 married students have been constructed, largely through private gifts and federal loans. Today all these are filled to capacity, and we have been forced to use a World War II barracks we had hoped to abandon. Two years must elapse before we can add another residence hall unit, and this I remind you, is just the beginning.