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The Record
Volume CXI, Number VI
Official Student Newspaper Since 1887
September 10,1998
New science building opens tomorrow afternoon
By Amy E. Bowen
Editoral Staff Writer
The new science building and the renovated Science Center is scheduled to officially open Friday at 4 p.m. Festivities include tours of the building, refreshments and a brief ceremony.
SJU Provost Cheryl Knox said, "This is going to be a selling point [with Admissions]. There arc many students interested in
science; good facilities is a ---------
part of a good education."
of not being rushed. "Time is a factor," she said. "Students now have the time to be interested. It is so much better."
Field biology, including ecology, was moved to the third floor as well.
The "wet" biology, including microbiology and bio-chemistry, among others, has a new location in the new science building. Like in the Science Center, there are
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was also "a net gain" of classrooms. "It is better and more flexible for ways of teaching," she said.
One of the advantages of renovating the Science Center Knox said, was increased class space for the growing computer science major. She also said more conference rooms were added.
Knox said with more lab space students will have the advantage
new offices, conference rooms and classrooms. Knox said there is also additional blackboard space and bigger student desks. "We are accomandating the need of the different needs for teaching," she. said.
Both buildings will become handicap accessible. Knox said the old Science Center will have a ramp very soon, but it is still not
impossible for handicap people to enter the building.
The provost said the old Science Center has needed renovations for quite some time. She said when the chemistry department partially moved to CSB's Ardolf Science Center in 1992, SJU's Science Center was left with extra room.
She said the planning committee originally did not want to build a new building, but with the
-------necessary renovations, it
was more cost effective to build a new center. "I'm just amazed at where we are," she said. "This is very good for both the students and faculty. There are going to be opportunities that weren't there before."
The new buildings cost
------- 11.5 million dollars and
improvements were mainly paid through a SJU bond issue.
A formal dedication and blessing will be held in April. Knox said it will be an impressive event, including a dinner and a variety of speeches.
Both buildings are currently open and classes and labs are in session.
The inside of the new science center which opens tomorrow.
PHOTO BY DUNCAN SHANNON
CSB pedestrians face obstacles with sidewalk construction
By Amy E. Bowen Editoral Staff Writer
Walking around St. Ben's might prove to be a challenge for students, faculty and staff next week, because chilled water lines are being laid. The construction will effect the south side of Corona to the northeast corner of the Ardolf Science Center. This will provide air conditioning to the new bookstore and post office in Mary Commons.
Terry Loso, Chief Engineer of the CSB physical plant said pedestrian traffic should not face extensive difficulties, except when entering the first-year residential buildings. Loso said alternate routes will be marked. "We are always doing a little at a time and there should be always be provisions for walkways."
done right spring, we would
"Whether it was now or next
have the same difficulties with resident and security access," Loso said. "The architectural engineer and the building's design was not that advanced last summer."
Sister Miriam Ardolf said the cost for the piping will be a little more than 1 million dollars.
Loso said the newest additions to the CSB campus are scheduled to open in March, 1999.
"I feel kind of bad for the first-years. They have to deal with Mary Commons being ripped up on one side, and now this cooling-line that apparently no one thought of before move-in. It really comes across as poorly planned and an inconvenience for all students," said Kim Crandail, CSB senior.
Men's studies professor to lecture tonight at SJU
Chip Caprano provides an open forum for CSB/SJU students
By Amy E. Bowen Editorial Staff Writer
A well-known educator in the men's studies community will speak in the Humphrey Theater tonight at 7:30 p.m. Hobart College professor, Chip Capraro will present his speech, "What is Men's Studies and Why Study Men Anyway?"
Capraro will speak about the organization of the field and the ties between a liberal arts education and men's studies. CSB/SJU English professor Charles Thorn bury said, "This is an attempt to allow some kind of forum so men can feel safe."
"We have our roots in women's studies," he said. "We have a great debt to them. We need an experience for men so they can take themselves seriously."
Capraro will also be meeting with faculty, staff in student devel-
opment, students and student groups. "There are many different layers of his coming," Thorn bury said. "Including a meeting with Admissions. There are many different parts to arrange and put together."
The professor is on the staff of Hobart College, an all men's college in New York. Hobart College and William Smith College, its sister college was the first in the nation to offer a minor in men's studies. Thorn bury said the schools* relationship is similar to SJU and CSB.
Thornbury said he asks students about one question they have concerning the opposite sex in his men's studies class. "Men will say, 'I want women to say I have feelings.' I think allowing men to talk to other men about who I am [is important]. It is sometimes a hard thing to do."
NSIDE
NEWS
First year experience
relived
see page 2.
SPORTS
Football scores big in
opener
see page 7.
World/Nation
Starr's report given to congress Wednesday see page 3.
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