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CSB Schedules
Campus Renovation; Building to Begin this Spring
by Nancy Przymus
An open forum discussing the immediate and long range building proposals for the CSB campus was held Tuesday, March 4. Brenda Sherwin, SAB president, revealed seven recommendations up before the Board of Trustees of the college. The building of a new housing unit west of the old apartments was in the forefront. The other recommendations include, proposals for building a new gym, renovating the HAB, providing a new cafe, reorganizing the library, reevaluating the horsemanship program, and building a new garage for the maintenance department.
The residence recommendation is a new dorm or apartment complex for sixty students. Cost is estimated at $400,000 dollars. The reasons for this new facility are many. First of all. the sisters want Loretto, which houses sixty-eight students, torn down for a renovation of the Sacred Heart
Chapel. Loretto was remodeled last fall. The college presently rents Loretto from the convent and will continue to do so through the spring of 1981. Also by the fall of 1982 the Honer apartments will no longer be available for students making a new housing unit necessary. Another reason a new unit is needed is because of rising enrollment. Enrollment should continue to rise until 1983 and then level off. The first vacancies on campus will occur around 1993.
The problem of too little recreational space was also discussed at the foru. $10,000 dollars will be allotted to further study the problem. A suggested cost figure is $700,000 dollars to be raised by the college and surrounding communities, if we can get their cooperation. The facility would be open at times to public use. A new gym and campus center area is needed to provide incentive for prospective students and to retain
present students. Due to the upcoming loss of the HAB auditorium a new facility will be needed very soon. The proposal is now before committee.
Beginning this spring the HAB will take on a new look. The current auditorium will be made into six classrooms. Two classrooms on one level will hold one hundred students apiece and the four other classrooms on the next level will hold fifty students apiece. Twelve faculty offices will also be provided by the remodeling. This will cost about $350,000 dollars. Construction begins the day after graduation and will be completed by fall semester. The result of this will mean a loss of our large indoor recreational space for the upcoming years.
Another change in the near future is a new cafe. It will be housed in the same building as the new gym. The present kitchen was set up to accommodate three hundred students on meal contracts.
Presently there is well over nine hundred students on meal contracts. The college population has tripled in the past ten years. This accounts for the crowding in the dining rooms during meal times.
When the cafe moves to the campus center area, the library will expand into the basement rooms now used for dining. The upper floors of the main building are not strong enough to hold many more shelves of books, so a move must be made. Benefits from more room in the library will be easier access to books and more space for the media center.
The horsemanship program is also being reviewed. There will be no expansion of the program and it must get along on its present budget for the next few years. The only money allotted will be for maintenance of the present facility. A minor in equitation is still available at CSB.
The last proposal up for consideration is the building of a new garage. As the plans un-
fold for the chapel renovation, the desirability of the present garage site decreases. For the time being, however, a new garage plan has not been adopted.
You may now be asking yourself, how much will these changes cost me in the form of tuition? The one hundred seventy-five dollar increase is set for the 1980-81 school year. The following year will cost you perhaps three-hundred more in tuition.
The overall reasoning behind the projected changes is beautification of the campus and a separation of the college from the convent. At one time the college was a part of the convent but the college has grown so much that the situation appears reversed. The convent would like a more secluded and reserved atmosphere in which to live. To do this, the focus of campus activity must shift from the main building to elsewhere. The new campus center, cafe and gym building will meet this objective of seclusion.
Anti-Draft Protest Rallies Students
by Suzanne Harthman
Echoes of a past issue reverberated at the recent anti-Draft and Registration seminar and rally.
The program was a response to the growing concern over the reenactment of the Draft and Registration; the revival of the bill would increase the size of our armed forces and prepare them for military action. Unlike past registration, acts, this bill allows no deferment for college students or married people, and includes 18 to 20-year olds.
Draft Awareness Day answered questions and raised others on the central issues of this registration bill. Vince King, one of the program's directors, thought the general topic throughout the day was "the skepticism regarding the motivation of people wanting to bring back the Draft; and "a blatant, national self-interest in rescuing our oil." Several speakers from the twin-campuses and around the state spoke on various concerns. Some of these were, the "Catholic Perspective on Conscription," "Legal Implications of Resisting," 'Women and the Draft," and "Are You a Conscientious Objector?"
"Catholic Perspective" and "Women and the Draft" were both well-attended workshops. Fr. George Wertin, Fr. Don
Talafaus, and Fr. Bernard Lee formed the panel on the "Catholic Perspective" while S. Renee Genereux sat on another panel for "Women and the Draft." A member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was also present. This seminar outlined the reasons why women should be aware of the Draft: as citizens and voters, women have the responsibility, regardless of age, to petition and influence Congress.
According to S. Renee, the women on the panel agreed that this war should not be used as a means to gain equal rights, though women are capable, physically and intellectually, of fighting. "I am against war, but for me, it is not a women's issue, but a human issue."
The subsequent rally attracted almost 500 people and featured guest speaker Mulford Sibley. A political scientist teacher at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, Sibley has been working on the anti-Draft question for 35 years. He stressed that the struggle with U.S.S.R. is almost the same situation as that with Vietnam; and the techniques used to train recruits were the same. Besides the other speakers, a pro-Draft speaker also urged stopping the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and protecting the Persian Gulf.
Encouragement for the Draft seminar and rally came from
both the SJU and CSB Campus Ministry. JEC provided funds. Mary Flood, an anti-Draft organizer, explained the purpose of the workshops: "The seminars were a learning experience, and then the rally. To get people psyched up is one thing, to educate them on what going to war means, is another."
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