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VOL. 48, NO. 5
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, MT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1967
Construction Delay Strands Married Students
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CONSTRUCTION BECOMES PATTERNED ART as a wide-
angle lens catches open stairways in symmetry. Completion
plans for the townhouse apartments did not move with such
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precision, however and 48 married students were forced to
seek temporary housing until the late October opening of
the buildings.
Six Projects To Increase Classrooms, Housing
Classroom and housing
facilities are being expanded in six current and
proposed building projects
involving over $23 million.
Currently under construction
are the library and Pearce Hall
Life Sponsors
Coffee Hour
All students interested in
joining the Central Michigan
Life business or editorial staffs
are invited to a coffee hour
Thursday evening at 8 in the
University Center's Peninsula
Room.
The editors are looking for
students to fill the remaining
staff positions. There is a particular need for reporters. Non-
journalism students are encouraged to attend.
while bids will soon be submitted for a high-rise dormitory .complex and a speech and
dramatic arts building.
Construction on the $4.25
million library is continuing on
schedule and will be ready for
use by late 1968 or the spring
of 1969 according to Anthony
Paparella, director of plant extension. Part of the library
cost is financed by a grant
from the federal government.
Students will not be permitted to walk through the construction site. All foot traffic
has been routed around the
library building site on Washington and Franklin Sts. Automobile traffic on Grawn has
been blocked from Washington
to Franklin Sts.
Pearce Opens
Pearce Hall opened its doors
for classes yesterday as workmen continued to put finishing
touches on the $2,650,000 building.   This   marks  the   comple-
oltz, Sowle Receive
nniversary Awards
Two Central graduates who have achieved distinction
through military service were awarded the first 75th Anniversary Awards given for this school year during the halftime
ceremonies of the Central-Bradley football game Saturday.
Captain   Warren   (Bud)   Foltz,   much   decorated  Viet  Nam
veteran and Donald E. Sowle, former Air Force colonel received
the anniversary  awards from  President Judson W.  Foust  and
Wilbur E. Moore, vice president of academic affairs.
21 Medals Gain Recognition
Foltz won national recognition this past winter when he
was awarded 21 medals at Scott Air Force Base where he is
assigned to Air Force Communications Headquarters.
The captain has been in the Air Force five years and is
a 1961 graduate of Central. He returned to the United States in
February from Viet Nam after flying 389 combat missions
during a one-year tour of duty.
Also A Central Graduate
Sowle graduated from Central in 1940 and is now assistant
laboratory director for financial management and procurement
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute
of Technology. While in service as an Air Force colonel, he
was made the first director of the Contract Administration
Services.
Following his graduation from Central, Sowle took specialized courses in engineering, electronics and ultra-high frequency techniques at Harvard University and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He received his MBA degree from
the University of Virginia and was a member of the staff of
Georgetown University from 1961 until taking his present
position in 1965.
tion of a three-building classroom complex, composed also
of Brooks and Anspach Halls,
in the south campus.
Construction bids are due
Sept. 28 on the 100-unit married housing townhouse apartment complex, which will be
located near the 96-unit town-
house apartments presently
under construction at a cost
of $1,267,200. Building cost of
the 100 units is estimated
to run about $1,450,000 and is
to be completed by August of
1968.
High-Rise  Complex
Bids on the construction of
a high-rise dormitory complex
to be located west of the Ann
Arbor Railroad and north of
Broomfield Road will be solicited soon, said Paparella.
The high-rise complex will
consist of two eight-story
and two nine-story buildings.
All four will be grouped around
and connected to a food service
facility. The high-rise complex
will house 1,504 students under
normal conditions.
Total project cost for the
high-rise complex is an estimated $9 million.
Campaigns Begin
For Early Elections
Campaigning for Homecoming Queen candidates will begin Friday morning at 7.
Because the 1967 Homecoming is earlier than usual, it
will be necessary to hold an
extra election for freshman
class officers, vacancies in
other class offices and for off-
campus senators. This election
will take place on Oct. 10.
The Homecoming Q u e e n s'
Assembly will take place from
7 to 9 p.m. in Finch Fieldhouse
on Monday.
Campaigning officially stops
next Tuesday and voting takes
place the following day. Also
included on the ballot will be
the proposal to approve the
unified Class Constitution
which is designed to take the
place of four separate class
constitutions.
Paparella said the preliminary plans for construction of
the $5.25 million speech and
dramatic arts building were approved last week by the joint
capital outlay committee of the
state legislature. He indicated
construction may begin next
March if bids do not exceed
estimates.
Part of the construction cost
will be financed by a $1 million grant from the federal
government.
Occupancy
Deadline Set
For October
The University's housing
facilities are strained more
than ever this semester as
the delayed completion of
the married student town-
house apartments has added to the Housing Office's
juggling problem.
The situation is similar to
fitting an oversized square peg
into a round hole as an anticipated 10,450 students returned
to campus last week, all in
need of housing.
Lee Polley, housing director,
said 48 of the 96 married apartments in the townhouse complex will be ready for occupancy by the end of October.
Plans originally called for them
to be completed before school
began.
A seven week strike staged
by aluminum window makers
caused a delay in the delivery
of windows and a 'four week
delay in construction.
William Kline, foreman of
the townhouse construction
project for the Miller-Davis
Company, said a tentative completion date is set for Oct. 31
or Nov. 1.
Polley said the students
scheduled   to   move   into   the
new units were notified of the
situation during the summer.
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(Photo by Martinsen)
ALMOST AS TRADITIONAL as the kick-off is the marching
band and the half-time show. Precision was the word as
the Marching Chips played a medley of George Gershwin
tunes for Saturday's game.
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