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Show SSIUIIUI NlcWSS Campus improvements move ahead over summer ver the last few days officiaJs of SUU were some of the busiest people in be widened but wiR have a lip to it, serving as both a retaining wall and staging area for events such as baccalaureate ceremonies and concerts. ·Many of the Utah. The July 14-15 meetings that were held in conjunction with the Utah legislature, State Board of Regents and State Board of Education things that are built here are done so for multiple purposes• he added. went smoothly with the Regents voting to update the SUU Master Plan. Richards also summarized the capital budget request of SUU for 1994-95. ·A11 modifications were approved from last year,• said SUU Vice President for SUU submits two requests to the State each year. The first. Capital University Affairs Michael D. Richards. Developments, involves those projects that cost $1 million or more. Under the A major change to the . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , , request for 1994-95, plan reaffirmed Regents' over 12 additions and action in December renovations were 1992 when they moved submitted with Phase Ill of the Student to relocate the planned university library from Center ($5 million) and the Administration a new P.E. building building parking lot to ($15 million) as top the now demolished Oak priorities having Hall. Also presented in received program the meetings were more approval from the accurate depictions of Legislature. the planned addition to The second part of the current student the Capital Budget center, known as Phase Request is the category Ill. of Capital In a July 6 letter Improvements. This addressed to Cece includes those areas Foxley, commissioner of badly in need of repair, the Utah System of renovation or upgrade. Higher Education, SUU There are 30 items President Gerald A. listed on the request Sherratt noted that in and according to addition to the proposed Richards, of the same changes to the Master request last year, only Plan, the university was the General Classroom currently involved in remodeling was several construction approved. ·in fact, we projects. The Library received $200,000 of utilities package-the the $900,000 that is major work located needed. We will have immediately north of the -of> to go to the state during TUNNEL RATS: The SUU campus is currently tom asunder for construction of a utility tunnel and improvements the next legislative Student Center is among the most visible to the Student Center area. Construction, inconvenient but necessary, will continue until fall quarter. session to obtain the of these projects. 9This balance." With such a is a tunnel that is about poor ratio of grants to 7 feet in diameter. When you have that size of a tunnel you have to make a trench requests, Richards says that universities and agencies across the state are at least 14 feet wide to," said Richards. This particular area of construction should operating on an urgency basis. "Only those improvements that are extremely be completed by fall quarter and includes a new south entrance to the Student urgent get the funding needed. For instance, the Centrum reroof is on the list. Center. That building is about eight years old, but because of poor materials needs a new Another construction project currently under way is the remodeling of the Home roof next year." Richards said that all projects will be prioritized based on immediate need. Economics building. "We hope to be laying carpet in mid-August," Richards noted. Part of the renovation to the building is a new walkway leading up to it from the BY BRADY H. PETERSON east, between the Science Center and the Upper Quad. The sidewalk will not only I Tickets still available for Ricky Van Shelton concert t least three kinds of songs can be expected at the July 24 Ricky Van Shelton concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Utah University Centrum. Tickets for the program by the country-western singer who has recorded four platinum certified albums and one gold certified album since 1987 are still available. ·Ricky Van Shelton is an extremely popular performer; he is one of the very top country-western artists," Valynne Nicholes, executive director of the sponsoring SUU Thunderbird Athletic Club, said. -We are expecting a full house, but tickets can still be purchased. It would probably be wise to buy seats as ear1y as possible." Ticket outlets for the concert are the Centrum ticket office (801-586-7872) in Cedar City and lntermountain Farmers Association (801-673-3531} in St. George. IFA is located at 310 North Industrial Road. All seats will sell for $17 .50, with a $1 discount for all students. in recent concerts Ricky Van Shelton has combined music from the 1950s with up-tempo country songs and some of the more classic honkytonk country-and-western numbers," Nicholes explained. "We expect that we will be getting the same kind of mix here. ·His '50s music has included 'Great Balls of Fire,' and "Pretty Woman,' and his classic western numbers are a lot like you would expect at a Buck Owens or Mer1e Haggard show. Reviewers have praised the way the three kinds of music are intermingled." Performing with Shelton and his six-piece band as a special guest will be "Zaca Creek." Shelton says that "People love country music anywhere. Country music is a mix of rock and soul and rhythm and blues and big band; you can find all those styles in one sound and that's country music. It's America's music." Besides recording and touring, Shelton has recently taken up writing children's books. His first is Tales From a Duck Named Ouacker: The Story Begins. Each of the stories in what is planned to be a series has a moralfor young readers. In the first Quacker book, characters learn to be themselves because there are no rules for a way for a person to be. Shelton, who currently lives with his wife, Bettye, on a 150-acre farm outside Nashville, Tenn., grew up in Grit, Va., under the firm guidance of his mom and dad and the Pentecostal church. His first album, "Wild-Eyed Dream," was an almost immediate success and debuted platinum, which is considered a country music phenomenon. His albums "Loving Proof," ·RVS Ill~ and "Backroads" also certified platinum. ·Greatest Hits Plus," which was released late in 1992 is certified gold and expected to go platinum. Shelton has also had 13 singles top the country music charts. His more 'recent awards include both male artist of the year and entertainer of the year for both 1990 and 1991 in the TNN Music City News Awards. All proceeds from the Cedar City performance will go to the SUU athletic scholarship fund. Assisting with sponsorship of the concert are Ken Bettridge Distributing, Inc., and KSSDIKSUB Radio. 1l£ SUMMER8IRD • PAGE 3 |