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Students can iuct small research "jScts observing the or animals that in-- , jd same jiilie an fit In -- the lit 'Inch most, space. the surprise to animals actu-mak- e up a large part with creaks including lizards, fdtses, fish and even a to garden, ,'tikawalla. tot just college taking advan-vofth- e new area. eral young men try-- t earn their eagle rank worked in the den and created their Ud tods around stu-itsa- re helping I'tcause. ereis also a ' lot of around the gar-- 1 There are new ani- - know how the new building will change the current campus system, here is a quick outline. All services provided in the Whitehead Student Service Center and Val Browning Library will be moved into the new building. The Whitehead Building will be demolished and replaced by a new project, while the library will be repurposed. Also, the English department will take home to the fourth floor. Ruesch thinks this to be a good idea: Every student has to take some form of English. The big hub around the McDonald Building will now be pushed to around the Holland building. Another concern with a growing student body is that of quality learning habitats. Ruesch said: We have done a really good job in the past at creating classrooms, but we havent created a great learning environment. I think that will be the most positive thing. To add to the classroom talk the library structure is to become the home for remodeled math and science classrooms. This was another much needed change according to Ruesch. The estimated completion is for winter mals that have been added to the environment, but some of the animals have lived there for nearly 50 years. Taking good care of the garden shouldn't be an issue this time around. "We wanted to make this as low maintenence as possible," Irvin said. The main feature that will aid in this new easy care is a watering system that can be set up to water at certain times and also turn on and off by itself. Another concern was the type of wood used on the ramp that leads into the space, which is compliant with ADA and handicap accessibility laws now. A composite wood was chosen that wouldn't take much work to upkeep and wouldn't get ruined over the years. Some of the renovating was even harder than volunteers had planned. Irvin himself spent more than 1 ,000 hours working on renovating the Photo Illustration shows the progress of the Centennial building. New construction will bring more places for students to study, hang out and meet new people. semester of 2013. river creek that will run out here, and come of what the campus is on the north down the area, which when they want to do Also, molding into. side of the structure I think the students will be for active use. fun. We are something scithere will be new Added structures will are going to love it, and trying to not just put a into ence laboratories. Conour will the provide shady place go, Wow I cant money to sit, and power struction should begin but believe this is really in buildings, money in late November or into the actual campus sources will give stuour campus', Ruesch in to a the said. dents for December. lifestyle space place early plug As a side note for stuThe space available students. while connecting to e In asking how this wireless Internet. from the demolished dents, jobs will be available in the will be funded, Ruesch Ruesch said: The Whitehead Building future for construction shared that the Funding idea of it is that we will be filled by the site cleanup. No work dont have a lot of great for this project will study mall project. come exclusively from outdoor space. This is The plan for this projexperience is required. Ruesch informed that donations local reasons one of the ect is to make an attracpeoby why we made the pavilion. It ple, alumni, and various the hiring will go tive place for students sources. is to create spaces that and to hang out, study through student job exservices. Look for the There is a great make students want to meet new people. citement for the vision There is going to be a stay on campus, hang postings soon. part-tim- space. Both Smith and Irvin estimate hauling about 20,000 tons of concrete, rock and debris out of the area before being able to add the new plants and ani- svS' BY AMANDA JACOBS Staff Writer mals. "There was this huge yucca tree out there that was overwatered," Smith said. "Yucca trees aren't supposed to be watered much, let alone as often as that one. It was huge and we had to haul it out of there." Now that most of the hard work is about finished, both Smith and Irvin hope the Center for Desert Studies a loosely working title they both came up with will be open soon, and they both have optimistic hopes for the future. "We hope to have a grand opening soon, but this is really just the beginning," Irvin said. "Hopefully this will be around for as many years as the one before for everyone to learn from and enjoy." V r Wellness Center expands, relocates, adds therapists 1 f Dixie State College students may not be aware of some of the exciting new changes occurring in the quality of health care that is available to them. The DSC Wellness Center, located at 34 N. 600 East has always been a pivotal part of providing care for students in need, but with the opening of a new location to help accommodate the large volume of students, health care services are more readily available than ever. benefit to everyone," Johnson said. "We have been working on the addition of a nurse practitioner on our staff." Johnson said students will be able to see the nurse practitioner with any medical concerns for just $5 per visit, and faculty and staff will also recieve a discounted rate of $20 per visit. "A nurse practitioner can do so many things that will aid us, including things like asthma care, suturing and being able to write prescriptions," Johnson said. Johnson said she is cur- The new office, which rently screening appliwas moved into in early cants, and she hopes to June, has been undergoing have found someone suitdurp renovation and able for the job by Sepmonths. summer tember. ing the The office, which includes For the time being, stustanurses' a exam rooms, dents can still recieve a tion, and two offices for free voucher to go to the the four therapists on staff, IHC for treatment of any is now almost completed. illnesses. As fall semester begins, Another exciting change staff members are looking taking place is in the menforward to finalizing each tal health department. Any A of their goals. major student who feels the need first step was to expand to visit with a therapist Center Wellness the what will be evaluated on by offers to the faculty, staff the therapist in order to and students in order to detennine how many free acand draw more people sessions they will be commodate those who awarded. a on need these services DSC has always offered these services, but now regular basis as well. who Barbara Johnson, there are some changes serves as the coordinator taking place. After the CenWellness new the g of evaluation, students can the recieve up to five sessions ter, spoke of some of of member each that of therapy and goals of in the staff has hopes then will be moved to stuc providing care to each group sessions with other ' dent in need, students in need. "One huge hope we Students who are experiz the within fulfill to wish encing difficulty with a next month will really.be drugs or alcohol abuse can set-u- one-on-o- in-rea in the science building 5 new plant life and wildlife. The transformation was much needed, nw provide additional asthetic and academic value to the facility. JuTTcnov'aredfb'ese'scape'Gardcn also attend educational prevention classes. Johnson teaches these free courses, but she doesn't do treatment for major addiction. "If a student is really struggling I refer them to one of the therapists for treatment purposes," Johnson said. SUU student Jennifer Jensen said that one of the main reasons she decided not to attend DSC was because she felt that SUU offered more advantages to students. The Wellness Center was just one example of her concerns. "Now that Dixie is starting to offer more services in terms of health care, I think people might take them more seriously," Jensen said. "It's important to stay competitive in what types of student perks are offered." Now that DSC is offering some of these services like other local colleges, there are concerns that students might not take advantage of them or keep aware of what exactly is offered to them, Johnson said many students don't know what services are available to them or are sometimes just afraid to seek help for any problems they are having. But the services provided are just to help people, and there is never any danger involved. "Any service provided at the Wellness Center is confidential," Johnson said. "Students never have to worry about any issues they are having becoming public." |