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Show 6 Signpost Tuesday, May 1, 1984 Campus Update Allied Health Building Off To A Good Start y "fc 52 ii n It; 'n. n r ' , - -v'.'-,;. ,-,1ltr,;r- k. vl r3P WMi rwf!l! 1 . . "-l" """-Eggs s&raf - . $S : ,. J f. . The architectural rendering of the J. Willard Marriott Allied Health Sciences Building depicts the stair-step ap- Construction on the new Allied Health Building at Weber State College got off to a healthy start with bulldozers moving in before officials had a chance to break ground. Ground breaking for the 'J. Willard Marriott, Sr. Health Sciences Building" was set for April 19, but when that date rolled around the area was all fenced off and half the hill was gone. College officials had given the construction company of Cannon-Papanikolas approval to start before the April ground breaking day in order to better ensure that the building be completed by the July 1985 deadline. The nearly $5 million building will house most departments in the School of Allied Health Sciences, which include respiratory therapy, nursing, radiologic technology, medical technology, paramedic and emergency medical technicians, pearance the building will have once it is constructed cost of the building is approximately $5 million. The nuclear medicine and other related health care fields. The building will be constructed in a stair-step fashion, with each level recessed from the lower level and built into the hillside located north of the Stewart Library and east of the Croft Arboretum. The bottom level of the building will have entrances from main campus walkways, while the upper floor will open to the Wildcat Stadium parking lot. The building will have four floors with a total of 59,000 square feet. The building is named after business magnate J. Willard Marriott, who has established a $ 1 million endowment at the college for the School of Allied Health Sciences. Approximately $100,000 in interest from the invested endowment funds will be available each year for fellowships, research grants, awards and other programs of merit in the WSC school. Deadlines for Campus Update are noon on Friday for Tuesday's paper and noon on Wednesday for Friday's paper. If submission is not received (typed and with correct information) by the deadline, it will not be printed until the next paper. Items in Campus Update are subject to editing depending on the availability of space. Brown Bagger The Women's Educational Resource Center will sponsor a brown bagger this Wednesday at noon in Ub 354. The topic, "Through a Crack in the Door: A Journalist's Opportunities," will be presented by Linda Sillitoe, a reporter for the Deserct News. Party Cancelled Due to inclement wheather, last week's unparty, sponsored by the LDS Institute, is postponed until May 11 at 5 p.m. Fashion Show The fashion merchandising department will be presenting "Business with Pleasure." The fashion show will begin at 1 p.m. on May 2 at the Hayloft Restaurant in Roy. Elder Benson to Speak Elder Ezra Taft Benson, president of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, will speak today at noon in the Union Building Ballroom. Benson is speaking in conjunction with Education Week and the spring quarter Convocation Lecture series. SME Meeting The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) will hold a general meeting on Friday, May 4, at noon in the Dean's Conference Room, which is located on the first floor of the Engineering Technology Building. The guest speaker will be Barry Sneddon, manager of Drive PCA Manufacturing, from Iomega. Arctic Adventure A 60-minute slidelecture presentation chronicling a wilderness expedition above the Arctic Circle will be presented on Tuesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Browning Center Choral Room. The lecture is sponsored by the Wilderness Recreation Center and tickets are available at WRC for $1.50 with a student I.D. and $2.50 without. Pack two years of Army ROTC into six weeks. If you have at least 45 hours of college credit, you can do it with our two-year program. We'll send you -- all expense paid -- to Fort Knox, Kentucky for a six-week Basic Camp this summer. That will make up for the first 2 years you missed and give you an additional 6 credit hours and $672. After that, it's back to college, earning an extra $100 a month, up to ten months k (jei year. If you're interested in asking some questions about this program, Stuart Thatcher, a Basic Camp graduate, will be upstairs in the UB Blue Lounge, May 2nd from 9:00 to 1:00 pm Army ROTC -- The more you look at it, the better it looks. -f kfv ... - v. , t(gm" . . y- J xfe |