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Show f j THE VALLEY FARM: OUTDOOR LIVING. CAMPUS OFF LIMITS TO CYCLES, OTHERS. SUSCs Valley Farm is a peaceful escape from the mundane classroom experience. Situated four miles from Cedar City, the farm gives students hands-o- n experience with livestock raising techniques. SUSC Security will begin cracking down on motorcyclists and drivers of recreational vehicles using the campus as a playground. Existing laws will be enforced, and people can be arrested, says Chief Kent SEE PAGE 9. Hoyt. SEE PAGE 3. i SB THE STUDENT NEWS AND VIEWS OF SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE CEDAR CITY, UTAH Centrum: So far, so good behind schedule but still on track New facility by Monica Cox Its becoming a familiar sight. The lonely, cold steel and cement frame rising higher and higher on the horizon. Men, dressed in dirty Levis, and baseball caps, crawl out and about on ledges and limbs. Others, buried in piles of lumber, steel and gigantic machinery, are covered by a cloud of dust. The surrounding streets, caked n with mud, give a sense of productivity and progress. The sounds have become just as familiar. They include the harmonious ringing rhythm of nails being driven, the buzzing of the cranes that lurk their heads and gracefully move those huge steel bars, and the beep as a machine moves in reverse. The sights and sounds prove that the Centrum is becoming a reality. So far, so good, is the word from Michael D. Richards, SUSC vice president of college relations. He says everything seems to be going well with construction of the Centrum and, weather permitting, college officials expect it to continue to go well. Construction is approximately 30 days behind schedule and a new, formal schedule of construction is now being made. The biggest difficulty of the project so far has been the more than 200 casons that needed to be driven for the building to rest on. It took far more time than was expected. The building is coming along, said Richards. The masonry work is moving to completion on the north, south and east sides. The work on the mechanical and electrical systems is being done concurrently with the masonry work. In the meantime, the college has gone about the business of procuring necessary equipment, such as carpeting, department furnishings, and classroom red-brow- well-know- n accessories. construction crewman walks along the top of the SUSC Centrum as a crane looms in the background. Officials hope the building will be finished before the beginning of next year, and have already scheduled classes and basketball games for the facility. A The excavating of dirt in the arena area still needs to be done. Work will also be done on parking lots on the north and south sides. Richards just returned from attending the latest session of the Utah State Legislature. SUSC received a supplemental appropriation for $207", 000, and this money will help to provide for parking, as well as for classroom furnishings. Even when the building is complete it will not belong to the college until it is turned over by the Division of Facilities Construction Management. The exact date and time the Centrum will open is not certain, but classes have been scheduled for use of the Centrum for winter quarter of 1985-8Officials hope things will go as planned because, as Richards puts it, we want to play basketball in the Centrum this fall. The facility was conceived in September of 1982. Dave Brown, an SUSC student, began circulating a petition with the goal of proving to the State Legislature that students supported Weather permitting, the SUSC Centrum should be finished by winter quarter, officials say. a new and bigger complex for social and sporting activities. The community quickly chipped in to help, as well, with fundraising activities and ideas submitted by private citizens. Many people donated money, property and even special deals at restaurants, all of which combined to make up $2 million in donations. The Centrum will include seven classrooms, as well as faculty offices, a darkroom, statistics computer lab, museum and ceramics area. Groundbreaking for the center was held March 10, 1984. The eights and sounds so familiar now will be replaced in the future with the sounds of students and teachers, the earth shattering music of concerts, and the cheers of excited fans at basketball games. Our anxiously awaited Centrum will soon be a familiar sight with its own sounds. T-bi- |