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Show iraioaaEEBRBARaBama THUNDERBIRD STUDENT FEE HIKE IS APPROVED BY INSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL. SEE PAGE 3. Civ . Is? &W 1 t & ' jj i fniHriii .j4 ' 4MT t:' - I vv- - if c I j. iLi . .AS . f. -- m a v- v , , . - IfcM. i - fTT.n - f SS.Jff. 4W ri IS AMERICA IN DANGER OF LOSING ALL ITS STATUS AS A WORLD POWER? SEE PAGE 5. r ;:?- V tr- AN'MAL NUTRITION, LIVESTOCK MARKETING ARE SEE PAGE 7. CONVO TOPICS. m ! TSS, BY KRIS JOHNSON IP dX .: ii TwCJlUlCJlJ'ft 9-- 0. Z "The new student center will be open by Winter quarter of 1988," said Sterling R. Church, vice president for student services. 8,. The first phase of construction for the ' ! 40,000 square foot building building will include a new, larger Bookstore, a 11 'll y I r I r v -- ? 1 modernized dining room combined with $ v the snack bar, a cafeteria, meeting rooms, $& 31 G and a large interior lounge for student use ,r3 "' t, v.? i which was designed to be the "living room - ...cc of the campus," said Church. In addition, the new center will have a a reading room, game room, a handi-bana tv lounge, a terrace outside, and a large LX dining room. There will also be a little tl country store that will be open during the day and night. Artist's renderings, released last week, of the architectural plans of "This will be the kind of Student Center Fowler, Ferguson, Kingston and Ruben's design for SUSC's new Student that you see on larger campuses. It's going Center show a stylish exterior enclosing such amenities as a "living to be a beautiful facility and one that we room of the campus." The building's hours are scheduled to be 6 a.m. hope students will enjoy," he said. to midnight, to further accommodate student needs. According to Church, construction for the $2.3 million building won't begin until the middle of March and he added that he STUDENT CENTER TO FEATURE MANY AMENITIES doesn't anticipate the kinds of problems that there were with the Centrum. Among the features of the facility, due for completion "The building design is such that it next year, are: won't make the construction work a A LiViNC ROOM OF THE CAMPUS difficult job to do. Pylons will be set in the GREATLY ENLARGED BOOKSTORE soil, but not as deep as those of the Centrum. We won't have to move a lot of EXPANDED FOOD SERVICES Earth either and the mechanical aspect is AN AUTOMATED BANK TELLER pretty standard, so it won't be too difficult A TV LOUNGE to build. By the time we're finished, it will look aesthetically pleasing," he said. A GAME ROOM "We're in the process of planning the A BALLROOM second phase, it should become a reality A READING ROOM within the next 10 years," said Church. In the second phase the new Student Center MEETING ROOMS p N SUSC'S LADY BIRD CAGERS ENDED THEIR HOME SEASON SEE PAGE 6. AT - , Student Center plans progress STUDENT GOVERNMENT OFFICES i tif, 5 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) l |