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Show 2D Academics Emphasis Featured At BYU ' Building Sunday Herald SUNDAY, FEBRUARY &, ts Pace Levels Off AsEnrollment Steadies verage and early 19805 b at Brigham } ou! building still goes big Church x spectacular but of col 9 ded to 521 st riments, The e¢ = now offered in l demic This semester for the first Brigkam Young Univ eering has been approved fdr BYU Observers of the Univer growth call it the “Era of Ex. vides 2% additiona! class-ooms, cellence.” in three new lecture hells, five President Wilkinson said, rap departmental offices and 73 scholarin improvement “The faculty offices. at BYU has been even students From the outside, the Annex ship more dramatic than our build- kely matches the original building's ing program.” The Department of Admis- brick and pressed-stone facade and landscaping. Inside, it is Gepartments. President Ernest L. W the academic prog is receiving emphasis administration and f time, BYUis using a new 4ddition to the Jesse Knight Building. The new wing pro- n % ¢ 18 aca adv un New Degree y Dre Armin H. Hill, dean ef “the College ot Phy. Engineering Science applicants for ering will be ae. pted for the fall semester sah! 1958. Recently the BYU engineer subtly more modern with beige sions and Records recently re- all and cream walls, terrazzo ported that this year's entering g ing departments were reap _ credited by the Engineers the ¢ Stairsteps and glittering asbes- freshmen had an average high |school grade-point average of lum, more than 2500 siudents tos tiles. Council for Professional De 3.2 (B plus) and their Ameri- are enrolled in the Graduate velopment after a visit to can can College Test Scores aver- School, and last year mas‘er's pus by an accrediting ‘eam. The BYU engineering currici ‘The addition, which houses aged 23 on a 36-point scale (the and doctor's degrees were Unique Featare DOWNTOWN PROVO is the subject ef much planning and scheduled improvements. Last someon six echt ef Cetter:Sirest hed the sirect widened, sidewalks nerrewet, new curbs and gutfers, street and middle-of-the road parking. City and business groups are working on plans Wrrecans the decaying business section of West Center lum was first organized in 1952, the first students were gradg- four LDS campus wards, has |the unique distinction of being : | the only building on the 74 ward campus with a bapticmal T ° Expansion | Improve City Power Wider Horizons Spur ated in 1957, and the depart. ments were first accredited by wo Fi font. ECPD in 1966. the top of the oid stadium, It will provide working space for 100 faculty and staff members. |]t consists of five wings with |18 single offices, 27 double of\fices, a dean's suite, three deAn improvement in services partmental suites, and two secand a lessening of the chance retarial poois. of a city-wide power outage will | ‘The building will incorporate ich were be possible when a $1,250,000 |the new studied as to where the cityan even wider and more entic- expansion and improvement|Duilt at the top of the old stacenter complex should be plac-|ing selection of merchandise. project, started last summer by jdium shortly before the new |stadium was built. |the Provo City Power Departed, Each faction has argued its Civic clubs and community n points with fervor and fact, |groups offer opportunity for|ment, is completed. ‘The final decision required citizens to serve their commun- According to Ron Dean, sup- * Provo On To Progress ity. Only through freely given|erintendent of the Power de- Approximately 130 BYU sth g Use of Provo City Water Shows Provo Residents Are Cleanest sie : 4 s < a: 3é » ae aTigf F i 3 a i i i ii “i i e in Provo have to be located at the mouth of Rock an additional yearly water sup ‘Canyon, northeast of BYU, with ply of three billion gallons, a three million galion capacity. This, added to the existing The reservoir would be yearly supplyof five billion galloeated e higher in Rock Canyon, lons, would allow Provo to in- and its 500,000 gallon capacity |crease its population by nearly would deliver water to the Oak| 35,000 persons, or mean the |; Hills and Indian Hills area in| addition of more industries, ac dents lef Salt Lake per Jan. 27 to continue their |dies in Grenoble, France; Safe | burg, Austria; and Jerusalem during the spring = = Fa ‘2 SEEN EXHIBITS BY noted artists reward BYU students, casual | visitors and drama and opera-goers in the Harris Fine Arts 3 it 3/8 Erz i E 2é i i 2ia8 i ait e z | ze e iiti ; 5 aby iih i i gaa i i 4398]i BB : i fall 3 :ift die =f zi Ee i z t i aa a: 38 8 ai : £3242 iH gs F 5g i ing follows the slight curvature of the campus peripheral road. 3 New Buildings begins this j ered power, from such projects year on the new LDS temple, |as Flaming Gorge, into the city | A new auxiliary Services comto be built in northeast Provo. system and five new circuit| plex consisting of three buildThe city ad-ninistration — Mayor Verl G, Dixon, Commissioner Ray Murdock i Other Offerings ‘ Other departments offering the doctorate at BYU are Baeteriology, Botany, Zoology and Entomology, Graduate Educgtion, Child Development and |Family Relationships, Musif, {Speech and Dramatic Arts, \three language areas, Chemi}|try, Geology, Physics, History, Psychology, Sociology and |thropology, and Graduate Stndies and Religious Instruction Also this year for the firpt time a BYU semester is being held in Jerusalem under the direetion of Dr. Daniel H. Luglow, dean of the BYU Colkge @ Religious Instruction. ' A new one-story office building also is nearly completed at Center. = Harris Fine Arts Center Ils Home For Brood OfArts: t Under the extended wings of ed special programs to local, Offerings during past seasdna the H-shaped Harris Fine Arts|grade schools under the aus-|have included such dr: Center ckisters a lively brood|pices of the national organiza-|and musical successes as of the arts — and a growing|tion Young Audiences, Inc. to Sueceed in Business Without brood. Since the building’s com-| The BYU-Community Con-|Really Trying,” “Camelat,” pletion in 1965, it has more) certs Association has attracted |‘‘Oliver,” the world premiere than doubled the University’s | come of the most talented in-;of “Lamp at Midnight,” MA schedule of art exhibits, con-|ternational artists in the per-|Man for All Seasons,” “ certs, plays, recitals, operas! forming world. Washington Slept Here,” “ land dance programs, Included in the series this| Wilderness,” “Beckett,”“ Busy With daily rehearsals) year are such outstanding per- Lear,” “Dear Me, the SI and|and sparkling for evening per-|formers as the Fiesta Mex-|Falling,” and “An Enemy; it houses three|icana, with its 20 dancers, |the People.” i a recital hall, ajsingers and musicians portrayExhibitions i giant concert hall with a below-|ing 600 years of national his-| Adding its own distinctive scenes rehearsal room that tory; Russian pianist Vladimir contribution to the building is matches it in size, 64 class-| Ashkenazy, the Utah Symphony |the Art Department with E i5 2. = 2 northeast Provo. carding to Gottfredson, Higher Elevations In Ten Years 57 musical practice| Orchestra, duo-piano team Gold|ens of exhibitions drawing Because Provo has developed | “Within 10 years, however, oceur,| |tain ¢ 210,000 square feet of floor rooms, 1 rooms, 26 speech cubicles plus) and Fizdale, lyric soprano Bella|hundreds of spectators to see n the |we're going to have to think its effects are localized in one |P2°* into the higher elevations, dozens of offices, dressing/Rudenko of the Urkaine and|the main shows and providing gravity method of delivering |seriously of a water treatment section and does not affect the For the past decade, millions rooms, storage rooms, display renownedSoviet violinist Valery artistic touches for the whole of dollars have gone into conP water is inadequate and has re"|plant,” he says.Solnt The ofwater to the the|entire The city. work on the substation struction projects. The building halls, rehearsal rooms and 15|Klimov, building 4 . |quired the installation cf pumps | : program wag necessary to keep | television,o radio,» audio-visiual| | « “Imported” a orchestras have! Many : of the shows are travelto service the slightly higher | Mountain by the Utah Projet ject jis |is plaplanned for lethe,i "eieut 0, i the rapid spiral in en- jand studio control rooms. linciuded the Detroit Symphony |ing exhibits, drawing from sich areas such as Edgemont. |will be avalable for use, but | December nt at the university. | The Music Department alone Orchestra with Jorge Bolet as nationally known collections! as ‘The higher areas of Oak Hills | will require treatment. This | breakers are scheduled to be|"® | However, since the enroll- averages two concerts, recitals, | piano soloist, and the top-rated the Abbot Corporation and IBM and Indian Hills require a high |is also true of the water in the installed by next summer, °|pressure system. Their water|Deer Creek Reservoir, he The $1,225,000 cost is being ment was leveled off at slightly Programs or demonstrations| Pittsburgh Symphony and the shows. Already here this year supply will be augmented with| states, jpaid by the power department jover 20,000, the building pace per week, among them such| Cleveland Orchestras. Other have been the Intermountain the addition of the 500,000 gal- Water from these two places |reserves, a fund kept for just| has slowed accordingly. BYU weekly events as “Music at! orchestras have been the Ber-|Biennial Arts Show, the exhibithe lon reservoir : city limits to meet the incressin Rock Canyon, |would aid the industrial develop- such purposes so that the city will continue to construct needAfter these expansion plans|ment that is anticipated for|power system can keep pace ed structures, but at a much the stairwells and balconies of | adelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, |Center and scheduled is the ed demand. slower pace than has been fol- the main gallery. French National and Mexican world exhibition of photography, ‘with the growing city, Provo’s water supply is ade are developed, Provo will have Provo and the Uath Valley. \lowed the past few years, ManyActivities National. . |a Duropeancollection now tourquate to meet the present deThe concert schewule is thick Dramatic ing the country. mands, observed Mr, Gottfredwith performances from the|The Dramatic Arts Department Manyprivate items are shown son. But with the present rate Male Chorus, Women's chorus,/is net behind with its offer- and one-man shows staged: inof growth plus anticipated in University Chorals, Cratorio|ings. This season has seen cluding the Thomas Leak (Coldustrial expansion, we may exChoir, A Cappella Choir, Opera |‘Barefoot in the Park,” “The |lege of Southern Utah) exhibit ceed this supply, he adds. | workshop, RGTC Chorus, Sym-|Barretts of Wimpole Street,” |earlier this year, the Dean Increase Supply |phony Orchestra, Symphonic|‘Macbeth” and “The Little Fausset 130-piecé collection now To increase the water supply, |Band, String Orchestra, Con-|Foxes” with “A Majority of|on display, and the coming Provo is seeking a matching jcert Band, Varsity Marching|One,” “The Sound of Music,”|spring shows of the paintings federal fund grant for a million | Band, Chamber Orchestra, the|and the “Oedipus Rex Cycle”|!of BYU professor Francis dollar expansion program, The j newly-formed Faculty Sinfon-| yet to come. Each of these|Magleby ang the paintings, potfederal gove: has agreed ietta and eight different cham-|productions does 11-18 perfor-|tery and jewelry of Prof. Max to put up 000, and the city ber essembles. jmances to accommodate the|Weaver, currently on sabbawill match this with $537,000 to The Music Department also |crowds of theater-goers. tical. i makethe balance of the million sponsors two operas a year.| Sandwiched between the ma-| Also scheduled for spring is dollars, This year saw Verdi's “The jor productions are Readers’ |a “photo-story” on comparative The plans for this expansion Masked Ball,” with another| Theater dramas beginning the| international éducation preparare in the hands of the Depart scheduled for spring. Past|new year with an all-faculty|ed by Dean Antone K. Romney ment of Housing and Urbar. Deyears have featured “Rigolet-|cast for ‘Journey’s Eng’ ex-|of the College of Education. velopment, This federal body in to,” “La Boheme,” “The Magic | perimental plays, such as last | | San Francisco reviews the plans Flute,” “Orfeo and Euridice,”|semester’s “Electra” by Soph. f before releasing any federal “Aida” and “Lakme.” ocles, and Masque Club promoney. According to Mr. GotNext season may bring @/ductions as well as original | fredson, Prov should be receiv : ing final word on the project genuine Mormon opera. Dr.|works by BYU students and Fossils Found ‘ Clinton Larson of the English faculty members, q soon. The plan includes drilling a Department has written the} Sell - Out Presentation new city well near the existing libretto to an opera based on| The fall semester saw grad- Near Muebashi city reservoirs north of BYU, the life of the Nephite rebel|uate student Doug Stewart's! TOKYO (UPI)—Whale fossils a two mile extension ofthe pipeCoriantumr, and Dr. Merrill|Nephite drama, ‘“‘A-Day, A|believed to be 20 million years line in Provo Canyon to tap Bradshaw of the Music Depart-| Night and a Day ”turn into|old have been found 7 ear new springs, and three new res ment is writing the music, an instantaneous success that | Muebashi in northwestern | Jaervoirs, | BYU,with its second year of played to sold-out houses every pai. New Reservoirs participation in ABC radio’s|night during its nine perfor-| ‘The find was made by three The largest of the reservoirs “Speaking of Music”’, is the only | mances. scientists in the prefecture. ‘The would have a five million galuniversity in the country with| Scheduled for next semester whale the fossils were {qund lon capacity and be located in a regular network program /|is a Children’s Thearter pro- exposed in the Kabura River the Slate Canyon area, south-; ARTIST’S RENDERING of Auxiliary Services Complex now tion both at BYU and in Prove generally. BYU construction series of 26 weeks. duction of “Rip Van Winkle,” |near the village roa east of Provo, to supply future under construction at BYU shows the three-building addition has leveled off to a steady pace but building is going ahead Special Programs an experimental “Evening of| Yoshii has ‘e} industrial development h in this| to the campus. The complex is being built just north of 17th in a burry in Provo itself. For the part two years, BYU Unconventional Theater” bebo baste) stratum of between » area. A second reservoir would North and west of Ninth East. It is typical of sew consizuc i Woodwind Quintet has present-|original play by an LDS author. |and 26 million years of age., ' Midday” with the audience in| tin, Vienma, New York, Phil- tion from the Salt Lake ‘Art th mo.| Ancient Whale |