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Show Library landscaping to serve many purposes Other trees surrounding the new library will include: flowering tulip, beech and hawthome. ENIOR STAFF WRITER According to Rodger Austin, superintendent for the general contractors, Carter Enterprises, Rain tree Landscaping has gone to great lengths to preserve as many of Imagine yourself sauntering along walkways, listening to the wind whistle the original trees as possible. There are 14 existing deciduous trees. Two trees had through the surrounding forest of trees. But this isn't just any forest.Not only are to be removed to complete the construction of the library. their giant Sequoias, but there are also oak and horse chestnut trees. Imagine once again strolling your way into the front entrance way of the new Eventually there will be plaques labeling each and every species of tree in this edifice. grove. Above you is the skylight serial reading room commonly known as the dnm1 . No, this i n't an arboretum. · Here students lounge in a setting that is conducive to reading ~----,--=----:----:--- ---,- - - - - - - - - - , and studying, with a view of the city and rangeland north to the It's SUU's newly landscaped library. mountain . You can experience all this and Before you enter the building, below the drum is a glass more. That i , if you don't bordered balcony where you may peer down into the garden graduate or transfer by the time level's fountain, which can larg ly be seen from outside. the winter winds of 1996 begin This area is a result of the state mandate which r quires that to blow. l percent of the cost of the building go toward an artistic Th expected opening of the display. spaciou building located on the The percentage from the co t of th library will go toward this outh side of campus is winter fountain composed of r d and tone monoliths spewing out quarter of next year. bubbling water into a pool below. The landscaping, totaling 12.9 Sculptor David Phillips will create an evolutional display of trees in all, will be similiar to writings called the "Garden of Sign ," which will ·ymb liz that of the older part of campus, man's progress in literacy with petroglypbs engraved into th according to Michael D . round, sandstone wall bordering the rear of the fou ntain. Richards. vice pre ident for Among the writing univer i ty affair . tylc display d are It will cover the ntirc area engraving fr m Easter fr 111 the music building to th Island, Egyptian The newe I artoist' re11dilio11 of the new P.E. parking lot. h yro lyphs, Runic, Thai, library reflects the changes in tl;rn The trees will n t only be A ·syrian cuneifonn, even used a an a ·sthetically pl asing windows. th print tyl used m th academic evnir nment th y famou Gutenberg bibl , bring, but al o a an educational tool for botany offerings on campus. on up to our modem day Eighteen different specimen tre will be grown for this purpose, Richards Arabic writing . The new library will said. Go back to the future and imagine 14 London Plane along with sev n include sp cial collection existing honey locu t trees growing along 200 South. rooms such as William From the sidewalk can be seen even flowering pear trees roLtnding out the Palmer's which are southern comer of the building. The entire outhern side of the library will present in the existing be lined with a ribbon of flowers. Wander up the hill near the southea t library but are not as portion by the music building into a forest mixture of 26 spruce and nine accessible. quaking aspen trees. Palmer was a local resident who interacted In addition, the sidewalk connecting the Student Center to the present David Phillips' library will be lined by a row of 15 shady sugar maple trees. with the early Native design for the Kick back and enjoy an issue of the University fournal on the benches Anlericans,collected 'Garden of Signs. ' some of their artifacts located on the north side of the library. This area will be surrounded by a mixture of six Engelmann Spruce and six fir trees lined by ash trees to the and wrote books about ......_ the history of them . east. By JENNIFER ELLIOTT ________________________.... AIDS symposium educates concerned citizens By J. ARTHUR FIELDS SENIOR STAFF WRITER "It is tragic that as this disease continues to grow," said Stan Penfold, associate director of the Utah AIDS Foundation, "so does our organization." Penfold, along with the foundation's executive director Barbara Shaw, hosted a two-and-a-half hour symposium here yesterday on the topic of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome !AIDS). Together with Steve Susoeff, HIV prevention specialist for Southwest Utah Mental Health/ Alcohol and Drug Center, Penfold and Shaw spoke to a groups of some 75 SUU students and a second group of about 30 concerned citizens in the Technology Building. According to conservative estimates, Utah currently has anywhere from 5,500 to 6,000 individuals who are HIV positive. However, Penfold said, these estimates are most likely inaccurate because Utah has yet to do a comprehensive study of the spread of the disease within the state. The first hour of the symposium was aimed at I SUU students and college age adults. It focused on the causes of the disease as well as ways to prevent it. In addition, Penfold informed the gathering of the efforts that his organization has made in the last few years to combat the disease. According to recent demographic studies, the greatest increases within the last few years in the amount of infections are among women. More disturbingly is that both teenage gay men are also on the rise as well as heterosexual senior citizens. The Utah AIDS Foundation works to keep individuals of all ages informed of the latest developments in addition to help and support available to those who have become infected. "We would like to impliment outreach programs to other areas of the state," said Penfold, "we have been basically focused in Salt Lake for the last ten years since we began and we are just now starting to branch out." Penfold, Shaw and Susoeff each stressed the importance of correct information when dealing with the practice of safe sex. Each reinteratedthat abstenence was the only surefire method of avoiding infection. However, if an individual is going to have sex it must be done safely, they said. "The need for AIDS awareness is very important everywhere, even in a place like Cedar City, 11 said Pefold. "The pattern that we're seeing is that this disease is spreading we are seeing a trend where people who are infected in other parts of the country are coming home to die," Penfold said. "So in addition to informing those who do not have the disease, we are also caring for Utahans who already have it." "This is not a gay men's disease," Penfold said reminding the group the this disease does not discriminate. |