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Show u N I s I T y THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1999 New building to be for the body and mind building's cla room and cla laboratories." Among the capital budget projects funded by the aerobics, biomechanics, and computer . A lecture hall The P.E. Building will be huilt on the site of the for 150 i included in the plan in addition co several 1999 ta.h ta.te Legislature was the long-awaited new C dar Middle chool north of the university , as SUU SUU Physical Education Building. large and medium·sized classrooms. will acquire that property following expansion to The 130,000-square foot facility will replace the Students in general education as well a physical other area hy the Iron County S hool District. existing P.E. Building that is sinkJng due to settlement education will use the building. The building will be constructed on the area now For a few years, the old building will be u ed a and that is now too small Jor the burgeoning occupied by the middle school 's tr.1ck and foothall surge pace srorage for instructional programs of S enrollment of the unlversity. field and, it i planned , the College of Education will Ground for the new huilding i expected to he "The building' faculty office and cla srooms have at some point be relocated to the we terly middle additional useful life with minimal remodeling," said broken in early summer following the awarding of the chool building which is ahout 25 years o ld and which UU Vice President for Technology and Planning construction bid, which will be let in the next few weeks. The architectural firm of FFKR in Salt Lake ity Michael D. Rjchards, "and the projected growth of the would .require renovation. The other buildings on the site would he razed and has been working on designs for the facility after SUU Unive rsity can he partially accommodated in the old the pool fil led in. received $1 . l million · The master plan in funding from the call for a future 1997 Lcgi lature for· building on the uch work. northwest corner of It is hoped that the 300 We ·t and new building would Center ' trcet to he complete in time house the College fo r the 2000·2001 of Performing and school year or, Visual Arts , perhap , hy pring including additional eme ter 2001. Working with the theatre pace and parking. faculty of the physical north-east elevation Funds for the education purchase of the de partment, chaired by teve Lunt, property-some $4 .6 million-were architects have de igned a large gym , appropriated hy the 1998 Legi laturc, 50·meter swimming and the university pool, five racquetball . courts, locker rooms , ha raised much of and a weight roomthe other $3.4 million in gifts to omcwhat standard acquire the land, item in any P.E. building. including a $500,000 gift from But al o in the south-east elevation the George '. and building arc A view of the coming Physical Education Building as envisioned by the architectural Jinn of FPKR in Saft lake City gives Dolores Dore Eccles laboratories for Foundation. exerci e phy iology, students an idea of the structure to house a 50-meter swimming pool and Jive racquetball courts as well as classrooms. Convo welcomes ·activist Candidates speak out tonight on SUU issues A nationally known activi t for Native was soon involved with a lawsuit to recover lands prorni ed to the Anishinabe American and environmental i ues will through an 1867 federal treaty. he has peak at today 's Convocatio n: Winona LaDuke, a graduate of Harvard been an activist ever ince." The Anishinabe lost their ca e, but and Antioch univer itics who erved a vice presidential Tunning mate to Ralph LaDuke later founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project to continue efforts ader in the 1996 presidential election, will lecture on "Native American Rights: co regain the Jost land . Using a $20,000 human rights prize she Political and Environmental I ues" at won from Reebok and a variety of grant , 11 :30 a.m: in ·s Randall L. Jones Theatre. the project group ha purcha ed 1,000 acres and intends to acquire an additional LaDuke, an Anishinabe from the Makwa , 30,000 acre in the next 15 years. Dodaem (Bear Clan) of the Missis lppi LaDuke i program director of the Honor Band of the White Earth.re ervation in the Earth Fund where she works on a Minnesota, is also a former board memher of Greenpeace USA. national level to advoca te , generate public "M . LaDuke earned a degree in ·nati e upport-and create funding for front-line economic development. After graduating native environmental groups. she moved to White Earth , located in a LaDuke was horn and rai ed in Lo poor rural County in northern Minnesota," Angeles. Her father was a uppo rting actor in We tern films and an American Indian Lana Johnson, director of lecture /special projects at SUU , aid. " he took a job as a activist; her mother was a Jewish art reservaHon high chool principal , but she profes or. A is sponsoring a "Meet Your Candidate Night," on Thursday at 6 p.rn ., at the tarlighc Room in the harwan mith Center. Chairwoman of the Elections ornmittee , icole Luth , a senior business admini tration major from Las Vega , Nev. , said that each candidate will he given the opportunity co present hi or her platform through speeches. Afte r the speeches, light refre hmcnts will be crved and students will have the opportunity to mingle with the candidate · and a k them que tions, he said. Previously, candidate have had the opportunity to debate with members of the opposing party. Becau e member · of the Mocion party are running unopposed , the speech platform wa selected a an opportunity for candidate ro expre s their view , ·aid Luth . "We thought this would he the he t, mo t efficient way for the candidates to expre s themselves ," he said. The__speeches will he televised live (channel 9) at 6 p .m. SlJTV on will al o make a rolling tap · of the peeches which will be hown in the harwan Smith Cente r on Friday, Monday and Tuesday. Elections are scheduled for Wednesday, March 24, from 8 a.m . to 5 p .m. in the Uvlng Room of the harwan Smith Center. \' • |