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Show ,, THE 87TH YEAR; NUMBER 4 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1992 SU sets tnaster plan for catnpus growth BY HEATHER GREEN Thunderbird Staff WriteT Recently, in an SUU publication titled Toward The Second Cmtury, President Gerald R. Sherratt spoke concerning the definition of objectives to improve the university. He said, "Mindful that the I 00th anniversary of the founding of tbe University is but five years distant and that the dawning in 1997 of a second century for the University provides a special opponunity for increased expectations of institutional performance, the University has devoted considerable time and effort over the past year to the definition of goals and objectives designed to animate our efforts and more fully achieve Southern Utah University's mission." Several of the main objectives for further improvement of SUU involve the physical expansion of the campus. For such devdopment, a five year, or master plan, has been devised. Michael D. Richards, vice president of university affairs, said that the plan for expansion is updated each year, and approved by the State Board of Trustees. The expansion project itself is funded by the Utah State Legislature. An enrollment projection for the proceeding 10 years suggests the need for increased facilities. Some of the buildings outlined for future construction are the Library, an addition to the Dixie Leavitt Business Building onto the Lower Quad, the construction of a new physical education building next to the baseball field and a student concourse located .between the existing Student Center and the CentrUm. The north tower of the previous Science Center, now the General Classroom Building and the Music Building will be renovated. Plans for the acquisition of the Ctdar City Middle School and land adjacent to the Randall L Jones Theatre are also a part of the overall objectives for improvement According to Richards, a total of 10.4 million dollars will be needed for the completion of the new library. The university already has been appropriated three million. When the legislature meets in January and February of 1993, it is expected to approve a bond to get funding for the Library. C urrently, the construction of the new building is still in the schematics phase of construction. After this, it will take between nine and ten months to fully design the new building, and an additional eighteen months to complete construction. Richards said that administrators are hoping to install extensive technology and compact book shelving in the new library. The expansion of the business building and the two buildings for class-rooms are probably a decade away from construction. When Oak H all is no longer needed, it will be razed to Cxt'end the parking for the new buildings. Plans for the addition of a student concourse are also under way. An addition to the student center will provide more space •for student services, expanded activities facilities, meeting and convention rooms ..." Evenrually, when the concourse is completed, there will be a mini-mall located on campus for the students. Financing for a convention center will be partially funded by Iron County, and in return, it will use the center during the summer. To make the upper campus more accessible to all students, there are plans to install ramps, wheel chair lifts, automatic doors and an elevator in the music building. Because the university is growing, there is an increasing need to expand the boundaries of the campus, and this includes the purchasing of Cedar City Middle School as well as land adjacent to the Randall L Jones Theatre. SUU is hoping that by January, a consensus will be reached so that a sale might be negotiated. Richards said "We could certainly use the property, and we definitely need the space." While the expansion of the SUU campus will provide the needed space for the growing student enrollmen t, it will also provide an expansion for educational opponunities. According to material in Toward The Second Century, course work in anthropology, geography and philosophy will be considered. ... Chad Atwood, a junior from Phoenix, Ariz., and president of tht Snowboarding Club, demonstrates a snowboarding maneuioer on a rrampolint during SUU's Club Rush. Former Moscow mayor to speak Special Convocation slated for Saturday evening in Randall One of the leading figures in the democracy movement on Russia will be honored by SUU at an All-University Convocation scheduled for Saturday evening in the Randall L Jones Theatre. Gavriil Popov, the first democratically-elected mayor of Moscow and an ally of President Boris Yeltsin in the Russian reform movement, will be awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities at the ceremonies, which will feature an address by Popov and musical numbers by the University Chorale and noted Utah violinist Loi Anne Eyring. Kay Mciff, chair of SUU's Board of Trustees, will conduct the services and Popov will be introduced by President Gerald R. Sherratt. Following the ceremonies, a dinner in Popov's honor will be held in the recently remodeled Steve Gilbert Great Hall with entertainment furnished by Sound Impressions and a concert by Eyring. The Convocation is scheduled for 5 p.m.; the dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. Popov, a noted Russian educator, who served as a professor of economics then department chair and college dean at Moscow State U niversity, Russia's premier instiwtion of higher learning, entered politics as a member of a team of economists selected to advise Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Popov remmmended a series of reform programs intended to move the Soviet Union into a market economy. However Gorbachev, pressed by communist hard-liners, failed to implement the programs and Popov then allied himself with other reform-minded Russian leaders. In 1989, Popov was elected to the Congress of People's Deputies where he joined with Boris Ydtsin, Dmitri Sakharov and Anatoly Sobchak as partisans of the democratic movement Ultimarely, Ydtsin was elected president of Russia, forming the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Sobchak became mayor of St Petersburg and Popov won the first democratic election in the history of Russia for mayor of Moscow. Popov played a leading role in defeating the attempted coup in August 1991 by Communist hard-liners to oust Gorbachev, serving with Yeltsin in defense of the Russian White House. As mayor of Moscow, Popov instigated a number of reforms, including privatization of apartments and houses and the implementation of a new sysl'Cm of city managemen t that affectively wresded control of the city from its previous Communist rulers. Following his resignation as mayor, Popov has devoted himself to advancing the International University of Moscow, serving the institution as president The Convocation is free and the public is invited to attend. Tickets for the banquet are ten dollars and to make reservations, call 586-7702. ,. |