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Show Old Fine Arts building to be replaced by new Arts center wins Emmy and Telly KCEC-T- Clubs Welcome Building Comes Down They're Winners V Students Back Awards KCEC-TV- , by Hollie Longfellow and Karina Ramirez Community Education Channel 25, now holds the distinction of being an award winning television station - an Emmy and Telly Award winning television station to be exact The Dixie State College based station both received recently awards for its achievement m sports broadcastmg What a wonderful measuring stick for our students and our program to be held up against major colleges and universities and win these awards, said KCEC director Stan Everett It vahdates what we have always said -that the hands on approach to learning these skills makes the theory and practice come to life The Telly Award, one of the most sought after awards m the TV, commercial, and see WINNER page 1 1 Dixie Sun Staff Writers As classes began last week on the Dixie State campus, various clubs and orgama tions set uji booths in front of the Gardner Center recruiting new members Some of these clubs include the OutdoorSki Club, Theatre Association, Phi Beta Lambda (Business), Art Club, and the DSUN (serv ice club) Construction worker sprays down the dust as large equipment demolishes the old Fine Arts Center by Jennie Oleen Dixie Sun Staff Writer Demolition of the nearly Graff Fine Arts Center began Aug 14 m preparation for a new $19 million fine arts building, soon to become the biggest building on campus The demolition will last for two months before the new Delores Dore Eccles Fine Arts Center begins to take form m November Funding of $13 million from the state took three years of back and forth approvals from the legislature DSC president Robert Huddleston, DSC legislative representa tive Frank Llojko, and DSC vice president Stan Plewe all fought hard to retain funding Members of the KCEC staff (I to r) Will Bowen, Cory Clyde Ben Tanner and advi sorStan Everett (back) i 1 The for the new building will come funding remaining from the Delores Dore Eccles Foundation and also from money raised through the Sears Dixie Invitational Art go but a bit inadequate, he said Its hard to see it come down, but its good to see the Show campus progressing The construction zone has left many segments of the fine arts departments dis- Staff and past students can testify on behalf of the badly The old needed facility Graff Fine Arts Building was to accommodate a student body of 500 Dixie State College today has over 7,000 students Much of the building was unusable because of safety violations In 1998 it was determined that the building demolished be should built m 1961-6- 2 because of the costs that would be needed to replace 70 percent of the building Eric Young, chair of the fine arts department, recalls attending classes in the Graff Fine Arts building in 1980 81 and again m 1983 85 It was a wonderful place to With so many students on Donna said campus," Stafford, director of student activities, this is the perfect opportunity for students to get involved in campus life No matter what your inter ests are, there is a club for you Too many students have placed across campus The music department is cur rently sharing one room for instrumental music and the Southwest Symphony The theatre Orchestra department, before demoli tion, was using temporary rooms for dressing, costume shop, and storage for produc tions It is currently holding classes m a number of build mgs all around campus Prolessor Ron Garner of the Music Department is sad to see the old fine arts building go down because of the nos see CENTER page 1 1 to r) DSC students Paul Caldwell, Brad Taysom, and Quinton Rees tell Erick Miguel about the Minority Club (I |