Show o Published by the students of the College of Eastern Utah An architectural model of CEU's 376 million athletic center Ground breaking In July 83 Full speed ahead for construction of PE Building dream became a reality when the Utah State Legislature passed a bonding bill that allowed $376 million for a physical education A However the Legislature did pass the bond after many revisions and discussions — thus leaving the CEU community elated complex on College of Eastern After receiving news of the Utah's campus during the last Senate and House passage of old the Legislature’s the bonding bill CEU president James R Randolph wasted no time in contacting the patiently throughout Design West of Logan to on news for the proceed with the final session building bond issue that would drawings of the 56000 square appropriate $42 million for foot building construction of state buildings Design West had been CEU’s building was almost contracted to complete the left a dream when one of the original architectural first acts of the Legislature drawings of the building in was to push CEU’s building 1978 The architectural firm from its fifth ranking by the was appropriated money from Board of Regents to the final the Legislature that year for fourteenth ranking Therefore the preliminary move in order for the building to be If Ml goes well Randolph funded the level of bonding said they could break ground would have to exceed for the building sometime in $36904000 July with a projected com 15 minutes of session in March CEU’s educators waited 60-da- y pletion date by September or November 1984 His goal is to basketball open the 1984-8-5 season in the 2400 seat gymnasium The facility will be located south of the football field with the east boundary ending at the East Dorm and the west boundary ending at the student activity center The second story of the building will be ground level with the footbaU field In order for the building to be put in this site the cbUege must relocate the Art Bam on campus between the bid gym and the music building Approximately $175000 of the $376 million was allocated for the construction of the new art ballhandball courts added One week after CEU nastic room weight training room whirlpools saunas received word of the building’s locker areas dance studio passage the CEU Institutional training room classrooms and Council voted to name the conference areas building the students that Athletic said Center in comRandolph to memoration of the two local will not be the only ones benefit from the building The legislatures Senator Omar school is adopting a policy for Bunnell and of the use Mike building community Representative who were Revenues generated from this Dmitrich will pay for staffing of the instrumental in getting the gym- Bunnell-Dmitri- D-Pri- D-Pri- building Another positive aspect of the building is CEU’s ability to host high school playoff tournaments "We could feasibly host volleyball wrestling and basketball regional and state tour- building legislature ch ce ce ' through the “We especially appreciated the help of Senator Bunnell and Representative Dmitrich” he said “After observing what went on up there (Legislature) it is my conclusion that we naments This would also add would not have been included money to the local economy on the list or even had a bond facility of the when teams stayed in the for that matter without them Some of the features building include two gym- motels ate in the restaurants They were the main ingredient nasiums five racquet- - and shopped in the stores” he for getting us the building” |