Show Dollege Of Esstom Utah Library Price Utah College of Eastern Utah THE" EAGTeJoIUMEVII THEVOICEjOFJHE STUDENTS Naw Dorms: Phase one nears completion by Anna Adair news editor Picture if you will: CEU faculty members working feverishly wiring plastering and laying sheet rock CEU staff dripping with sweat while carrying lumber fur-- different buildings will be in the complex housing 204 students The old Aaron Jones Hall will be tom down and replaced by a pork- ing lot Phase one has three floors and gives 72 students a place to live one and two are sleep-stud- y rooms and the third floor rooms in the blazing sun sore from have kitchen facilities The secu and pound-Tond floor of the building is not painting laying carpet ing nails complete at this time but wasn't If you had been on the campus expected to be done when school of the College of Eastern Utah started CEU Vice President this summer this is what you Robert Torgerson said have witnessed as hundred All of the students who were might of volunteers ofTcrcd thousands of scheduled to move into the dorms hours of their free time to assist in haved moved into their rooms A the construction of the new Aaron delay of a couple of days while the Jones Hall All of this so that 72 occupancy permit was being pro-CEU students would have a place cessed fourced 46 students to be to live as the 1993-9- 4 school year housed at Sessions Honor Hall and the Crest motel opened while trying to keep the cost of housing from skyrocket- CEU Vice President Robert ing Torgerson commented that a cou- The new dorms are being built pic of days delay on a project that in three phases Phase one is near should have taken 18 months but completion now By the time the only took 6 and this is a remark- entire project is complete three able feat ' V V - ' On on oftha fkat nights atudanta ratumad to achool thay ealabratadby boating a bom tiro on top of WoodNHJPhoto by Lonnla Bahunfn CEU says "Not A Drop" This is the same building private contractors estimated as an 18- It month job Torgerson said had been planned that the construe-Floortan would begin March 11993 but by the time the preparations were finished the actual digging began March 20 Torgerson commented on the effective coordination of the building and the lack of unusual problems during the building "You'd think there would have been more problems with all of the rotating help but everything went well" TTicrc have been many rumors circulating about the company who contracted the building Contrary to popular belief no outside contracting company was involved in the building of the new dorms The budding was su- pervised by employees of the CEU building and grounds staff and the physical plant Vice President Torgerson who holds an active s (see New Dorms page 8) by Jaren Holder staff writer Jones Hall during his rounds on College of Eastern Utah campus Monday night Oct 4 Eleven police have already reported two in- - people were tested and six were cidcnts of minors with consump- - cited for consumption and will be lion or possession of alcohol on dealt with by CEU's student property during the First ing department week of school During all of last year's school The first incident began Friday year 13 alcohol related citations Oct 1 at the school's toga stomp were issued to students and this year where campus security were notified there have already been 10 The of suspects smelling like alcohol problem seems to be getting worse Security later caught up with the Phyl Johnson chief of campus hous-scho- ol po-suspc- cts and found them in posses- - lice stated "We're looking for zero sion of alcohol They were taken to the campus police office wjyrc they were tested by the intoxillzcr CEU's police department's breath- intoxication machine Four out of the five tested were given citations consumption and possession and will be dealt with at a bier date by the Justice of the Peace Court second reported incident hap- pened just three days bter when a campus security officer stumbled a party at the new Aaron Believe it or not CEU built the new dorms (with the exception of the second floor) in six months tolerance for enforcing alcohol laws which basically means no warnings" CEU will soon be incorporating the new "Not A Drop" law which will record the first offense of an cohol citation upon hisher drivers license record The second offense c will result in a 60 to 90 day pension of their license Campus police are trying to discourage the use of alcohol by minors by enforc-upo- n ing all alcohol rebted taws al-f- sus-Th- or Library opens after by Matt Gwyther staff writer After nearly a year of remodling CEU's li- brary is open and ready to serve the students and faculty It had to be moved to the Old Gym last winter quarter because of structural difficulties with the floor According to Robert Dolan li- brary director while there has been two previous attempts to fix this problem this was by far the most inclusive "This floor is not resting on the it is resting 40 columns plus 6 of the original columns" These range anywhere from 20-4-0 feet deep The library renovation includes more than just the floor Within the month twelve word This processing computers will be e compares to just three before the projccL Three new 486 reference computer should be up and running around the same time These will allow student look up information by subject or key on-lin- words One of the most exciting new features of the renovation year-lon- g new library is a Dincx card catalog system Dolan secs the day when ua student can look up a book at the dorms and not have to trek to the library on a cold winter night" This system inside the library by January should be on-liAccording to Dolan the project is running 12 percent over budget "They thought they would have to drill to an average of 28 feet but they average 33 feet and the deeper you drill the more expensive it gets" He aim says “the get was set several years ago before the whole idea of an electronic library came about the fibre optic cable and juncture boxes were not anticipated and that's petty much why we're ne bud-grou- nd over" The library is open for normal hours while the final touches arc put on These arc Monday-Thursda- y from 8 am 10 pm Friday from 8 am - 3 pm Saturday from 1 1 am - 4 pm Sunday form 3 pm -- 10 pm Dolan anticipates the project to be totally finished by the time stu- dents come back in January |