Western Front - 1969 July 15

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Vol. LXII no. 3 Western Washington State College Bellingham, Washington 98225 Tuesday, July 15, 1969 10c
Construction, blasting close parking lot
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Construction is currently
under way in the area south of
the arts building and steam plant
to "provide for the future
growth of the campus," Harold
A. Goltz, campus planner, said.
The parking' lot area bordered
by 21st St. on the west and E.
Campus Dr. on the east and
south has been closed since July
7 in preparation for blasting and
construction.
Drivers and pedestrians are
warned to keep out of the area,
since blasting is scheduled to
begin today.
The area is being regraded for
the establishment of grades for
future academic buildings and
utilities, Goltz said.
Weather permitting, the area
will reopen in Fall with 316 of
the 556 parking spaces asphalt
paved, Don Drury, a consultant
from N. G. Jacobson and
Associates, said.
GENERAL
Western plans new satellite college
Huxley College, Western's fu­ture
en vironmen tal sciences
satellite college, will have a pro­jected
top enrollment of 600,
Dr. Gene W. Miller, Huxley's
new dean, said.
Huxley's administrative
offices and classrooms will
occupy only one floor in the
Northwest Environmental
Studies Center (NWESC) build­ing,
Harold A. Goltz, director of
campus planning, said.
Cost of the entire six-story
NWESC building will be an esti­mated
$3,496,300, Goltz
said.
Location of the new college
will be on the South Campus
area between the arts building
and Fairhaven.
Work will begin on the college
October, 1970, and is scheduled
to be completed December,
1971, Goltz said.
Students will begin classes
Fall, 1970.
No residential component will
be involved in the college; it will
be strictly curricular, he said.
Actual labs and classrooms in
the building at this stage of
development are flexible and are
called surge space, Goltz said.
When Miller arrives at Western
Sept. 1, he will be working with
Dr. Carter A. Broad, chairman of
the planning committee for
NWESC.
Goltz and NWESC building
architects Ibsen, Nelsen and As­sociates,
Seattle, will be com­pleting
the plans next year.
In addition to Huxley College
the NWESC building will be used
by various environmental science
departments.
Environmental sciences will
be concerned with "humans and
all problems of megapolis
growth plus the industrialization
of the Puget Sound area," Dr.
Robert Brown, academic dean,
said.
Huxley will include studies in
humanities and social sciences,
"specifically in air pollution,
solid wastes, meteorology and
chemistry," Miller said.
The various interdisciplinary
departments will "utilize exist­ing
problems," he added.
"We expect to use many con­sultants
drawn from private and
local industry; representatives
will present lectures.
"It would be very desirable if
we could have on-the-site train­ing;
at Utah it was a research
endeavor.
"We can certainly control pol­lution
but as our population
grows, we require more industry
so we have to concentrate on
controlling pollution, man and
his environment."
Although Huxley will offer a
bachelor of science or arts, Mil­ler
said, a bachelor of environ­mental
sciences is tentative.
Masters will be offered to
graduates but doctorates are not
offered yet.
Mathews, Thirsk plan
pre-major programs
Materials for freshmen in
pre-major programs are being
updated by Cal Mathews,
director of college relations.
Robert Thirsk, assistant
director of admissions, said
pre-major programs usually last
two years and are concerned
with such fields as pharmacy and
forestry.
Mathews and Thirsk are
helping prepare the "almost pure
; academic orientation" for
freshmen August 4 and 5, Thirsk
said.
Thirsk's responsibilities
include contacting every
department concerning their
n e w p r o g r a m s and
recommendation sheets for first
year students.
Except for specific advisers in
science, math and music, general
advisers must be sought for the
expected 1,400 freshmen.
There are also numerous
clerical items to be cleared.
Rooms must be reserved,
speech exemption tests,
freshman planning sheets and
elective courses sheets prepared.
Registration and advisement
materials must also be readied.
The campus orientation with
tours, is being organized by
Chris Karp, director of the
Viking Union and Tim Douglas,
resident hall programs director.
The college hired the firm to
do a study of the parking
problem at Western and Drury
based his solution on a survey
conducted last quarter during
Fall pre-registration.
Drury and Goltz submitted a
set of specifications from the
parking committee to the Board
of Trustees last Friday, but the
decisions were unavailable at
press time.
Temporary parking spaces are
available for the rest of the
quarter in the gravel area
between Carver Gym and the
arts building, and between Bond
Hall and the arts building.
The free lots near Sehome
High School and above
Ridgeway Gamma are still open,
along with the Higginson-Edens
lot at the regular fee and the $3
lot at Indian and Laurel Streets.
As of noon last Friday, all $8
parking permits were sold, but
there were 177 $3 permits left.
These reduced rate permits
may be purchased at the security
office.
Because of the parking space
s h o r t a g e due to the
construction, fifty per cent
refunds on general parking
permits will be issued this week
at the security office.
Every effort is being made to
get the High Street Hall and
other parking areas expanded
and ready for use as soon as
possible, Security Marshall
Robert A. Smith said.
The regrading of the parking
areas is one of the first steps in
the development of the South
Campus Academic Area, Goltz
said.
Presently a 20-foot deep,
10-foot wide, 600-foot long
utility line is being built between
Fairhaven College and Western.
This line will carry steam and
electricity between the two
campuses.
Sewers and new parking lots
are in the construction stages
and the first building will be
started in the Fall of 1970,
Goltz explained.
The area is also the site of the
p l a n n e d N o r t h w e st
Environmental Studies Institute
and Huxley College.
Anthropologist to speak on cultures
Dr. Francis L. K. Hsu,
chairman of the anthropology
department at Northwestern
University, 111., will speak on
"Affect, Role and Alienation,"
at 2 pjn. Friday in L-2.
T h e w e l l - k n o wn
anthropologist will study the
agents of human cohesion and
repulsion, cultural influences on
them and the consequences, Dr.
Walter J. Lonner, assistant
professor of psychology, said.
He will deal mainly with
Chinese, Hindu and United
States cultures in his talk,
The author of numerous
articles and publications, Hsu
was educated in China and
England before coming to the
U.S. in 1944.
Hsu concentrated his studies
in the areas of culture and
personality and comparative
study of large civilizations.
He is one of the consulting
editors of Western's journal of
cross-cultural psychology to be
published by the center for
cross-cultural research.
Hsu's visit is co-sponsored by
the psychology and soc/anthro.
departments.
The South campus parking area is how under construction.
photo by rowell