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Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 9-29-1983 The Guardian, September 29, 1983 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1983). The Guardian, September 29, 1983. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Thursday September 29, 1983 Number IS, Volume XX Loop Road construction behind schedule By ALEX WARD woods, and behind the library and the Creative Arts parking tot to the Am- Because of engineering considerations, bulatory Care Center tot. The $50,000, that has been spent on the Wright State's loop road project is "about project so far, has gone for engineering a month behind schedule," according to work and topographical studies, Corbo Nick Corbo, University Engineer. Woolpert Consultants, the firm that is said. i • "It's amazing how expensive construc- handling the,engineering for the project, 1 was to have submitted the complete deigns tion is," Corbo said;! ''-. Corbo thinks the 'loop road is a high in July. priority for the university, and that the en- "We're working with the engineers" to tire length will be completed someday. get a final design! said David Atwater, Part" of the reason for .the delay of the Assistant Vice President for Facilities and loop road is construction on the parking General Services. Atwater and Corbo represent the univer- lot behind the Creative Arts CetJter,. The parking tot is being extended, and univer- sity in dealing with the contractors on the sity engineering isn't certain yet how it will loop road project. affect'the route of the loop road. After the plans are approved by Univer- The Creative Arts tot, as well as the park- sity Engineering, they mult then be approv- Haavydottad Una Indteitnathatnntathwrotrtn for tho now Loop Road. ed by the Faiibom Fire Department, the ing tot behind Millett .Hall, is being ex- tended to provide more parking space. Ex- Ohio Department-of'Public Works, and tbe tension* of these lots will also offset the classes start, park illegally, get a ticket, and The new tot, which was designed in the State Architect, Atwater explained.- planned .closing of the lower campus tot. get ticked off at me and everybody else." summer, will include curbs and tree islands Once thp-plans ire approved by all con- • "P?ople don't like the tower campus NO plans have been made on what to do at the end of each row of parking spaces. cerned parties. they are sent to the State tot." Atwater explained. "People have to with the tot once it is closed, Corbo said. Controlling Board for final approval and realize 'if they get here late they're not go- The new Creative Arts lot wi) be com- "It will have a more pleasing effect for the release ofcfuadft to start construction. plete in about two and a half months, ac- people parking there^" said Mike Schulze, Construction will probably start ing to find a spotfiftKemain tots/TSey wander around -looking for a space until cording to Corbo. assistant for architecture at Wright State. sometime in tbe late faU ,and finish, in the spring or summer of next year, Corbo said. Eventually, the loop road Is'to circle the entirexampus. The area targeted for con-, struction this fall is from the main road Campus housing getting scarce behind Millett Hall, around the edge of ther MILWAUKEE, WI (CPS>-This faU, campus housing according to Student Center for Education Statistics predicts. Barb Zicari, a history major at Marquette Development. There'it a« active waiting list MoreoverM&reover, ,th the econtinually-risin continually-risingg pric price eo fo f Lot nearly University, found herself stuck into a of 355 as of Sept. 14. off-campu»s housing around the country has rented hotel room instead.of moving into "Most of the Big Ten schools are pretty. codvfacecortvfacedd mormoree studentstudentss t too chooschoosee dormdormss , complete a university dorni as she'd expected.. much at capacity or in need of special hous—'' oyer «>artriigms*-Jhejxsultresult: : aann unanunan-- to Zicari, it's great, to fact, "I'd never ing for their overflow," reported Gary ticipated" increase in the number ooff dordorm Construction on the parking tot go back to the dorms. If 1 didn't hive to. North, Housing Director auhe University residents this fall. J behind Milieu Hall will be finished Here, you don't have to worry about-do- of Illinois and past president of the,-/ . / sometime this week, according to, ing your towels or Hnms, and a maid comes Association of College ahd "Univtrsit/ "We keep waiting for things to level off Nick Corbo, University Engineer. Tbe in every day and cleans, the placed up." Housing Officers (ACUHO). Hke they're supposed to, hit it's not hap- lot will add 120 more parking spaces But, to Marquette officials, it's a terri- " And inost of die larger state universities pening," said Dave Fbrah, Marquette to those currently around campus. ble situation. Besides placing Zldsri and 29 are in similar circumstances," he added. .• spokesman. - Construction on the tot started Sept other women students fa tbe Continental "tittle and pnvate schools may be a- Western Michigan dosed three dorms 12, according to Mike Schube, assis- Hotel", they've had to rent addktonalftoors periencfag a surpius of donn space, but over «l*e last years, but has had to re-opm tant for architecture, at Wright State. of anearby YMCA and convert dorm lob- even some of than are having overflows two of its Vafcy Ilprojects to absorb this this year." • faU'» increase in dorm requests. The protect was delayed slightly bies into temporary Bving quarters for their Almost all tonrtenri predictions of Oklahoma.despite an wwaH enrollment because of rain last week that made it new students. difficult to grade and compact the dirt The cost is significant. Tbe damage to enroUroenu in the 1980s Showed the coBege decline of*», also has re-opened a dorm explained David Atwater, Assistant a school's reputation as a desirable, com- population dropping off. Many cammsof- Hsluitdownla*.yS«r, and has made some Vice President for Facilities and fortable (fee* to study could be bigger. ficials shied away from building new ' dbubkroeMACidsting dorms into tripUs. General Services. Dirt must be com- A number of schools across the coun try dorms, fearful they'd be left vacant after . ; West Uberty State College in West pacted before the blaektop is applied tbe decline predicted to start*in fall, 1981. Virgink b sdifftagthree students in rooms designed for two, and moving people into or cars would sink into the ground. reskiem advisors'rooms, normally reserv- pie university Is currently negotiating to purchase five acres west over tbe last several years at tbe first bints ed as sfngips for RAs. of campus for parking and other pur- of enrollment decline. Iowa State curreatly has 300 studeatt poses, according to Atwater. Atwater But tbe decline, despite a decrease fa the . temporarily living fa offices, recreation number of llMo^4-yea™ldsin thegwtral hails and mMtfag roenps at the Student didn't wish to comment farther, but 4 Corbo added that the area might also population, has not occured- Tbe ooOete Union. At onefadlity. »men havelo share be used as a buffer zone to tbe sur- population, which peaked at 114 million two showers. t, if 1 last year, is expected to stay at or near that Over 10013U students couidn't even level throughout the decade, the National temporary housing; ..V i 1 2 THE DAILY GUARDIAN September 29. IS&J Degree's can now be earned via computer SAN FRANCISCO, CA (CPS)-- A private." charge your tuitionVgn a credit card, and Bui, he added. • disk drive and printer pear on the screen, and are then returned San Frariciso-based telecommunications you're basically ready to start the cour*e," are aUo helpful for Students to store class to the Instructor* for grading. firm has Just launched the nation's first White said.. Information and print out their work. Mod of TekLearning's 200 or so instruc- "electronic University," which is already "We then transmit a digitalized photo of Students can ask questions and com- tors are university and college professors, offering over 170 non-credit courses by per- your Instructor, along with outline municate with the coune Instructors by who teach their electronic coune* as either sonal computer materials for the course arid lecture notes leaving "electronic mall" for them in the alternatives or supplements to their regular "We're working with universities, wijh for the first elass." host computer. The instructors would later classes. •* home study people and with corporations At the moment, TeleLeaming is offer- collect the messages, and reply during the In addition, sever*] telecourses are who provide home study program," ex- ing courses ranging from anatomy and law next class period. taught live at a particular time each day by plained Tom White. President of TeleLear- to "self-improvement" courses, like At each clau' end. "you have an elec- Instructors sitting at their own computers,, ning Systems, which began the network in assertiveness training. tronic workbook that you go over, and the available to communicate directly and In- mid-Sepiember. White said all that one needs IO take the computer then grades your work, and gives stantaneously with students.