Coming of Age CD

Page 2 INSCAPE ANNIVERSA R Y ISSUE Editorial Coming of Age CD The College of Saint Rose Albany, New York C/> Fiftieth Anniversary Issue Anniversaries are traditionally times to pause and rejlect O 0 > <D_ upon the past. As the College of Saint Rose commemorates its CD 50th Anniversary, we can do neither. V To pause would be to break the continuum of moving f i ) f - h ahead, of progressing, of changing. We cannot stand still, for we CD must daily acclimate ourselves anew to the world we serve. CO To reflect upon the past would be to change the direction in a > which we are headed. Rather than look back, we must CO continually look ahead. We cannot glorify in how far we have CD come, for we must begin to move further at an even more rapid pace. OQ Yet, there is cause to celebrate this year. We should and EDITOR must celebrate our coming of age. It is our 50th Ariniversary > % Libby Melcher CD MANAGING EDITOR CD which not only marks our existence for a half century, but also * Janice Dooley C/> lauds our distinction as a progressive institution o f learning. c u NEW EDITORS The College of Saint Rose has made its mark on the field oj Mary Kay Mahoney t o Phyllis Rucereto education. Gone is the flowery image of a glorified finishing 3 school. Gone is the old image, the old traditions. We have more FEATURES EDITORS CD E Kathleen Ellis to offer and we are proving our potential. o > Marguerite Pileggi As the theme of the anniversary reminds us, we must look C /) LAY-OUT EDITOR ahead to the year 2020 when CSR will celebrate its centennial. Judi Murphy Each man makes wide his world; each of us must make wide our BUSINESS MANAGER own individual worlds. Saint Rose has widened its world over Ginny Kunkel the past 50 years. It remains up to us to continue. PHOTOGRAPHY Coeducation, the new curriculum, a forward-looking Carol Romeo c/> CD president — all are favorable moves, excellent beginnings. CARTOONIST Nonetheless, we cannot become complacent, smitten with self- Andrea Lignori O satisfaction. We must move on. O CIRCULATION At the same time, we must not lose sight of our directives. Mary Colbert We must keep in mind our goals. Finally, we must be cognizant EXCHANGE of our limitations. Dana Camprione C/> To strive to become what we cannot would not be progress. 3" 3 We must bear in mind our uniqueness of the past 50 years. CD ^Rather than change for the sake o f change, let us retain our 3 i - l * individuality. INSCAPE is published by-weekly during C/> the academic year by the students of The The Saint Rose of today owes much to individuals who College of Saint Rose. Albany, New York, 12203. (518) 4.18-86.10. M em ber of served us in the past. We do not ignore nor fail to credit this United States Student Press Association CO and subscriber to College Pre.ss Service. fact. However, we cannot dwell on it. We are grateful to many CO Represented for national advertising by persons, but they struggled to make CSR what it is today, we National Educational Advertising CD Services. Opinions expressed in these must likewise devote our energies to creating the college oj a > columns are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the tomorrow. entire college community. CD C/> This anniversary should not be a ritual of declaring we are CD 50 vears old. It should not be all fanfare and cheering. 5- what we will be in the future We ac Page 3 anniversary ISSUE INSCAPE Model Campus: Detailed Dream For Tomorrow By Libby Melcher Since its founding in 1920, The College of Saint Rose has grown gradually and steadily, house by house, building by building. In 1968 the college solicited the professional assistance of Victor Christ-Janer of New Canaan, Connecticut, and under their auspices developed an organized plan for future physical expansion of the campus. The report of the study, published in August of that year, contains an evaluation of the college’s present facilities and projected recommendations based on these. It is an analysis - the basw of what is sometimes referred to as Project 70 - designed to fully utilize the limits of existing aissets and provide feasible guidelines for the f^ture. It is a report, encouraging for its straight-forwardness, which seeks to describe the physical setting in which Presently in the library there is a seating capacity, The Physical Education and Recreation Center students and faculty can most advantageously for slightly more than 150 students; although the will be the biggest innovation for the St. Rose employ the expanding curriculum and outlook of stacks are adeQuate now, the space is rapidly filling. campus. Its proposed site is currently occupied by the college. The building is deemed “highly usable” despite Quillinan, Cabmi, Madison, and Carey Halls. As having reached its capacity for books, readers and proposed, it will house a swimming pool, locker, As proposed, the plan is divided into two phases. staff. The library annex plan includes 350 shower and dressing rooms and facilities for indoor games. It will also provide kitchen and snack bar The first phase deals with the erection of a new additional individual carrels, five group carrels, facilities. boiler plant, an expansion of the library, and the space for the transfer of the curriculum library As inoted in the report, of all the areas ol construction of a new dormitory and a Physical from its present location in Avila Hall,. :typing education at GSR. physical education suffers the Education and Recreation Center. These priorities alcoves and additional classrooms, seminar rooms most from lack of space. With the exception ot the are distinguished from the second, less essential ^ and faculty offices. As proposed, the seating small,^ inadeQuate garage-turned-gymnasium, and more distant Phase H: an addition to the, boiler capacity of the library would approach 600; a physiral education facilities are non-exi.steni. plant, a Fine Arts Center, a second dormitory, and library which can accomodate half the student body Any constructiori of- new, buildings will he a classroom and office extension. is considered adeQuate. It is suggested that the new dormitory be situated executed in a way that will maintain whal Victor Christ-Janer has analyzed as the campus’ dual • - ' Almost unanimously, maintenance is considered approximately where the Art Barn is at present and aspect of neighborhood and campus divided into the most urgent problem to be met before other that it be designed to house approximately 200 formal academic and informal residential /ones. projects of sizeable proportion may be' undertaken. students. The majority of these students will be The west end of the campus is densely developed Because the college has existed for its entire transplants from residence halls which will have with buildings relating to academic, administrative, institutional life without an organized maintenance been torn down to make room for new buildings. and religious functions, while the east end oi the program, the immediate need is one of From an economic point of view, the future of the campus is marked only by Lima Hall, the major rehabilitation. Such a program has already been small residences is limited; they are a continuing living facility. SQuarely in the middle ol these two begun, but reQuirements are still behind schedule in maintenance and safety problem. They will be points is the library, appropriately accessible from execution. The proposed boiler plant- is essential to systematically replaced by dorms designed to either end, unifying the dual aspect of acjidemic service the projected buildings of Phase 1. provide an atmosphere of small-group living. and social functions. What is propo.sed is a carefully planned two-campus scheme designed to preserve what has developed up to now by coincidence. If Phase I is still in the unforeseeable future. Phase II is beyond even that. Any recommendations made will reQuire considerable refinement, dependent in large part upon the college's feasible land acQuisitions. Nevertheless, a Fine Arts Center is envisioned, housing separate theaters lor drama ' and music, with classroom space, rehearsal rooms, listening, dressing, and wardrobe rooms and art studios for painting, printmaking and ceramics. I he classroom an^ faculty office annex is seen as a space pool that the college may tap as it expands its undergraduate student body to the foreseen limit ol approximately 1100. There will be an always- increasing need for general classroom and ' administrative space. The estimated cost of Phase I alone is very near to $4 million. This includes construction costs, landscaping and site-work, furnishing.s. and eQuipment that will be needed, such as for the snack bar. It does not include architectural fees, nor does it take into account the rising costs of construction which can make a proposed budget fall considerably short of the actual cost. It should be noted that the model plan lor the future CSR campus consists only of the recommendations of professional planners; as yet no architects have been contracted to actualize these directives, despite the seQuential timetable that has been determined. Page 4 I NSC A PE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE By Marguerite Pileggi In New York State, at the time of the post-World War I boom and women’s suffrage, there was no Catholic women’s college between Buffalo and New York City. The vacuum this situation created in higher education was recognized by Catholic educators in the Albany EHocese. Msgr. Joseph A. Delaney, then Vicar-Gerteral of the diocese, noted their valid concern and, in 1920, proposed an institution to serve the Capital District area.

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