THE `4 ■ ISITAL. Feb. 4, 1982
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
CSU paving plan transforms lots Campus parking lots have undergone a great change over the past five years, with concrete and asphalt replacing what was once a sea of unpaved pot holds and barren desert. The paving was conducted under the tutelage of CSU president Bill Lillard, who vowed in his inagural address in 1975 to pave every campus parking lot as the funds became available. Since the summer of 1976, over 2,200 parking spaces have been paved for more than half a million dollars. Campus streets and sidewalks have also been refinished. The first parking lot to benefit from Lillard's repavement plan was that of the University Center, at that time a graveled lot. It was completed with the cooperation of county commissioners, who furnished grading and hauling equipment. The tack-coated asphalt surface is semi-paved today. It was completed at a lower cost, but it is not as well constructed as other lots within the campus. In June, 1977, final inspection was carried out on the second completed lot, the library parking lot at the corner of University and Ayers. The $125,000 price tag included paved parking, concrete curbing, landscaping and guttering. The 488 car lot was constructed by Metropolitan Enterprises. A third project was completed prior to the fall semester of 1978, when lots to the east, north and south of the Liberal Arts Building were paved. The 600 space lots, the combined efforts of CSU maintenance men and Edmond Paving and Construction, cost $268,000. It was the biggest project undertaken to date. In 1979, the administration parking lot was torn up and repaved in concrete. The $37,000 project provided 22,250 square feet of parking for 79 automobiles. Broncho Fieldhouse parking was the next target, a project completed solely by CSU
maintenance with newly purchased equipment. Work on the 530 parking space lot was completed in March of 1980, to the tune of $68,337. Smaller jobs were also completed that year, including two new parking spaces provided for campus vehicles. The total cost was approximately $3,500. Approximately $81,000 was spent on a parking lot located north of East Hall, completed in the fall of 1981. The job was done by campus maintenance officials and gave the dorm 186 parking spaces. The newest project was the repavement of the lot between the Business and Communications buildings, begun prior to Christmas break. It was completed before the spring semester resumed, at a cost of $37,980. The lot provided 115 parking spaces for students and faculty. Also part of that project was the repavement of the street running from west of the Liberal Arts Building to the Student Health Center.
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Vista photos by Michael Keen
Many students needed some help getting to class Wednesday as they attempted to cross frozen, slick sidewalks, roads and fields. Some were lucky enough to get some help up the steep grades, but others were not as lucky and ended up watching the world go by from a sitting position.
A separate board of regents?
Senate committee to debate idea
By Kim McConnell The Oklahoma State Committee on Education held an open hearing Wednesday morning to hear public debate concerning the establishment of a separate board of regents for CSU, according to Anne Lynch, Faculty Senate President. The meeting was intended to gather any information available from the public about the issue. Five people from CSU spoke in favor of the measure, including Lynch, Ruby Ewing, president of the CSU Education Association of °EA, Bobbye Sorrels Persing, president of the campus American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Tim Reese, Student Senate president and Ed Livermore, Edmond-based
In this issue. . . Equal opportunity conference in OKC. . .page 3 Groundhog predicts end to winter. . .page 5 Senate OKs board. . .page 5 Bronchos suffer 16th setback. . .page 7 Bronchettes' season impressive. . .page 8
member of the Board of Regents operate its own board of regents of Oklahoma Colleges. for the amount of money they an"Three people spoke against nually pay into the present systhe idea," said Lynch. "All were tem. from out of town, representing "We have enough money to other schools (under the regents), operate the expensive kind of which is where the problem board," she said, adding that lies," boards may be reasonable mainLynch seemed to feel that most tained for between $5 million to of the opposition to the separate $60 million. board plan is coming from the The Board of Regents of Ok"weaker" schools under the pre- lahoma Colleges also entered the sent regents. argument, according to Lynch. "They have problems and to "The head regent did end up hold us back to protect them is speaking, saying that they did not not fair," she said. "If they had have a great deal of power," she their own board, they could, said in reference to their ability to maybe, solve some of their prob- make a decision regarding the lems." change. Those people opposing the Lynch disagreed with the replan Wednesday presented sev- gent, saying that the regents bear eral arguments, according to the final authority on several Lynch. areas of campus administration. "One person said that if it (a Many people have become innew board) was established, it terested in the establishment of a would no longer be a constitu- separate board of regents, actional board. A lot of politicing cording to Lynch, including one would go on, they felt," Lynch regent. said, adding that a newly created "Some opponents said about board would be a constitutional making the change — why throw board and the argument pre- something out that is working? sented "just doesn't hold up." Ed Livermore said that the reason Opponents also charged that a for founding the board is no separate board would be more longer valid," Lynch said. expensive to maintain than the The current board was estabpresent system. Lynch countered lished in 1939 to supervise the with the argument that CSU could "strictly normal schools whose
function was teacher training." Single board supporters maintain that CSU is the only state supported institution of higher education of its size that serves and focuses on a large metropolitian areas. Too, teaching is no longer the only focal point of the University. "Where CSU has grown, certain sister colleges enrollment has declined," Lynch said. The idea of a separate board for CSU is not a new one, Lynch said. The issue has been broached several times, but this is the first time the request has been brought before the legislature. And, eventually, the people in ballot form. Lynch had no idea when the Senate would reach its decision. "They won't vote for a week or two," she said. "I couldn't tell where they were heading. They didn't debate. The support locally is good, though." Within the past two months, the proposition has been recommended and passed by the Student Senate, the Faculty Senate, the campus AAUP and the campus Education Association of ()EA. It is also supported by House minority leader Neal McCaleb and representative Phil Watson.