The Vista March 6, 1984

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March 6, 1984

Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma

Vol. 82, No. 42

Gary Astle congratulates Benny Coleman on his first place finish in the NAIA national wrestling tournament held here Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Coleman won his finals match and with the victory came his fourth All-American title and his second national title in four years. Astle finished fourth in the tournament overall, but his fourth place finish clinched the national championship for the Bronchos. Head Coach David James was named coach of the year by the NAIA and Benny Coleman was named the tournament's most outstanding wrestler. CSU scored 122.25 points in the tournament which is the second highest total in NAIA history. The highest is • from the 1981 season when the Bronchos scored a record 155.25 points on their way to another national championship.

CSU leases land for research

Lake Arcadia gets new tenant

By Matthew Driskill Editor It may not be Malibu Beach, but if Dr. Bill Lillard, CSU president, has his way, it could turn out to be one of the best investments in lakefront property in the state of Oklahoma. For the small price of $1 per year, CSU has leased 10 acres of property from the City of Edmond on the shores of a lake that doesn't have a drop of water in it — yet. See related graph on page 3 The land, located not far from what will be the 15th Street entrance to Lake Arcadia, could be used to develop new programs, open new areas of research for several departments of the university and according to Lillard, will make the university a unique institution. "We are going to be the only facility in the state to have this type of facility so close to the campus," Lillard said. "The City

of Edmond negotiates directly with the Corp of Engineers and then as part of their package, they want to show that the lake will be used for flood control, drinking water and recreational facilities and things like that. One of the things we thought would help the city get the project originally would be to have something of an educational nature included," Lillard said. The president, working in association with the Mayor of Edmond, Carl Reherman, and other city officials worked up a plan to present to the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges at the board's meeting in Febuary which the Regents approved unanimously. "The Regents approved the plan back in Febuary at their meeting on the campus of East Central and were most complimentary about the project," Lillard said. Lillard said he hopes the acquisition will help to promote new ideas and projects for the university that would make use of the

In this issue... Hepler crowned Miss CSU...page 4 Museum serves double function...page 6 Grapplers take national title...page 7 and 8 Refs deserve even break...page 8

land in the best possible ways. "For instance," Lillard said, "The safety education institute can upgrade its programs to include programs on water saftey. I talked about this the other day and said it would be easier to teach someone how to row a canoe in a real lake than on the floor of Wantland Hall. "Another example would be that perhaps the school of business could do a study on the economic impact of a lake in an urban area," Lillard said. "Maybe someone like the Corps of Engineers would want to have this study done and would be will-

ing to give the school grant money to pay for it." Lillard said that CSU is now considering long range plans as to how the property is to be used and feels that most of the programs that develop out of the use of the land will be financially selfsupporting. "We didn't have to put up lots of money to get the land, just $1 a year," Lillard said. "So we don't have to pledge lots of facilities and as the need arises we can take care of those things." Lillard said there is a possibility that CSU will be making grant applications in the future with such

notable foundations as the Noble Foundation, the Kerr Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation for money to develop new programs that incorporate the use of the land. "At most other lakes you have to drive for three hours to get there, but here you won't have to do that because it's in the middle of an urban area," Lillard said. Lillard said he ranks this acquisition as one of the major achievements of CSU and said he equates it to CSU making the jump from a college to university status.

Senators resign posts By Kathleen Olson Too little time and conflicting schedules were reasons given by faculty senate members Dr. Beverly Cox and Dr. Norman Russell regarding their resignations from the faculty senate. Cox and Russell, both from the biology department, have submitted resignations to Denny Hall, faculty senate president, before their terms have been completed. They are not resigning until the end of the semester, according to Hall. "I think Beverly and I both resigned for the same reason. We just have too many other things to do," Russell said. "We have to teach extra classes in bilogy now because we're short faculty. Since we are both heads of committees we have a lot of extra things to do." Cox has served this year as chairman of the cornmittee on academic affairs, according to Hall. She has been a member for three years and explained that, with her schedule, she was "too busy to handle it adequately".

Russell is chairman for the committee on elections. "Russell, earlier in this semester wanted to resign because of a class conflict on Thursday afternoons, Hall said. "I asked him to reconsider and he did reconsider. Now apparently he has decided to resign as of the end of this semester. He didn't give me a reason this time." Several openings are available for faculty senate seats. The filing period is open until March 26. Hall said senate members are elected by the faculty of their respective departments. Applicants must be either full-time teaching faculty, professional administrators or professional librarians. No faculty member is eligible to serve more than two consecutive terms. Hall also said the filing date for senate officers will start in mid-April. The election for officers is scheduled for April 26. Only senate faculty members are eligible for the officer positions. Hall has not revealed whether or not he intends to run for faculty senate president for the 84-85 school year.


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