TH E YISTg September 9, 1982
Vol. 81, No. 4
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Campus receives building funds By Mike Sherman
Vista Photos by Theresa Gadrish
Pictured above are two CSU buildings that are at the opposite end of the spectrum. The Nursing Building, (top) formerly the President's home, may be vacated if a new life science building is erected. Below, the new math-science building could be ready for classes by late October.
'Bronco Beef'
CSU has been awarded a $600,000 appropriation by the Oklahoma State Board of Regents for Higher Education for the purpose of constructing a Life Science Building. The appropriation is for the purpose of relieving over-crowed classrooms. Each year, the state legislation appropriates money for capital improvement. This money is given to the regents who allocate the funds to various universities, based on need. At the present, the schools which would operate under the life science department, nursing and funeral science, hold classes in seperate facilities. The funeral science department, one of only two such programs operating at the university level in the nation, has its offices and classrooms in the basement of Evans Hall, which houses a large portion of the computer terminals used by computer science students. The nursing school meets in what used to be the president's home, located just south of the Administration Building. CSU President Bill Lillard said that the current location of both schools are not meeting the departments' needs. "Both programs are in the least
Student uses classroom knowledge By Mike Sherman
Russell Wallace, a senior marketing student at CSU, was gazing at a Newsweek magazine one day when he saw something that interested him...an all-male pin-up school calender. "We needed a project for marketing class and saw that they were doing it out west," said Wallace, "so I thought why not." Wallace has since completed the course, and the project hit the stands at local businesses including the campus bookstore entitled "Bronco Beef - CSU Men." The calender features chosen male students, decked out in fashions to coincide with the month they pose for, and the creator said the calender, or something like it, has been long overdue.
"We are the first in the state to put out a calender like this for this school year that I know of," Wallace said. But in order to be first, Wallace and his one-time partners in the venture had to do a lot of work. For starters, Wallace, Lynn Hall, Barney Moon and Kim Nelson, all of whom were a part of the class project, sent out brochures and took out ads in area papers in an attempt to generate interest, and catch the ladies eyes. They drew up a random survey to determine if the project would sell, and what the campus females would but a calender featuring the men of CSU. Wallace said that recieved a
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Political showdown at CSU...page 3 Personnel office offers jobs...page 4 Kaleidoscope dancers to perform...page 5 Students speak out on Reagonomics...page 6 Tight-end utilized offensive talent...page 7 CSU triumphs in season opener...page 8
favorable response so the group proceeded with their plans. But when the class ended in May, Wallace and Hall were the only two left to carry-out the plan. To make matters worse, the project's first photographer shot some pictures that Wallace considered to be 'a bit too risque' to include. After a disagreement involving these shots, the photographer quit, and with him went the addresses of the "beef" which Wallace and Hall needed to photograph again.
Bookstore, the "Bronco Beefs" is on sale at Thompson Bookstore and `Tis the Season, a gift store in
downtown Edmond.
satisfactory of all of our physical plants," stated Lillard. "They are currently isolated from each other. By bring them together and giving them better facilities, we could make better use of the space." Lillard said that although the question of whether to add a new building on campus has been discussed, no definite decision has been made. "We haven't quite decided on how to best spend the $600,000 ," said Lillard. He explained that the university could chose to either add onto Howell Hall, currently the location of science classes, add to the math-science building, now under construction, or erect a seperate building for the two departments. Regardless of the path chosen, the effect will be more classroom space for the nursing and funeral science and the rest of the schools, he said. "The movement of the math and science people into the new building will open up some of the classes, and I suspect a new set-up for the life science classes will have the same effect. The movements will have a domino effect creating more space for the entire university." On the subject of the mathscience building, Lillard said the structure, which is located south of Howell Hall, should be ready to open in the middle of October. "We lost a lot time due to the wet spring," Lillard said, "but we made it up over the summer." When the construction is completed, Lillard said classes will be unable to move in until the regents inspect and accept it. The maintaince workers will then move in to add some of the interior finishes before classes begin there, he said.
Those who could not be reached were abandoned, while Wallace, Hall and the new photographer were forced to use some twice. Yet, Wallace is convinced that his calander is of a better quality than the one published by Oklahoma University, scheduled to come out later in the year. "Our's is cheaper," said Wallace about the $4.89 price tag at OU "And I think it is just an allaround better product. Also because we are a smaller school, the subjects in the calender are identifiable to students. OU may have the football, but at least people will see that CSU has the good looking guys."
Vista photo by Theresa Gabrish
Bill Ameen, a CSU senior and two-time national wrestling champion, is one of several men posed in the "Bronco Beef" calendar running from August 1982 through August 1983. Mr. October as well as the other men are, in the calendar, dressed to coincide with the season of that month.