Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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NOT ONLY DID the workers gut most of the preexisting J.W. Jones Student Union, they also had to put It back together to meet the new plans. Workers were busy wiring, laying sheet rock and laying concrete. Photo by Christy Chestnut THE J.W. JONES Student Union project brings the sounds of construction to the Northwest campus. Students were constantly reminded of the hard work the construction workers were doing to meet their deadline. Photo by Chnsty Cttesnut i CONSTNUCTION OXS

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Renovation projects LI I y by Matthew Pearl The perpetual campus construction projects prompted students and faculty to redirect their footsteps to avoid piles of metal and concrete surrounded by familiar orange fencing. Following the completion of Colden Hall and the steam lines. Northwest began a new set of projects in the summer of 1998 involving the J.W. Jones Student Union and South Complex. The Union was the more difficult of the two projects, according to Cost Plarming Management Intemahonal, Inc., the firm which oversaw the construction of both facilities. According to CPMI project manager Randy Sharp, the Union renovation was so complex that CPMI oversaw the project in two phases. The first was the food service area. Eating would have been convenient and accessible for students and faculty at its completion in August 1999. Phase one had already dealt us some structural problems, which set us back a little, but the plan to finish in August never had changed, Sharp said. Phase two, including the renovation of offices and meeting areas was scheduled to y g REMODELING OF the J.W. Jones Student Union is the latest construction project on campus. Construction began in the summer of 1998 and was projected to be completed by begin in May 1 999 and was to be the fall of 1 999. Photo by Amy Roh 024 STUDENT LIFK finished by August 2000. Renovation of South Complex began in August 1998. According to Residential Life Coordinator Mark Hetzler, the plan to finish South in November or December 1999 was on time. Throughout the year, we had individual deadlines set for the completion of certain phases of the project, Hetzler said. We had met those critical times and had continued to plan on the reopening of South in the spring of 2000. South was chosen for remodeling because of its age and declining structural condition. The changes to the Union and South Complex caused inconvenience for everyone interacting with the Northwest campus, but most agreed the mess was worth the luxury of improved facilities. iMteuiOill p- V

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PAST til «ft . GEORGIAtMAS CHOIR by Lisa The Georgia Mass Choir performed in February. Some in attendance wanted to see a live performance by the gospel choir featured in the movie The Preacher ' s Wife. Others, like Director of Campus Activities Bryan Vanosdale, felt a special connection to gospel choir music. I did not think you had to have grown up in a church that had that kind of music and that kind of spirit about it to have felt this way, to have felt that connection, that rejoicing, Vanosdale said. The event was sponsored by Campus Activities Program- mers, who joined forces with Alliance of Black Collegians to promote the event as an activity for Black History Month. Vanosdale said the event was appropriate for Black His- tory Month since it celebrated an art-form that was not often seen in Maryville. That group kind of represented a different way of music expression that was not very common in this area, Vanosdale said. I thought it was just a really good way of bringing a lot of people together. Toward the end of the concert they had everybody grab hands as kind of a symbol of unity — that we were all here together, that we were different, but the same. Photo by Valerie Mossman PRESENT YU LETI D E bySara ;ur,se It may have been a cold December day in 19 9 8 outside, but once inside the Photo by Heidi Floers— Conference Center, it was the holiday season of 1585, the height of the Renaissance era. The 25th Annual Yuletide Feaste captured the audience ' s imaginations with its authentic food and music. The Feaste was forced to move to the Conference Center due to construction in the J.W. Jones Union. Despite the small change, the Feaste proved to be successful. Since its start, the Feaste ' s cast had grown to approximately 60 members. Many of the student participants in the event were impressed with the talent of their fellow cast members. The group was so talented, and it really was a joy to work with them, Kevin Kelly said. Despite the alternative location, the Feaste still transported audience and cast members alike to the Renaissance era for an evening of music, food and pleasure. JOYCELYN by Michelle A blunt and direct attitude got Joycelyn Elders in some political trouble in 1994. In 1999 it made her an interesting and humorous speaker at Northwest. Elders was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to 02S ENTeRTAINMENT