University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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What may seem an inconvenience today will mean a face-lift for Ole Miss tomorrow Cranes, concrete trucks, and piles of dirt were just a few of the sights Ole Miss students returned to this fall. From the rebuilding of the Baptist Student ' s Union to a new baseball stadium, the campus is receiving a facelift. Reno va- tions are underway on the site that will be the home for the new Cyber 205 supercomputer. The computer will be housed in Powers Hall, an unused dor- mitory changed into an office building. Traffic on campus was detoured around wrecking crews as the physical plant re- moved several smokestacks from an ob- selete boiler system. Many streets on campus were closed for days at a time this fall when the Physical Plant dug up parts of the streets to replace heating and cooling systems in some of the older buildings. During football season, sev- eral skyboxes and a new pressbox were added to Vaught-Hemingway stadium. Reconstruction of the Law School began after a fire in April, 1988 which caused extensive smoke and water damage over most of the fifth floor of the school. The end of all of the dirt, detours, and trucks does not seem to be near. For safety reasons, the school is planning to renovate the foundation, heating and cooling systems and faulty electrical sys- tems of the Lyceum. During this time most of the administrative offices in the Lyceum will be moved to the Old Gym. However, that building first requires a facelift and renovations to change it from a one to a two story building. Oth- er construction projects include exterior work to Barnard observatory and the Y- uilding and an addition to the John Davis Williams library. The plans to build a Fine Arts theatre, a new Student Health Center, and the Center for Tech- nological Development of Natural Products are not yet complete. In the future, there will also be additions to the Business School, Pharmacy School, the Library, and the Law Center. bv Amanda Robbing Student Life

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Summer Showcase The 1988 annual Festival of Southern Theatre Summer Showcase reached new heights at Ole Miss with the production of five smash hits. Since its inception four years ago, the Festival of Southern Theatre has grown to be a great event for Ole Miss as well as one of interest internationally. Fes- tival ' 88 consisted of three original plays with Southern themes which won the annual contest sponsored by the uni- versity. This year ' s overall winner was Kingfish! by Jeff Frankel and John Franceschina. The musical, which centered around the life of Louisiana ' s colorful governor Huey Long, was per- formed July 14 and 15. On July 16, Rebecca Oilman ' s contemporary drams The Land of Little Horses was per- formed. The play focused on an eccen- tric Southern family. A Shattering of Glass by W.A. Sessions was a mean- ingful look at the lives of people in a small South Carolina town immediately after the end of World War II. It was performed July 17. Summer Showcase, which includes the festival winners, also performed two other popular plays. The showcase of- ficially opened the season July 23-25 with Noises Off , a delightfully wacky English farce. The play, written by Mi- chael Frayn, reveals the happenings backstage of an actual production. A showcase with incredible talent in acting, direction, and production ended with The Mystery of Edwin Droud by Rupert Holmes. The bright and original musical ended the season July 28-30. by Missy Pace Above: scene from The Land of Little Horses . I Above: scene from Kingfish! ' 26 Student Life