University of Missouri at Kansas City - Kangaroo Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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O T ' MUSIC ROOM Swinney Gymnasium, is being constructed of chipped granite, natural stone and brick. Some of the facil- ities: a private dining room for dinner meetings, a CIT I D?-f ,Ks snack bar, cafeteria, lounge, two music rooms, art gallery, a browsing library, a craft and poster shop, darkrooms, and play rooms. Future plans call for a large ballroom, swimming pool, auditorium, prac- tice room, party room, chapel, and student orgniza- tion rooms. The Center will not remain an infant, but will grow with the needs of an expanding Uni- versity. Bob Handy, Director of the University Center, believes, the Center will be a laboratory of student management and self expression. The ac- tivities program of the Center will be planned and directed by a program council selected in terms of a merit system. There will be birth traumas. The Federal Gov- ernment under a Student Union Loan program, ad- vanced the funds for construction and furnishings of the Center, and the loan will have to be repaid by University of Kansas City students. The method of raising funds for the loan repayment will be deter- mined after the Center is operating, and will be contingent on many factors. If students enthusias- tically utilize the facilities available, the small profits realized may well provide the money for the reserve .4

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The University Center, engendered from an idea to a hole in the ground, will in time, become the most important individual building on campus. This is not to say that the University should or would sub- stitute excellence in social activities for excellence in academic achievements, but, if the University is to endure, there must be growth in all areas, and there must be outward signs of this growth. If stu- dents are to acquire a hydrophytic thirst for knowl- IN THE BEGINNING . . . Some beer cans . . . rusty nails . . . packing crates burn- ing . . . the campus wilderness. The Nelson Gallery peeks over the trees and bushes, edge, if the University is to be Promethean in spirit, there must be incentives manifest in the University structure that excite the intellect and senses. The Center, emblematic of the Universityis future, con- stitutes part of the stimulus. Seniors, graduating in June, will not see the completion of the structure in their University ex- periences, but they are part of the Center because they have felt the stirrings of birth. THEN CAME THE MACHINES and the men and they dug a hole, Snow fell and made a lake that had to be pumped out, And the hole was dug deeper :intl they started to build. WHEN THE BUILDING IS FINISHED the hole will he filled with the University Center and there will be life there, 'WEE I 11