Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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C HUFFLE Step by step the university advanced and grew. The S7 million Solar Energy Research Center was opened under the wing of the College of Architec- ture and Planning in time for the autumn sunshine. The center was one of few solar research facilities in the nation that was affiliated with an architecture program. Yet it provided services for the geography, natural resources, geology and physics depart- ments. Construction ended on one corner of Neely and McKinley while work crews crossed the street to begin work on an Sl l million computer science and English building. The building would allow the pre- sent Computer Center and English department to expand while the telecommunications, speech communication and theatre departments would completely occupy the present English building. But as soon as the solar lab absorbed its first rays and the cornerstones were placed for the computer science! English building, students were thrown a curve. The Indiana legislature announced that student tuition fees would escalate 10 percent the following year in order to finance further state university con- struction and upkeep. If a 17 percent increase this year wasn't enough, an added 10 would have some students retreating from college altogether. Not one quarter into the year and students were already stumbling to the Ball State two-step, caught in a shuffle of pro and con. The university kept its good name in the news during the beginning of the year. Plans for Indiana Statehouse revisions were sub- mitted to the Legislative Council by Alvin Palmer, architecture professor, and 15 architecture students. I think the report is very well done. On the sur- face, it appears to be very practical. lt gives us a direction of basis for the future, House Speaker J. Roberts Dailey, R-Muncie, told the Daily News. ' - ' ' ' - - - -f -'rf-'rw' fir----f r :rp. -, 1 0 522-'sa t i s ' 9100 ,yzcfsjorzrfafd