Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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convenient roof — a tremendous improvement over pre- vious, decentralized, haphazard facilities. Its functional design which includes well lighted, air conditioned class- rooms and offices make for an atmosphere most condu- cive to study and work and are greatly appreciated by students and faculty alike The center serves as a memorial to Andrew Carney, the man who helped to make the University possible more than one hundred years ago by providing Reverend John Bapst, S.J. with half the funds required for com- mencing the opera tion of the college. The expansion of the University ' s library facilities is perhaps the most important factor of all for students and faculty specifically and for B.C. academic reputation in general. The quality of the University library system is reflected by the large proportion of B.C. students who continue their studies on the graduate level. Containing more than 650,000 volumes, the system is constantly increasing in size. This year alone it acquired 28,000 new volumes. 23

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excellence, Boston College has undergone continuous transformation. One of the most obvious indications of this has been, of course, the expansion of its physical plant. The University has recently added a faculty center, a science center, three dormitories, expanded library fa- cilities, and has begun construction of a social sciences center. The new biology and physics center, Higgins Hall, has been referred to by Reverend Michael P. Walsh as the building that will enable the University to move toward greater accomplishments and fuller participation in the dramatic expansion of scientific knowledge and research in our present day society. In addition to the usual assortment of classroom, offi- ces, and seminar rooms, the building also contains spe- cial animal rooms, constant temperature rooms, a green- house, and a closed circuit television system. The new Carney Faculty Center provides long needed office space for the University ' s ever increasing faculty. Departmental personnel are now gathered under one n:ziirjji., . imniii 22

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Greater efforts are required however, as each and every still frustrated student will vouch. As a result, a part of its gigantic development program will include the construc- tion of a new campus library to help solve the problem. The new library will be a consolidated library which will be completely accessible to all members of the University community and adequate to meet the needs of students on all levels. In addition, three new men ' s dormitories also contrib- ute to B.C. ' s new look. These dormitories provide in- creased recreational facilities which include pool tables. ping pong tables, T.V. sets and weightlifting equipment. The students ' rooms also have larger desk areas and bet- ter lighting and heating. This increase in on campus housing functions as a source of unity by allowing the male student to become a more involved member in the B.C. community. Similar accommodations are still merely a dream for B.C. ' s women students. While senior women students may now live in approved apartments, the rest of the women residents are forced to continue under less than ideal conditions. 24