Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Carnegie Tech’s “New Look” During the past year Carnegie Tech’s long term redevelopment program or “new look , much of which is still in the blue print stage, commenced with the razing of the famous and traditional Carnegie Inn. In its place will rise a modern million-dollar dormitory for Tech men. We would like to welcome the new dorm, Donner Mall, to the Tech campus. May it serve the student body as faithfully as the Inn. This new dormitory, expected to be ready for occupancy in the fall, will accommodate 243 students and will replace the present “barracks which only cares for ninety-eight men. The building will be constructed of concrete slab with side walls of aluminum paneling and generous use of glass. The basement of the new dorm will be used as a field house for the athletic teams — locker rooms, coaches’ rooms and equipment storage space. Also included in this program are plans to remove Whitfield Hall, one of the graduate dorms, and push the hill on which it sits into the Tech bowl in order to raise the level of the bowl about twenty feet. This will make the new level closer to the lower portion of Donner Hall where the field house will be located. When this is accomplished the football field will be relocated from Forbes Field back to the Tech campus and the home football games will be played there. This move is being made in hopes of improving the school spirit among the students and thereby improving the calibre of the football teams and giving them more student support. On April 12th, President Warner announced a plan for a new fraternity-dormitory construction. The main feature of the plan is a four unit quadrangle instead of the present individual house system. This plan was advanced as a solution to the need for better quarters for some of the fraternities in the near future and as part of the overall plan for more adequate student housing. These buildings will be located between Beeler Street and Morewood Avenue on the Carnegie Union side of Forbes Street. As soon as the plans for new buildings arc approved construction will proceed; however, the plans are purely in the preliminary stage. The Board of Trustees is also considering a new library building and a new student union; however, plans have not yet materialized on this particular phase of the redevelopment program. Thus begins the long awaited NEW LOOK at Carnegie Tech!