Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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Student Services and Salvation Penn Slate daily life is more than jusi eat. drink and study. Students find themselves trekking from Walker Building to White Building in search of an office, a signature, or a shot of penicillin, all pro- vided by a variety of student services. When legs give out after the hike from Past Halls to West, the Campus Loop comes to the rescue. It runs through rain, sleet, snow and hail for longer hours than any mailman. The Loop delivers its passengers to any section of campus for only a dime per trip-probably the best deal in town. On those long nights of cramming before finals, there is Pattec Library and its branches in Pollock. Nittany. Centre and South Halls. One of Pal tec's unforgettable features is the stacks the only place in the world where books know how to play hide and seek. The Het el Union Building or HUB- is a good place to check out your computer date or scarf up a Daily Collegian. The HUB is the main student union building on campus, housing many student organizations, study rooms, information desks and game rooms. Ritenour Health Center offers a dispensary, phar- macy. hospital and ambulance services, along with a staff of doctors and nurses, for any student in need. However. Ritenour often means a long wait and a lousy selection of magazines! Students don’t walk to Shields Building they trudge there, grumbling the whole way about the awful location. Shields is a place to wait in line for thirty minutes only to find that transcripts are given out at the next window where the line is twice as long. From Loop to library, these and other student services are an integral part of life at Penn State. Clockwise, from upper left: Mcizcl Union Building: Inner and Outer Campus Loops; Shields Building-Records and Runarounds: Ritenour Student Admissions Student Services 23

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Changing Before Our Eyes During your four years at Penn State. 1975-79. you saw a limited amount of building and ex- pansion on campus, most of which took place during your years as upperclassmen. Three of these expansion projects are particularly note- worthy: Schwab Auditorium. Beaver Stadium, and the Sports Complex. Schwab Auditorium, built in 1903. was the gift of Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corporation and a Penn State Trustee. Originally built as a chapel, the auditorium has since enjoyed varied academic and line arts uses. But during most of your junior year. Schwab was closed for repairs and renovations. The Audito- rium was rededicated during Homecoming week- end in Pall 1978 with new lighting, heating, air conditioning, carpeting, seats, and a total seating capacity of 968. Sixteen thousand scats were added to Beaver Stadium between the '77 and 78 football seasons, and the addition entailed an engineering feat of grand proportion. The 8-niillion-pound all-steel stadium was lifted 1216 feet to allow the erection of 20 rows of concrete stands where the track used to be. The south end of the horseshoe was also closed in with 40 rows of concrete stands, making a bowl with seals coming right down to the grass. Even with the additional 16.000 seats, tickets to all home games were sold out well in advance of the opening game! The University Ice Pavilion was converted to an indoor sports complex during Pall 1978. pro- viding outdoor varsity sports with a warm year- round practice area. The complex provided the soccer, track, baseball, football, men's and women’s lacrosse and field hockey teams with an indoor artificial surface for practice, but left ice skaters and hockey players out in the cold. A new skating rink will logically be the next build- ing project at Penn State, and there are whispers of another addition to the stadium. For now. you can watch the completion of the Nursing Build- ing. and wonder what comes next. - jme — Changing 25