Salinas Junior College - La Reata Yearbook (Salinas, CA)

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,Z L '.W '- V, 'A -i If Qu f'Nfi,- - .' ' 'L 5 The outside of the building has a large court with trees planted in order. With the beginning of the second semester science students were greatly overjoyed. They came back to the opening of the new science building which provides an entirely different atmosphere. Instead of the old, marked up desks, they now have new, shining desks and much better facilities. All this was made possible by a bond election held February 6, 1962, which alloted funds for the 31,592,000 Science Building, five months later than the sched- uled date in September, 1963. Included in the building are eight labs, with necessary equip- ment, laboratory preparation rooms, two large lecture rooms of the amphitheater type, a small lecture room, store rooms, in- structors' offices, and a planetarium. The latter can be used as a lecture room as well as for the study of the earth as an astronomical object-a necessary part of the curriculum in the space age. he Grand penmg When walking into the science building, one first notices the Foucault pendulum. Made of brass and divided into two hem- ispheres, the hollow ball weighs 235 pounds. It is suspended on a cable 285 feet long and has a swing of seven feet.