Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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A. A. Lemieux Library Nears Fall Completion Date By Aegis ’66 press time, the A. A. Lemieux library was 65 per cent completed. However, its completion date was uncertain due to a work stoppage brought about by a labor dispute. University officials were hopeful that the fall target date could still be met. The library, named in honor of the Very Rev. Albert A. Lemieux, S.J., University president from 1948 to 1965, will provide seating for 960 students and room for 450,000 volumes in open stacks. The Lemieux library features study carrell stations which will provide seating for 374 students. There will be tables and lounge areas where the students may study. Thirty-six closed carrells and 11 private study rooms will seat from 8 to 20 students each. A lecture room, seating 100, a rare book room, and a display room will be on the first floor. The contemporary American Gothic design of the library has an exterior of black and white marble. The structure, built at a cost of $2.8 million, dominates the central campus area. 18

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© THE Seattle University campus, the broad revisions in the curriculum under the Seattle Plan have given a new air to the academic atmosphere. The inquisitive, probing student of the New Breed is offered the chance to prove his mettle. With more emphasis placed upon the use of original source material, more individual initiative by the student is demanded. He has the opportunity to form his own ideas on the subject rather than have his knowledge spoon-fed. The choice is now up to the student—if he accepts the responsibility of working and thinking on his own, a great stride forward has been taken in the quest for academic freedom; if, however, he rejects this responsibility, he must be willing to subsist on the nutritionally-deficicnt diet of pap. cognizant that pap rarely sustains anyone beyond the infantile stage.

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» Nearly sixty-five per cent completed, construction of the A. A. Lemieux Library moves ahead to meet the fall completion date. The task of facing the exterior of the building with marble began winter quarter. A A LEMIEUX LIBRARY SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ’820438 FEDEMJ. GRANT TITlf I XfiQOOO TOO UM 1123311 LNMRSITY FUNOS