Southeast Missouri State University - Sagamore Yearbook (Cape Girardeau, MO)

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Considering the pace of the modern world, it is obvious that there comes a time, a certain period in the age of a university, when that school has to go through significant change, SEMO included. Situated in the Midwest, sandwiched between the Bible Belt and the Archie Bunkerland urban areas of the North, the university wasn't exactly thriving in loose, progressive attitudes and policies for the past 102 years. It may have taken a little time for the T 4 tradition and austerity of SEMO to be replaced by a sense of competition with the updated learning centers of the world, but this year, the time of tran- sition came. And the once ultra-conservative, honor-bound Southeast Missouri State University turned into the university with an open-minded at- mosphere, a sense of change for improvement, a set of new policies for the future. ' -.. :,A:v,, ., Y r . f 1 'NU ' L Q ,A ,,. ,,,, , . tv' , X-1 M mc. tv, Y, ,Q ,.- ,f , X U . J' '. ' J- 4 Vu ,. .V V, A , f f - T 1 ft e. , '. 1-'W .:- j 'Q K Y .. M. if' 3 fm 1, gil3,,.-ive . ,JE X' .nw

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Students may have attended classes in Academic or the Grauel Language Arts Building without noticing some of the oldest, most traditional aspects of campus such as the sculptures of the Gerber Statutary Collec- tion. These white plaster of paris replicas of Homer, Demosthenes, and the Parthenon, to name only a few, date back uithe 1904 VVorhTs Faux'They had been donated to the university by Louis Houck, a member of the Board of Regents from 1886 to 1925. Even the buildings themselves that housed these sculptures dated back to the early 1900's such as the Serena ln- dustrial Arts Building, one of the first four buildings to be a part of the campus. The fate of another older feature of campus was also under consideration by university officials this year. With construction completed on the new Univer- sity Center, SEMO's old student union, Memorial Hall, was left a ghost building of empty dining halls, meeting rooms, and bookstore shelves. Upon comple- tion of the center, Memorial was being considered for classroom use, as an exhibition hall for university art collections, for administrative offices, and as a food storage area. 'ss A! v X lv' ' b 5' . K.. A I x ' I - V W 35 A, . , f 1 . 1, X R 1, V In F. I i ',4 Q s - , 5 41 A . - ' , tt. 4 5 l 553- , rx , ,fl L , z bf 'Q M tx-u, W 1' 'l' ' . ' N.. X J A H W - ,M in ily, . Q N , if -3' g t N 5 .- , 1 x , x, ...Ji- ' --at ,4-fff l 'N S, q 1 .wt f, rigs rseafF 5 F ,, -an 'tefa rs, 1 Sm? t--t ,t----- ta-a .3 K wg 'ik-wr 3 1 tau!! 'N' . I .-,M . l.,...4 ' ggi? , .fa 1 1 T! Y-fir: 1 ,A what --wwf ig! 6, ,, l 5 I F' 6, ' l'?.r.:-E., ....l.m.a. - lun: ,:..llll, rv!! . fri' . 5,5-fp-f'r ,, , ,. riff' Q 5 L. llll 'Ht rr ' 9 t - IBF? - 3 'iss A 8382? 1 get-2'-25 eggs' p rrp? ri-1+ - H-2+ Q V- 3 ,,,..,.,.. 4 Qjjjigii' all ,llll igfnl llll ,