University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Modern facades contrast old landmarks Rain complicated the job as construction 26 workers began the Life-Science Building. The Administration Building will cen- tralize the administrative personnel, mov- ing them from the offices they currently occupy located throughout the campus. The Life-Science Building will provide labs and offices for the expanding Chem- istry Department, the first University de- partment to offer a Ph.D. program. The entrance to the campus is changed by an imposing Administration Building on the southwest corner. The addition of these new buildings will add new beauty and grace to the other buildings on campus. The Tower will con- tinue to dominate the campus for outsid- ers while the stately elm-lined drive from the Fatima Shrine to Sacred Heart Square will continue to form the physical and spiritual heart of the campus. For the dorm students, the campus is the view from their windows, particularly the intramural field in front of Shiple Hall. The Memorial Building, baseball diamonds and other athletic facilities make up the campus for some of these students. Equal attention is given by dormers and day-hops to the two most-frequented buildings on campus, the Library and the Student Union. Both are locales for study and culture, and the Union also provides a social eating place.

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Students running to class from the depths of Siberia are greeted by rows of cars and a newly-repaired Tower clock. The Fisher Brothers Administrative Center, financed through the Challenge Fund, will be completed in Spring, 1966. CN ix Campus becomes scene of multiple change When U-D first moved to the Mc- Nichols campus in the 1920’s, it moved from an urban campus and developed a suburban one. Once again, the Univer- sity is located in an urban area and the face of the campus is being changed. The majority of students attending U-D are from the city and this in itself helps shape the campus. The thousands of commuting students use hundreds of cars, which necessitate hundreds of parking spaces. Parking lots are, therefore, scattered around the perimeter of the campus, ranging from the massive lot known af- fectionately as Siberia to the almost forgotten faculty lot near the Science Building. But the campus is not made up en- tirely of parking lots. There are also buildings—buildings to house the fac- ulty and administration, the students, the books, the Jesuits. U-D is expand- ing these physical facilities at a stag- gering rate. New buildings will permit classes in rooms now being used for offices. They will also provide necessary office space and will add laboratories for U-D’s bur- geoning scientific curriculum. Adminis- trative offices will now be centralized in one building, instead of their present proliferation across campus. 25

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Sacred Heart Square, once the center of campus activities, now stands aloof from the hustle and bustle of campus life. covered grounds around the Library are busiest between classes. The leaf- lies Naa The shrine to Our Lady is visited often by students. 27