University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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; tic cento at r- Construction continues on Chemical and Petroleum Building as renovated Little Campus opens to serve University visitors by MICHAEL SUTTER uilding pr . We applied s. Another mplished a ' their aims remained ' Ike street for eh lane of the of improving teaching and service facilities. Work on the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Buil ding at 26th and Speedway, for example, managed to weave motorists into single lanes along busy 26th Street which switched sides of the street twice during the year. The $23 million facility was due for completion in November 1985 and was to contain primarily laboratory space. The renovation of two Little Campus buildings at the corner of MLK and IH 35 next to the Erwin Center accom- plished a note of nostalgia. The more quaint of the two the Arno Nowotny Building was built in 1862 and once housed Gen. George Custer. Upon its completion, the house would be a visitors ' information center. The project ' s cost was put at $4.3 million. A third project, the renovation of the Business-Economics Building and the Graduate School of Business Building, ac- complished the honor of having the most dusty and noisy project closest to the heart of campus and its thousands of dormitory residents at Jester Center and Men ' s Residence Halls. A section of the bland 1950s facade of the BEB came down and was replaced by a marble and smoked glass entrance to the graduate building. During construction, scheduled for completion in late 1985, one section of Speedway was alternately blocked and closed off to accommodate cranes. A fourth floor masonry and tile chute made of 55-gallon drums rolled like thunder as the insides of the building were remodeled. The furniture contracts alone totalled more than $1 million in a project costing $18.6 million. AECO technician Marty Sawyer does ceiling work under the grates in the new section of the Business Administration-Economics Building. The new wing features an antique New York Stock Exchange booth in its lobby. Photo by Jim Sigmon illttttttttlt Opening 9

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Dust: a way of life Death, taxes and construction at the University of Texas. Students could bet that these three things would remain constant until science could find a way to get around the first two. But for a University knocking on the door of world notorie- ty, the third was unavoidable. And thanks to a gal named Santa Rita 1 in 1923, the University could count on money generated by the oil-rich Permanent University Fund to pay One of the largest buildings on campus, the Business Adminis tration- Economics Building, stood gutted and empty for most of the school year. Its only inhabitants were workmen renovating the inside. The chute made of oil barrels provided a speedy way for workers to dispose of old materials. Photo by Jim Sigmon Beams protrude from the foundation of the proposed seven story parking garage at 24th and San Jacinto streets. After the bond for construction is paid off through parking fees, the garage will be converted into student and faculty parking. Photo by Jim Sigmon for expansion and renovation of some of its facilities. Funds for some of the new facilities, including an athletic center at Memorial Stadium and a parking garage next to Simkins Dor- mitory, came from the sale of bonds or from the departments involved. More than $193 million was earmarked for building pro- jects underway or proposed in 1984-85. That figure applied only to projects on the main Forty Acres of campus. Another $82 million was proposed for projects at the Balcones Research Center. The dustbowls of campus construction accomplished a number of things, one of which would have to be their aims Construction machinery converged upon 26th Street and remained throughout the year. Since digging took place on both sides of the street for the installation of new steam tunnels, drivers never knew which lane of the street would be open for traffic. Photo by Jim Sigmon mutt ' CORING COMPANY FAREA2q PARKING MOJT ' FRI 7:30Alr5:OOpM ! Opening

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mmmmmmmammmmm m mi mmm mm Facilities expand While sipping a Coke from your souvenir Texas cup and eating nachos, you sit in your steel-backed stadium seat. You are probably not aware of the first-class facilities maintained by the University of Texas athletic departments. From back in 1898, when land was first purchased for the football field, to the mid-1970s, when three of the finest athletic complexes were built, the University had been in- strumental in ensuring the Longhorns had the best facilities. Memorial Stadium was home for Texas football and track. Built in 1924, the stadium went through a number of changes over the years. In 1926, the stadium had a 40,000-seat capaci- ty and an addition in 1948 allowed 61,000 spectators to watch. The addition of Bellmont Hall in 1972, which provided an up- It ' s bulldozers away for the new 12-court Penick-Allison Tennis Center which is expected to be completed in late fall, 1985. Photo by Jim Sigmon per deck of seats and classrooms, increased the stadium capacity to 81, 000. The track which circles the field is the site of the annual Texas Relays, and hosted the 1985 NCAA Track and Field Championships. What had been called the finest collegiate ballpark in the nation, Disch-Falk Field was the home of the UT baseball team. The $2.5 million field, which seated 5,000, was built in 1975 and compared well to major league parks in lighting and dimension. The $6 million Texas Swim Center opened in 1977 and had been the site of Olympic trials and the NCAA finals. Across the street, the Longhorn basketball teams .played Seven million dollars were invested to construct the new athletic training facility, Neuhaus-Royal Athletic Center. The expected completion date was fall, 1986. Photo by Jim Sigmon tf v.- ft y . ,.:- mil II I.PJ 10 Opening