Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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M? Upcxr left Proper drainage iw a lacior lo be considered when bulling the road» on Weber Stale campus Upper right Parking miters were installed at sever»! choke parking spaces lo help Insure a (aster parking turnover. Center The enemy crisis inspired a change Hr Weber Stale parking rules u-ith the institution ot better parking places lor those who rode In car nooh. Middle left: Construc- tion of roods anil buildings was a comnsoo sight at Weber Stale again this year. Middle right Helping students keep track of time, the Stewart bell tower also chimed out songs at 8 OJn.. noon, and 5 pm louer left Tire access rood teas bollf lo fake some til the student «raffle oil Harrison Boulevard 13 Construction

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m i Upper Irfv KrnaWvancr man. like a candle burning bright, h l«ftrt «rrKtevj to Hhnlnrtr the world of dorkncw. Upper right: WlHvrkjht worked out the rtythim for a rock group ratted CA1JLUS. that wat popular In the Ogdm area. Center Fibbcfio Delo.vlo tkvjmrd intently to the voice of a friend on a Promontory Tou«er tck phone. Middle left: IXrnyi Wood mined in the shadow». Middle right: Michael H. ieuttua Edkor-bvChWofthenewhestabfehrd dormitory paper the LOWER LtVO- Imet right. Girh from the ihbd floor of Wasatch Kail ate meal» at Promontory cafeteria. 12 Candid

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Comment: Special Events Center by Darryl Wood Weber State College ha FINALLY decided to build a Special Events Center. Weber is the last of the four year institutions in Utah to have a Special Events Center built. Plans for the Center have been in the making for the past several years. The Center was Anally approved last year and the fund drive to obtain community support began November 15. 1973. The structure is scheduled to be completed in mid- 1976. Its opening is to be tied in with the Bicentennial Celebration of the United States. The Special Events Center will seat approximately twelve thousand people when completed. The building will be com- pletely air-conditioned and to blend in with the surrounding landscape, earth wrill be shaped around the radially ribbed structure. The Special Events Center is to be located south of the WSC campus, near the comer of Harrison Boulevard and Country Hills Drive. At a cost of approximately $7,723,125.00. the Special Events Center should serve the Ogden community as well as the college. Inflation is raising the cost of the Center by $70,000.00 per month. Funds for the center will be raised by selling seats, memorializa- tions and a large do- nation from the Donnell B. Stewarts. Seats will be sold for $200.00 apiece. Residents of the community that buy these seats will 'have their names placed on a plaque in the Center. Even though they will own the seats, they must buy season tickets each year for all games and other events in the Center. Money for the Special Events Center will also be raised by the memorialization of other parts of the Center. Score- boards. press rooms, reception rooms, trophy cases and the Wildcat Room can be memorialized by people who wish to donate money in memory of a dead friend or relative. Six hundred and Afty thousand dollars is expected from seat sales and memoriali ations. Major contributors to WSC Campus development, the Donnell B. Stewarts, have agreed to match all funds, dollar for dollar, that are raised in the seat sale and memorialization campaign. The remainder of the money needed for the Center will come from the sale of revenue bonds, student building fees, and income from college operations. Money is already being collected from an increase in the tuition fees of all students at Weber State College. This increase, nine dollars per quarter, began last spring and will continue until the Special DajvI Wood. RFTROSPECT Comm« «or Events Center is completed. A three phase program was developed to collect the: funds for the Center. These Include. Arst, an Invitation io: businesses and industries around this community to partlOfj ipate in the seat sale campaign. The second phase will be toi acquire special donations from interested people who do no wish to have reserved chairs or memorializations. Third will be to seek donations for the memorializations of diAeren structures in the Center. In the Arst phase of this funding campaign. seventy-Av thousand brochures, explaining the aspects of the Specla Events Center, were distributed. This phase started on Nov ember 15. 1973 and will continue until all funds are collected. As of January 1974. $550,000.00 had been collected. Dean- W. Hurst, co-chairman of the fund drive, then stated. “The response to date has been heart-warming . Now let us look at some of the pros and cons of building a Special Events Center for Weber State College. The Arst negative aspect of the Center is its proposed location. If WSC is going to build a Special Events Center, it should be located on campus. The Center could be built easier and probably d 14 Comment: Special Events Center