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If Only The Millions S Were Spectator The silence is deafening at soccer games, as the only sounds heard by the players is the noise they made themselves, as it echoes off the emp- ty seats in Waldo Stadium. No one is there to cheer on the weary runners of the cross country team, nor are there very many urging the girl's field hockey or volleyball teams on. Only basketball in Read Fieldhouse, foot- ball in Waldo Stadium, and ice hock- ey in the new Recreation Building draw close to a full house. WMU has eleven different facili- ties for varsity and intramural sports, all of which are in excellent condition for participants and spec- tators alike. Two new ones were add- ed this year alone. The Recreation Building encompasses the Harry W. Lawson Ice Arena and the Edward A. Gabel Natatorium and Kanley Track, a nine lane, quarter mile, all weather, outdoor track and site of the 1975 MAC track championships. Kanley Track, completed this fall, replacing the old track torn out at Waldo Stadium, during the addition of more seating there, brings outdoor track meets back to Westem after a one year absence. Besides the run- ning surface it has rings for shot put, discus, and hammer throw, and pits for high jumping and pole vaulting. Upon completion it will seat twenty- five hundred fans to send Western! through its home season. The ice 'arena named after WMU's first hockey coach has a two hundred foot by eighty-five foot plexi-glassed enclosed ice surface and room for for- - ty-five hundred screaming hockey fans. The Natatorium named for WMU's first swimming coach, has a one hundred twenty foot pool with a movable bulkhead for separating the .diving from the swimmers. It has two one-meter boards and one three-me- ter board and seven hundred fifty aluminum backed seats for the plea- sure of the hardy fans. The pool is built to university standards and is a high class pool, capable of holding any type of swimming event whether intramural meets or championship meets for league. f -- ..- ,AI AW.-'Q ' X a--.. 'Qgx ' - . V , , , 'ln-.Q ,mr Q . ,V .Y HT4 ., - ,Q 1 -- ,L '-vg,n-xl 4. 11 'T' if-f J, -I '79 . 5 -'N Wx TX -N 3 '- -- ' , ' -T Q- JD'- r-.., -- - ra s i'- 7,3 xx 'FWS - ' ,, 'i- 24:21. L-5' , I 1. - , ..., , - . lf?
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The other facilities at WMU are in od condition and have room for nd sized crowds, yet are not used to sir fullest extent. Read Fieldhouse th seating for eighty-nine hundred the only building that comes close filling for basketball games and thing else. Oakland Gym, where my of the women's athletic sports ents are held has never seen ough people to create more noise an the team itself as they go on to ztory. lt is questioned why, with such nited spectator interest, the ath- ,ic department gets new facilities ffore the hard pressed College of ne Arts for example, which is the stest growing yet, least equipped campus. One answer is that the ree athletic improvements fRecre- ion Building, Kanley Track, im- ovements on Waldo Stadiuml were r the three strongest sports on mpus, track, football, and hockey. ecause of the basicly unused seat- g added to Waldo Stadium the old ack was tom out and then of course eeded replacing. The hockey team npposedly needed a closer and bet- . 'Q A- 1 Q Q Q ffl.. ll - Y Q if 5, ' .. y- - l , v xxx s ning, .- X3 ter place to play than the Kalamazoo Ice Arena. Another answer was that these additions were planned before the College of Fine Arts was even started 119721 and therefore had been planned and financed before its es- tablishment. The last reason given was that the athletic department is self-supporting and basketball, foot- ball and hockey draw enough to keep it that way and one way to do it is to give them facilities in order to keep the money rolling in. All in all Westem's athletic facili- ties are in fine shape. Only the spo1'ts themselves in most instances are lacking in support from the students and if enough publicity is given to these sports possibly they too will generate most interest and garner more of the headlines. The other fa- cilities are used as follows: Gary Cen- ter, men's physical education, intra- muralsg Oakland Field, women's field hockey, women's physical edu- cationg Haymes Field, baseball, Goldsworth Field, soccer, and the I.M. Fields. All outdoor intramural sports are frequently used by West- ern's Athletic Department, both var- sity and intramural level and all of them deserve the support of West- ern's students.
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