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OUR CHANGING CAMPUS
eturning to Bucknell in September. tennis courts, while the Financial Aid Of- the academic year. As the buildings rose.
one could not help but not~ce the fice and Taylor Street House had been one could not suppress a sigh of relief that
changer to our beautiful campus. The huge moved to St. George Street. What an odd the new dorms, like Dana and Bertrand
hole behind the library was gone, replaced place for Taylor St. House to be thought Library, would follow the Federal architecby
Ellen's new addition, while a new hole the befuddled mind.
ture of the campus. This architecture is
had been opened up behind Coleman for With men and unobstructed doorwavs. characterized by relatively plan and slmple
the foundation of the Arts Center. With the Dana welcomed back the engineering hamqleneous buildings trimmed wlth
scaffolding gone. the new columnar third students, many of whom didn't have flnals Georgian ornamentation and using such
floor of Dana was visible. Its new granite last year on the account of the reconstruc- basic elements as the Bucknell brick, the
steps were being f~nlshed and scrubbed for tion. in addition to having the third floor Buckneil "white" trim, arches, and slate
the rededication ceremony in October. added, laborator8es and classrooms had roofs.
A walk down the hill behind Roberts been expanded and a large central machine The physical changes of the campua
brought Lmmis Field into sight, but lab was constructed an the ground floor. were profound during the year, but the
Lwmis Field was no longer there. Itr broad Although originally built in 1921. this $4.2 more significant and important changer
green expanse was now filled with the million renovation war the first construc- will be in how these new facilities are utiliz.
foundations for new dormitories and con- tion on the build~ng since it was enlarged in ed. The new dorm on Seventh St will be usstruction
litter. A dusty haze, kicked up by 1938.
ed ~n conjunction with Vedder as the site
the dump trucks, now hung over the The addition to the Ellen Clarke Bertrand for the new F~eshman Residential Colleges
former fieid. Continuing downhiii to Moore L\brary was also open for use this fail. next year. The other downhiii dormitories
Avenue, one now came face to face with a While students studied and workers put the wlli house the remainder of the freshman.
completely alien sight. D~gging back into finishing touches on the new addition, the Trax, Kresr, and Roberts will no longer
the depths of the mind, beneath the more original library was undergoing a massive delineate the freshman quad, so, will our
recent memories of a summer just ended, renovation and reconstruction. The freshman quad retain its name or will it
one tried to recall what used to be here renovation was completed early second become the "uphill quad"?
before the bulldozers had arrived.
semester, the temporary entrance at the Buckneli will take ail these changes in
When the mind stopped churning and ride of the new addition was removed, and stride just as it always has. Three and a half
the memory clicked into place, one could Ellen's main doors were opened to the Roberts will always exist, but to us it can
only utter a "Wow?'. The foundations of public. The $8.2 million facility doubled the never have the same meaning without
another new dorm occupied what had only previous sire of the library and included ad- freshman girls. Just as each of us must
a few months ago been two streets, a park- ditional study space, group study rooms. grow and change during our brief stay at
ing lot. and three houses. While the streets and a new 24-hour study lounge complete Bucknell, so must Bucknell also grow and
and parking lot were gone for good, the with computers and snack machines. change. Despite all the changer. Bucknell
three houses were still alive but had been The Bucknell communcty also witnessed will continue to be a small, strong, liberal
moved to new homes. Spratt House had the two new dormitor~es grow from their arts college wah a loyal and proud student
been moved across Seventh St. next to the foundations to full-fledged buildings dur~ng body.
The ribbon iscul.on Orlobcr 12. 1986officlaliy
ded~raling the $4.2 mill#m renovation and
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