The Highacres collegian. (Hazleton, PA) 1956-????, March 06, 1987, Image 1

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Yes to new classrooms!
Attention
off-campus students! Don't
get excited over the
prospect of parking closer
to the Clasroan Building
without getting a ticket.
Information straight from
the man who should know,
Karl Krone,
Manager . of the Hazleton
Campus, indicates that
there will not be a new
parking facility on this
campus next semester.
The assumption that a
new Residence Hall will
generate more parking
facilities is false. There
No to new parking,
By Chris Drury
Collegian Staff Writer
Business
Mr. Ted Imbert, Manager of
the Campus Bookstore
will be the same number of
parking spaces next
semester as there are this
semester. Some students who
formerly ormmuted will be
living on campus;
therefore, the possibility
of fewer cars for on-caucus
students is evident,
considering that only 45%
of the current on-campus
students have
registered to parking lots
on campus.
The good news on
campus is that a Fund Drive
that is currently under way
in order to raise $1.5
million dollars.
purpose of this fund drive
is to begin construction on
a building between the
Classroom Building and the
Physical
Building. It will contain 5
classrooms,
RCIH C, COSI
Education
presentation rooms (each
with 75 seats), offices,
and a conference room. The
fund drive intends to raise
this money over a 5-year
How soon this
period.
23,967 square foot
structure can be initiated
and completed depends
entirely on how midi money
is raised. The campus will
ask the university for
additional grants or
Harrisburg to submit state
funds to posibly make up
the balance of $3.7 million
dollars.
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