THE TOP BRASS SPEAKS HUGH JACOBS President Freshman Class DON RIPPLINGER President CHARLES LINDQUIST President Sophomore Class NORMA CREER Vice President Freshman Class JUNE CLIFTEN Secretary DARLENE POWELL Vice President PAT ANDREWS Vice President Sophomore Class FLORENCE FARR Secretary Freshman Class CLARICE WILLIAMS Secretary Sophomore Class GLEN TAYLOR Business Manager KAY SHUPE Treasurer By JIM SULLIVAN Livewire students are now called upon by Student President Don Ripplinger to get behind the critical move to the new campus and the drive for at long last a student union building. "Every last one of the collegians must be a livewire," says Ripplinger in outlining his program. Lounges, billiard room, other play rooms, student offices a hundred conveniences and needs Weber College students have gone without are now definitely to be available in the proposed student union building on the new campus. But besides having campaigned a long, long time for this facility, the students must now go out and actively join in the drive for funds, says President Ripplinger. The announced program for the present year involves sponsoring of money raising projects such as the Burl Ives appearance. Every organization and every individual can prove his collegiate spirit by getting behind these special drives. Sum to be raised by such means is set at $5000. But it is self-evident tliat the total job is much larger than that. The size of the project means help from everyone, Don says. (Continued on page 17) Page 2 Moving Day at the College By PATRICIA ORME Construction of buildings on the 180 acres of the Harrison boulevard campus is planned to begin early this next spring, with the facilities ready for use in the fall of 1952, according to Dr. Henry Aldous Dixon, College president. Blueprints for four classroom buildings are in the formative stage and are awaiting minor changes and final approval. After these are built, other buildings will be added gradually until a complete and balanced campus is established. Divisions housed in the new structures will be business, humanities, including band, social sciences, life sciences and physical sciences, besides library, administration, bookstore and cafeteria. Technical division (trades), engineering drafting, physical education, photography laboratory and radio workshop will remain on the present campus. These are the present plans for the first buildings as explained by the architect, Lawrence D. Olpin: The first of the classroom buildings will be 220 feet by sixty-two feet. Each building after that will be twenty feet longer than the one preceding it. Ascending up the hill, each building will be placed about seventy-five feet to eighty feet behind and a few feet north of the preceding one. All four structures will be connected by ramps. This arrangement will give the four buildings the appearance of one large edifice from Harrison Boulevard. The first two will each be one story high, with the third one being partly two-story and the fourth one being a full two-story building. The other buildings to be added later are being de- signed and laid out so that a view of the entire campus may be had from the boulevard. Cost of construction and furnishings for these first buildings will be approximately $1,150,000. The heating plant, which will be built soon after the first of the year, will cost about $200,000. The stadium is under way now. Originally the first plan for expansion of the college was to have a single campus on the present downtown site. This would have necessitated buying residences along Jefferson avenue, using Lester Park, and also buying property on Porter avenue south of the present campus location. Not only was this proposal found to be expensive but also it would have provided insufficient acreage. Then it was decided to have a single campus on Harrison and sell out the present buildings completely, but this idea was found to be impractical because the present buildings are fit only to be used as a school. And at the same time there is not enough money to erect new buildings to accommodate the entire school on the new campus. Therefore, the current plan is to have, for the time being, a split campus with night school and the other subjects previously listed remaining at the downtown location. Buildings on the lower campus that will remain in use will be the Moench building, gymnasium, and the vocational building. Now at last the dream of a new college is to be realized within the next two years on one of the most attractive campus sites in the West. Page 3