U Magazine, Winter 1987

ALCALA PARK

Campus "living room" dedication March 6 A formal dedication and open house are planned for March 6 to celebrate completion ofUSD's University Center, a $11 million facility which has won rave reviews from students and faculty who have toured the building. President Author E. Hughes, Board ofTrustees Chairman Bishop Leo T. Maher and Vice President for Student Affairs Tom Burke are among t h e officials scheduled to speak at the 3 p.m. ceremony. Tours of the 74,500-square-foot facility will follow the formal dedication ceremony. Refreshments will be served during the afternoon. The University Center has been described as the "living room" of campus. Within its two levels, visitors will discover a student dining hall, televison and music lounges, student government and student affairs offices, a deli , sundries store, game room and meeting rooms. The Center also houses study rooms, an outdoor recreation shop, bike shop, grille, a typewriter and computer room, bakery and ice cream shop, a faculty-staff dining room, an information desk, ticket booth and automatic teller machine. "The center will add an exciting new dimension to student life," says Dr. Hughes. "And the building itself is simply beautiful. " The Center features the 16th century Spanish Renaissance architectural style found throughout campus. Blue, taupe and peach are the dominant colors inside the fully air-conditioned structure. The building will be opened for everyday use by the University commu– nity at the end of January. • meals and donate the cost of the food to the cause. The result? Students raised between $3-4,000 for OXFAM. Families in South– east San Diego received the canned food collected in time for Thanksgiving. And 50-70 percent ofUSD students were a t least made aware of the hunger problem , estimates Brault. "I've worked in the Campus Ministry Office for three years and never really gotten involved in a project like this ," says student Dan Geiger, another one of the organizers. "I really feel we did something as a community to help fight the hunger problem." •

Students raise funds, awareness to aid hunger relief efforts T he world hunger problem was the object of student fund-raising and consciousness-raising efforts on campus during the week preceding Thanksgiving. Campus Ministry has recruited stu– dents for the past eight years to organize such efforts as part of an international effort organized by OXFAM (Oxford Committee for Famine Relie0. "Our activities increase awareness of an ongoing problem just before we celebrate our land of plenty, " according to senior Mike Brault, one of the student organizers of the campus effort. Among the events carried out by organizers were a fast and prayer service, canned food drive, aluminum can drive, speakers and films, balloon release and rock-a-thon. More than 800 students also signed up to skip

Alpha Delta Pi 's Sandy Seaburg and Kristi Mackey w ere two of about 70 sorority members who raised money to combat world hunger by par– ticipating in a rock-a-than November 20.

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