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r/>nefru 1,11-? \ ,if jgj ^ WjUL ^ JP j $ faculty and staff of the Theatre and Spe Department will be able to move into their Construction Hi to re-route BBS USC traffic gpS By Debbie Howard Traffic will be re-routed or \ f completely removed from three main streets intersecting USC's J. Included in plans for the HSg Longstreet Theatre area on Sumter Street is a plan which will KBSSStifi ultimately improve the traffic and safety hazards of the Sumter- JHs *? vjreen sireeis ana sumier-JLJevine 1MB streets intersections. PllPi ? The plan puts all of Sumter ||BSb? m street's two-way traffic on the west IHHt I side of Longstreet Theatre, near jHQR < ' Main Street. The east side will be |> used as an entrance way for the HrpSl I theatre-in-the-round. "The completed renovation should radically improve the safety problem and simultaneously -\j enhance the appearance of the campus," Vice President of Operations Harold Brunton Jr. ^ 4%*/* The Sumter Street renovation is possible because under the National Safety Act, the Federal Department of Transportation will pay 90 per cent of the development costs. The South Carolina Highway #r Department will begin work .? around November. ^ 2 A master plan for the College- Jt . * Henderson streets area also ineludes construction already begun to prepare for the eventual closing L nf Cr\] 1 OCJf anH UonHorofin ctmAJn > V* UIIU liVUUCl OV/II Oil to . jfcBfti. According to the plan, first ||a proposed in 1961, Henderson Street ?P& will be closed from Pendleton 5SPk Street to Green Street, while * College Street will be closed all the way from Henderson Street to Barnwell Street. tonstri The area will be landscaped with over-all p walkways and planting boxes, similar to the area around the ir. i m.. : i ;ij; riuiiidiiiuea aiiu i\ur?mg uuiiuings. ction con Photo by ech offices in Longstreet Theatre by the be new Fall semester. :*-a y?. ^ fl HPt B||a3B SflBMHT ' ? ' " MM B^JI Br^ it *4KF I Iff w I HSgKL^- *?il a^Hml, * 4?^yB^yg^yV'y /jk'if^CTl^M^Kfc ^ * ,< j^^Kk S ^jH&E^roflp* *^HMyH^KJMKipj|rAil^B Photo b' iction on College Street continues in conjunct^ lan to close College and Henderson Streets in the f I itinues a si sal ,v/ , V , j t . u J ' \ '#*, i v )Ji HBMKMHESB^SBjSMES BJ ^^^9Sw^S^^Hl8|nffiBK>wJQPMflHL Pam Humble jj^^Hfl^BHH2BHfl9MBHHHHM j jBFST mHMHKIH ginning of MBMMannB I The renovation of Wardlav Education, should be finished ^ Wardlow 'e^i a welcon By Wayne T. Brooks be available for use this fall Gyuri Nemeth, the college's A ^e recent renovations at W allocated, are nearing comple facilities and more adequate Most of the renovation took p honor of the Peabody Foundati . r ?t ^ a lecture room with an 80-se * -v., ^ faculty offices will be located c ' V a materials center for all disi Jt \ " floor. i< - T y? Space previously used for cl V ; third floor has been conver Considerations have also bi disabilities. Ramps have been \ and toilets have been modifie Because of a previous lack ( with individual offices, and la [ 'Jrenovations in the building, / Pam Humble problem. The National A<icm>iati?" _ . ?uuvl(IUUII VFl )n with the an(l Certification <NASDTEC uturp College for not having efficient "We need to train good te facilities," Nemeth agreed. Th Wardlaw College's needs. t use gjjlf*' 1 Iff 1 pi' ' , f-,j \ jj iMFSWp^EiBWi^Ly^ ^^ChPm I ^kB^^4^ftaflr ^4B*wN+** I Photo by Deb Howard v Hall, which houses the College of in approximately two weeks. *| face-Sift ie change 1 i a materials center and workrooms will at the Wardlaw College of Education, ssistant Dean of Student Services, said w ardlaw College, for which $600,000 was tion and will provide better instruction space. >lace in Peabody gymnasium, named in on, which helped fund the construction. >at capacity, two seminar rooms and >n the gym's first floor. Workrooms and ciplines will be located on the second assrooms and offices on the building's ^ ted to offices for the college's ad een taken for students with physical provided as an alternative to stairways, d. )f space, professors were not provided boratories were not available. Recent Nemeth says, have alleviated this State Directors of Teacher Education ) had previously criticized Wardlaw facilities and adequate materials. achers, but we didn't have the right e new facilities, he added, have fulfilled