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Artist's conception of new auditorium complex, part of the College's $25 million construction proj-
continuing education tower and addition to the ect now underway.
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COLLEGE STATION -It's al- sis Research Laboratory, Grad - square feet of floor space, the present Guion Hall.
most as if Texas A &M Univer- uate Institute of Statistics and 373 -room Engineering Center
sity were building a whole new Data Processing Center. will surpass the library in size. OTHER FACILITIES in the
campus, planning stage include a new
Sure, the old landmarks .– OTHER RECENT campus THE 15 -STORY Oceanogra- classroon - office building and an
the classically designed System additions include the Biological phy- Meteorology Building will educational television center.
Administration Building, along Sciences Building, Information be the campus' first high-rise In addition to the new build -
with the Academic Building, Services Building, sections of structure — and the second- ings, the campus grounds have
Sbisa Hall and several other the veterinary medicine com- tallest building between Dallas taken on a new look. A large
vintage structures several
still other plex, golf course clubhouse, and Houston. Topped by a ra- , mall now extends through the
vintage
5,200 -acre campus of band hall and several support dar system with a 400 -mile heart of the campus, enhancing
facilities. range, the cacility state's first public institu- g > y will include' the academic environment. A
tion of higher learning. But The best superlatives could 121 highly specialized laborato- large section on the south side
gleaming new buildings, hour- be reserved for three buildings vies. of the campus has been trans -
gleaming
some of the most buildings, histi- under construction and a com- The new 1,000- student dormi- formed into a floral test gar - ing
cated research installations in Plex now in the final stages of tort' is being build with the fu- den featuring seasonal changes
the nation, now share the spot- planning. These are the new ture in mind. Its central area of 1,000 varieties of outdoor
light. Engineering Center, Oceanog- is specifically designed to ac- flowers. Extensive landscaping
The university currently has raphy- Meteorology Building, a commodate a second 1,000 -stu- also is underway at various
construction projects totaling 1,000- student resident hall and dent wing. others parts of the campus.
more than $25 million under- a major addition to the Memo- A second high-rise structure Nowhere, however, has land -
way and several others in the rial Student Center, including is planned as part of the pro- soaping been more dramati
_planning stage. In addition to the adjacent construction of a posed Memorial Student Center than at Kyle Field, the recen
its n st mpus projects, the new auditorium and continuing expansion. Adjacent to the new ly expanded (to 54,000 seat
university is building a whole , education complex. addition will be a three-audito- football stadium. It now h •
new campus at Galveston for With five floors and 324,000 • rium complex, replacing the AstroTurf.
its Texas Maritime Academy
and various oceanographic and
marine- related activities.
TEXAS A&M's College Sta-
tion campus — largest in the
nation — presently includes
over 100 buildings and is val-
ued at $125 million.
While many of the newer fa-
cilities were built for scientific
or engineering endeavors, the
newest and largest building on
campus is the library. It has
more than four acres of floor
space and will accommodate <
one million volumes. 1
Among the newer engineer- a
ing and scientific installations ,2f
are the Cyclotron — a giant L
"atom smasher" — and the
Olin E. Teague Research Cen- h
ter. The Teague Center houses '
the university's Space Technol-
ogy Division, Activation Analy-