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Removal of Harstad Hall ivy revealed a 91-year-old PLU logo above the building entrance.
Nursing professor Linda Olson with class in one of Ramstad's remodeled classrooms.
Summer Construction Activity On Campus Building to new offices in Ramstad Hall. "There's a sense of adventure, almost a pioneering spirit," the vice-president for student life added. The excitement and optimism has been inspired by' the know ledge that Student life services will be able to serve students better than ever before. Related services will be cen tralized, making each more ac cessible to students and to one another, she explained. "Many students can best be served by more than one of our services. For example, career decision assist ance can be rendered by both our testing facility and the informa tion and counseling available in Career Services," Fenili continued. She indicated also that the pro fessional staff can confer much more easily. The series of domino moves will also place services for minority, international and adult students in the University Center where those particular groups are most likely to congregate. Residential life moves to Harstad, where more room will allow for better service and greate r communication among members of the RLO staff.
Nursing Facilities Expanded In Ramstad Hall Greater convenience and ex panded space are the legacies of the School of Nursing move from Ingram Hall to renovated Ramstad Hall, according to Dean Moira Mansell. Ramstad's third floor now houses labs and faculty offices. "Labs are all located on one end of the building," she said. "Patient units, simulated and anatomical models, and tables for study and t e s t ing are c o n v e niently grouped." Audio-visual labs are in the pro cess of being rearranged to facili tate student use, and there is a separate expanded health assess ment lab, she indi ated. In addition to regular classtime labs, there is an open lab during the day when students may come in for extra practice or special assistance, the dean added. Seven new classrooms and a more convenient arrangement of administrative offices are features on the second floor.
PLU Active In Effort To Make Tax-Exempt Bond Sale Possible Pacific Lutheran University play ed an active role in developing legal measures to make possible the sale of tax-exempt bonds for capital improvements at Washing ton State educational institutions. During the tenure of PLU presi dent Dr. William O. Rieke as presi dent of Washington Friends for Higher Education, that legislative liaison organization encouraged action which led to the creation of the Higher Education Facilities Au thority in 1984. A "friendly" court test delayed activity authorized by the mea sure, and PLU and Seattle Universi ty became willing test cases. The challenge was intended to clarify church-state issues and a con stitutional prohibition against lending state credit. Chief Justice James Dolliver, who wrote for the 6-3 majority, rejected all three constitutional challenges. He said although the
. state's tax-exempt status was be ing used by private universities, no debt was created because the state assumed no obligation on th'e bonds. . Dolliver said no money comes from the public treasury; the bond proceeds never enter the public treasury, and repayment of the bonds does not pass through the public treasury. The measure will save PLU an estimated $10 million on its $11.4 million bond issue; the projected savings are the difference bet ween antiCipated market rates on non-taxable bonds and taxable bonds. Institutions taking advantage of the new measure to issue bonds have agreed to pass savings on to students and to refrain from ap plying bond proceeds to religious objects or buildings except to the extent permitted by law, Dolliver said.