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Postby 50's PONY » Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:25 pm

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The James M. Collins Executive Education Center will feature a 300-seat auditorium and a 5,000 square-foot commons area.
New buildings target athleticcs, academics, administration


By Veronica Terefenko
Contributing Writer
June 07, 2004


The Campaign for SMU: A Time to Lead ended in 2002, raising more than $500 million.

The fund-raiser allowed SMU to begin constructing and renovating several buildings on campus.

One project under way is an addition to the engineering school. The school has received a $7.5 million gift from J. Lindsay Embrey, Jr., a civil engineering graduate, and his wife, Bobbie.

Since the University has not approved construction, the groundbreaking date has yet to be chosen.

The J. Lindsay Embrey Engineering Building will be located at the corner of Dyer Street and Airline in the East quad next to the Jerry R. Junkins Electrical Engineering Building.

The 50,000 square-foot Embrey building will have three floors and a basement and will be the home of the environmental and civil, and the mechanical engineering departments. It will also house classrooms, teaching and research laboratories and offices.

Its East quad location, which will serve as the new entrance to the University, will be one of the first things prospective students see, as well as the Blanton Student Services building.

Barbara Hollis, director of development for the engineering school, said the Embrey building will make a powerful statement at the entrance to SMU.

The economy is centered on business and technology right now, she said, and society needs more engineers to keep up with the demand.

“We want to attract the best students we can,” Hollis said.

Construction continues on the James M. Collins Executive Education Center, located at the corner of Binkley and Ownby. The center will be part of the Cox Business School. The Cox school received more than $16 million toward completion of the Collins Center.

Features of the Collins center include a 300-seat auditorium; a 5,000 square-foot, three-story commons area; four 66-seat classrooms; 15 seminar rooms and a 120-seat dining room.

Letterman Hall, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity houses will be demolished in summer 2005 to make room for a 650-car parking garage. It should be completed by fall 2006. The James M. Collins Center is expected to be finished by November of this year.

Construction is continuing on the Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports which is scheduled to be complete by fall 2006.

The Dedman facility will have two basketball courts, a climbing and bouldering wall, an indoor soccer field, swimming facilities and a juice bar.

Students and visitors should use caution around the construction sites. For more information go to smu.edu/construction.






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Postby Lotus » Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:14 pm

Lambda Chi and SAE houses are going to be demolished? Where are they going to relocate?

I was in Dallas earlier this week, and drove through campus. There's a huge structure already under construction, across from Letterman Hall and Boaz Hall -- catty-corner from the swimming pool. Is that the new Collins building mentioned in this article?
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Postby couch 'em » Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:22 pm

Yes.
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Postby leopold » Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:02 pm

The new LXA, SAE, and Sigma Chi houses will be built in a new cul-de-sac the university is building next to the Pike and old ATO house. The university has already started knocking down old houses there and will also be putting up a new wall in the area to help keep down the noise for the school's neighbors.
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Postby Bergermeister » Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:51 am

Any talk of the ATOs making a comeback. I know they were suspended or expelled for 5 years but it has been 10 (or more) since they've been around. (anyway, they oughta tear down THAT ugly house)
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Postby couch 'em » Sun Jul 18, 2004 12:08 pm

They would have to build a new house. The ugly one is now the "SMU Service House" full of pepole from 'APO' the coed service fraternity and miscellaneous others who do 'community service'.
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Postby MrMustang1965 » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:09 pm

Bergermeister wrote:Any talk of the ATOs making a comeback. I know they were suspended or expelled for 5 years but it has been 10 (or more) since they've been around. (anyway, they oughta tear down THAT ugly house)
I'm an ATO from Sam Houston State and I have not heard anything about us making a return to The Hilltop.
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Postby FloridaMustang » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:43 pm

ATO was banned from campus for quite a long time as I recall. I wouldn't expect a comeback anytime soon.

I'm so excited to see all this new construction when its completed. After I graduate, I'm going to come back to the hilltop and see how much its changed. And then maybe apply for grad school :)
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Postby Greenwich Pony » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:34 pm

Jeez, where have I been? When and why was ATO banned? I don't want to make this a frat thread, but I'm curious...
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Postby ponyte » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:47 pm

One would think the loss of Letterman Hall would be of some significance on this thread. More so than the loss of the SAE of LCA house. Letterman's was the home for many a SMU athlete. And though it hasn't been used for SMU athletics in years, it was the home to many of the greats from the 40s, 50s, 60s and very early 70s.
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Postby jtstang » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:54 pm

All sounds very nice, especially the new ME/CE building--it's about time they were stopped being treated as the stepchild departments of SEAS. I still can't believe I survived eight years on the Hilltop without a juice bar.
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Postby couch 'em » Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:20 pm

Greenwich Pony wrote:Jeez, where have I been? When and why was ATO banned? I don't want to make this a frat thread, but I'm curious...


Something about burning their house down......
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Postby Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:23 pm

couch 'em wrote:
Greenwich Pony wrote:Jeez, where have I been? When and why was ATO banned? I don't want to make this a frat thread, but I'm curious...


Something about burning their house down......


No, that was the FIJI house that burned down my freshman year of '92. Supposedly, it was due to an electrical problem, if memory serves me correctly. As for the ATOs, I seem to recall they just had one too many incidents that basically forced the university's hand and forced them to disband the organization. If I remember correctly, I think they assaulted a pledge or a group of pledges rather severely and that they were already on probation at the time. However, it's been so long that I can't confirm for sure. My understanding was that they wouldn't be allowed on campus for a very long,long,long period of time, if ever. They did have a rogue group that year, calling themselves the OTAs or "Olde Tavern Association," if memory serves me correct.
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