a0 FRIDAY FOCUS The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 4, 2002 - 10 -------------------- There is a By Maria Sprow, Daily Staff Reporter 0 60.9lI achileving a criical MISS O adit es and a veryj exci6ng moment right now The School of Music (far left), the wave field and the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower are three popular North Campus landmarks (ALYSSA WOOD/Daily). BOTTOM RIGHT: Albert White and Wilber Plerpont break ground on the Cooley Memorial Building in 1952 (Photo courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan), BOTTOM LEFT: The School of Music, as seen In 1964 (Photo courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan). 0 for lie Nord, Cam 9, -1 a - Douglas Kelbaugh, dean of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. 0 0 1''t Pww 4 ;=, au ,. _ . ,;; ALYSSA WOOD/ Daily 1g, architure, music and ar ool stud,; r-le f af 42 0 AL ciF "* houh the originu be bi 'endure- the As open space on Central ;etrf ome people are predi become a hot spot for #iev tCampus their home members of 1lt Urlersity~ ea,can either be an eral Options.'V' rep :Rid ;the late 194s, the ground first btx~e on CarYous 50-years ago, in 1952, turned over th e fi opde of earth for the Morbimer ooey Electronics Laboratoiy. ling "I North Campus was first created " of Alexander Ruthven and Harlan re, until the presidency of James Du, -r the presidencies 'It's just nice. There are lots of grils and tree 'arid. " maybe a bit of a hideaway fit~ the stress of Central Cam- pus," LSA sophomore Oyin Olowokere said, adding that classes,, homework and exams make her trips to Central Campus less enjoyable. "When I'm up here, I don't feel that rs..:. It's very easygoing and you just take your time with everything." Olowokere is one of more than 2,000 students who live on North Campus, either in Vera Baits Houses or Bursley Residence Hall, the largest residence hall at the University She spent her first year living on Central Campus and has had the chance to taste both ways of hf. Every morning she goes to the front 9 trsi nce half an ,fip ast for the University 58any Unirsity offici* ~and' faculty E~Umembers are predicting the next 20 E~years to be a golden time; Campus. With a new University sv eral major' projects on hold, and a lacWkppn space on Central Campus, construction may become as common on North Campus as it has been around the rest of the University "'There is a possibility 'of finally achieving a critical, mass of activities and destinations;" said Douglas Kel- baugh, dean of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Plawng-. "It's a very excitingmoment right now . ; 4o s including deans, students and tonJ Cenerwhch m. d o w heArthur MiUtle Theater, Enining ws i wad + ecte to e net to the Power enter for According to a the P f1or 4 a th ite of 4he ILife Sciences stadt, whio steppei Institute. But those planes ws* n &4 after the pro- is45 flw a profess( ject's estimated cost rose from i$l l onto$67 1104n. ject, the Universil Baier said it's now likely the, cothjJ -l be on North campus off of it. Campus, a strategical move desigqd to attract more stu- enrollment follow dents to the atea. "We'd like to make it more bustling, 'Ast enroilmne mre vibrant, more lively" he-said. "Should we create a l autnched aseries performance center, that will add'to the excitement." relocatito ,, Already, s verel projects seen on the master pla arein Capus,:l the final stages of development. Man~y of those proj'ects i" '4' deal with a three-tier expansion of te Collge f Engi-.A* neering, an expansion of'the Bentley HTstbria Sciey' Th oen' and a renovation of Pierpont Co ,a ngsvr M ic4th« other projects focusing on makMingte distac ew af ,-ecision to build a separate impus because of increased dtut expand, the University excises that considered the lemic programs to the North [an envisioned growth of the ' iy as 100,000 students1, with one of a chainof campuses~" Laborau ry, the ,School of ; ticpln fi4'thefutur~e of North Campuis. RW ougli the-group's plan~s vay fivtn the University's -abot master plan for the area, Kelbauigh, said he hopes cveelop- base lent 6& rgrdes f hihplan is chosen. Mac "I w d~hoe thre il be additional schools and col- type leges located ca the North Campus with more doh anid , ani possibly a residential college," he said, a 1di t!he,;- are]l would like to see the quadrangle around Lne rowr fn- I ished off with retail shops. "The atmo:s p6i* would4 be tows more like Central Campus, but instead off'being surround- mast ed by urb~an fabric, it would be su mbuded n~ature' and tY kC a ~04torliie area. Y, II' I onNorth Campus again. k"WOM waitforthe bus and it sucks that all my classes are 'on (Central) Campus. It's not fair," said LSA freshman Laura Naughton, late for class and stuck waiting at the bus stop outside Bursley. "If I was in the Engineering school, then I'd have more positive things to say" she added Like many students, Naughton said she feels North Campus is too disconnected from the rest of the Universi-- ty and that, because of the bus schedule and its dist*pc from the downtown area, living there mnakes it 4~kutt to 'participate in activities other students easilyf etd Aware of those concerns, Universiy 36Wcil have made North Campus a topic of discussion:fcsn hi attention on developing ideas. to make the-'n ''con-~ venient and comfortable for students. "I've been talking to a lot of peole aot i.Ilg th it is beautiful, but it needs m4tavity, U tyPei dent Mary Sue Coleman said, Ading tht -, rmr are worinig to discover ways to draw -more peop t h area, which now attracts a relatve orrow-population of wing the 54 r m iYIX these North what Aerial map of North Campus courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Wkat to expect witki]'n tke next 10 years .* Stephen Director, dean of the College of Engineering, proposed an expansion to the school at the Sept. 19 Board of Regents meeting. -The plan includes the addition of two buildings and A new residence hal Is expected to be built somewhere on North Campus within the next five to 10 years. The residence hail, which has been in preliminary planning stages since 2001, will most kw4' A