The Mkhigan Daily--Vednesday, August 12, 1981-Page 3
New law library to open
: hreeunderground levels
provie much needed space
By ANN MARIE FAZIO
Daily staff writer
After ten years of planning and three
and a half years of construction,
University officials will at last be able.
to show off their $9,million new three-
level underground law library this.
month.
Beverly Pooley, director of the
University's'law library, said the sleek
chrome, wood, and glass structure.
would be opened to lawstudents Aug. 31
and said that the library is already in
the process of moving some books to the.
new stacks.
POOLEY SAID the new library,
which was paid for entirely by private
contributions, will not be open to non-
law students unless they can prove they
are required to use the library's case
books for other classes.
The new library will relieve serious
overcrowding in the older law library,
Pooley said. Het added that the older
library does not have enough space for
books or study areas. He said the new
library will give the present library
62,000 square feet for immediate book
storage and study space, plus 15,000
more square feet which can later be
converted to space for studying or,
stacks.
The new library was in the planning
stages ten years ago, Pooley said,
because "the present facilities are
terribly overcrowded." The old library
was originally designed to hold 350,000
books, but the collection has now
reached more than half a million.
THE PROJECT, originally scheduled
for completion last summer, ran into
some snags in the early stages with ex-
cavation, Pooley said. Digging the 55
foot deep hole, he explained, "is not
easy thing to do." He added that the
University would rather have the job
done well, than rush to finish on-
deadline. They are "more concerned
that it be done right," Pooley said.
The new structure will be a "great
energy saving building," Pooley said,
because it is underground. It is not ex-
posed to the outside elements, he ex-
plained, and the temperature is held
fairly constant at about 58 degrees,
eliminating the need for air con-
ditioning in the summer, and reducing
the amount of heating required in the
winter. He added that this environment
is better for the preservation of books
because of the low humidity.
The building has three levels un-
derground and is designed with mainly
white concrete, beige carpeting, and
light brown woodworking.
THE UNIVERSITY will plant trees,
flowers, hedges, and other greenery on
the grounds above the library to make
it a "very attractive environment,"
Pooley said.
Facilities will include 237 new study
carrells, a study lounge with more com-
fortable chairs and where quiet talking
will be permitted, and one seminar
room.
Food or drinks will not be allowed in
the library, but smoking may be per-
mitted in the lounge.
SUNLIGHT STREAMS onto construction workers as they put the finishing
touches on the University's new law library, even though the library's three
levels are completely underground.
Kelly arraigned
again; trial
set for October
By ANN MARIE FAZIO throwing at least one firebomb down
Daily staff writer the 6th floor dormitory hallway.
Leo Kelly, in his third arraignment, Waterman told reporters after
stood mute yesterday to charges that he yesterday's arraignment that he will
murdered two fellow University ask the presiding judge at Kelly's pre-
students in their Burslev dormitory trial hearing Sept. 18 to set bond for
hallway last April. As is standard Kelly if the degree of murder with
procedure for defendants who stand which Kelly is charged is not deter-
mute, Circuit Court Judge Edward mined to be first degree. Bond is not
Deake entered a plea of not guilty for allowed for defendants in first degree
Kelly and ordered him to stand trial on murder cases.
the two counts Oct. 19.
Kelly's attorney, William Waterman,
said he will seek to prove Kelly's in- "THERE IS NO question in my
nocence on the grounds that Kelly, a mind," Waterman said, that Kelly is
junior at the Univeristy majoring in not guilty of first degree murder. There
psychology, was driven temporarily in- is no reason to believe that Kelly
sane by intense academic pressures at premeditated to kill McGreaham and
the University. Waterman said he will Siwik, Waterman said, even though
show that Kelly was under great police reported that Kelly had several
emotional stress at the time of the two weapons, ammunition, and a gas mask
shootings. in his room when he was arrested.
WHEN THE SHOOTINGS took place
early on the morning of April 17, Waterman said he may seek to have
Waterman said, "this man (Kellyr the, trial moved to another city if he
didn't know right from wrong. He's, decides that Kelly is unable to receive a
going to be acquitted.' fair trial in Ann Arbor. If he does decide
Kelly, 22, is accused of killing Douglas to seek a change of venue, Waterman
McGreaham, a 21-year-old art major, added, he will ask that the trial be
and Edward Siwik, a 19-year-old moved to a city where race will not be
freshman, with a sawed-off shotgun an issue in the trial. Kelly is black and
early Good Friday morning after McGreaham and Siwik were white.
WILLIAM WATERMAN, Leo Kelly's attorney, talks to reporters after in-
forming the Washtenaw County Circuit Court judge that Kelly would stand
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