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HAPPENINGS

      Many of you remember taking classes in room 209, the large lecture room in Lathrop Hall. This summer it will be thoroughly renovated providing cosmetic changes as well as making it a true multimedia classroom. Art Goldstein has received a grant of $100,000 from the Booth-Ferris Foundation to fund part of this $175,000 project. We'll replace all the chairs and spruce the place up a lot, so it will look better. The big changes will involve permanently installing computers and new AV equipment in the lecture console as well as mounting a big 3-gun video projector from the ceiling. When all this is done, professors will be able to project images of the computer monitor or images from CD's or laserdisks. We'll have full Internet hook ups so we will be able to show students what kind of geological information exists on the WWW as well as run computer simulations and all sorts of good stuff. Construction is slated to begin sometime in the early summer and should be done well before the begining of the semester....knock on wood!