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Excerpt from 1968 Obelisk, Vol. 54 The remodeling of old buildings to make room for the rise in student enrollment and the construc tion of new complexes with modernized educational facilities frame the ever-changing physical facade of Southern Illinois University. In the 1967-68 school year, students observed the completion of the General Classrooms Building, the Physical Sci ence Building and the Technology complex. The year also saw the remodeling of siu's first building Old Main, ground breaking ceremonies for a new Life Science addition, and architectural plans for a new wing to the University Center. More announce ments from the top informed students that many of the temporary housing barracks - better known as cold in the winter, hot in the summer, old army huts, were to be torn down for new construction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.