Emergency board funds facelift
By RICHARD SEVEN
Of the Emerald
The State Emergency Board
last Wednesday authorized
spending $980,000 for mainte
nance work on Gerlinger Hall.
The rennovation of Gerlinger is
part of a fire and life safety prog
ram in the state buildings, taking
place over three bienniums.
According to David Rowe, Uni
versity Planning Consultant, this
program was agreed upon by the
State Board of Higher Education,
the Department of Commerce, the
State Fire Marshall, the Bureau of
Labor and local regulating agen
cies.
“Gerlinger is the first project of
the second biennium,” says
Rowe. "To make all corrections at
once would take more money than
the Legislature could give, so this
program of three bienniums was
set up. The program includes not
Gerlinger Hall must comply
with safety program
just the University, but all tne state
institutions."
The estimate of $980,000 was
reached by architects and plan
ners reviewing the building and
analyzing current market esti
mates.
Repair work entails bringing all
electrical wiring up to code, build
ing a new interior stairway in the
southeast corner of the building to
improve emergency exiting, instal
ling fire detection and sprinkling
equipment, upgrading ventilation
systems, improving the interior
corridors and installing modifica
tions for elevator shafts.
‘The biggest expense would
probably be improvements of ac
cess,” says Ray Hawk, vice presi
dent for administration and fi
nance, tievaior snans wm nave
to be put in to fulfill current safety
"Also, there will be a lot of
plumbing to do, I suspect. When
you start tearing into walls of an
old building you tend to find a lot of
interesting things, most of which
are non-complying with safety
rules.”
According to Hawk, Gerlinger is
not the first building on campus to
be renovated, nor should it be the
last.
“Villard Hall was rewired, and
it’s stage area was improved to
meet state safety codes last bien
nium,” says Hawk.
"I would guess nine or ten build
ings on campus must be consi
dered for improvements. Johnson
Hall, the administration building,
offers no access for a handicap
ped person at all and there are
many other buildings on campus
that don’t either.”
The two oldest buildings on
campus, Villard and Deady, have
been placed in the federal regis
trar as historical buildings. The
University has applied to have
Gerlinger, which was built in 1918,
to also be placed in the historical
building zoning category.
“Placing Gerlinger in the histor
ical building category would make
sure the status quo is main
tained,” says Hawk. “Improve
ments should be made, but no
thing should be done that changes
the beauty of a historical struc
ture.”
Bids for the remodeling job will
be opened sometime this
November, with the actual con
struction to begin soon after.
Prof chronicles
sea expedition
CORVALLIS (AP) —An expedi
tion that discovered unknown
forms- of animal and plant life
one-and-a-half miles beneath the
ocean surface is chronicled in a
14-page report entitled “Oasis of
Life in the Cold Abyss” in the Oc
tober issue of National Geog
raphic magazine.
The magazine’s feature article
includes 22 photographs of the
colorful plants and animals found
around hot water vents at near
freezing depths by the expedition,
led by Oregon State University
oceanographer John Corliss.
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