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Purdue trustees OK ticket and housing rates, construction

The board also approved spending for several projects, including work on a new turfgrass research center, repairs to the University Street Parking Garage and a new cooling tower for the Fort Wayne campus. The board also authorized the restructuring of academic programs at Purdue Calumet.

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The cost of attending football games will go up for the first time since 1993.

Football season tickets for the public will cost $120, up $12. Purdue staff season tickets will increase from $87 to $96. Student season tickets will increase from $54 to $60. Single tickets will cost between $24 and $28, while single-game student tickets will cost $14.

Women's basketball season tickets will cost $60. Students will pay $24. The prices reflect a 15-game home schedule, three more than last year, and elimination of $1 nights. Volleyball season ticket holders will pay $45 for 15 home games, while student season ticket holders will pay $23. The prices reflect one more home game than last year and elimination of $1 nights. Combined season tickets for both sports will be $84 for both staff and the public and $38 for students. Ticket prices will be adjusted if there are fewer than 15 home games in either sport.

The Gold Rush Card, good for admission to all Purdue intercollegiate athletic events except men's basketball, will cost $240 for the public and $200 for staff, up $40. Students will pay $80, up $5.

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Purdue students living in Married Student Housing next semester will pay a higher monthly rent, but the university will begin to provide local phone service. The new rate plan will increase the average monthly rent in Married Student Housing by $22.82. John A. Sautter, vice president for housing and food services, said the rent increase is necessary to pay for facility repairs and renovations, increased utility costs and staff raises.

The average rent for an apartment in Married Student Housing will be $405.42 a month, starting July 1. The range for rents among the 1,244 units will be $375 to $465 a month. The rate includes all utilities, sewage, trash pickup and cable television service.

For the first time, Purdue will provide local phone service valued at $47 to all Married Student Housing tenants, who will pay $22.50 per month.

The phone service will be part of the new university telephone system and will include call waiting, cancel call waiting, voice mail, three-way conference calling, caller transfer and the capability of caller identification. "We feel our tenants will appreciate the convenience and service provided by the university phone system," Sautter said. "In addition to paying a lower monthly cost, tenants won't have to put down a service deposit or pay an installation fee."

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The trustees approved spending $475,000 to continue work on the new $1 million Turfgrass Research and Diagnostic Center, part of Purdue's $7 million Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex renovation project. Of the $475,000, $150,000 will come from gift funds, $325,000 from departmental funds.

The turfgrass facility will be located on a former dairy farm adjacent to the renovated Kampen Golf Course. The center, slated for completion in 1998, will be the first comprehensive turfgrass research facility in the country. It will be used for teaching and research activities in a variety of academic disciplines, including agronomy, entomology and forestry.

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The trustees authorized spending $750,000 in parking funds for repair of the north section of the University Street Parking Garage. The project will replace corroded post-tensioning cables in the original five-deck garage. This is the first major structural repair to the facility since it was built in 1969.

Work on the project will be conducted over two summers beginning May 19. Motorists will still be able to use the south garage, which is accessible from Second Street. The north garage will reopen on Aug. 18, with the second phase of repairs scheduled for the summer of 1998.

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The academic administrative restructuring at Purdue Calumet groups the university's 16 degree-track academic departments into four schools, instead of the current two, beginning this fall.

"We believe this new structure will help us better address student needs," Purdue Calumet Chancellor James Yackel said, "while enabling us, administratively, to advance programs in a more efficient manner."

For students, the change will not affect course or degree requirements but establishes academic units more focused toward specific professional areas.

According to the plan, the humanities and social science departments of Behavioral Sciences, Communication and Creative Arts, English and Philosophy, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and History and Political Science will form one school.

Another school will be comprised of Purdue Calumet's four technology departments: Construction Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, Information Systems and Computer Programming, and Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision.

A third school focuses on the compatibility of engineering and science and is made up of the departments of Engineering; Biological Sciences; Chemistry and Physics; and Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics.

The fourth configuration, called the Schools of Professional Programs, aligns three of the university's most student-populated units: Management, Education and Nursing.

The restructuring has been in the works since fall of 1995, when Yackel appointed a faculty-staff committee to study the matter.

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In other action, the trustees:

• Authorized a one-year, $67,242.72 sublease from Eli Lilly and Co. for 4,517 square feet of office/laboratory space at Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis. The space will be used by the Purdue Department of Pharmacy Practice to expand its outreach facilities for teaching, research and supervised patient care experience.
  
• Approved construction of an additional cooling tower at the north end of the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne campus. Construction will begin in the fall, in time to service the campus's new science building, which is expected to open in spring 1998.

Sources: Kenneth P. Burns, vice president for business services and assistant treasurer, (765) 494-9706
Wayne Kjonaas, vice president for physical facilities, (765) 494-8000; e-mail, wwkjonaas@pfadm.purdue.edu
Wes Lukoshus, director of university relations, Purdue Calumet, (219) 989-2217; e-mail, lukoshus@calumet.purdue.edu
John A. Sautter, (765) 494-1022; e-mail, jasautter@smly-01.hfs.purdue.edu
Writer: Jeanne V. Norberg, (765) 494-2096; (765) 449-4986; e-mail jeanne_norberg@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu

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