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University unveils plan for $22 million facilityWednesday, January 30, 2008
The Southeast Missouri State University football team finally will have game-day lockers at Houck Stadium. In a presentation to the Southeast booster club before Tuesday's men's basketball game, university president Dr. Kenneth Dobbins announced that the new 300-bed dormitory on campus will house an athletic facility with 85 lockers, training rooms and rooms for coaches on the ground floor. Dobbins said the new L-shaped facility will cost between $21 million and $22 million, and be completed by July 2009. That means the football team will have lockers at its home stadium beginning with the 2009 season. The locker rooms will be used by the Southeast football team, as well as visiting women's soccer teams and Central's football team. The Southeast football team currently uses the cramped basement in the Student Recreation Center South across the street from Houck Stadium during games. The players are forced to take shuttle buses back to their locker rooms, located in the Rosengarten Athletic Complex, after games. The new building will change the view for fans at Houck Stadium. It will sit where the main scoreboard sits now. There also will be a lawn area adjacent to the new building in the northwest corner of the stadium where students can watch games. "I think it will do some of the things all of us want, and that's get students involved," Dobbins said. "You're going to have four floors that look out and see the football stadium and see athletes practicing and actually competing." Dobbins said the five-story building will serve as a cornerstone for the new entrance to the stadium. The new entrance will replace the padlocked gate currently in use. "It's going to clean up and provide a new entrance to the university," Dobbins said. One thing the new building will not include is an exclusive area for university boosters. Dobbins said the that because of the tight deadline for the building's completion that there wasn't time to raise the necessary funds to include a booster club. Comments  Note: The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive, please Login or Create an account first, and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. Please also note that those who post comments on semissourian.com may do so using a screen name, which may or may not reflect a website user's actual name. Readers should be careful not to assign comments to real people who may have names similar to screen names. Refrain from obscenity in your comments, and to keep discussions civil, don't say anything in a way your grandmother would be ashamed to read.
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Heck yeah! Raise those tuition rates so the Division I losers can look better when they meet defeat!
IndigoChild,
I can not figure out if you are a chicken that settles for a pen of limitation, living in the dirt, scratching around and trying to be happy with worms. Or are you a vulture that devours, steals and lives off dead things. Or maybe a cuckoo bird that does not build a nest but lays eggs for others to care for and raise. Or you could be a parrot that repeats what others have said or done. Or a canary that looks cute and sounds pretty but goes nowhere and does nothing. Or how about an ostrich that fearfully hides your head in the sand. Or possibly you are a crow that makes a lot of noise, destroys other crows young, and pesters and annoys those around you. Negativity breeds negativity. Cape does not need your lack of vision. There are many of us that believe this is a great move for a University that wants to fly with the eagles (but has been held back too long by your flock of turkeys)! I am so glad that you will not be sitting next to me at the Championship game:)
I shore hope them SEMO players git that room, they need it.