Repository: UIHistories Project: UIS Long Range Plan - 1970 (Sangamon State Univ) [PAGE 30]

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PART III - A. 8. Campus lighting is by high-stem units among the trees of the ring road and the parking lots, with lower and more numerous standards that also serve as decorative elements along the pedestrian ways and bike paths. An increased intensity for gaiety and sparkle is provided in the plaza. The ceremonial road to the auditorium, administration building and center plaza and concourse will be illuminated by low lights with minimum emphasis on the source. 9. Services usually termed "non-academic" — coffee shops, eating places, lounges, movies, art galleries, recreation facilities — are expected to contribute to the learning experience at Sangamon by encouraging a congenial inter-mix of students and faculty at many points in the walkways , arcades, concourse and in off-corridor spaces. These are generously provided for in the plaza area, the upper level; in the concourse area, the lower level; and also within the more specialized outlying building clusters. 10. A system of tunnels connecting all major buildings is an important feature of the circulation system. The tunnels will serve as broad concourses for internal pedestrian circulation, with escalators to the campus level and elevators to upper floors of the higher buildings. 11. The same tunnels will carry gas, electric and telephone lines and power lines for heating and ventilating — with capacity beyond the 1982 anticipated campus, all easily accessible for low-cost maintenance. Supplies will be distributed through the same tunnels from a central receiving station, and waste materials, compressed and packaged, will be removed through the tunnels on carts. Garbage will be disposed of through the sewers. The major walks will be used for emergency access by automobile, ambulance or fire trucks, or special-handling delivery such as for laboratory equipment. 12. Noise will be kept to a minimum by placing cooling towers on three strategically placed roofs, one near each end of the concourse and one above the library, walled in with acoustical material.

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