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Vol. 7 No. 49 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735- Thursday, July 30,1970
TOP SPORTS FACILITY
PLANNED AT STATE U Preparations are underway for the construction of a $ 3.3 million
Health and Physical Education / Swimming Pool Building on the
State University at Farmingdale Campus. In releasing the architect's
model of the massive athletic layout that should give the Aggies one of
the top recreational sports facility in the Eastern intercollegiate
world. Dr. Charles W. Laffin, Jr., president of Farmingdale, today
said that the imposing complex should be completed by February,
1972.
The multi- million dollar project will be located at the northeast end
of the campus, adjacent to the $ 1.6 million combined recreational and
student structure, Roosevelt Hall, built in 1965. It was so named
because Theodore Roosevelt, who lived in nearby Sagamore Hill, took
such an active interest in the founding of the college back in 1912.
Brown, Daltas and Associates and Handren, Sharp & Associates of
New York are the architects on the new project.
Ground will be broken for the indoor six lane swimming pool, 44 feet
wide and 75 feet long, sometime next month. Construction will then
begin on the physical education building of 60,000 square feet, 34,000 of
it arena space, for four full sized basketball courts that can be used at
one time, with a gallery section accommodating 5,000. In addition,
this structure will have four four- wall handball courts, four squash
courts, a one- tenth mile rubberized indoor track and a tartan surface
floor, in which baseball, lacrosse, football and soccer can be played
during inclement weather outdoors.
A red brick two- story structure, the physical education building will
also contain a 40 by 40 foot practice wrestling room, four varsity team
rooms, three visiting team rooms and 19 offices for physical education
and recreation officials. The field cage will have a clear height of 35
feet and the pool 25 feet. A lobby will provide direct access to the
administrative offices on the second floor as well as to all sports
facilities located on the first floor. Another feature of the structure
will be a huge dance room and class room of 800 square feet to be used
by the Women's Physical Education Department.
With the new $ 3.3 million Health and Physical Education /
Swimming Pool facility, Farmingdale will boast of one of the finest
all- around physical fitness and recreational layouts of any college in
this part of the country. Overlooking all of the athletic facilities is
Tom Watt, Chairman of the Physical Education Dept, who has been a
member of the Faculty for 23 years.
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Remote- Control Laser
Device Could Monitor
Air Pollution
AGGIES
Education
University
Swimming
' SPORTS EXPANION: Architect's model of the $ 3.3 million Health and Physical
Swimming Pool Building that should be completed by February 1972 at the State
at Farmingdale The A' area will house the office facilities. The ' B'Field Cage. The" C"
Pool. The T)' Handball and Squash courts and the ' F ' Locker rooms
A new tool for detecting and
measuring air pollution may
result from research just com­pleted
at Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn's Graduate Center
here.
This research indicates the
technical possibility of an in­strument
that could scan the sky
for miles in any direction,
measuring types and degrees of
air pollution by remote control at
any point within range.
Using a similar device, exhaust
fumes from jet or rocket engines
could be measured swiftly and
accurately.
This instrument might even
peer through a test window into
the cylinder of an internal
combustion engine, for the first
time letting engineers sec exactly
what happens chemically as fuel
is consumed. Information thus
gleaned could lead the way to a
cleaner gasoline engine.
Prof. Samuel Lederman of
Polytechnic Institute of
B r o o k l y n ' s a e r o s p a c c
engineering department
together with George F. Widhopf,
a research associate - used a
laser to identify and measure
concentrations of gases at given
points in a controlled mixture.
Their measurements were
based on the principle of " Raman
scattering". Obtaining data by
utilizing this phenomenon has
traditionally been very time
consuming and has involved
highly complex analysis. Yet the
Lederman Widhopf measure­ments
were made in­stantaneously,
in fractions of
microseconds, and with per­sistent
precision.
The report by Prof. Lederman
and Dr. Widhopf is entitled
'' Specie c one en t ratio n
Measurements Utilizing Raman
Scattering Ol a Laser Beam".
Their work was supported by the
Advance Research Projects
Agency through the I' S. Office
of Naval Research.