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March 2, 2001

A site plan for the Bohemian Hill renovation project in South St. Louis, which recently won a 2001 Historic Preservation Award

Noero's Bohemian Hill designs earn honors, more funding

By Liam Otten
In recent years, a coalition of faculty and alumni from the University's School of Architecture has joined forces with local preservationists and community activists to breathe new life into St. Louis' Bohemian Hill neighborhood, a blighted, five-square-block area located west of Soulard and east of Lafayette Square.
Last year saw the opening of three new single-family houses designed by Jo Noero, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, and Donald Royce, professor emeritus of architecture. These prototypes, located near the intersection of Soulard and 13th streets, are the first in a larger development that ultimately aims to construct 67 new buildings and rehabilitate 45 existing homes and apartments.
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Working in 3-D Renowned installation artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz (left) recently visited Island Press, the School of Art's contract print shop, to create the press's first three-dimensional editioned work. Helping Mondini-Ruiz assemble the 18 pieces are Don Olsen and Erin McKenny, both second-year MFA candidates in printmaking/drawing.

Taking a stand T.J. Hill, president of OUTLAW, the School of Law's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered student alliance, leads a peaceful yet emotional demonstration Feb. 23 in celebration of diversity and against military recruitment at the law school. A new Department of Defense regulation has caused law schools nationwide to suspend their anti-discrimination recruitment policies. Banning military recruitment at the law school would jeopardize millions of dollars in federal research funding for the entire University.

N.Y. Times columnist to lecture here Monday

By Ann Nicholson

New York Times Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist Anthony Lewis will present a lecture on "All That Makes Life Worth Living" at 4 p.m. Monday in the School of Law's Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

The law school's Institute for Global Legal Studies and the International Leadership Program in Arts & Sciences are sponsoring the lecture, which is free and open to the public.

The title of Lewis' talk is a quotation from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in reference to deportation practices depriving individuals of "all that makes life worth living." Lewis will discuss U.S. immigration policy and highlight its cruelties.

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Interim parking construction to begin

As part of the changing face of the east end of the Hilltop Campus, the southwest corner of the intersection of Skinker Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway will soon see an interim parking facility.

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District sewer project is now complete, and construction will begin on a professionally designed interim surface parking lot that will hold approximately 400 vehicles.

Scheduled to be complete prior to Commencement, the surface lot will be fully landscaped and lighted, including the perimeter of the facility. The outer area of the lot will maintain green space and the interior will include walkways and greenery.

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