Faner Hall: Faux Pas and Follower?

Some food-for-thought about some of the ideas behind, within, around, and about Faner Hall (completed 1975).

1967, The SIUC Campus Before Faner Hall (and the Student Center, and a bunch of other stuff).

Old Main (just right of #7), home of the College of Humanities (now Liberal Arts), burned "under unusual circumstances" on June 8, 1969. SIUC's administrators made the conscious decision to break from traditional university campus architectural styles when they replaced it. Why?

Fun facts:
This was the 2nd "Old Main" at SIU to burn (the first was in Nov, 1882).
There was actually a time when SIU had too many students.

Here's WSIU's In Focus presentation of a news broadcast that aired the day of the 1969 Old Main fire:
mms://odc.wsiu.org/infocus08/if_304_oldmain.wmv

Not sure how this video link will play for you, it's a streaming Windows media file.


article source:
Jordan, Mitch (2010) "Faner Hall: Faux Pas and Follower?," Legacy: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 4.
Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/legacy/vol10/iss1/4