Announcement That State Quad, Now Under Construction
1967 March 30
Announcement that State Quad, now under construction, will have provisions for handicapped students, particularly those on crutches or in wheelchairs. There will be elevator service from the dorm level to the dining hall, wider doorways for wheelchairs, special toilet facilities with wider doors, tow bars, and ramps both in the dorm and to the academic podium on the north side. The dorm complex will have parking for 1,300 cars. The complex will return to the use of a private bath for each suite. State quad dorms will be named for famous New Yorkers: Robert Fulton, developer of the steam boat; Herman Melville, early 19th century author; Washington Irving, whose fiction was based on early Dutch settlers; James Fenimore Cooper, author of the "Leatherstocking Tales"; George Eastman, film pioneer and founder of Eastman Kodak; Arthur and Lewis Tappan, New York merchants who agitated for the abolition of slavery; Walt Whitman, author of "The Leaves of Grass"; Susan B. Anthony, a leading suffragette; and Charles Steinmetz, consultant and inventor at General Electric in Schenectady. The flag room will contain flags showing the changes from 13 colonies to 50 states. The dining room will seat 600.