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The NCAA News -- October 11, 1999

Division I Notes

Facilities: The University of Akron Board of Trustees has formally announced the proposed construction of six new campus buildings and a parking deck over the next six years. Included in the more than $190 million project is a $20 million student recreation center and a $6 million field house to be built side by side. The plan also calls for a doubling of the campus's green space to more than 60 acres ... Central Connecticut State University played its final football game on old Arute Field September 4. The school broke ground on a new $3.5 million stadium last fall and has restarted the process to completing the new facility by next fall. Central Connecticut's final four home games this season will be played at Willow Brook Park in New Britain, Connecticut.

Miscellaneous: St. Bonaventure University has unveiled a new set of images for its athletics teams. St. Bonaventure teams and student-athletes will continue to be called "Bonnies," but when a university committee chose a wolf as its new athletics mascot, the athletics department commissioned the development of a new image. After a nine-month process, the school reached an agreement on three separate logos. "It was necessary for us to incorporate the wolf into a new set of logos," said Derek Morel, St. Bonaventure's director of athletics. "It will take some time, but I think our new marks will become recognizable and easily associated with St. Bonaventure athletics" ... The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, also has unleashed a new logo to establish a new athletics era at the school. The logo coincides with the school's hiring of Bo Ryan as men's basketball coach and a new chancellor, Nancy Zimpher. School administrators attribute unprecedented season-ticket sales to the new personnel and the new Panthers logo.