Over the past year, through myriad challenges, the Austin Peay family has been resilient. A triumph of the human spirit over adversities. Been there, done that. Following the January 1999 tornado, APSU was back in session in four days. Beautiful old trees and foliage, lost to tornadic winds, are being replaced strategically so the campus will be not only a place of beauty but also a natural arboretum for student and faculty studies.
All buildings are back-better than ever.
OK, so there's a crater and construction cranes where the UC was. In 1995, with vision and unselfishness, the students voted to increase student debt-service fees to fund a facility they would never use, except as alumni. Tornado renovations offered a chance to revamp old classrooms and faculty offices to accommodate burgeoning technology. Harned, Clement, the library, residence halls. The science building has 800,000 linear feet of data and telephone cabling for technology, such as that used in DNA analysis, along with high-tech classrooms and labs.