UW unveils proposal to build new dorms

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The Washington State University Board of Regents has approved construction of the first new student housing to be built on campus in more than three decades.</p>

<p>The regents today approved the 229-bed, $26 million Olympia Avenue student housing project. The new residence hall is the first to be built on the Pullman campus since the early 1970s.</p>

<p>The new dorm is scheduled to open in fall 2009, paid for with bonds and student residence hall fees.</p>

<p>The regents also approved making the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication an independent school, separate from the College of Education.</p>

<p>They also approved creation of the School for Global Animal Health in the College of Veterinary Medicine. It will focus on research on animal-human diseases.

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