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Oakland University - News Archive - Lowry puts children at core of new building
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(, OU Writer Oakland University\222s youngest students will slide into a \
new setting this week when the Lowry Early)Tj
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(Childhood Education Center moves to the new Education and Human Services\
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(Long located in what once served as chicken coops for Meadow Brook Farm,\
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(the lowest level of the new building on Aug. 19. Features include six to\
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(teacher workroom and reception area as well as tighter security. Behind \
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(appropriately sized climbing equipment, slides and swings.)Tj
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(The grand centerpiece, a wide-open multipurpose room, fills the building\
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(above of children playing on a climbing structure and tunnel system, the\
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(\(SEHS\). \223It will be much easier for our education students to have \
access to the little children at Lowry. It\222s been difficult with the)Tj
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(Lowry Center being located on east campus. It\222s really almost too far\
to walk. If the weather was too hot or too cold or just too)Tj
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(nasty, they couldn\222t get there without a car. Now the kids will be ri\
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(For professors and undergraduates, the Lowry Center offers an on-site re\
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(children. The new center will have state-of-the-art video recording equi\
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(for teacher education and research, said Carol Swift, associate professo\
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(For the nearly 150 families served annually by Lowry, the new center wil\
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(While Lowry Center Program Director Christine Boisvert-Ashley will miss \
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(new center will offer relief from on-going maintenance issues.)Tj
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(\223My office here was once the plucking room,\224 she laughs. \223The c\
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(looking clean, even though it is clean. We have daily problems with ligh\
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(erratic.\224 The new location should solve all those problems.)Tj
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(The center\222s charm, however, comes in its scale and sensitivities. Ea\
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(center, just seven are sized to adults. Cots for naptime rise only a few\
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(\223We tried to consider options that would make things easier for young\
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