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I Baptist Student Union ', \tnder construction

more student involvement each year." The answer was~ new BSU building. The 19-member BSU ad' i– sory board, "' hich oonskts of citizens frOill the !1ve-county district, met w1th Vaughn three years ago to dtsGU$!> plans lor a new BSU center. "At thdt Llme, pldns wen• made to begm putting money as1de for a new buildmg. Area churches were asked to donate See BSU on page SA

\\'hen Bap:bst S!tudcnt Uruon Director Sc tt \ aughn came to Decatur m 1995 the 65-plus– year-old house "here students met ""a alre d\ too c;mall for the number of }oung people m– \'Oh ed .U1 BSU actl\ uies. Wtth appro nnately 150 students U1\ oh ed regularly m HSU and rome 500 uwoh·ed in some t} pe of BSU function each ye,u, there snnply was not enough room {or c' cryonc," said Vaughn. "And "'ith the grow– ~g college enrollment, there is

BSU director Scott Vaughn.l Bobby Kirby, center, and con