Ground broken, possibly record

Reports Tom Woolf: "SIUC officials and student leaders broke ground Tuesday (July 21) for the 57,000-square-foot building. The event was ceremonial, as construction began last month. But the ceremony offered campus leaders the opportunity to emphasize the role of students in pushing for the new facility, and students' willingness to pay for it."

Nineteen (count 'em 19) may be a record number of shovels in a photograph of a groundbreaking ceremony (Already-broken-ground Division). Yesterday must've been the first day everybody could get together.

Everyone's been identified by photograpter Steve Buhman.