Last Wednesday, anyone interested in seeing for the first time what Wichita State may look like in 20 to 30 years had the chance.

The master plan committee and Sasaki Associates, an architectural planning firm involved with the project, approved the WSU master plan last Tuesday.

Ian Scherling, a Sasaki landscape architect, said the plan will go through about a month of editing before being officially rolled out as the final plan.

“The committee has been fantastic to work with,” Scherling said. “I think we’re all very happy with the outcome.”

WSU senior Raymond Ortiz was pleased with how the plan turned out.

“It’s a huge transformation, which is great,” Ortiz said. “It’s more advanced, more up to par with how students are.”

Ortiz said he really liked the new layout of Cessna Stadium, which utilizes the whole stadium by turning the east side bleachers into a parking garage.

However, as a business marketing major, he was concerned with the new parking layout, the downsizing of the golf course and the absence of Clinton Hall.

“The idea is to really integrate business on the eastern portion of campus,” Scherling said about the changes to Clinton Hall.

This would include moving business classes to Devlin Hall and new business buildings that will be built on the east side of campus, requiring the downsizing of the Braeburn golf course to a nine-hole course.

“It sucks,” Ortiz said, when he learned the course would be downsized.

Scherling stressed that these changes are at least 20 years down the road.

He said Clinton Hall would be razed to open up the space next to the Rhatigan Student Center.

“A lot of functions can just spill outdoors and onto the open space,” Scherling said.

The master plan has been in the works since last October and should be finalized by November. Jim Freed, director of Facilities Planning for WSU, said the master plan should be revisited about every five years to update the direction of the campus.