honours) before entrance to the clinical school, but this was later abandoned. Federal university In 1975, a new military government effected decrees making University of Ife a federal university. On 10 July 1999, members of the Black Axe Confraternity murdered the secretary-general of the students' union George Iwilade and several other student activists in the Obafemi Awolowo University massacre. Education Minister Tunde Adeniran issued a statement acknowledging the incident and saying the ministry will treat the case with "utmost concern". Land Arieh Sharon led the architectural planning of the university with a team that later included his son Eldar Sharon and Augustine Akhuemokhan Egbor of Lagos. The initial plan was to build three communities. A central campus with a high density would host the academic and administrative structures, the staff quarters with residential structures were dispersed for privacy, and students residential halls were built. Central campus The road network within the university are numbered, the main entry to the university is the 2.5 km Road One which provides visibility to two rocky hills and a main core. The core is a quadrangle consisting of the university's public structures: Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Secretariat, University Bookshop, Oduduwa Hall, and the Faculties of Arts, Education, Law, Administration and Social Sciences. The first structure to be completed in January 1967 was three blacks of four floors, which became the humanities building; these blocks have interconnected walkways to the other faculties within the quad. Unpon completion, these structures resembled inverted pyramids or huge boats but the design was chosen because of the country's the humid tropical climate soeach floor provides protection to the one below. There are pedestrian walkways and pergolas around the campus, providing movement within offices around the quadrangle, and there are also piazzas, gardens and terraces. The quad is enclosed on each side by roads, beyond which are other faculty buildings. The inner road on the southern end (road two) or front of the main core provides access to the student union building. Along road two are the computer science building, and the faculties of pharmacy and health sciences. The outer road at the north-western end of the quad, (Road 5) provides access to the modern languages building and the African traditional-designed structure housing the African studies department, a museum and an exhibition hall. Academics Obafemi Awolowo University has 13 faculties and two colleges]—the Postgraduate College and the College of Health Sciences—