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Skvarla said he doubts the University still employs anyone involved in the fallout shelter initiative, saying “they have all long been retired.”

“I’ve never seen the actual shelters on this campus.” “From what I know, all of the shelters and corridors have been turned into designated tornado and storm emergency shelters,” Skvarla said. Finding one on the exterior of a building is extremely rare, and according to Campus History Preservation Officer Melvyn Skvarla MG, many of the actual shelters that were built on campus were converted to tornado and storm shelters. Today, these signs are no longer as bright and as public as they were during the height of the Cold War era. However, this was never realized as funds for the national plan were nullified by the House of Representatives. Kennedy introduced legislation to build a total of 95 million fallout shelter spaces nationwide, with 40,000 to be built at the University. In an October 1963 Daily Illini article, we reported that President John F. “This is a fallout shelter, they announce, much as they might announce a bus stop or a drive-in restaurant. “The signs … have very little emotional appeal,” Ebert wrote. University alumni and film critic Roger Ebert wrote about the commonness of these signs in a Daily Illini article from July 1963. These fallout shelter signs were often placed outside a building, signaling the building itself as a shelter, or that it has one inside it. Shelter must have a minimum degree of protection from fallout, allowing only one-fortieth of the radioactivity level from outside the space inside. A fallout shelter is a space to provide coverage in time of a radioactive or nuclear attack. Upon looking for said shelter, possibly around the corner of the sign, all that could be found was a janitor’s closet. In smaller print at the bottom it reads: “NOT TO BE USED WITHOUT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERMISSION” along with an unreadable number, perhaps signaling how many people the shelter could fit. It reads “FALLOUT SHELTER” below a set of three triangles within a black circle, pointing to the center. Situated in the center entrance of the Natural Resources Building is a dusty yellow sign to the left of the women’s bathroom.