A work in progress

By Joe Kleinsasser

In sports, they say you can’t tell the players without a program. At Wichita State, you may not know which office is where without this article.

Suffice it to say, it has been a busy summer of construction, remodeling and moving.

Much of the remodeling on campus is the result of the crumbling classrooms legislation passed in 1996, which gave WSU $20.4 million.

Remodeling began in Brennan Hall I in May with work scheduled for completion in January. An elevator is being added along with new accessible restrooms.

This summer, Upward Bound was relocated from the lower level of Fiske Hall to the second floor of Brennan Hall I. Project Discovery is on the third floor.

The Office of International Programs was relocated from Grace Wilkie Hall to the lower level of Fiske Hall in June.

In early July, the Office of Housing and Residence Life was relocated from the second to the third floor of Grace Wilkie Hall.

The cooperative education office has a new home in Grace Wilkie Hall. Previously, the office was in McKinley Hall.

In August, the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is moving from Hubbard Hall to the Hughes Metropolitan Complex.

Work on the Welsbacher Theater in the Metropolitan Complex also is under way.

The exterior of Neff Hall may look the same, but the interior changes are significant.

Now that the remodeling is complete, the anthropology department has relocated from McKinley, Henrion Hall and the Communications Building to Neff Hall.

Neff features four general classrooms. Space also will be provided for the relocation of the Emory Lindquist Honors Center, now in Lindquist, later this year.

The geology department is relocating from McKinley Hall to the Geology Building, formerly known as the Math/Physics Building. The remodeled building includes four general classrooms and a lecture hall.

The Geology Building received extensive interior remodeling.

Major renovation in McKinley Hall begins this fall.

Initially, the chemistry department and library will relocate to the south half of McKinley to free up Phase I construction on the north half of the building.

Once that is completed in May, the chemistry department and library will relocate to north half of McKinley Hall.

McKinley renovations should be completed in June 2001, at which time the chemistry department will move to its final location.

There will be 14 new or newly furnished classrooms for university-wide use in McKinley Hall, making it comparable to Lindquist Hall as a major site for classroom space.

Lloyd Thorndyke, a graduate teaching assistant in geology, wraps a mammoth tusk for the department’s move to the Geology Building, formerly the Math/Physics Building.

The geology department packed up its rocks and other specimens in McKinley Hall and headed for its new home in the Geology Building.