Altogether the money will all add up to $8 million or $9 million. |
Every student pays an activity fee of about $72 that was used to help pay off the bonds on the Culp Center and the Mini-Dome. Both of those buildings will be paid for this year. We will take the money that was used for that and pay for the renovation. The student fees will not be raised. They will stay the same. |
Everything from the elevator down will be closed. |
My dad's made up. He'll be coming down for the game with my mother and some more of my family, so hopefully I'll be involved at some stage. |
President Stanton said the only thing he really wanted to see out of this renovation was clocks that work. |
The only parts that will be closed off are the ones that will be undergoing the changes. You may get a little dusty and you may have to take the long way around but you will have access to the building. |
The problem with that is this building has really thick walls. The signal can't reach the clocks. We will fix this by putting a receiver on the roof the runs on Global Positioning technology, like cars have. This also has an accurate time with it. We have tested this and it works, so the Culp Center will have working clocks. |
We are doing everything we can to make this as easy as possible on everyone. I have ordered signs that will direct people to the new locations for the offices and hopefully that will help some. |
We had architects and people from other universities come here to look at our building. This was built during the energy crisis of the '70s so it was good. Now we are spending millions of dollars to undo what we once won awards for. |
We see this project ending in fall 2007 or possibly spring 2008. We chose to start it (in August) because it misses the major events that happen in the summer, like orientations. |