Rose turns over new leaves

Coffee Stop

The new coffee shop is located on the second floor of Moench between the Computer Science Department and the double doors leading into the hallway. It is directly in front of stairs.

The operating hours are 7:30 am to 2:30 pm and according to Mark Farner, “we’ll evaluate those hours after we’re open for a while to make sure they are the best hours based on student, faculty, and staff need.”

They will accept cash, credit cards, and DB from any meal plan. “We’re not sure if the network connection will be up and running as soon as the cart is open so we may not be able to accept DB until a few days after the cart has opened.”



Union

Since Financial Aid will be moving into Hadley Hall on September 17, changes will be noticed in the Student Affairs office. Erik Hayes will move into Melinda Middleton’s current office. The GA office from upstairs in the club hallway will move into Luan Hastings’s office. Karen DeGrange will move into Hayes’s old office. Her old office will be turned into a storage room. The room next to Hayes’s old office will be turned into the “technology” room where they have the printer and camera for student ID’s. This will provide more office space for Kim Jones.

Upstairs, the Student Services offices were remodeled to provide each staff member with a larger office space and more accessible from both sides. Sandra Keaton, Carey Treager-Huber, and Donna Gustafson now have a small hallway between their offices and Gustafson has a door leading into the clubs hallway. The clubs hallway was rearranged to accommodate for the larger offices needed and the GA office was removed. All of the clubs that were located in there are still located there.

Another change that will be very noticeable to all returning students is the front of the Union. This area, now called “The Patio” has a new look to it. There have been a few benches added, new tables with umbrellas, hanging plants, and new banners have been added to The Patio. There is also going to be activities put on by Student Services. Ms. Treager-Huber mentioned that there is going to be a Hawaiian Ice Car during the fall and spring quarters, a popcorn machine, as well as other events that they have not finalized into a schedule by publication date. “We are working with different offices to have different activities… we really wanted to expand the Union onto The Patio.”



Hadley Hall

Hadley hall has been redone to incorporate two new offices and a new receptionist area for Financial Aid as well as a new receptionist area for Admissions which is being deemed the “Welcome Center” along with redoing the corner office in the Presidential/Professor Pictures hallway for Jim Goecker, the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid.

Admissions has completely been redone to provide an office for every staff member in Admissions, as well as provide some additional space for Human Resources. Admissions also has a room completely dedicated to the reading/processing of applications for admission. The previous process was really unorganized according to Jim Goecker.

Jim Goecker also mentioned how “We have been working in the same space since 1985 and the way we worked has changed.” “As of 2 years ago…Finanical Aid reported to me.” “[The remodeling] helped address other space needs [Business Office].” During the summer, Admissions was using the Business Office Conference Room and another classroom to conduct all their work and the several Admissions open houses that happened during the summer. “It is a better service to the students [and is] the center of campus.” “It is a real gain in efficiency and presentation. We’re excited.” “Give Dr. Jakubowski the credit for recognizing the need and providing it.”



Student IDs

All students will be receiving new key cards. These new key cards have RFID transmitters in them and will be able to access whatever department rooms that student’s major enables them too. It will also grant them entrance into the academic building and into some of the dormitories.

With the talk about the new cards, it became apparent that all the students will be required to have their ID on them all the time.



Admin Services/Mailroom/Print Shop

The Administrative Services offices are now located in a new addition to the Facilities building. In addition to Administrative Services, the Printshop is located in the Facilities building. Also, Mail Processing, which dealt with shipping out mail, is now located in Facilities as well.

Part of the old Mail Processing room (where the double doors are, next the exit from the commons) is now where faculty and staff are to pick up their packages. Also, it is for people to drop off envelopes and packages that are already postage paid, or will be charged to an academic department.

Across from Mail Distribution is a kiosk for DHL and USPS to print and buy labels for packages to be sent from campus. The kiosk only takes credit cards. A machine next to it offers stamp books in quantities of ten or twenty. In order to purchase individual stamps, or any other stamps besides 41 cent stamps, it is necessary to travel over to Facilities to purchase stamps or to mail out packages if the kiosk isn’t suitable. There is also a kiosk in the Union next to the ATM machine, and the Bookstore also deals with mailing out letters and selling stamps. As of publication, if clubs or other organizations besides academic departments want to charge their purchase at either the bookstore or the kiosk, they will need a credit card for that organization, and if there isn’t one available, it is necessary again to travel over to Facilities.

There are no changes to the Mail Distribution Center, but after school is in session, it is going to be required that all students have their own ID to pick up their own package, with no exceptions.



SRC

More offices have been added to the SRC. After you past the turnstile when you walk through the front entrance, there will no longer be an approach to the overhang, but instead will be a wall with a door that leads into the new offices for the staff members at the SRC.

There is also a wall right next to the stairs leading downstairs, so the easiest access to the overhang to look out into the Fieldhouse is to walk down the hallway by the snack stand.



Moench/Olin Hall

With the changes to Administrative Services, all of the previous offices for them will now be for the Engineering Management department. With the removal of the Printshop from the basement of Moench Hall, freshman design for Mechanical Engineers will be located here to help accommodate the needs of the upperclassmen to use the machine shop. The rooms that help form the Mechanical Engineering hallway have been remodeled. The larger lab used for Mechatronics and other laboratory classes has been split into two rooms. One room is dedicated for the lab for Mechatronics and other courses, and the other room is now a study room for the mechanical engineers. This study room has occupancy of around 24 students and some additional computers for research and CAD drawing.

The chemistry laboratories are also being remodeled and updated.

Construction went on in the High Bay Lab as well.



Dormitories

Speed hall has a new patio and handicap ramp in front of the building

Deming hall has new carpet, as well as a new staircase leading down to the SRC along with an extended sidewalk

BSB has new room doors and new carpeting

Scharpenberg has new plumbing.