I can’t believe all of the construction that’s been going on around campus. It seems to be everywhere. They’ve destroyed sidewalks and roads all over. I was walking by the library this week, attempting to reach the D.P. Culp Center, and I was looking for the art that used to sit around the sidewalk.
I only found one piece left. After talking with a member of the art department, I found out that most of it was destroyed. Pieces of the sculpture and the stone benches, were destroyed. These were projects that students spent a semester working on that were needlessly destroyed.
The worst part of it was that apparently no one informed the art department that there was going to be construction and that they should move the student’s artwork. Apparently, the sculptures were moved without attention given to keep them from being damaged.
Now the tie that the students had to this campus because of these pieces is lost.
Reaching main buildings has been hard for students, faculty,staff and guests. This was experienced last Thursday evening when Mr. Jean-Robert Cadet came to speak on campus. I had the honor of driving him to the Culp Center where he gave his lecture in the auditorium. There was nowhere for me to park to take him in. Everyway was blocked by construction and I felt that it was rude to make him hike across campus as a guest. A lot of the guests who arrived to hear Cadet speak, found it hard to reach the Culp Center because of the construction.
The Culp Center is not the only area under construction. In front of Panhellenic Hall, the road is blocked off, restricting traffic. This doubles the traffic, on our already congested campus, for students trying to leave around Lucille Clement Hall because that is the only way out. Also around Lucille Clement, student parking places are taken up just like the faculty ones are by the Culp Center. The last time that I checked, parking was bad enough on this campus, why take more of them out during the semester.
Maybe this construction was needed, but I’m sure that this was also something that was put off until the last possible moment. If it had been left any longer, then the old piping may have busted, just as the ones around the amphitheatre have that make that whole area reek. If that’s what they are fixing, then that’s been a problem since last year and they had all summer to try to fix it and they didn’t.
This construction is an inconvenience to everyone on this campus. Why wasn’t there any notice? Why wasn’t anyone informed?
Maybe the next time the university does this, they’ll try to plan it so it’s during a down time and work on each section in phases.

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