THE BIT PLAYERS COME TO RIC Newport’s fantastic mprov troupe performs for the student body in a comedy filled night
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Week of january 26, 2015 | Vol: 87 | Issue: #16
Gaige Hall renovations to begin this summer RyAN FOLEy
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ellow students, get ready to navigate past construction equipment in the quad starting this summer. Renovations on Gaige Hall will finally begin after the end of the spring semester this year, and will continue up until January 2017. The renovations were approved in 2012 as part of a multimillion dollar project aimed at improving the main academic buildings on campus. This project is part of RIC’s Master 2010 plan, which identified both Gaige and CraigLee as very much in need of updates. Gaige is the second largest academic building at approximately 63,000 square feet, with Craig Lee as the largest. LLB Architects are in charge of the design process for both buildings. Gaige Hall was originally constructed in 1966, and was originally named Horace Mann Hall. When the new Horace Mann Hall was constructed in 1971, the name was changed to Gaige Hall, in honor of Dr. William Gaige, who was president of Rhode Island College from 1952 to 1966. Gaige Hall currently houses the mathematics and computer science, history, and anthropology departments. After the renovations, it will house the anthropology, modern languages, philosophy, political science, geography, and sociology departments. The entire west wing of Gaige, closest to the Murray Center, will be converted into office space. All of the classrooms in the building will be located in the east wing. Currently, the east and west wings of the building are not connected on the third floor, but the renovations plan to address this by connecting them both. As currently configured, Gaige Hall has seventeen regular classrooms, two STEM classrooms, three computer labs and an auditorium. After the renovations, Gaige will have fifteen classrooms, a computer lab, an auditorium, student lounge space and a multipurpose room. All classrooms will be able to seat 32 students.
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Spring concert scrapped Student Entertainment Committee minutes cause confusion at first SCG meeting ELISHA KAy ALDRICH
News Editor @AnchorNews
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here will be no student-centered concert this spring, as announced by Student Community Government last Wednesday, January 21. In past years, the Student Entertainment Committee of SCG have held a spring event, bringing in artists such as T-Pain and Macklemore, but it was made clear last week that their funding does not allow for it this semester. While this idea was suggested
back in the fall, the SEC minutes presented did not discuss this option.
the SEC is currently set back by $24,844.93 after making no profit from Timeflies.
“I do not want to put the SEC in a deeper financial hole,” said President Robert Santurri, Jr. at the Parliament meeting.
“It seems wrong for SCG to ask clubs to make cuts while spending this amount of money on a yearly basis. The failure of past events either commercially or fiscally played a role, as did the logistics in terms of how time consuming it is for the executive board,” Santurri explained back in September.
There has been some debate over what to do with the SEC ever since the failure of the Timeflies concert last spring, and this meeting was no exception. In the fall, The Anchor sat down to interview Santurri about his thoughts on the SEC, where he explained that he did not want to hold another concert, especially since
At last Wednesday’s meeting, it was revealed that most Parliament
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