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FROM HAWK TO DOVE Former Colombian president discusses leadership in Landon Lecture
KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN THE COLLEGIAN
“I come in peace to talk to you about peace,” former President of Colombia said at the beginning of his Landon Lecture. Juan Manuel Santos’ Landon Lecture was the 192nd in the series and focused predominantly on the process of peace that led to the end of the 50-year Colombian conflict, with Santos ultimately receiving a Nobel Peace Prize in 2016. The subject matter of his lecture was serious, but he kept the audience light by peppering in jokes and even, at one point, donning a Kansas City Chiefs baseball cap he purchased while at Super Bowl LIV. He later made his son — a New England Patriots fan — wear it for the duration of the lecture. “I would like to take this opportunity to punish my son,” Santos said. “You’re going to have to wear a Chiefs hat in the presence of the whole state of Kansas.” President Richard Myers introduced the speaker by drawing parallels to the series’ founder, former Kansas Governor Alf Landon, and Santos. “He was willing to take a stand and make a difference in the lives of so many who depended on strong, compassionate leaders to address the difficult issues of the day,” Myers said. “Our mission with the Landon Lecture series is to bring distinguished, inspirational leaders to campus to discuss
important topics that will stimulate thought, open our minds to diverse perspectives and spark healthy conversations about issues that impact our lives and well-being, and that’s what we plan to do here today.” In his political career, Santos is most known for his transition from being a hawk to a dove when it comes to war and peace. He took an unpopular stance during the peace-keeping process toward the end of the Colombian Civil War, allowing the fighting between the government and other parties to continue while conversations were underway. “I had to be a hawk,” Santos said. “I had to be successful in the war against the [Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia] if I wanted to eventually have peace.” But, Santos said, he never saw members of the FARC as his enemies. “I remember a former general ... came to me when I was Minister of Defense and said to me ... ‘Don’t treat the FARC as your enemies, don’t define them as enemies, define them as your adversaries,’” Santos said. “’The enemies you destroy, the adversaries you beat, but they are Colombians, they are human beings. If you want peace, treat them as adversaries and not as enemies.’” That attitude, Santos said, shaped the rest of the war and paved a path for peace. During his time in the Colombian Navy, Santos said he encountered an officer who laid the foundation for his career in
peace-building. “He taught me a very important lesson of life,” Santos said. “He said, ‘If you want to sail and be a good sailor, you always know where you want to go, and you need to choose a port of destiny.’” Years later, he said that foundation laid by his time in the Navy was strengthened in one conversation with former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela. “At the very end he told me, ‘You have a beautiful country, but that country will never take off if you don’t find peace,’” Santos said. The same sentiment was enforced a few years later when he was the Minister of Trade in Colombia, trying to promote trade relations with American corporations. An attack in the capital of Colombia ended the meeting, and a CEO told him the same thing Mandela said. “Those two experiences illuminated my future,” Santos said. “I found that my port of destiny was trying to seek peace.” In his study of peace processes throughout history, Santos said he identified three main components that lead to a successful outcome. The first requirement was that the “military power had to be in favor of the state” to ensure that dissidents would negotiate in good faith. Second, the leaders in the conflict had to consciously believe negotiations that would lead to the end of the war were in the best interest of all parties. And finally, Santos said, a pro-
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President Juan Manuel Santos talks about his experience of going to the Super Bowl and deciding to come speak at Kansas State as he puts on a Kansas City Chiefs hat at the Landon Lecture on Tuesday in Forum Hall. He later made his son, who is a Patriots fan, put on the hat. cess will be unsuccessful without the support of neighboring states. He drew comparisons between ongoing Middle Eastern conflicts and other Latin American conflicts, saying the final ingredient will decide the success of those movements. Although at one point Santos was so popular in Co-
lombia that he founded the Social Party of National Unity and broke a 157 year streak of a two-party system within the governance system by winning a majority, the initial referendum that would have establish official peace failed. see page
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President Juan Manuel Santos talks about his experience of going to the Super Bowl and deciding to come speak at Kansas State as he puts on a Kansas City Chiefs hat at the Landon Lecture on Feb. 4, 2020 in Forum Hall. He later made his son who is a Patriots fan put on the hat.
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Santos said other world leaders warned him that his decision to negotiate peace would cost him his political capital, but he said it was the only way. Through the six-year process of peace, his popularity crumbled. “Do the right thing, however difficult or unpopular it may be, this is what I think,” Santos said. “I was defeated.” The process was restart-
ed and new negotiations were made. Eventually, peace provisions were passed. “That was the part where you need to heal the wounds, you need to change the attitudes of people,” Santos said. Santos told the story of a woman he met whose son was tortured and killed during the war. Before she lost her son, she lost her father and her brother. A week after her son’s death, a young man who was injured came to her door looking for help. Santos said the woman allowed the man to sleep in her son’s bed while he
healed. When the man was leaving, he saw a photo of her son on the wall and he told the woman that he was the one who had tortured and killed her son. “She looked at him and ... embraced him,” Santos said. She thanked the man and when he asked her why, she said his honesty and knowing the truth of her son’s death released her from a life of hating. “That type of stories were the ones that encouraged me to continue in this fight for peace,” Santos said.
LESSONS Words of advice from former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos’ Landon Lecture KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN THE COLLEGIAN
During the 192nd Landon Lecture, former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos finished off his address by providing a list of lessons for the audience.
1. "MAKING PEACE IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN MAKING WAR."
quires you to put yourself in the shoes of the people who are trusting you to lead them and the people you are negotiating with. “It is extremely important,” Santos said.
4. "BE BOLD. BE AMBITIOUS."
“It is always better to
feel sorrow for what you did than to feel sorrow for what you didn’t try to do,” Santos said. He said he could have sacrificed peace in order to maintain his own popularity, but he wouldn’t have been able to forgive himself. “Take risks,” he said.
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War, he said, requires vertical-style leadership where orders come down the line. “As long as you are winning ... you will be popular,” Santos said. Peace, on the other hand, requires horizontal leadership that requires persuasion and conversations. Orders are not given.
2. "DO WHAT IS PROPER, NOT WHAT IS POPULAR."
Sometimes this can be difficult, but Santos said it will create respect in the long run, whether you are doing this in your personal or professional life.
3. DEVELOP EMPATHY.
This is the most important virtue, Santos said, because it re-
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LEGACY CAMERON BRADLEY THE COLLEGIAN
In the last decade, the men’s basketball team has made eight NCAA tournament appearances, including two trips to the Elite Eight in 2010 and 2018 and two Big 12 titles in 2013 and 2019. Even though current head coach Bruce Weber has been at Kansas State for eight of the last ten years, we cannot forget about Bob Huggins and Frank Martin, who helped turn around the Wildcats’ program. Huggins inherited a struggling K-State team in 2006 that had just two winning seasons and zero tournament appearances under previous head coach Jim Wooldridge from 2000-06. Huggins managed to take that ragtag team and turn it into one of the most successful K-State teams since the 1980s. Finishing the 2006-07 season with a 23-12 overall record, ranking fourth in the Big 12 and making it to the second round of the NIT. After the conclusion of the 2006-07 season, Huggins got a call from his alma mater — West Virginia — to be their next head coach. Staying true to the blue and gold, Huggins accepted the job. Just like that, the Huggins tenure in the Little Apple was over. Enter Martin, an assistant from Cincinnati. After Huggins’ exit, then-athletic director Tim Weiser believed Martin would be able to continue the Wildcats’ success,
promoting him to head coach in 2007. Martin was ready to take the college basketball world by storm, as the 2006-2007 season for the Wildcats was just the start of something special. The Wildcats drew plenty of attention before the start of Martin’s first season, as K-State was ranked No. 25 in the preseason Top 25 polls for the first time since 1972. The talented team, led by freshman phenom Michael Beasley, immediately found success, defeating two top-ten teams that season, including victories at home over No. 2 Kansas and No. 10 Texas A&M. The season capped with the team’s first trip to the NCAA tournament since 1996, and the first victory in the tournament since 1988, an 80-67 win over USC before falling in the second round to the third-seeded Wisconsin Badgers team. The Wildcats would finish 21-12 (10-6) on the season. After falling short of the NCAA tournament in 2008, junior guard Jacob Pullen and senior guard Denis Clemente were about to put together one of the greatest seasons in K-State history. Climbing as high as No. 5 in the rankings in the 20092010 season, the Wildcats stunned the entire nation with their play, taking down No. 1 Texas and going wire to wire with No. 2 Kansas, which resulted in an 81-79 overtime loss. Finishing the regular sea-
Huggins and Martin: The coaches who rejuvenated men’s basketball son at 26-7 after a disappointing loss to No. 1 Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament Championship Game. K-State took down North Texas, BYU and then Xavier in the Sweet 16, often referred to as the greatest Sweet 16 game of all-time, to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1988. The magical year came to an end in that Elite Eight game as the Wildcats fell to eventual NCAA Tournament runner-up Butler 63-56, ending the season with a record of 29-8. The 2009-2010 season for the Wildcats was historic, for sure. K-State earned their first and only two-seed in the NCAA tournament, and also won 29 games — the most in history. Head coach Martin added to the awards, bringing home Big 12 coach of the year. Shocking news hit K-State fans when Martin announced his departure from the men’s basketball program in the spring of 2012. Martin accepted the head coaching position at South Carolina, despite great success in his time at K-State. Now under head coach Weber, the Wildcats have built off of the success of Huggins and Martin, winning two Big 12 regular season titles and appearing in five NCAA tournaments in Weber’s tenure. While the team may be going through some growing pains this year, it is important to remember coaches who put them in the positions to be successful.
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FALLING SHORT CODY FRIESEN
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The Bears entered the matchup with an 18-game winning-streak paired with an opportunity to maintain a lead over Kansas at the top of the Big 12 Conference. The Baylor defense entered the matchup leading the Big 12 in scoring defense limiting opponents to 54 points per game in conference play. Kansas State was seeking to defeat a top-ranked opponent for the ninth time, but has clearly struggled this season, sitting at eighth in the conference in points per game, averaging 61 points per game. It was a near dismal start for the Wildcats who opened the game trailing 12-2 at the first media timeout. "I told the guys at the timeout, the only way you are going to have a chance is to guard the heck out of "hem," head coach Bruce Weber
said. this is an image The Wildcats kept the game close from that moment on. K-State got back in the game with a 9-0 run in a charge led by senior forward Makol Mawien, who finished the half with eight points. The Bears responded with a 7-0 run to pull away again midway near the half. With the Wildcats shooting 29 percent from the floor, the ingredients for a blowout were brewing. Led by Sneed, the Wildcats outscored Baylor 10-4 in the final three minutes of the half. The Wildcats shot 41 percent from the floor to end the half, but the Bears remained constant in the half, shooting 50 percent from the floor. Foul trouble affected the comeback efforts with Mawien and redshirt junior guard Cartier Diarra getting three fouls with over 15 minutes to play.
Attempts to gain lead fail for Wildcats against Baylor
Men’s basketball upset bid falls short in 73-67 loss to top
Baylor entered the bonus with 12 minutes remaining in the game. Baylor went 16-29 from the line. K-State remained in the game and shot 50 percent from the floor in the second half, but simply could not get that crucial stop. The Wildcats made a late push, but it was not enough to upset the Bears who defeated the Wildcats 73-67. The Wildcats were able to score the second-most points against the Bears in conference play. "We knew that every possession was going to be a war," Sneed said. "I even told the team before the game that there will be a point where we are either up five or down five, and we just have to sustain, and we were able to keep up our energy and our motion, but we just couldn't get it done today." Baylor finished the game shooting 50 percent from the floor, which is the second-highest an opponent has
shot against the Wildcats. Sophomore guard Jared Butler led Baylor scorers with 20 points, which was his fifth 20plus point game this season. Turnovers continued to punish the Wildcats as sloppiness cost the Wildcats 16 points off turnovers. Diarra and Mawien both had four in the game. Although most of the turnovers happened early, it was one of the largest factors determining the outcome of the game. "Just making 16 turnovers, if you are going to beat that team, you probably have to have 11 or 12," Weber said. "Those extra possessions, they take advantage of them that's probably the difference in the game." Sneed's career-high tie of 23 points added to his effort to become K-State's top-scorer, passing Mitch Richmond on the all-time scoring list. Sneed finished shooting 7-12 from the floor and 5-8 from the line.
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Senior Makol Mawien readies to shoot the ball during the game against Baylor on Monday. The Bears won with a score of 73-67.
The Bears held the lead from wire to wire, but that did not prevent Kansas State from making the mismatch competitive at key moments. “Our guys did a great job coming out of the gates and starting out fast,” Baylor head coach Scott Drew said. “Credit to Coach Weber and K-State for coming back. They have been playing really good basketball and we expected it to be one of those hard fought contests.” Baylor built their lead out to 16 quickly. K-State responded by holding the Bears
scoreless for over four minutes while going on an 11-0 run, led by senior forward Makol Mawien. “I thought we had five or six minutes where we guarded the heck out of them,” head coach Bruce Weber said. “We took care of the ball. It helps to make a few shots.” Mawien scored eight of his 10 points in that stretch and also recorded a steal. He finished the game with a team-leading eight rebounds. K-State had the momentum as the two teams barreled towards halftime. The Wildcats seemed like they could make it competitive in the second half, but then they got cold again shooting and could
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Senior forward Makol Mawein jumps back for a shot during K-State’s men’s basketball game against Baylor in Bramlage Coliseum on Monday. The Bears skated by with a six-point victory over the Wildcats. The final score: 73-67. "It helps out a lot, seeing the ball go through the hoop, so it just helps me out when I do that," Sneed said The Wildcats finished shooting 45 percent from the floor and 79 percent from the free-throw line, which was the best percentage at the line since the Big 12 opener. The Wildcats are enter-
ing the second half of the season, looking to build on all the close games they have played so far. K-State will travel to Ames, Iowa, for the first matchup of the season against Iowa State. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. on Saturday on ESPN2.
not handle the rebounds. “We cut it to 22-17, but then a couple loose balls and long rebounds,” Weber said. “One turnover lead to another.” Still, K-State did manage to get within a possession twice when a three-pointer by senior forward Xavier Sneed cut the lead to just 29-26 and a Sneed dunk made it 31-28. “At the end of the half, [Sneed] makes the great dunk,” Weber said. “But we’re celebrating instead of getting back to finish the half.” Baylor would get a basket of their own to finish out the half with a five-point lead. The first five minutes of the second half were punctuated by just a Baylor three-pointer while both teams struggled to settle back in. “Kind of a stalemate to start the second half,” Weber said. “We just didn’t score
and they scored only a little. … We have good stretches, 9-0, 8-0, but then they come back at us 7-0.” Baylor appeared to seize control, stretching their lead back out to 16 before K-State made one final push. This time, it did not take the form of a frantic run, but instead, K-State methodically got themselves back into the game. The Wildcats got to within seven points multiple times in the final few minutes and tried to foul their way back into the game. It took a three-pointer from junior guard Cartier Diarra with nine seconds to play for K-State to get within striking distance and at that point, it was too late. K-State’s next match-up will be a trip to Ames, Iowa, to play the Cyclones in Hilton Coliseum at 7 p.m. Saturday. That game will be on ESPN2.
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GUEST STAR Theater professor has guest appearance on History Channel sci-fi show
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Assistant professor of theater David Mackay made a guest appearance on the second episode of the second season of the History Channel’s “Project Blue Book” on Jan. 28 — the episode can be viewed online. Mackay played a mortician in Roswell, New Mexico, during the Cold War and atomic era. “Project Blue Book” is about two men, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, played by Michael Malarkey, and his partner Air Force Capt. Michael Quinn, portrayed by Aiden Gillen. Hynek and Quinn are given a task from the United States Air Force to investigate mysterious UFO sightings and try to debunk them with science. Before coming to Kansas State, Mackay wrote plays, acted and directed in Vancouver, British Colombia, where the show was filmed. Since he was from Vancouver and spent his summers there, Mackay had an agent who helped him get the role. “Vancouver has a predominant TV and film industry going back to X-Files, and
even before that,” Mackay said. He said it was his first audition in a while. “You go in and audition, you see a bunch of people that look like you,” Mackay said. “Everyone’s trying to get the role. I was fortunate enough to get it.” For this show, science cannot always fully explain many of the incidents that take place. A body is delivered to Mackay’s character that he identifies as non-human while he becomes suspicious of Hynek and Quinn. “Project Blue Book” is based off of the real Project Blue Book. The real investigation ran from 1952 until 1962, where the executive director David O’Leary stated that out of the 12,000 UFO sightings, 700 were unexplained. Famous examples from “Project Blue Book” include the Roswell incident, which was a reported UFO crash, and Area 51. Mackay spent three days shooting over the span of two to three weeks for the episode. “To get a job like that and work professionally and work with some really amazing people in performance and backstage was exciting,” Mackay said.
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David Mackay, assistant professor of theater, in his office. Mackay said he is happy to use the experience in an Acting on Camera class he teaches. In teaching the acting classes, Mackay tells his students to be prepared and
ready to go, as there can be lots of sitting around on the job. “The excitement around it and the excitement of telling people, yes that’s fun, but more importantly, I think for
my students, the thing that I stress is that your work ethic is what gets you the work and it’s why people want to work with you again —because your easy to work with and you do the work,” he said.
Further on, Mackay plans to seek more acting jobs that he can audition for and enjoy doing. The History Channel series airs at 9 p.m. CST on Tuesdays.
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ELECTIONS BAILEY BRITTON THE COLLEGIAN
Monday in the K-State Student Union Courtyard, the three student body presidential candidates participated in the first debate of election season. The candidates are Tel Wittmer, junior in secondary education and On-Campus Allocations Committee chair, Hannah Heatherman, junior in finance and Speaker of Student Senate, and Jacob Casey, junior in hospitality management and On the Spot Improv member. Moderators for the event were Trey Kuhlmann, Wildcat 91.9 news director and sophomore in political science, and Kaylie McLaughlin, Collegian editor-in-chief and junior in journalism. A crowd of approximately 15 were in attendance, including Thomas Lane, vice president of student life. Candidates began with opening statements about why they are running and what makes them qualified for the position. Casey stated he is running to
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inform other students about Student Governing Association and improve their interest. Wittmer wants to remind Kansas State of the land-grant mission on which it was founded. "I want to ensure that we are moving forward in the future with the same principles in mind that we were founded on in 1863," Wittmer said. Heatherman said SGA has a lot to offer the campus and she wants to bring it to meet its potential. In addition, she said she believes that is what each candidate is running for. When asked what personality traits would benefit them in this position and how they would represent the student body, Wittmer said he has experience in this regard because he has served as a K-State Student Ambassador with the Alumni Association. "[Being an] Ambassador involves working with alumni, connecting with alumni on the road, and I want to say we have the best alumni," Wittmer said. "We need alumni and student support to develop scholarships. That is
exactly what our student support platform calls for." Heatherman said her role as speaker has given her this opportunity already since she has sat on faculty senate. "I've learned both the ins and outs," Heatherman said. "I think the biggest thing with that relationship building component is the ability to follow through and establishing that credibility." "While we've been given a lot of responsibility as student leaders, it's all for nothing if we're unable to come through at the end of the day without work ethic behind it, and show show faculty, administrators, leaders, whoever it may be that we're willing to put the work in behind what we say and not just merely ask for request," she continued. Casey said he will focus on the student voice and that being a Residential Assistant in the dorms has give him that experience. "I really want to go out, find a way to try and find a people and ask them what their questions are," Casey said.
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McLaughlin asked the candidates to choose one platform they would most like to achieve while in office if they could only achieve one. Heatherman said "affordability." Casey said his platform of "advocate." Wittmer made an argument for all of his, but ultimately settled on "success." Overall, the three candidates emphasized the need to advocate for the students, but they had differing opinions on how to get there. "As student body president, what is most important for the students is important for you," Casey said. "It's making sure that you hear everything that the students were advocating for. As long as we say 'Your opinion is valid, and I am going to bring it up for you.'"
Heatherman said becoming inclusive is an important part. "[SGA has] taken big steps, y o u know, everything from demographic surveys, targeted outreach," H e at h e rman
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said. "I think some of the most meaningful ones come down to the little things that shift
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our organizational culture." The moderators asked the candidates how they would react to high profile incidents on campus such as the white nationalist posters in Bosco Plaza in 2017. Wittmer said he would work with the administrators of K-State and develop a plan of action by being the voice of the students. Heatherman said she would ask students how they were personally impacted by events and express those concerns to the body. Casey said this events were "unfortunately" common and K-State needs to do more. "If students are fed up, we need to make sure we handle this correctly," Casey said. "You should be a human saying 'I don't want that to happen again.' How can we make this a better future without putting bandaids on bullet holes?" Candidates also touched on mental health. All agreed there needs to be more done for students. Wittmer even said K-State is behind other top universities in this regard. Primary elections for student body president are Feb. 11 and 12. Students can vote on their KSIS accounts.
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Following the reopening of the first floor in fall 2019, the second floor of Hale Library is on track to open on March 16 — the day students return from spring break. With almost 100 computers and additional study spaces planned, the second floor of the library will function similarly to how it did prior to the fire. The two major changes: moving the entrance closer to the main doors and joining the library and information technology service desks.
“Students seem to love the first floor,” Lori Goetsch, dean of libraries, said. “We have been kind of tracking our numbers of people coming into that space, and we’re pretty crowded. We really need to get that second floor open so people can spread out a little more.” Hazel Hitchcock, sophomore in life sciences, said she thinks opening up the second floor will benefit students using the library. “I think more people will go [when the second floor opens] because when it’s only one floor, it is hard to find empty seats and empty areas
to study,” Hitchcock said. “I think that more people will eventually end up going [to] and utilizing the library.”this is an image Hitchcock said the first floor of the library became her second home when it opened in fall 2019. “I’m a really big visual learner,” Hitchcock said. “[The library] is like all whiteboards, and so I love that because I just love writing things out. I like to stand and write and draw pictures and erase and keep writing, so I really loved it for its whiteboards.” When making decisions
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A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications faculty join together in Kedzie 107 to honor Steve Edgerley during the unveiling of new lab equipment on Monday. Edgerley, a 1982 K-State alumnus, donated a sizeable portion of the funds required to update the lab.
about the future renovations of Hale Library, Goetsch said they are keeping student opinions in mind by gathering data about what spaces students seem to enjoy. “We are trying to get more whiteboards into the second floor and the other floors because we see how heavily they are used on the first floor,” Goetsch said. “Students seem to like different types of seating environments, so we are trying to pay attention to that.” The third, fourth and fifth floors are scheduled to open sometime late in fall 2020. Future plans include a large, 60-seat instruction room on the third floor and
UPDATE: Hale’s second floor to open after spring break the eventual reopening of the Great Room. “A lot of people ask about the Great Room, the ‘Harry Potter’ room,” Goetsch said. “That room in particular took a lot of the worst damage from the fire and the water and smoke that happened in May of 2018, so it’s going to take us longer to restore that room. But it will come back and be very similar to what it was before the fire.” A new addition to the library will be the Sunderland Foundation Innovation Lab, which is scheduled to open in fall 2020. The space will provide access to various technologies including artificial intelligence, virtual reality,
mixed reality, media development, audio/video recording and 3D printing. “That’s going to be a place where students can engage with … all those kinds of new technology tools that students are going to be expected to know about and use in the workplace,” Goetsch said. “We want to give them an opportunity to be exposed to those tools in the library.” Goetsch said overall, student feedback on Hale’s renovations has been very positive. “I think students are kind of voting with their feet by showing up and telling us that they like what they see,” Goetsch said.