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No tech at Center for Sciences
Three of the twenty nine classes fully functioning
MAX SULLIVAN News Editor
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Some professors at the Center for the Sciences are frustrated that only three of the 29 classrooms currently have fully functioning audiovisual equipment, according to Dale Fields, department chair of Physics and Planetary Sciences.
The $57 million 109,000 square foot Center for the Sciences, which opened in 2010, features 22 labs, lecture rooms and a planetarium. Fields says the equipment has been fading out of service for the past three years.
The audiovisual equipment installed deviated from the district standard and this played a role in it not being properly maintained, according to an email from Vice President of Administrative Services Rolf Schleicher.
“The procurement of the Crestron AV System was not