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Preservation Plan
Volume 114, Issue 11
School of Architecture studies condition of campus buildings
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
ADMINISTRATION
Manship dean to resign in 2011
By Kyle Bove
By Ryan Buxton
Senior Staff Writer
Staff Writer
A busy epicenter of the University’s landscape, the Quad is the heart of campus — a place where students go to study, talk or take a quick nap. These daily activities are surrounded by buildings with a rich history that has been collected in a new architecture project. The School of Architecture recently conducted intensive research on the 18 original Quad buildings using an $180,000 campus heritage grant from the Getty Foundation. The school used the grant to develop a historical preservation plan meant to keep the buildings architecturally cohesive when they are renovated. “We did a comprehensive inventory of the exterior condition of those buildings today, as compared to when they were originally designed,” said Michael Desmond, architecture professor and head of the project. Van Cox, landscape architecture professor, worked with Desmond on the project and investigated landscape changes in the Quad. “The interesting thing about LSU is the way it evolved from a plantation and agrarian site to a college campus that started out with a highly structured center core and evolved rather loosely,” Cox said. Cox said one of the biggest changes was the construction of Middleton Library, which altered the fundamental structure of the space originally laid out in the shape of a cruciform. MAGGIE BOWLES / The Daily Reveille “I call [Middleton Library] a carbuncle,” Cox Drew Wallace, architecture senior, talks about building the models of the original 18 buildings on LSU said. “It’s a wart in the middle of an otherwise campus to develop a historical preservation plan to keep cohesion after renovation. The research used a EXHIBIT, see page 14 grant from the Getty Foundation. Wallace is currently working on the model of Atkinson Hall.
John Maxwell “Jack” Hamilton, dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication, announced his resignation Friday. He will resign from his post June 30, 2011, but take a leave of absence starting Dec. 2010. Mass communication professor Ralph Izard will be the acting dean of the school during that time. Hamilton , JACK HAMILTON who came to the dean of mass communication Manship School in 1992 after more than 20 years of working as a journalist, said he wants to be a faculty member at the University after his resignation is effective. “I’m glad I’ve had the opportunity to do this job,” Hamilton said. He said it was time to take a different direction with his career after working as dean for so long. Hamilton is the senior dean on campus — 2011 will mark his 19th year at the University. Contact Kyle Bove at kbove@lsureveille.com
INFRASTRUCTURE
Main sewer line may pose threat to University operations Potential rupture could affect football games By Lindsey Meaux Senior Staff Writer
Though overlooked on campus tours and visits to Tiger Stadium, the University’s main sewer line has been faithfully servicing campus for more than half a century — and like most campus infrastructures throughout the years, its time for replacement has come. Emmett David, director of facility development, said more than $4 million was
requested in the 2009 Regular Legislative Session, but — because of budgetary constraints — the legislature chose not to provide funding for the multi-million dollar project, leaving the administration in fear of the line’s impending rupture. The University is hopeful to receive funding during the 2010 session, David said. “The No. 1 project for the University under emergency projects is the replacement of this 30-inch sewer line tying into the city-parish treatment system,” David said. The rupture of the line could potentially close the University for an indefinite period of time, David said.
“It did not receive any funding — there are financial hardships right now,” David said. “The state addressed what they felt in their wisdom. You have to look at the entire state, not just our sewer problem. Bobby Pitre, facility services executive director, said the worst-case scenario for the line’s rupture would result in the University evacuating about 100,000 people from the campus. “The worst case would be a Saturday night during a football game,” Pitre said. “You could see them shutting down the football game and evacuating the SEWER, see page 14
photo courtesy of Facility Services
The University spent $1 million to repair a sewer line rupture off Nicholson Drive in 2006, according to Bobby Pitre, facility services executive director