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Watterson Dining Commons to begin expansion in 2018 KELSEY EGGIMANN News Reporter | @Kelsey_eggimann Photo courtesy of Illinois State University

A rendering of the planned Watterson Dining Commons expansion project on the venue’s east side.

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atterson Dining Commons is expected to undergo an $11 million expansion. ISU will construct a two-story addition to Watterson on the east side of the facility, along Fell Avenue. The second floor of this addition will house the bakery as well as a private dining room and test kitchen. The project has been in the making since 2011. The Illinois State University Board of Trustees approved the expansion of facilities in 2015. The reason for this upcoming expansion project is “to consolidate all baking functions and certain food preparation [in order] to increase operational synergy and efficiencies” said Erin Watts, assistant director of marketing, training and hospitality in Event Management, Dining and Hospitality, said. Food production for students originated in the John Green Food Service Building on Gregory Street in 1968, however by the early 2000s, the baking equipment there was beginning to fail and everything had to be relocated to the Feeney Dining Center in the South Campus Residence Hall Complex. By 2012, most of the food production equipment had been moved to the Watterson Dining Commons and the expansion project is expected to complete this transition. Construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2018 after

16 years later Sting of 9/11 still strong STAR JOHNSON News Reporter | @Star2flyy_

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group alQaeda hijacked four planes and proceeded to make suicide terrorist attacks throughout the United States. Two of the planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon outside of Washington D.C. and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

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Sophomore nursing major Michelene Janesku works at the salad bar in the Watterson Dining Center.

commencement. This project should take roughly one year to complete and will include “improvements to the loading dock, staging areas, and relocation of cold and dry ingredient storage

Assistant professor in the School of Communication Megan Hopper said she was on her way to work when she found out the first plane hit one of the towers. Hopper described the footage of the people jumping from the towers and the noise of them hitting the ground as “unbelievable.” While she saw shocking images on television, the environment at work was “very calm.” “I think that’s what happens when you’re a jou r na list and you’re trained well,” Hopper said. “We were all just doing our job and keeping our composure. It didn’t really hit me and I didn’t break down until I got home and took off my journalism hat and saw those images.” 9/11 drastically changed news markets across the country.

[as well as] a ‘cold prep’ room [to be] created on the lower level of the existing building,” Watts said. To complete this project Event Management, Dining and Hospitality has been working closely with Facilities Planning and Construction, Cordogan Clark & Associates, Inc, and Ricca Design. The project will be paid for with reserve funds, meaning no tax money will be used and there will be no increase in student fees. The dining center serves students currently housed in both Watterson Towers and Hewett-Manchester halls. However, many students are in the dark on the upcoming renovations. “[I] had no idea about the new expansion project,” sophomore psychology major Vivian Spradlin said. Freshman biology major Miranda Hamann said she “didn’t even know [the project] was happening.” Students can expect to see the new addition to the Watterson Dining Commons up and running in a few short years. The dining area and access to food services should be minimally impacted by the construction. “Event Management, Dining and Hospitality is strongly committed to providing high quality dining options, so [they’re] excited about the project and looking forward to the positive changes the space will create,” Watts said.

“It’s kind of like when John F. Kennedy was assassinated when he was president, back when the TV news networks realized people would actually watch the news all day,” Hopper said. She believes that people live by the importance of 24-hour news networks because people are anxious to know what is happening in the world. Secretary of State Jesse White reflected on the day as well. “I was picked up by state policemen and they took me over to this restaurant,” White said. “One of the Secretary of State police officers said there had been an airplane crash in New York. He said the plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings and I said, ‘LaGuardia Airport is pretty far from the World Trade Center, how did that happen?’” White and his state policemen watched the footage and saw one of the planes come around the tower that was burning

and then watched the plane crash into the second tower. White proceeded to leave the restaurant immediately. White served in the U.S. military three times and was prepared to serve his country on the spot. “I went home and I took my uniform out of the closet and I had tears in my eyes,” White said. “I started ironing my uniform, thinking that I was going to go to war. It felt like I should go to war because that is [similar to] what I saw on television,” White said. “It was one of the worst acts that I have ever seen in the nation and I was hurt and really upset about what had transpired,” White added. White later saw how the buildings were coming apart and the dust coming off of first responders trying to rescue the people trapped in the towers. He envisioned himself wondering what he would have done if he was in such a position. “I think it [a terror attack] is a violation of all laws of human decency for you to not only take the lives of people on the plane, but the people in those buildings considering the fact that they hadn’t done anything to you,” White said. Sixteen years after Sept. 11, it still remains the biggest attack on American soil since Graphic by Lee Walls | Vidette Art Director Pearl Harbor.


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