Vol. 17, No. 28	April 23, 1998

Warner Hall to close this summer for repairs

Warner Hall, on the South Campus

Due to an extended renovation schedule, Warner Hall will be closed to students for the fall 1998 semester. It will reopen for Winter Session and the spring 1999 semester.

Although some renovations to Sypherd Hall will occur during this summer, the building will be open to students in the fall. Renovations to Sypherd Hall will resume at the end of the fall semester and continue through the summer of 1999. At that time, the building will be closed to students.

Under this revised schedule, upperclass, transfer and new freshman students will be assigned to Sypherd Hall for the fall 1998 semester. Students assigned to Sypherd Hall will be reassigned to Warner Hall for the 1999 winter and spring semesters and to vacancies that will occur in other buildings during or at the end of the fall semester.

Beginning in September, the Office of Housing Assignment Services will meet with students to provide information and discuss options.

The renovations to Warner Hall will begin this summer and continue through December. Construction will include cosmetic and system upgrades to corridors, student rooms and lounges, stairwells, bathrooms and lobbies. Heating, plumbing and lighting systems also will be improved. In addition, suites with bathrooms will be created on Warner Hall's second and third floors.

Renovations to Sypherd Hall will include the installation of a passenger elevator with access to three floors, as well as central air conditioning. Additional bathrooms will be added on the first, second and third floors. This will enable these floors to become coed by room for the first time.

In addition, a handicap accessibility entrance will be installed, which will provide access to new rooms built specifically for students with physical disabilities.

Sypherd Hall also will receive new heating and ventilation systems, as well as cosmetic upgrades to corridors, student rooms and lounges, stairwells and lobbies

The renovations to Warner and Sypherd halls are part of a five-year project which will upgrade residence halls on the central Mall. Since the project's beginning in 1997, Sussex Hall, and portions of Smyth, Brown and New Castle halls have been renovated. Other buildings will be completed in the next four years.

Photo by C.F. Mullison