The Commentator

Issue date: 12/27/04 Section: News

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Within the past two weeks, two large scale construction projects have been started on the Wilf Campus, causing a ruckus of noise and disruption as students ease their way into the final examination period.

One the first floor of Rubin Hall, construction crews have been busy clearing away walls and support beams to make way for new office space to be inhabited by Facilities Management, which is currently located in Belfer Hall. The new office space used to be additional dorm rooms and guest suites for visitors.

The transformation of Rubin Hall dormitory rooms in administrative office space, however, has left many confused and bewildered as why the university would swap good living space for office use. "I was hoping to be able to dorm in Rubin this year but was placed in Muss because Rubin had already filled up. And even with the rooming shortage they are taking away rooms," said Joseph Goldglantz Yeshiva College '07.

Construction begins early in the morning and runs through the entire day. Workers also play loud music that trickles up through the floors and infiltrates the rooms of students.

"The construction is extremely annoying. Sometime it shakes my entire room and there is no way I can catch a nap during the day like that," said Marc Beinenfeld, Sy Syms School of Business '07.

Senior administrators explained that the construction must take place now, as other improvement projects are slated for the winter break and manpower is always a problem.

Next door to Rubin Hall, in the Tenzer Gardens sandwiched in between Rubin and Belfer Hall, another construction project is simultaneously underway. Bulldozers and cement trucks have lined the driveway area for nearly a week, as workers have uprooted all the benches and fountains in the back of the garden. It was reported that the flooring of the garden needed to be repaved; the floor serves as the roof over the Furman dining hall, kitchen, and loading dock in the back of Belfer Hall. Though it looks like a floor renovation, the project is actually more like a re-roofing job.

Jeff Rosengarten, associate vice president of Administrative Services, was unavailable for comment for this article.

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