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Last week's announced plan from Governor Blagojevich to tear down Cole Hall has been met with great backlash amongst state lawmakers, NIU staff and students. An email sent yesterday from Northern Illinois University President John Peters to students and faculty put a hold on the Governor’s plan and called for campus-wide discourse regarding the fate of the 40-year-old building. Peters said the future of Cole Hall should “represent a consensus opinion” of the university community.
Everybody wants to have a say about the future of Cole Hall: State lawmakers are uncertain about shelling out $40 million to tear down a building. Some faculty members believe that tearing it down will not do anything to aid in the healing process so many community members are struggling with. Students also want a voice in the fate of Cole Hall and several have even started a group calling for the preservation of building.
Even Mayor Daley threw in his two cents saying, “You can’t tear every building down…Unfortunately, there have been a number of killings- both in and around high schools or elementary schools… It wasn’t the building that did it. It was the opportunity of someone getting a gun in Illinois.”
What should be done with it? Blagojevich’s initial plan was to (tear it down, clearly) and build a "state-of-the-art learning facility." However, many want it to follow the way of Norris Hall, the site of the Virginia Tech shootings, which is in use as a Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention. Others simply want a memorial to be built. Is there even a “right” way to handle this decision? And ultimately, whose decision should it be? [Trib, Sun-Times]
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Are there members of the press interested in taking our Governor's photo again if he decides to reverse course? That seems to be the only way to get him to do anything these days.
Signed,
A senior at U of I who's been hearing for 4 years that this will finally be the year that the state ponies up the money to renovate the decrepit Lincoln Hall.
Again, Blago backing out on a prior commitment. What a loser!!
"Signed,
A senior at U of I who's been hearing for 4 years that this will finally be the year that the state ponies up the money to renovate the decrepit Lincoln Hall."
Cry me a river. Having gone to NIU I know what the "directional" schools get from the state, and its embarrassing. Its the scraps from what dosent get filtered to U of I. I have zero sympathy.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but weren't there plans to replace this building prior to the incident? My impression was that this process was already in the works, and Blago is just using it to make political hay for himself. Am I misinformed?
"Cry me a river. Having gone to NIU I know what the "directional" schools get from the state, and its embarrassing. Its the scraps from what dosent get filtered to U of I. I have zero sympathy."
u of i is the state's flagship state university, deal with it
Mmmm... "Sex in the Morrow Plots"
"u of i is the state's flagship state university, deal with it"
NIU has been fighting for 20 years to refurbish Stevens Building..boarded up windows, sewage which backs up, mold damage to walls and ceilings, an old janitors closet which serves as the computer lab, pipes which spray steam...nadda so far from the state. Many other campus buildings are in similar need of repair (same thing is true Im sure at EIU, SIU, etc)
So yea, when I hear a sob story from someone at U of I who has been waiting all of 4 years for funding to spruce up one of their buildings, I dont exactly shed a tear.
Not to mention U of I petitioned the state hard to try and block NIU from opening an engineering school in the 90s, which still really rubs me the wrong way. Needless to say, I'm not a fan of the color orange.
you're still missing the point though - u of i is the state's flagship university, and with that distinction comes the fact that their improvements should get done before niu's, eiu's, siu's, etc.
why should it rub you the wrong way if u of i deterred niu from opening up an engineering school? how would niu react if uic wanted to open a law school, therefore lowering the desirability/necessity of niu's?
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