La Voz

Issue date: 10/9/06 Section: News

Media Credit: Laena Brandenburg everal sections of De Anza College's campus are being renovated. Construction is scheduled to continue until fall 2007.

Monday, October 9, 2006

Construction on the De Anza College campus is scheduled to take place through fall 2007. For all of this academic year, the Hinson Campus Center, the planetarium and the administration building will be partially, if not completely, closed.

Until these buildings are renovated and completely reopen, De Anza is in transition. The school has and will continue to make accommodations for the time being.

Astronomy classes now have to be held without starry skies in rooms S32 and S34. The cafeteria moved to the old bookstore, which is now the "Foodstore."

Tables and chairs have been moved into the Main Quad and outside the Campus Center where students can dine in "almost an European cafe scene," says De Anza president Brian Murphy.

Administrators planned to put up tents this December so students could have shelter during rain. However, if it continues to rain as it did last week, the tents will be put up sooner.

Inside the Campus Center, workers are completely renovating Conference Rooms A and B and turning what was once the cafeteria into a food court.

"By then people will be so used to eating outside they won't want to eat inside." Murphy said.

According to Murphy, the lawsuit against Measure C, filed by Saratoga lawyer Aaron Katz, will not affect construction.

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