PUB closing date
pushed
to June
Editor-In-Chief
The Pagoda Union Building (PUB), which was scheduled to close April 1 to begin construction on a new building, will now be closing two months later, on June 12.
According to Beverly Brandt, vice president-administrative services, the designers and architects reviewed the construction plans and discovered that the foundation needs to be stabilized a little more.
The delay, however, will not affect the open date of the new building. According to Brandt, the building time will actually be shortened and the new PUB will open as scheduled for Fall Quarter 2007.
“The PUB should be completed by the end of June 2007 to allow substantial move-in time for the September opening,” Brandt said.
What is affected by the delay is the current food services vendor, whose contract was scheduled to expire on March 24.
According to Mary Kelemen, manager of auxiliary services manager, who serves on the Food Services Committee, the current vendor will operate on a month-to-month basis during Spring Quarter.
“My guess is that the current food services provider will close mid-May,” Kelemen said. The Food Services Committee was recently formed and is comprised of students, faculty, and staff.
Once the PUB does close, the question rises: Where will students be able to buy food? The committee has the task of answering this question. Unfortunately, its first effort to solve the question was not met with success.
“We created a Request for Proposal to seek vendors for the campus but didn't receive any responses,” Kelemen said.
According to Kelemen, the biggest challenge comes from a lack of a kitchen. “Without a kitchen, the food will have to be prepared off campus and then brought onto the campus to be served,” Kelemen said.
The committee is looking into having a cooler of Schwan's frozen food products for sale in the bookstore that can be warmed up in the student lounge, which is located next to the bookstore.
“We're also looking at having the shuttle make stops at Central Market so students can eat food from there,” Kelemen said.
The committee will also be upgrading the 15 vending machines on campus. According to Kelemen, the vending machines are handled very loosely and the committee hopes to get them all operating on a coherent and consistent basis.
“We don't have a set answer,” Kelemen said. “We're looking for suggestions.”
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