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Chapter News Housing plans to demolish dormitories, including chapter
room
She expressed to him that the Bond-Carpenter and Whittington-Williams dormitories were not very suitable living quarters, and that Housing had therefore decided to demolish all four dormitories, figuring out how to house the many incoming students with the other remaining male dormitories. Bond-Carpenter opened in 1966; Whittington-Williams (then Caylor-Williams), in 1961. The buildings themselves will probably not be torn down for a while due to the high price of demolishing buildings with friable asbestos, but the facilities are no longer permissible for use.
The chapter has used this spacious room since the mid-eighties. It has undergone countless hours of decorative attention and maintenance, including Bill Ray Burt's painting of the Coat of Arms, pictured left, and the difficult remodeling of the room in 2006-2007. Even though this development puts the chapter behind a great deal, the chapter will work hard to maintain its morale without a chapter room for a few years. |
During the
first week of April, Housing and Residence Life Director Elsie Lynn
Ervin mentioned to Brother Joe Raymond in passing that the chapter
would lose its chapter room at the end of the 2008 spring semester.
Housing
has little or no plans at all for re-housing the chapter any time
before the construction of a new dormitory, which is scheduled to
happen around 2012 at the earliest. They suggested using part
of Brewer Hall's lobby in the Court of Governors, but the chapter
has decided to meet instead in Union 306, which is a relatively
spacious conference room in the third floor of the Union.
Housing likewise had no plan or suggestion for storing fraternity
property during this period. The chapter has rented a storage
unit to serve this purpose.