2008 Woodie Awards
Campus to Move Underground
Elizabeth Fields
Issue date: 4/1/04 Section: The Absolute Truth
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Plans to move Goucher College's campus underground were finalized by the Board of Trustees last weekend, and renovations will begin this summer, says President Sanford J. Ungar. The planned changes include moving all dorms, academic buildings, and peripheral buildings approximately 862 feet below the ground.
Campus Loop Road, the power and maintenance building, and the psychology annex will remain above ground, as will the Athenaeum, which Ungar hopes will be completed by the summer of 2007.
"We feel this is the best decision for the direction we want the college to go in," Ungar said in Goucher's first press conference Tuesday. "There are many economic and financial reasons, of course, but it also fits with our vision of what we think a liberal arts education should be."
Ungar said that he has always wanted to see more room on campus for open spaces, grass, and deer, as well as the Athenaeum.
"We really felt that with the moving of Campus Loop Road, the new dorm that will be located directly across from Heubeck, and the Athenaeum - which is a very large project - the campus would be too crowded," Ungar said. "This way we can preserve the beauty of Goucher's surprisingly wilderness-like state as well as utilize our property the best way we can."
Matt Warshaw, Special Glitterific Assistant to the President, is quick to praise this newly publicized idea.
"Sandy has given this a lot of thought, and this is not something that Goucher is doing rashly," Warshaw said. "I really agree that this is a positive step for our liberal arts college. So many things are changing - for example, the curriculum, the new dorm that will be built - we felt this was the right time.
Plans to move Goucher College's campus underground were finalized by the Board of Trustees last weekend, and renovations will begin this summer, says President Sanford J. Ungar. The planned changes include moving all dorms, academic buildings, and peripheral buildings approximately 862 feet below the ground.
Campus Loop Road, the power and maintenance building, and the psychology annex will remain above ground, as will the Athenaeum, which Ungar hopes will be completed by the summer of 2007.
"We feel this is the best decision for the direction we want the college to go in," Ungar said in Goucher's first press conference Tuesday. "There are many economic and financial reasons, of course, but it also fits with our vision of what we think a liberal arts education should be."
Ungar said that he has always wanted to see more room on campus for open spaces, grass, and deer, as well as the Athenaeum.
"We really felt that with the moving of Campus Loop Road, the new dorm that will be located directly across from Heubeck, and the Athenaeum - which is a very large project - the campus would be too crowded," Ungar said. "This way we can preserve the beauty of Goucher's surprisingly wilderness-like state as well as utilize our property the best way we can."
Matt Warshaw, Special Glitterific Assistant to the President, is quick to praise this newly publicized idea.
"Sandy has given this a lot of thought, and this is not something that Goucher is doing rashly," Warshaw said. "I really agree that this is a positive step for our liberal arts college. So many things are changing - for example, the curriculum, the new dorm that will be built - we felt this was the right time.
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