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The Battalion I 1.26.15
New dorms
on West
Campus
are under
construction,
scheduled to
be completed jg
by Fall 2015. Il
Vanessa Pefia — THE BATTALION
WEST CAMPUS CONTINUED
with food options, study spaces, some
study rooms and music rooms,” Brod
erick said. “And that’s gonna go up
kind of across the boulevard from the
apartments.”
Carol Binzer, director of admin
istrative and support services in the
Department of Residence Life, said
the partnership will involve the pri
vate group incurring the cost of $112
million to build the complex, but also
receiving the revenues generated.
“[Texas A&M] manages it, and we
have some agreements to help them
make their expected revenues —
about occupancy, etc. It’s like having a
separate housing system,” Binzer said.
“They’ll pay the expenses for miming
the place.”
Rydl said the West Campus com
mons project is targeted to be com
pleted January 2017 and is funded by
Texas A&M instead of a public-pri
vate partnership.
Rydl said the partnership won’t af
fect the way students pay to live on
campus.
“We’re managing the whole thing
so students won’t know any differ
ent,” Rydl said. “They’ll pay just like
they would if they lived in any of our
other housing stock.”
The apartments, Rydl said, will
have the same ground floor features
— a game room, an open access lab,
dining and study space — as The
Commons and Hullabaloo.
West Campus construction’s Phase
2 calls for the construction of West
Campus residence halls — a step that
is frozen, however, until more campus
dining facilities are built in the vicin
ity.
Broderick said the White Creek
Apartments will be followed by the
construction of a common area to be
located nearby.
“The goal is to also put some dorms
out on West campus after they get
the commons built, because with the
apartments, you know, you cook your
own food and that kind of stuff, but
the dorms depend more on having
some campus food options,” Broder
ick said.
Binzer said the White Creek Apart
ments are the result of a partnership
with a private group, which builds the
project and incurs the costs, but also
receives the revenues generated.
BAND CONTINUED
entire E.V. Adams building, as well as several indi
vidual rehearsal rooms where students can practice
their instruments in a soundproof environment.
The current grass drill field will be replaced by
turf to prevent divots and allow practice to take
place even in harsh weather conditions.
“It’s going to be a state-of-the-art facility to ac
commodate all music programs,” Ramirez said.
“We hope to have the construction started around
2017 or 2018, around the time the Quad renova
tions are supposed to be complete.”
Ramirez said the discussion to build a new facility
has been ongoing for the last 20 years, since it has
become clear that the current band hall is increas
ingly inadequate.
“There are other organizations that use it — the
symphonic band, concert band, the Aggieland Or
chestra,” Ramirez said. “They all can still use it be
cause they’re not that big, but even they are growing
organizations. So that’s kind of what prompted the
discussion about building a new facility. We’re now
at a point where, with the size of the music program,
it’s truly unsafe to put them in there.”
Rhea said, in
V
"The fire
addition to issues
of safety, the cur
rent building has
limited accessibil
ity for music stu
dents.
“The current
building has access
Monday through
Friday from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.,” Rhea
said. “There are
hardly any storage
compartments for
students to keep
their instraments,
and there’s no ac
cess to anything
after 5, so it re
ally restricts their
schedules. And
currently, every
one shares the
rehearsal hall. Or
ganizations rotate
from about 7 a.m.
to 9 p.m. almost daily.”
Mary Godwin, infantry band sergeant major and
philosophy junior, said the last time the Aggie Band
practiced in E.V. Adams was Fall 2012.
“The last time the Aggie Band practiced in E.V.
Adams was my freshman year, and we were shoulder
to shoulder,” Godwin said. “And when we march,
you can literally see the grid patterns of our march
ing in the divots. It’s about time they built a new
building.”
Rhea said the idea of the new center is a matter
of giving students the facility they deserve.
“When you hear our band play, you wouldn’t
ever guess that they practice in conditions like this,”
Rhea said.
marshal gave
the building
a maximum
capacity of
around 200
people. Well,
they broke
that number
the day the
doors opened
in 1970."
Timothy Rhea, director of
Bands and Performing
Ensembles
Alii Bradshaw — THE BATTALION
Jorge Vanegas presented the opening lecture Friday on
healthcare architecture in Latin America for the 2015
Architecture for Health Lecture Series.
ARCHITECTURE
CONTINUED
in College Station as there are
in Colombia — there would
be 1.5 doctors for every
10,000 people. It’s vety dif
ferent.”
Naomi Sachs, architecture
doctoral student candidate,
said she enjoyed hearing from
architects with hands-on ex
perience in the field.
“It’s always an opportunity
to learn something, meet in
teresting people and design
practitioners,” Sachs said.
“You learn so much more
from people with outside ex
perience and people who are
willing to share that experi
ence, such as dean Vanegas.”
Vanegas said he used his
lecture as a way of educating
students beyond the boundar
ies of the United States and
enabling the betterment of
individuals not only in the
architecture and design field.
“Healthcare is not isolated,
it’s all interconnected,” Vane
gas said. “One of the messages
is how students need to tran
scend the boundaries of their
academic program and pro
fession, and see how they as
future professionals can make
a difference and contribute to
the bettennent of the human
race.”
Lucy Bai, architecture
doctoral student candidate
and president of the Student
Health Environment Associa
tion, said the lecture was an
eye-opener.
“It kind of kicked me out
of this ivory tower,” Bai said.
“I feel like I’m more profes
sional when I can see and
learn about design trends in
all aspects.”
The Spring 2015 Archi
tecture for Health Lecture
Series will be held at 11:30
a.m. most Fridays in Langford
105C until early May.
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