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Show 4 THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, the campus. It's really inconvenient," Taylor said. "I know history majors that don't declare because they don't CARLSON continued from page THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 2002 1 activities or visiting professors, but thinks there's a "general sense of student apathy" which deters campus involvement. Despite the building's history, history junior Larissa Taylor thinks the department should move. It's at the bottom-mocorner of st want to go all the way down there." Not very many people are willing to make the trek all the way down to attend a lecture or visit a professor, she continued. She can understand, however, why the professors wouldn't want to give the offices up. VJhzt Faculty Think I.ehning wishes he could figure out Y(U against ciLir Dogs and even Bears! Find an abundance of products including pepper spray, mace, stun guns, martial art supplies, facc-to-fac- we want to hold on to," Lchning said. "The good thing about Carlson Hall is you have an office this size, you can collect" all your stuff here and do research in your office, which few professors can do, he said. Getting to class cap prove problematic though. History professors teach classes all over campus, Lchning said, and hardly ever in Carlson Hall. He's been assigned to teach classes as far away from his office as the HPER complex, while many of his colleagues in the humanities college teach classes in home protection products, and more! on www.armyourself.net IHMBMMHWMIHIilMIHIIINIWIIIIINM 10 pm the same building that houses their department or one right next to it. "That's not a huge hardship. That's one of the consequences of it being on the periphery," Lehning said. "I think a more central location would be a lot better," said Gene Fitzgerald, head of the Tanner Humanities Center. "We're sort of a communal place where the humanities can interact with each other and the rest of campus." The remote location detracts from mim pB mm m mi Mwm) flQfo m Two-third- department. "It's hard even to get to know those people," he said. When he is in the neighborhood, and tries to visits friends of his in the College of Humanities, "they're never there." History professors spend more time in their offices than other faculty members do, so they have more e contact with one another. "We have a fairly good community as a department and that's something Stalkers Burglars Violators mon, jan. 28 a way to get students to visit him in his office. For one class, he required every s student to come visit him. did. his class of "It's a good building for developing a departmental community, but it makes it difficult for students to visit us," Lchning said, "unless they're heading through the building on their way downtown. In fact, a number of us try to meet students elsewhere on campus. I always tell students to catch me after class. ..because it's so hard to get them here." Not only does the inconvenient location affect students, it affects faculty as well. Lchning specializes in modern French history, but he has little contact with the French sector of the Languages and Literature (Mi m Hi o aX i 4 '71 " x , Finished in 1938, Carlson Hail is on latest the National Register of Historic Places. the center's ability to provide that interaction, though. "Geography is important in the perception of the entire campus. If you're sort of on the periphery, you have to work harder to make yourself central in the minds of the campus," Fitzgerald said. "We hope we can get new digs before too long." The center is not an academic department and has only five employees. Unlike history faculty, their offices aren't in old, spacious dorm rooms, but Fitzgerald doesn't want to lose the center's nice seminar rooms. Recently redone with donated money, the rooms host teacher workshops, conferences, talks and meetings. "I would still like to be able to use those spaces simply because it would be an insult to the donors if we didn't," Fitzgerald said. Where Would They Go? For Carlson Hall or its residents, no plans are set, and everyone is looking at options. "Some Carlson Hall residents like it a lot, others are excited about being closer to humanities," said Christian Anderson, assistant to the dean of humanities. LNCO houses most of the college; the philosophy department is in OSH. Constructing a building adjacent to LNCO will take "a good long while," Anderson continued, and both the history department and the Tanner Humanities Center will be involved in planning that. "There's not a simple answer to the issue because it's pretty clear the history department loves their offices in Carlson. For them, it's kind of a mixed blessing," said David Pershing, senior vice president for academic affairs, in a December interview. There are at least two alternatives to the expansion of the College of Law, in association with last semester's $26 million gift from the Quin-ne- y Foundation, Pershing said. The first is moving Carlson Hall inhabitants to new facilities close to LNCO, which would bring all the humanities close together. This plan would require a new building. The second is leaving Carlson Hall inhabitants right where the are and find another building adjacent to the law school to spill into. "That is a very reasonable possibility because it does not involve having to raise funds from the Legislature or private donors," Pershing said. There is no obvious existing building other than Carlson Hall for the law school, Pershing said, so the U would have to build a new one, primarily with private funds. As per the agreement with the Quinney Foundation, the school's dean can use up to $1 million of the donation for the creation of new facilities which is a start the history department does not have, and Pershing doubts the Legislature wrould be anxious to "sign up for a new history building." jwhitleychronicle. utah.edu Jw 3 i4. If i m mi m a frMim teiRHiidiii mm won ma dinil s A FREE WEEKLY SERIES PRESENTED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSFTY OF UTAH uyulr DC Mm nwt hdmMmX&r SOTf klL hJL L,J jfa.J J il Foremost authority on Olympic Security, Utah Public Safety Commissioner Robert Flowers lit I WW iilLLslr rilMl- - will ... address the University of Utah. X ; " J 0)j Noon v u Li u O Union Panorama Room East Call 581.UTIX for more information D) Li :k v'r-;o:- V,v,isM .r |