Construction begins for Humanities lab on fourth floor of Braniff
Peter Bloch
Issue date: 4/1/08 Section: News
The University of Dallas announced on Wednesday that it will be making a further addition to Braniff Graduate Center in the near future. The project will add a fourth floor to the already bustling Braniff. The University gathered enough funds to undertake such a daunting project from an anonymous donor and from the gregarious Student Foundation (which fund-raised at SMU by selling lemonade on Saturdays).
Some faculty members hope that, in the process of building this new floor, the University will consider relocating the ventilation shafts, since student smokers have been maliciously blowing smoke up their vents. Other faculty members have expressed trepidation that this project might agitate the delicately hewn totem pole of departments.
The University will construct a "Humanities Lab" on the new floor of Braniff. A board of professorial selectmen will be drafting the blueprints; however, amateur sketches are available in sidewalk chalk behind the Science building, courtesy of the very same architect who brought you Tower Village Apartments.
The purpose of the "Humanities Lab" will be to provide a setting for real conversation and humanities studies. The Humanities Lab will prohibit the use of drugs, hookahs, "shenanigans," television, dance parties and fog machines.
There will be a coffee and cocktail bar to the left as you enter, and scattered about the room will be several sections, like living rooms, with the finest cushioned leather furniture money can buy. Each section of couches and coffee tables will provide an intimate setting in which students can read, have conversation or just hang out.
The lighting will come from large tinted single pane windows that will allow just enough light in to create a warm incandescent lantern sort of feel; at night there will be soft lighting, yet strong enough to allow reading.
On the oak-paneled walls will be bookshelves containing every book in the core, and some additions selected by various professors. This will certainly be an attractive feature since a UD student can't help but discuss his latest studies, and nothing pleases him more than going directly to the texts.
Some faculty members hope that, in the process of building this new floor, the University will consider relocating the ventilation shafts, since student smokers have been maliciously blowing smoke up their vents. Other faculty members have expressed trepidation that this project might agitate the delicately hewn totem pole of departments.
The University will construct a "Humanities Lab" on the new floor of Braniff. A board of professorial selectmen will be drafting the blueprints; however, amateur sketches are available in sidewalk chalk behind the Science building, courtesy of the very same architect who brought you Tower Village Apartments.
The purpose of the "Humanities Lab" will be to provide a setting for real conversation and humanities studies. The Humanities Lab will prohibit the use of drugs, hookahs, "shenanigans," television, dance parties and fog machines.
There will be a coffee and cocktail bar to the left as you enter, and scattered about the room will be several sections, like living rooms, with the finest cushioned leather furniture money can buy. Each section of couches and coffee tables will provide an intimate setting in which students can read, have conversation or just hang out.
The lighting will come from large tinted single pane windows that will allow just enough light in to create a warm incandescent lantern sort of feel; at night there will be soft lighting, yet strong enough to allow reading.
On the oak-paneled walls will be bookshelves containing every book in the core, and some additions selected by various professors. This will certainly be an attractive feature since a UD student can't help but discuss his latest studies, and nothing pleases him more than going directly to the texts.
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