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Boxed Up for the Big Move to Kalmanovitz
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Marissa Litman (left) and Mary Zweifel (right), program assistants for international and area studies, pack their old offices for the move to Kalmanovitz Hall in the coming week. |
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On the fifth floor of University Center, white moving boxes are stacked neatly along office walls. Books no longer needed sit outside a handful of offices, free for the taking. All are hints of the upcoming move to the newly renovated and updated Kalmanovitz (formerly Campion) Hall.
With Kalmanovitz move-in scheduled to begin Aug. 8, faculty and staff from across the university are starting to get ready for the big move. About 165 faculty members and 35 staff will leave their offices in University Center, Gleeson Library, the Lone Mountain campus, Cowell Hall, Harney Science Center, and the trailers on Welsh Field to get settled into the building.
The plan, said Susan Davison, associate director of facilities management, is to move into Kalmanovitz beginning on the fourth floor and working down from there. Move-in is scheduled to end Aug. 15, just in time for fall semester classes to begin 13 days later. Crews will still be doing exterior work – installing lighting, moving trailers, and resodding the field between Kalmanovitz and St. Ignatius Church – after the semester begins, but the building’s interior is coming along well, said Mike London, assistant vice president of facilities management. Workers are currently installing carpeting, countertops, and elevators as well as hanging the last of the sheetrock and wrapping up painting.
For those helping coordinate the move, getting ready involves more than making sure everyone’s belongings are properly packed and labeled with color-coded stickers. It also means ensuring things such as fax machines, bulletin boards, and door mail slots will all be in place from the start, said Amy Joseph, program assistant for the sociology department.
“Those types of things actually end up being a really big deal,” she said.
Joseph has also helped pack the offices of two faculty members – one is out of the country, the other is on medical leave. But beyond those extraordinary circumstances, faculty are handling their own packing.
Some, both in the sociology department and beyond, have already packed up their offices completely. Others are in the middle of doing so and still others have yet to begin the process. Brian Weiner, chair of the politics department, is among those.
“My 9-year-old daughter, I hope, will be helping me,” Weiner said.
Even with her help, he said, packing his office will likely take between 20 and 30 hours, depending on how much sorting he decides to do. “A lot of us are using (the move) as an opportunity to weed through books and papers,” he said. After all, it’s a chance to start fresh.
Named for the Paul and Lydia Kalmanovitz Foundation—a Bay Area philanthropic trust that donated one-third of the estimated $30 million cost for the renovation—the building will feature classrooms, faculty offices, and laboratories for language learning, writing, media, and psychology. The 100,000-square-foot building’s new design incorporates several hallway meeting spaces for students and teachers, complete with whiteboards, tables, and wireless hotspots.
Other highlights include a rooftop sculpture garden and a main entrance set off by a multi-story glass atrium connecting the old Kalmanovitz annex to Cowell Hall. The entrance will feature a terraced courtyard, seating, and landscaping, while the adjacent Gill Theatre will have been rebuilt as office space.
The renovation also includes new furnishings, which means the amount of furniture moved will be minimal. Primarily, the items moved will include office contents (packed into boxes), and computers. So far, facilities management has distributed more than 2,000 packing boxes and labels, Davison said.
Trucks will be used to move items from Lone Mountain offices; items from offices on lower campus will be walked over on dollies.
On the Move:
The following departments, programs, and centers will be moving into Kalmanovitz Hall.
Arts and Humanities
Asian Studies
Asia Pacific Studies
Communication Studies
English as a Second Language
Rhetoric and Communication
Comparative Literature
English
Modern and Classical Languages
Philosophy
Theology
MFA in Writing
Social Sciences
Economics
Environmental Studies
History
International Studies
Latin American Studies
Media Studies
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
Sport Management
Interdisciplinary Programs/Minors
African Studies
African American Studies
Asian American Studies
Catholic Studies
Classical Studies
Criminal Justice Studies
Ethnic Studies
European Studies
Film Studies
Gender and Sexualities Studies
Health Studies
Honors Program in Humanities
Journalism
Judaic Studies
Latino-Chicano Studies
Legal Studies
Living-Learning Communities
Neuroscience
Peace and Justice Studies
Public Service
Yuchengo Philippine Studies
Centers/Institutes
Center for the Pacific Rim
Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development
Pan American Society
Peace and Justice Studies Association
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
St. Ignatius Institute
- Originally posted Aug. 5, 2008 - 
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