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Splattered pats of butter will not dot the newly refurbished ceiling of Annenberg Hall, as Dining Services has replaced the Union's pats, cherished as projectiles by generations of first-years, with a large bowl of butter and a serving knife...
...renovation project in the history of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) was eight years in the planning and required massive reworking after estimates came in way over budget. But now, two months before members of the Class of 1999 are expected to take their first meals in Annenberg Hall, the remodeling is almost done...
Despite the dark wood, the Annenberg Hall, as the first-year dining hall will be renamed, is as bright as the Commons downstairs. The stained glass windows have been cleaned. And new wagon-wheel shaped chandeliers aim light both at the ceiling and down on the floor...
Because of its smaller size, Annenberg will no longer be able to hold large first-year events such as the concentration fair. Annenberg Hall can never bring all the first-years together as the Union once did--simply because they wouldn't fit. Yard common rooms have been refurbished to give first-years meeting locations, but first-years, separated into their many dorms, will no longer have one central location to gather. Annenberg Hall has broken any cohesiveness the Union engendered in the first year class. Dean Nathans wrote that "without destroying the essential character of the space, the renovation...
...been addressed last year, committees would not now be needed to solve the many problems. The decreased seating capacity must have been averted altogether. No matter how impressive or dinstinctive, a dining hall is not very useful if students can't eat in it. The size problem of Annenberg Hall should have been solved long...