Offices that called Busch Memorial Center their home are now
calling Notre Dame Student Center their temporary home for the next
year. The construction is under way and the departments and student
organizations that once housed space in the BMC are adjusting to
their new space.

Hazard Moving Company moved the contents of items in BMC to
Notre Dame Hall or storage earlier this summer. Students were asked
to pack up their belongings and store them before the actual moving
date, so there would not be a delay in the moving process.

?I really thought the moving company did a timely job in moving the
items over here from Busch,? said Janice Harris, Financial
Coordinator of Student Development, who was able to have her office
set up shortly after the move.

Although the move went pretty smooth, there was some preparation
that needed to be done in order to prepare the building.

Information Technology Services, along with Phil Lyons, Assistant
Vice President of Student Development, transferred all the phone
lines and data lines to the existing infrastructure.
Student Life wanted the transition from BMC to Notre Dame to be as
smooth as possible for the University; therefore they made sure
that all offices would have the same phone numbers and IP addresses
that they previously held.

?The biggest adjustment so far is that Notre Dame is an older
building and does not circulate as well,? said Harris. ?The air
conditioning has to be checked more frequently but facilities
services has done a good job of repairing anything that needs to be
fixed.?

Student Life is aware that there are some electrical concerns that
may cause problems down the road. The problem of a power shortage
will not be caused by the usage of lights and computers but because
every office wanted to have a space heater in the winter. This
could potentially blow a fuse causing a power shortage.

?This building was a residence hall before and held enough power
for everybody to live comfortably,? said Lyons. There was nothing
the University could do to increase the power capacity without a
major investment to the building.

The one thing that the University was unable to do before the move
was auction off the furniture and other items that they did not
particularly want to put into storage. The University did sell off
the pool tables and a couple of pictures. All of the remaining
items were put into storage for the duration of construction on
BMC.

Student Organizations are left with less office space then they
had before the move but according to Student Life there has not
been a lot of complaints and the organizations are adjusting well
to the space.

Alpha Phi Omega was looking into moving into a larger room, but
after talking to Student Development, they discovered the larger
room was set aside for a meeting room.

The Archive yearbook office is also smaller than was hoped.

?The Archive has less office space than when it was in the BMC, but
the space we have will be adequate for this year,? said Archive
editor Lisa Phifer.

Student Government Association feels that the space they were given
is adequate.

?I was very pleased with the space KSLU was allocated,? said
Rachael Beatty, KSLU general manager. ?The studio is not in a prime
location, in terms of traffic and visibility, but we are able to
broadcast and everything will work out.?

Currently Notre Dame is opened from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The times will
change in the fall with the building being open till midnight or 1
a.m.

Harris believes that the biggest adjustment for the students will
be not having the advantage of the various meeting rooms.

A number of the larger rooms that are currently unoccupied will be
used for the student organizations to hold their meetings in.

Harris said that students have to remember that this is a
temporary adjustment.

?Things seem to be working out but we will be able to judge better
once the semester starts and all the organizations are here. We
will see if Notre Dame will work out with the increase in traffic,?
Harris said.

?I am excited to have the student organizations and offices fairly
close together,? said Mike Rozier, SGA president. ?I think it is
going to create a good atmosphere in the building.?