Ready for our close-up

Our front office is back in business this week after a two-month renovation project brought on by some structural issues at the front of the 200 building. Not only is the rehabbed space more energy efficient with the disappearance of all that uninsulated glass (shown covered by verticle blinds in the photo on the right), the updated color scheme finally drags us out of the disco era. (Though there's some debate about whether the new paint is taupe or mauve.) It's also a better use of our scarce square footage. The large, previously fallow space behind the front desk is now occupied by our copy center and soon the faculty and staff mail room will be tucked into its own room to one side. Sometimes newer really is better.