Facilities Management and Planning spent its summer remodeling the second floor of Andrews hall into a residence hall with 55 beds, a study lounge, a TV lounge, a laundry room, a new fire alarm system and air conditioning.

Amstutz’s fifth and sixth floor received similar treatment; both received new bathrooms, laundry and fire alarm systems. The elevator in Kilhefner was replaced and new boilers were put in the Tau Kappa Epsilon and Phi Delta Theta houses.

The newly acquired Claremont Avenue property was also renovated, adding two new classrooms and a lecture hall. AU would also like to remind students to only cross the street at the designated cross- walks on Claremont.

Jacobs hall received four new offices to accommodate staff from the College of Nursing and the seventh floor of the library is now the Student Success Center.

Rick Ewing, vice president of Facilities Management and Planning, reported that 2.6 million dollars were spent this year on deferred and capitol improvements. Ewing reported that 1.2 million dollars of this year’s budget was spent on projected energy savings that are guaranteed savings that will pay for themselves over the course of 10 years, including the new library solar panels.

Ewing also reported that construction of the new grab and go café in the Schar College of Education building would be completed for the fall semester.

Finally, Ewing reported that a tree near fraternity circle has be- come home to a hive of honeybees and, due to the rapid decline in honeybee population, the university hopes that students and bees can peacefully coexist.