Someone once said that you can’t please everyone. This seems especially true the larger the population of “everyone” becomes. “Everyone” is especially hard to please when individuals within the group aren’t even sure what they want.

One day, we want the relatively older buildings on campus – such as Andrews Hall and the Center for the Arts (which many of us upperclassmen still nostalgically call “A&H,” even though it was never named that while we were enrolled here) – to be renovated and remodeled because they are old and in poor condition. And yet we are unsure how we feel about the demolition of Miller Hall because it’s the oldest building on campus and we want to maintain our history.

At what point does a building go from being old and deplorable to being historically significant and beautiful?

We want our classrooms to be as nice and new as the Dauch College of Business, but we want the exteriors of the buildings to be old and pretty like Miller. We want to have our cake and eat it, too.

Whether or not everyone is pleased with the demolition of Miller Hall, the building is now gone, and plans to replace it are in the early stages. The fate of other buildings, such as Andrews and CFA, remains unknown.

The big question is, what happens to the current “new” buildings when they are nearly 100 years old? Future generations of AU’s community members will have to decide.