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the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts
January 11, 2002
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Sport Studies moves to Skinner by Sarah R. Buchholz, Chronicle staff  n this game of musical chairs, everyone got a seat. As some Consumer Studies faculty and staff moved from offices in Skinner Hall to new spaces around campus Jan. 9-10, Sport Studies left Curry Hicks for Skinner, and Fine Arts Center, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and College of Food and Natural Resources personnel moved into Curry Hicks.The move allowed several offices to consolidate. Fine Arts Center administration staff who had been scattered around campus, some of them awaiting office space in Hasbrouck, joined other FAC staff already in Curry Hicks. The FAC staff traded some of its Hasbrouck space for room for its Multicultural Programs staff, audience services manager and associate director of operations to join the FAC's business, development, programming and marketing offices and the Asian Dance and Music Program, already housed in Curry Hicks, according to Dennis Conway, assistant to the deputy director of FAC. "We're trying to really get some consolidation for Fine Arts Center administration," said Judith Steinkamp, principal planner in the Campus Planning and Space Management Office. The Hasbrouck space originally designated for the FAC will be used by CFNR to house emeritus faculty, she said. Others moving into Curry Hicks include Pat Warner, formerly of Consumer Studies, now an associate professor in Theater, Susan Michelman, also from Consumer Studies, now an associate professor in Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Administration, and Linda Enghagen, associate professor in HRTA, who is moving from a temporary space in Draper Hall. PERI will have an office on loan until its new facilities are available. Some 4-H Extension employees are moving from Skinner to Draper Hall, where others in their program are already housed, to offices vacated by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Outreach when that staff moved to the second floor of the Whitmore Administration Building. Other tenured faculty in Consumer Studies, M.J. Alhabeeb and Sheila Mammen, joined Resource Economics in Stockbridge Hall. Some Consumer Studies staff will remain in Skinner to ensure students still moving through the program have services available to them, according to Lisa Pike Masteralexis, head of the Sport Studies Department. The entire Sport Studies Department has now moved to Skinner Hall, after close to 30 years in Curry Hicks. "We're going to be able to have more space for our staff, for faculty and for the programs that we offer," said Janis Ori, statistical clerk in Sport Studies. Ori noted the move provides more room for the department's experiential learning program, Haigis Hoopla, and for the Center for Spectator Sport. "Our dean is a great planner and an incredible problem-solver," Masteralexis said of CFNR dean Cleve Willis. "He put together a committee on space that has moved people into places that better suit their needs." Masteralexis is hoping a proposed computer lab in Skinner for students in Applied Management can be built. A division of CFNR, Applied Management comprises HRTA, Building Materials, Resource Economics and Sport Studies. Students in the four areas have a lot of common ground in the types of use to which they put computers, and Sport Studies currently has no student lab, she said. "Our intent and plan for several years has been to build an Applied Management computer laboratory," Willis said. He said CFNR is currently working with Facilities Planning to see whether such a lab can affordably be built in Skinner. |
