Friday, February 25, 2011

Monday: a Lego H&L&S&BS building

     Reportedly, in an effort to assuage the frustration and anger of the forty-some-odd members of Irvine Valley College’s Schools of Humanities & Languages and Social & Behavioral Sciences, college administration is expected to unveil a “Lego® model” of a proposed H&L&S&BS building at its much-heralded “all college” meeting on Monday.
     When asked, however, when the real building will be built, administrators eventually acknowledged that it is "unlikely" that it will be built “before the middle of the century.”
     "But the Lego version should be ready by Sunday," they said.
     Meanwhile, a team of visiting faculty could not find a single business instructor in the new “Business Science” (BSTIC) building. 
Lego® President Roquemore and Lego VPI Justice
     Said one denizen, "Well, most faculty don't teach on Fridays. Besides, there's only a couple of full-time business faculty left at this college. What can I say?"

Lego® rendition of proposed "Excellence Center"

9 comments:

Mr. Lego said...

Glenn wears a hat?

Anonymous said...

I don't mind Craig as Sponge Bob but I object to Glen as Woody. Woody is way too heroic and good. I see Lewis Long as Woody and Glen more as maybe Rex the frightened dinosaur who goes along with everyone.

Anonymous said...

Couldn't someone try and make a plan that made sense from the perspective of students?

The B-300 building for example. Instead of building a "Learning Annex" why not use the B-300 building as one since the math, reading and writing centers are already there. You could just add the learning center on the ground floor.

Part of that building could also be used to centralize faculty and dean offices so that students could actually locate the people they need to find.

It seems to me that much of the planning doesn't take into consideration many of us spend an inordinate amount of time directing students. Ask anyone in A-200.

This gets, of course, much worse in the evenings when the campus appears to be evacuated as if some awful toxic spill happened, at least in terms of administration.

Anonymous said...

Why not a simple multi-purpose classroom building like most campuses? You know, three stories, 6-8 classrooms on each floor.

I guess that is what BSTIC is by default - again, poor planning. But beautiful building.

(Yes, Glenn is no Woody . Come on.)

Anonymous said...

I liked the proposal that someone made of having the trustees come and tour ALL of the campus BEFORE they approve the new Master Plan.

I think it's important that they see more than just the president's office or a conference room or the gym or theatre or new buildings (Notice how the President's wife department got a new building!).

The trustees should see ALL the classrooms - and not when they're empty either. They might udnerstand our working conditions a bit better. Hell, our own administrators might understand it better too.

How could a trustee visit be arranged?

Bob Cosgrove said...

Excellent suggestion: trustees, district administrators and even Saddleback administrators should tour IVC before this plan is approved.

Anonymous said...

My, you've been busy this weekend. Just wanted to chime in on the Glenn as Woody: NO WAY.

homegirl said...
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Anonymous said...

Did you hear that the Master Plan site was unprepared for people to actually use the comments section for comments? Hence all the delays. I think they wanted only praise, not actual discourse.

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