[Faculty] No air flow - should not we close down the building?

[Subrata (Sooby) Bhattacharjee]

Dear Friends,

I just got this email from Arlene that the building air supply may be cut
off due to construction work. Was that a real mail?

I have a class with 70+ students (in a room with official capacity of 52).
Already, many sitting in the back cannot hear me as ear splitting noise
suddenly appears because of work by contractor. The room does not have a PA
system for me to use either. In my 18+ years here, this is the first time I
have seen such major construction work during regular semester time.
Students are quite upset about it and justifiably so. Now you are telling me
that they may be cut off from oxygen

Without knowing the details, I must say that those who planned this work
forgot what is the main mission of a university. If any business treats its
customer like we are treating our students these days, it will go bankrupt
in no time.

I would hope that the college administration finds out how long this will
last and inform us so that we can apologize to our students for the current
state of affairs.

Best,

Sooby

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Arlene Gibson <agibson2 at mail.sdsu.edu>wrote:

>  Hello everyone,
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> According to Work Control, there will be no air flow in the engineering
> building due to work being done by the contractor. Work Control was unable
> to say how long this will be.
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> Thanks, Arlene
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> Arlene Gibson
>
> College of Engineering
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> Office of the Dean
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> San Diego State University
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> Phone: 619 594-6061
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> Fax: 619 594-6005
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Subrata Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., Fellow ASME
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182

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