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

[Andrew Szeto]

Hi Sooby:

I too commiserate with you over the inopportune 
timing of the remodeling effort.  I teach in E423 
at 10 AM and in E423B at noon on MWF.  About 35% 
of these lectures are seriously compromised by 
the loud drilling, pounding, and truck sounds 
noise associated with this activity.  With all 
this noise, my voice is hoarse at the end of the 
lectures, and my students have difficulty 
concentrating and hearing me.  Such noise 
interference coupled with the required furlough 
days will mean that our students will be heavily 
short-changed this semester (despite our best efforts).

Sadly yours,  Andy

At 03:56 PM 9/21/2009, Subrata (Sooby) Bhattacharjee wrote:
>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 
><<mailto:agibson2 at mail.sdsu.edu>agibson2 at mail.sdsu.edu> wrote:
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>Â
>
>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.
>
>Â
>
>Thanks, Arlene
>
>Â
>
>Arlene Gibson
>
>College of Engineering
>
>Office of the Dean
>
>San Diego State University
>
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Andrew Y.J. Szeto, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor & IEEE Fellow
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
San Diego State University (MC 1309)
San Diego, CA. 92182-1309
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