Crews make use of summer to work on new buildings

While many students were out of town or fighting Bloomington summer road construction, a few campus construction projects began to materialize into new campus landmarks. \nWhile the Theatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center is set to open, the Graduate Executive Education Center has another year until it's completion. In the planning stages are a Multidisciplinary Science Building and a new classroom building near the Arboretum.\nGraduate Executive Education Center\nShortly after graduation, workers began constructing the "bridge" over Fee Lane to connect the business school to the new GEEC, said University Architect Bob Meadows. The project is slightly ahead of schedule.\nThe "bridge" is complete, and Fee Lane is open. Now the IU seal meets you as you drive down Fee Lane.\n"From our point of view, it'll be a significant addition to the campus once you walk under it and see the Arboretum on the other side," Meadows said.\nBloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm said the "bridge" is, "a striking visual piece ... A symbol of connecting the whole campus."\nThe building is set to open in May of 2002.\nTheatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center\nThe distinctive Theatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center adds to the cultural theme of Jordan Avenue, Meadows said.\n"If you walk from south to north, we've got the music school, we've got the MAC, and now we have this venue," Meadows said. "Imagine it during the evening ... another crown jewel at Indiana University."\nThe Theatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center opens in September, but the theater and drama and African-American studies departments are already setting up offices in the building.