To start your day, there’s nothing like a cup of coffee and loud drilling noises from on-campus construction. Currently, many students have grown to accept that they will always be woken up by construction, walk next to construction and view construction from their dorm window.
Zilber Hall, the student services building under construction on the corner of 12th Street and Wisconsin Avenue, is the most prominent source of commotion on campus. The facility is scheduled to be completed in fall 2009. While some may walk by the site every day and no longer notice the construction, the noise is a constant source of annoyance for students in nearby resident halls.
“When you walk past Abbottsford, you can barely hear yourself talking to the people next to you,” said Kristin Skells, a freshman in the College of Education.
Marisa Riley, a junior in the College of Communication, said she remembers waking up to the sounds of jackhammers during her freshman year in Cobeen Hall. The construction of the “Wiggle,” the bridge that moved 11th Street behind Carpenter Tower upon its completion in 2007, was also bothersome to students.
If you’ve walked past Gesu Parish on Wisconsin Avenue, you might have avoided a large crane, walked under a scaffolding or dodged some bright orange cones. To some students, this occasionally gets in the way of their usual commute.
“I’ll be late to class (at Johnston Hall) because construction always changes,” Riley said.
While construction is supposedly beneficial and positive, it has not ceased to interfere with students’ everyday lives at Marquette. And unfortunately, the annoyances will not be going anywhere anytime soon.