U. Administration to address performing arts needs

Perelman Quad not expected to solve space problems At Friday's Facilities and Campus Planning Committee Meeting with the Trustees, Rodin admitted that the plans for the Perelman Quadrangle will not accommodate all of the University's performing arts needs. "We have been pursuing alternatives," she said. "There is a need to spread out on campus." Rodin said officials are now rethinking the Annenberg Center as an option for providing students with more performing arts space. "The students have not had much opportunity to use the Annenberg Center because of the rates and rent structure," she said. But until recently, University officials have used the promise of performing arts space in the new student center as an appeasement to student complaints. In January, Provost Stanley Chodorow rejected a proposal submitted to him by representatives from the performing arts council and the undergraduate assembly, recommending that the site of the Eric 3 Campus Theater on 40th Street be converted into performing arts space. One of his main reasons at the time was that ample performing arts space would be provided in the Perelman Quadrangle. Rodin stressed that this is an issue the University is paying close attention to this summer. She said the goal is to make sure there is sufficient performing arts space for students, separate from what will be provided by the Perelman Quad. "By the end of the summer, we will have a very satisfactory plan and set of announcements for when the students come back," she promised.

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