To the pleasure of some and the dismay of others, a part of campus lacking in "spires and gargoyles" will get a completely new face by 2009.University administrators are planning to replace the brown-brick 1922, 1940, 1941, 1942 and Lourie-Love buildings in Butler College, said Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62.The remaining Butler dorms, Walker and 1915, will not be affected.The University will be starting a new residential college system in 2006 ? as the first wave of the student-body increase begins ? in which Wilson, Rocky and Forbes will be two-year colleges paired with the future four-year colleges Butler, Mathey and planned Whitman.By 2006, Mathey and Whitman colleges will begin admitting juniors and seniors into rooms, but Butler will not be ready by then, said Wright, a member of the implementing committee.The delay, the result of razing and replacing Butler buildings, will last until at least 2008, at which point Butler will begin as a four-year college.During Butler's reconstruction, students will live in the "ellipse dormitory" ? so named because it continues the ellipse curve formed by Scully Hall and the genomics building ? currently under construction near Poe Field, Wright said.The ellipse dorm will initially house upperclassmen but will ultimately be part of the residential college system.Butler's revamping is still in its nascent stages."We're just now beginning the process of choosing architects" who will create the designs, Wright said.Yet Butler residents are already welcoming the prospect of their college's transformation.Asked what should be done about the brown Butler buildings, resident Matt Sullivan '06 stated his feelings: "They should definitely go."When he first saw the buildings, Sullivan said he "was astonished that there were buildings that looked like that here [on campus]."When she first learned what her residential college looked like, Jin Kim '07, another Butlerite, was stunned.
