KU News Release

Sept. 15, 2006
Contact: Todd Cohen, University Relations, (785) 864-8866.

Wescoe Hall closed today due to power failure

UPDATE: A generator is being brought in, and officials expect to have power restored late today. The building will reopen Saturday for normal activities.

LAWRENCE — Wescoe Hall is closed today due to a transformer failure overnight that has cut all electrical power to the central campus classroom and office building. All activities and classes in the building are cancelled. The Underground food court is also closed. No other campus building is affected.

Wescoe, located on Jayhawk Boulevard in the center of the Lawrence campus, houses about 60 classroom; 300 faculty offices; nine liberal-arts departments — English, history, philosophy, classics, French and Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, and East Asian, Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures; the Haitian Studies Institute; the International Studies master’s program; the Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center, a languages lab; the Writing Center and the Word Processing Center.

Faculty and staff should not report to work in Wescoe today. Staff will be eligible for administrative leave for the day. Staff on night shifts should contact their supervisors before reporting to work.

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