Rutherford has directed new and old building maintenance for 28 years at Carolina. For instance, a recirculating air system was installed in Kenan Laboratories, built in the late 1960s. Meanwhile, the amount of space considered unfit for library, office, or lab work grows. Hill Hall's basement, currently occupied by the Music Library, will be condemned once the library moves out. Diane Pettit, acting head of the Music Library, says a day doesn't go by without some environmental problem.
Brick walls flake bits of dust.
Moisture and water seep up through floor cracks after thunderstorms. The largest music research library in the South made a short list of departments bound for new destinations for 1997. But Rutherford says it lost out to other priorities. Mildew hangs close in Rosenau Hall's basement, too. Public Health graduate students working in the research lab have to factor in ambient humidity when they run experiments.