More visible deficiencies also reveal the building's state of disrepair. More than two dozen obsolete IBM computers and a handful of dusty typewriters decorate the cavernous teaching assistants' office. Hidden behind a coat rack and mail slots is room filled with dusty typewriters, battered cardboard boxes and old office furniture. University Facilites Management selects Ryan Company, a Minneapolis-based design and construction firm, for the Murphy Hall project. Journalism classes are relocated to the West Bank.
Construction is completed.
Photojournalism and the professional journalism master's curricula will tentatively be reinstated at this time. We don't have really good equipment. Most of the computers in the TA office do not work, Asthana said, and the computer labs in Murphy Hall have very limited hours. While builders bring Murphy Hall up to code, administrators will bring the technology up to par with professional news organizations. Old technology and ramshackle interiors will vanish by fall 2000.