Students Back on Campus
Another record-breaking freshman class–about 490–and 100 new transfer students was expected to bring the total on-campus population to about 1,800 this fall.

Twenty full-time professors joined the faculty ranks in the College of Arts and Sciences, including five who are filling new positions created for the college’s growing enrollment.

Students came back to the results of the busiest construction summer in the history of the university, including the completion of the Stauffer Center for Science and Mathematics. Other major projects included renovation of the 100-bed Cortner Hall dormitory and a facelift for Duke Hall. In addition, nearly all buildings now have been wired for the installation of the high-speed Internet network.

Moving Into New Quarters
Construction crews weren’t the only ones busy on campus this summer, many offices–and whole departments–moved locations as the science center opened and the ELS Language Centers left campus.

Biology moved out of Duke Hall and chemistry moved out of Hornby Hall to take their new spots at Hedco Hall in the Stauffer Center for Science and Mathematics. The Department of Business and Accounting moved to the third floor of Duke. And the Center for Environmental Studies expanded into Duke Hall spaces.

Bulldog Weekly and La Letra moved to the former ELS Language Centers in University Hall. The Chaplain’s Office is temporarily housed there while Memorial Chapel is under construction.

The Multicultural Center opens in the former Bulldog Weekly space on the ground level of Armacost Library.

University Partners with Redlands Police Department
The university entered into a management agreement with the Redlands Police Department to provide senior leadership for the Public Safety Department, formerly Campus Safety. Redlands Police Lt. Bill Cranfill will serve as director of Public Safety.

Cranfill has 22 years of experience, including extensive training in the area of community policing. He has served as an educator in community-oriented policing and as a liaison for school-based programs through Redlands Unified School District, Crafton Hills College and San Bernardino Valley College.

The Public Safety officers will remain university employees reporting to the new director. Cranfill will remain affiliated with the Redlands Police Department, but will focus full time on his responsibilities at the university.

The arrangement with the police department will allow the university to have improved management of safety matters, better training for our officers, enhanced emergency preparedness planning and a safer campus environment.


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Associate Professor of Chemistry Dan Wacks unpacks his new office.
It took about 160 boxes to pack up Biology Professor Kent Smith's old office at Duke.

Save the Pull Tabs
The Chemistry Club is collecting pull tabs off aluminum cans to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House in Loma Linda. "It turns out that the pull tabs are pure aluminum and a better grade of aluminum than the cans," said Barbara Murray, director of the Stauffer Center for Science and Mathematics. And they take up a lot less room.

Drop your pull tabs in the collection container in the seminar room–Room 102–at Hedco Hall or at Murray’s office in Hedco Room 210. The club, a student affiliate of the American Chemical Society, will be collecting pull tabs all year.