The Union Station in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union has moved and is now featured inside the Terrace Cafe, said a restaurant operations employee.

The Terrace Cafe remains operational and will still provide lunch options for students when the semester begins on Tuesday, Sept. 5. The big difference now is that the Union Station has moved in to that space and is occupying most of it.

The move came Aug. 12, said Kahara Schabach, a graphic designer for Restaurant Operations. She said the information had come from Scott Hoffland, director of Restaurant Operations. Union officials have several ideas for what will occupy the space that had been the Union Station, she said.

Schabach said that the plans to fill that space were not an immediate priority for those in the Restaurant Operations office.

More than 50 apply for Student Affairs position

More than 50 people have applied to the UWM Search Committee for the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, committee members said.

Committee members will be screening the applicants in the coming weeks and hope to conduct preliminary phone interviews with the applicants sometime in mid- to late- September, said Samantha Prahl, Student Association president, and Neal Michals, University Student Court chief justice. Both Prahl and Michals are members of the committee.

The committee has a “well-rounded pool of applicants” from inside and outside UWM, Michals said. He said the committee is still on pace to have a decision by its Nov. 1 deadline.

According to the search committee’s Web site, the position oversees the Division of Student Affairs, which includes over 400 permanent professional and support staff and has a $62 million operating budget. The primary responsibility of the Vice Chancellor is student life, which is promoted by providing fresh leadership and creative vision to a complex division that honors and celebrates diversity and encourages the success of all students. The Vice Chancellor serves as the point person for all student life-related priorities in campus strategic planning processes and works closely with the Division of Academic Affairs in the areas of recruitment, admission, retention and graduation.

Lapham Hall construction to end in September

The construction Lapham Hall at UWM will not be complete by the time school starts, a UWM spokesman said.

“The building itself is open,” said Claude Schuttey, director of Planning and Construction. The work being done on Lapham Hall is mainly being done on the front plaza, which is not open, Schuttey said.

The Lapham Hall construction began about two years ago and should be completed in September sometime, he said.

The cost of the Lapham Hall addition is $12.5 million. The Lapham Hall project has added classrooms and research areas. A chain-link fence is still standing in front of the building, but nothing blocks the view of the exterior of the addition, which is on the north side of the building. It matches the rest of Lapham Hall with its orange brick, concrete ribbing and large, tinted windows.

The other large construction projects that will be going on at UWM when the fall semester starts is at the Pavilion addition to the Klotsche Center and the parking spaces in the new Pavilion, Schuttey said.

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