Off topic - renaming MSU buildings

[BrunswickDawg]

So which program did you finish in? More MSU students and alumni know about Carpenter than probably any other building outside of Lee. One of the historic buildings on the drill field.

In case you didn't know, MSU largest (around 5,000 eng students) and one of most respected programs is engineering in academia and industry - it is a big deal. Carpenter is also one of most historic buildings on campus and a National Historic Landmark. Many of us spent a considerable part of our lives in that building.

Per others comments, they can't do any major structural work to building either due to the historic cataloging of the building.

That last paragraph is just absolutely not true. I've been working in historic preservation for 30 years, and managed a National Historic Landmark with 34 structures for 15 years. I've adapted historic buildings into hotels, museums, a conference center, and a sea turtle rescue center, and preserved one of the oldest structures in Georgia. You can always modernize and adapt historic buildings - it just costs money and you have to do it following NPS standards.

[R2Dawg]

That last paragraph is just absolutely not true. I've been working in historic preservation for 30 years, and managed a National Historic Landmark with 34 structures for 15 years. I've adapted historic buildings into hotels, museums, a conference center, and a sea turtle rescue center, and preserved one of the oldest structures in Georgia. You can always modernize and adapt historic buildings - it just costs money and you have to do it following NPS standards.

May be but an engineering professor that was in that building told me that few years ago when I discussed why they didn't do some things to part of it. Just repeating what eng professor told me about the building. They renovated the basement lab and very nice and modern. Not sure if these changes have to go before a historic board review and maybe something got turned down? But that is what I was told.