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SOM SPROUTS A WING The Alfond Center rises on campus

TALLER BY THE MINUTE: the SOM addition in September. Photo by Ben Barnhart. AFTER CLEARING A FEW EXCAVATION hurdles, construction on the $15 million Harold Alfond Center at the Isenberg School of Management is proceeding quickly this fall. UMass crews moved a number of plantings from the site in May, including four 20-foot maple trees and a 60-foot pin oak. (Relocated to the north side of the building, the oak appears to be doing fine.) Excavators also moved underground utilities and rerouted long-suffering Tan Brook, which feeds the campus pond. The brook was first channeled underground during con-struction of the original SOM building, which opened in 1964. SOM also announced in June that it had raised the $5 million needed to meet the Kresge Challenge it received in January, 2000. The result is the receipt of $850,000 from the Kresge Foundation – the first such grant in UMass history – which is earmarked for bricks-and-mortar improvements. Part of the Kresge challenge was that SOM increase its donor base. That’s been accomplished too, says communications director Lou Wigdor ’75, who reports contributions from 1,000 first-time givers. For much more on the Isenberg School visit www.som.umass.edu .

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The people we have here

SIDEBAR: Personal losses - alumni lost September 11

"SEPTEMBER 11, UMASS" - photos by Scott Eldridge II

"NO MORE DEATH IN THE NAME OF GOD" - photos by Arthur Falbo

HIGHLIGHTS: Under Quabbin - Ed Klekowski's new video

Look sharp: new togs for the marching band.

SOM sprouts wing: Alfond Center rises on campus

"Reprogramming" Butterfield: big changes at the old dorm

Snapshot: Whatever has happened to dorm food?