By Flo Henderson

The administration has approved a new one-year construction project on Skillman Library to begin starting the week of May 12th, the week of spring semester final exams.

Described in the official project details, Skillman will be rotated a full 30 degrees north in order to make the quad moreaesthetically pleasing. Students can expect to hear windows smashing, hammering and drilling, and probably some guy painting the stairs like last year.

When a sample group of prospective students in 2012 were asked about Lafayette’s worst feature, the overwhelming majority responded with “the painfully awkward angle of the library with the windows.”

“We really didn’t intend for it to coincide with finals week,” the Current Head of the Project Richard Hertz said. “The group kind of looked at the calendar and thought, ‘Hey, this will probably be a good warm week to do it.’”

Students need not worry however, because Skillman will still be accessible through a series of trapdoors and moving staircases according to the Campus Master Plan. And by 4 a.m., the drilling and hammering will likely drone to dull, white noise.

The project will break for the summer session as Lafayette double and triple checks the building permits, but will resume in late August with the start of the fall semester.