A new administration isn’t the only thing being installed around Warriner Hall this summer.

New walkway lights are currently being installed around Warriner Mall and Washington Avenue by Wightman Hall.

Steve Lawrence, associate vice president for Facilities Management, said 67 new lights are being installed around the administrative building, bringing the total number of lights around campus to 1,347. Installation of the lights will cost $173,614.

“The existing fixtures needed to be replaced due to their age and their low energy efficiency,” he said in an e-mail to Central Michigan Life. “Lighting levels were lower than the current CMU lighting design standard.”

Lawrence said Facilities Management and the Student Government Association student services committee walked around campus Oct. 9, 2008, and evaluated the lighting around campus for safety purposes and the lighting design standard.

The lights are currently being installed and will be completed by August, Lawrence said.

In the report provided to CM Life by Shane Farrell, an Allen Park senior and former chairman of the SGA Student Services Committee, it stated that the campus “was well lit.”

Other areas that the committee saw that needed improved lighting include along the outer sides of the Music Building, Parking Lot 1/2, the sides of Finch Fieldhouse and the sidewalk south of the Health Professions Building.

The only other lighting changes on campus, Lawrence said, is a light pole along East Campus Drive is being removed and relocated.

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