During one of the College's critical space solution-finding periods, the graduate students on the 2nd floor of the College of Computing Building returned after one weekend to find cubicle diagrams placed up on their doors showing them the alternate layout and an announcement that reconstruction would begin in a couple weeks. Naturally some students were upset; not just because of the suddenness and the rather impersonal way the solution was communicated but also because the students (many of them 4th and 5th years) were not consulted . We were then told that since no one had proposed an alternate solution to how the cubicles should be rearranged that the College had to go with the architect's solution. The very next day, a set of alternative cubicle diagrams were found distributed throughout the entire building. They did have the effect of postponing the move of the students in that area until a better and collaborative solution could be reached. The author of these diagrams did not take credit for these. I did take the liberty of making some copies ( in pdf format) which I make available here for your amusement. An informal student survey posted on one of the bulletin boards showed that most students preferred the Arena model to all the other models.
