October 21, 2007 - 11:00pm
By YunYun Cai
With a short kazoo performance of the Alma Mater by the Landscape Architecture students, the opening ceremony of the Plaza for Bailey Hall began in the rain last Friday.
Members of the Board of Trustees and the University Council joined people from across the University in front of Bailey Hall to celebrate the completion of the new plaza, a $4.5 million project that began in March. The project was sponsored by the Office of Provost, designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and constructed by Lechase Construction Inc. Michael Van Valkenburgh is a 1973 graduate of Cornell’s Department of Landscape Architecture.