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Wilkes dedicates new business school [The Citizens' Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.](Citizens' Voice, The (Wilkes-Barre, PA) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sept. 27--WILKES-BARRE -- Wilkes University business students are delighted with the new facility housing the Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership. All business classes and professors are located inside the new facility at 169 S. Main St. The recreation center and Gambini's Café have stayed there, while administrative offices have moved to other buildings on campus. Prior to this semester, business classes and professors were spread around three buildings on campus. "Everyone is so excited. It's amazing," said Megan Powers, a Pottsville resident studying accounting. Powers and several other students took a break from an accounting class Friday morning to talk to the news media receiving a tour of the new facility. Later on Friday, University President Patrick F. Leahy and Sidhu School Dean Jeff Alves cut the ribbon to officially celebrate the new facility. Traffic was closed on South Main Street between South and Northampton streets. The event also marked the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Sidhu School. Features of the new building include a trading classroom with stock ticker and classrooms with video conference capabilities. "Everything is so open," Powers said, noting the glass walls to offices. The completion of the $3 million project is the second in a three-part project that also envisions creating the South Main Street Gateway -- a dramatic entrance to the heart of campus from South Main Street that stretches through South Franklin Street onto the main campus greenway, the Fenner Quadrangle. The new facility is for 600 graduate and undergraduate students and is designed to allow students to tap into the wireless Internet network and use tablets during classes, Alves said. [email protected] 570-821-2073, @cvmikebuffer ___ (c)2014 The Citizens' Voice (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) Visit The Citizens' Voice (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) at citizensvoice.com Distributed by MCT Information Services |