As Georgia Southern University grows, it is understandable that certain parts of the campus will need to be changed. Space is a scarce commodity on campus and as GSU makes the shift to a research university, tough decisions will have to be made.

A decision made by the administration will leave the department without permanent classroom space and commons area, in order to make room for graduate studies and research.

While communication arts has not lost a large number of classrooms -- six of the eight it had on the first floor -- the department is losing its communal feel, ironically at the hands of a university administration that touts that motto of “Large Scale, Small Feel.”

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time that the department has been uprooted and moved into a temporary situation. Previously it resided in a trailer waiting to be placed in a permanent home.

It is important that administration not overlook its students. Communication arts is the largest department contained within the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. As such, it deserves to be treated as one of the university’s strongest assets, not banished to fill the empty spaces left by other departments.

Find another home for graduate studies and research. Give communication arts its rightful home in Veazey Hall.