Renovations of the Hasty Pudding building will not begin for at least another year, a full 12 months behind College administrators' orignial plan to start construction this spring.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals will stage another drag burlesque extravaganza on the storied Pudding stage next winter. Renovations costing upwards of $10 million are now scheduled to begin in the spring of 2002.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) assumed ownership of the Holyoke Street building last spring and had hoped to begin construction on the 125-year-old building this June.

Harvard has chosen the Boston architectual firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates to draw up the renovation plans.

Drawing plans and getting bids on the building project from construction firms will take longer than expected, says David P. Illingworth '71, associate dean of Harvard College, who had been optimistic throughout the fall about starting renovations in June of 2001. Illingworth is the College's point person for the building's renovations.

Illingworth says he is meeting twice a month with a committee of administrators and two student representatives, Angela A. Wu '01 and Michael S. Roiff '01 (this year's vice president of the Pudding Theatricals).

The groups is working to decide how the building can best be reconfigured without permanently displacing the Theatricals, the Hasty Pudding Social Club, and the a cappella groups, the Krokodiloes and Radcliffe Pitches.

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