Students and faculty are hoping to see a new bus stop located on Sweetheart Circle in response to academic departments and offices relocating to former residence halls.

Due to the communication arts department moving into Sanford Hall and the psychology department adding research labs and relocating offices to Brannen Hall, both department chairs would like to see a new bus stop placed on Sweetheart Circle so that students may have an easier time getting to their classes.

“It does make sense that, at some point I’m sure, they will be looking and reviewing the bus schedule and it would be pretty easy to just swing around Sweetheart Circle,” Pam Bourland-Davis, Ph.D. in mass communication and public relations and department chair of communication arts said. “I think that’s something that the students would need to work with student government and parking services on because, certainly in the future, it’s not just us who will be there, but psychology will be next door in Brannen.”

The psychology department will be relocating offices as well as placing research and computer labs in former residence facility Brannen Hall by the end of summer 2012, Department Chair of Psychology, Michael Nielsen, Ph.D. in Psychology, said.

“We now have, last time I looked, seven hundred and ninety-six (psychology majors),” Nielsen said. “I would like to see (a bus new stop) myself.”