Political-+Honors+Building

In an interview with Hattie DeRaps, she explained to me that the building we currently identify as Honors building was a childhood home of a friend. The friend grew up in this home while many of the other houses in the neighborhood were being bought by the university and either being torn down to make room for dorms or being used to house classes and offices. At one point, they were the only family left on a street that had once been a neighborhood unrelated to the university. The family began to feel a lot of pressure from the university to move, and did eventually find a new home in town. The family did not feel that it was fair they were pushed out of their neighborhood and Hattie related to me that there is often a feeling among the locals that the university takes and doesn't necessarily give back in the way locals would expect or like.