Access to the building will be limited due to work occurring immediately inside building entrances. Signage will be posted at applicable entrances. Building access will be limited as follows:

• South Entrance (across from Shaffer Art):
  • Closed Tuesday, May 14, through end of day Tuesday, May 21
  • Reopen Wednesday, May 22, and will remain open until further notice
• West Entrance (at the Quad):
  • Open only for access to the Civil Engineering suite on the first floor from Tuesday, May 14, through end of day Friday, May 17
  • Closed Saturday, May 18, and will remain closed until further notice
• Link North/loading dock entrance and access through Slocum Hall: Will remain available at all times
• ADA Access:
  • Will remain available at all times at the Link North/loading dock entrance
  • Available at the South and West entrances when they are open
  • Access to building elevators will always be available through the North entrance, directly to the elevators on the basement level
• Elevators:
  • The elevators will be available to stop at all floors (except the first floor from May 14 through May 21) until further notice
  • ADA exterior access to/from the building will always remain available at the basement level and directly out the North entrance

From May 14 through May 17, first-floor access will be limited to the Civil Engineering suite.

Occupants of Link Hall should make modifications to their work, if necessary, during this period. Please contact Kim Cirman, CPDC senior project manager, at 315.391.3477 or kfcirmn@syr.edu with any questions or concerns.

Steve Ruge, left, of ���ϲ����� Haulers, and Joe Lore from Facilities Services hold the missing passport they located on Monday.

The University’s Facilities Services team is known for working behind the scenes—without fanfare—to make University operations run smoothly and to handle unique situations. This past weekend, the team, together with local contractor ���ϲ����� Haulers, pulled off a miracle of epic proportions.

The team’s weekend dispatcher, Seamus Moran, received a call from a student that they had accidentally put their passport in with items that they recycled. Moran notified the team’s weekend supervisor, Macky MacPherson, who in turn contacted Joe Lore, supervisor of facility maintenance and project services.

Lore immediately reached out to Steve Ruge, his contact at ���ϲ����� Haulers, and asked that they put a hold on removing the contents of the recycling truck that had come from the University that day. Lore told Ruge he would be at the company’s East ���ϲ����� facility at 7 a.m. on Monday morning to begin looking for the passport.

Lore did not hesitate to begin the search, even though he knew it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. For him, dad mode kicked in. “I realized it was next to impossible,” he says. “I kept thinking if it were my son or daughter though, I would at least want somebody to have looked for the passport, even if they did not find it.”

Lore and Ruge searched through more than three tons of recycling and garbage to find the missing passport

���ϲ����� Haulers placed the contents from the truck that had picked up the University’s recycling on Sunday into a large bay at their facility. Early Monday morning, Lore and Ruge began the search for the passport through more than three tons of recycling. “While we were looking, I said a prayer to St. Anthony, who is the patron saint of finding lost belongings,” Lore says.

Ruge found the passport 45 minutes later, and Lore was able to return it later that morning to the grateful student.

“Regardless of the task, the team always steps up and gets the job done—that is what we do,” says Pete Sala, vice president and chief campus facilities officer. “We are stewards of this campus, and our job is to help the students, faculty and staff, no matter what the challenge may be.”

Lore says this is the strangest request that he has ever seen during his time in Facilities Services. And he was glad he could help a student in need.

Not all superheroes wear capes.