Ted Crabb isn?t surprised about the outcry over a proposed addition to the Memorial Union which could affect the iconic facility?s popular lakefront Terrace.
“When we expanded the Terrace 25 years ago, there were complaints about what we were doing then,” says Crabb, the director of the Wisconsin Union from 1968 to 2001. “We?d hear how we were using too much concrete or altering someone?s favorite space on campus and turning it into something else. That?s kind of par for the course. Change is difficult.”