After being in hiatus for several days, the Rally4Talley Web site no longer exists.

Instead, when Internet users type Rally4Talley.com, they are redirected to the Student Center Renovation and Expansion page within Campus Enterprises. 

“Campus Enterprises is a division that was created last spring within Finance and Business. One of Campus Enterprises’ responsibilities is to manage the student center renovation and expansion project,” Marycobb Randall, a sophomore in finance and student centers president, said.

She also said that this site will be the main inquiry site for the project.

“As you can see from the Web site, this page will serve as a source of information for all aspects of the project.  Assuming that the project progresses, this page will exist throughout the entire planning and construction process,” she said.

Earlier this week, the Rally4Talley Web site was down, causing students like Joseph Briscar, a junior in film studies, to question about the credibility of student organizations behind the campaign that promised to keep students informed through the site.

“The whole Talley situation seems a bit fishy.  It seems that we’re not being told everything we should know,” Briscar said. “I have no issues with the organizations yet. This is the first time I’ve been concerned with their credibility.”

According to Randall that students can expect to see live images of the construction taking place.

“Things that you might see in the future are a live Web cam of construction, photos from within the building during construction, project timeline, a place to submit feedback and ideas and a general FAQ page,” Randall said.

In addition, she said all of the content from the original Rally website has been stored so that it can be later uploaded to the Campus Enterprises Web page.

“Transitioning the page to Campus Enterprises will allow for the unit’s staff to manage the page and keep it updated as student leadership changes over the upcoming years, but the project continues,” she said. 

Furthermore, Randall said that the Web site had to be shut down so that they could redirect, and now was the best time for the change.

“It made sense to transition the Web page at this time. Leading up to the referenda, we were directing as many students to the page as possible in hopes that they would learn about the project,” she said. “In the near future we will be asking students for specific feedback about the project. Both of these periods require a website to be fully functional and comprehensive, due to the high frequency of visitors to the site.”

Though Randall said there were issues, she said everything is going as planned now.

“At this time, we are not experiencing an influx of “hits” on the site. While the transition did encounter a few road bumps, the redirect is now working. This Web site will be continually built upon to keep pace with the progression of the project. It should contain whatever content that students might be seeking very soon,” she said.