Grand Valley’s Cook Carillon Clock Tower will soon be coming down. Beginning the week of April 7, the Clock Tower will be disassembled brick by brick with the help of various members of Grand Valley’s maintenance and custodial teams.

“Some students love the clock tower and see it as an iconic GV landmark, but others just love chaos and want to see it destroyed,” says Billiamson Williamson, the lead engineer on the project. Williamson designed the plan for the workers to follow, and says the news was a shock to those who work at Grand Valley, as well as many of the students. However, there are those in the community who are celebrating an end to this chapter in Grand Valley’s history.

Rose Rosenstein, a third year student, says she’s been afraid of the clock tower since her family first toured campus. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve jumped while walking past it because the big ding-dong song caught me off guard.”

As for the discarded bricks, the university intends to keep some of them to remember the legacy of the beautiful clock tower and the lovely music it brought to campus. GV will be auctioning off the unclaimed bricks to members in the Grand Valley community. Rumor has it that the funds will go toward the disassembly of the Transformational Link, ending its curse once and for all.