Sometimes people are in between a rock and a hard place, and they just have to make the best of the situation they’re in.

The Doudna Fine Arts Center will soon undergo construction that will last three years, and during the construction period, classes will be moved to temporary locations.

The second and third floor of Lawson Hall will be occupied by departmental offices. Classes also will be held in McAfee Gymnasium, an undisclosed site off of campus and the old IGA on Lincoln where Booth Library West is located.

It’s going to be a big inconvenience for students taking music, art and theater classes to have to travel to the old IGA, and students may not like sharing their “home” with professors. They might not like not having a building all of their own.

But when you consider the university’s options, administrators really couldn’t have done anything else. No better solution exists, so for the time being everyone will just have to accept the situation and work around it.

It’s not a question that Doudna needs renovation and that the three-year construction project will be worth it. However, students may still find themselves frustrated with their current situation. They should not blame that frustration on the university. The university has no other choice but to find some temporary homes for the departments.

Even though students will be inconvenienced, the situation may not be as bad as it first appears.

Many people chose Eastern because of its small size. Students are easily able to walk to all of their classes. Now some will have to go out to a site off campus, but at least the university will provide shuttle rides. Students in the fine arts building are not the first to suffer having to be bused off campus. While the bowling alley on campus was closed, students in the bowling classes had to be bused to Charleston Lanes.

Residents of Lawson may not like living in a residence hall where they will constantly run into professors, but some benefits do exist to sharing space with teachers. Students will save time by not having to trek half-way across campus if they have a question or need to talk to a professor.

Everyone has to put up with some inconveniences in his or her life. Not having a building for the fine arts will be an inconvenience, but there’s really nothing else the university could have done if students eventually want a state-of-the-art fine arts building.