To many, the building appears to be fully functional, its lights illuminating the entire western edge of campus, but it appears mostly empty. Understandably, this has left many Illinois Tech students confused: why go through the efforts of inviting the entire campus to an elaborate ribbon cutting ceremony and guided tours, only to lock the building right back up again the week after? To make sense of this, TechNews reached out to Howard Tullman, the executive director of the Kaplan Institute, for clarity.