Iowa State workers laid new bricks in the Plaza of Heroines in front of Carrie Chapman Catt Hall yesterday, which may come as a surprise to those who have expressed their feelings against the name of the building.

Jaye Stefani, secretary in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences located in Catt Hall, said 84 additional bricks will be laid in the plaza before Veishea weekend. The bricks were purchased after the dedication ceremony last fall.

Some of the bricks being added “are some replacement bricks that had errors on them and some new ones,” Stefani said.

The bricks of the Plaza of Heroines have been criticized with the recent developments of The September 29th Movement, a group calling for the renaming of Catt Hall because of alleged racist and xenophobic comments made by Catt.

On March 27, the movement called for the support of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, first lady Hillary Rodman Clinton, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, feminist author Betty Friedan and writer/director Elaine May to request that the bricks bearing their names be removed.

Blue Maas, a secretary in the Graduate College, said she plans to request to have the brick her three teenage sons bought for her removed.

“The product sold to my children was a fraudulent product,” she said. “I think my sons should each get their $33.33 back, but I know they won’t.

Maas said she hasn’t yet sent in her request because she has been holding out for the people involved with the September 29th Movement.

Maas said she has been disappointed that other people honored with bricks haven’t spoken out.

“I thought there would be plenty of other women . . . I am so disappointed in my own gender,” Maas said.

The September 29th Movement’s efforts to have bricks removed from the Plaza of Heroines has not produced much support.

“We actually have not removed any bricks at this time,” Stefani said.