Sorry, but no as its part of the standard layout. :/
There are some things that are customable such as colours or graphics, even some of the CSS.
Whilst its not impossible to change the basic core, doing so means that any future [security type] upgrades have to be performed manually.
I've been there done it in the past shifting something that was on the right to a central position, then about a year or so later after several updates and fixes, one of the major updates refused to work as by this point it wouldn't recognise the template. I ended up having to create a new 2nd forum starting from scratch with the standard templates and then transferring the database over to the new install. I swore I wouldn't go there again.