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S.C.S.U.'s New Student Center

January 23, 2006 // 1 Comments  // Add yours »

For those students at Southern who haven't gotten a chance to check out our new student center yet, here's a picture I took and a little bit of info on what you'll find. 

Overall the building is great.  It's spacious, modern looking, and the first place at Southern where you won't get depressed just by being there.  It has a large cafeteria, with overpriced but very good pizza (almost $4 for the equivalent of a slice), a sub/sandwich place, and your standard cheeseburger/grilled chicken stuff.  There is a "coffee house" that isn't really quite there yet, a very nice gym ($50 a semester), several lounges including one with a fireplace, and a nice computer lab.  There is a huge ballroom on the 4th floor, many meeting rooms, and a decent sized theater. 

Now for negatives.  There is a Barnes & Nobles bookstore on the street level,  which I found it to be very disappointing.  I was expecting something like what Yale has for their bookstore, with more books then the just overpriced texts that we're required to buy.  Instead we've been given a bookstore that's almost exactly the same as our old one with just a little more space. The game-room on the first floor is also a disappointment.  It's a cramped room with 3 pool tables and a ping-pong table.  The TV lounge is missing TVs.   There are two unoccupied spaces next to the bookstore that are reserved for more retail.  There was no major bank like had been rumored, and no major fast food restaurant.  It seems that they rushed to get the building open to satisfy the students.  Hopefully everything that we were told was going to be in there will be by the end of the semester.  But it's still a HUGE improvement for Southern.

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Hey! I followed the link from the Southern LJ community (techn0shibs). I haven't been in yet, but I'm excited to see it.
I'm with you--I completely adore the Yale bookstore, but...it's Southern. They probably figured that nobody would actually read a non-required text, if even that.
Anyway, thanks for the review, and fabulous shot, by the way!

Posted on: Jan 24, 2006 6:20:23 AM

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