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- Kelsey Brown on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "I believe what she meant was that if you are consumed by your relation..."
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Rethinking the Hub
In lieu of a real student center, ASCMC and the administration have been mulling ideas to improve Emett Student Center –- consisting of the Hub and Faculty Support –- in the short term. Currently, the Hub operates as a pool hall, a television lounge, a study space and an eatery, all compacted in a small, crowded room. “It doesn’t do any of these things particularly well,” former Dormitory Affairs Council Chair Ben Kraus ’11 said, after working on the project with Dean Huang. “The goal is to improve each of these individually.”
The improvement plan can be seen in three steps: the immediate, short, and long term.
Within the week, students will see flat-screen televisions in the Hub with HD Direct TV. The administration is also looking to replace the tables to create a more cohesive study environment.
Prior to Kravis Center construction, the space currently occupied by Faculty Support West served as the Frazee Room– a multipurpose room that was significantly underutilized. Vice President for Student Affairs Dean Huang shared, “It has been my plan to return the Frazee Room to a student lounge when the Faculty Support Center leaves in 2011.” Faculty Support will be moving to a room underneath the “glass cube” and the current space will become vacant.
One of the three rooms will become a lounge and meeting room for the Robert Day School, which has requested a space for its scholars; the other two will become study lounges, stocked with tables and whiteboards. The space will be open late-night. It will be one of many additional study spaces, as the Kravis Center is slated to have quite a few as well.
“I think that’s really what we’re most lacking on campus,” Kraus said. “We need more study space.”
In theory, this reshuffling will extract the study-lounge function of the Hub and allow it to excel purely as a lounge. The space will then see more significant renovations.
Further down the line, CMC’s Master Plan, recently approved unanimously by the Board of Trustees, suggests the complete demolition of Emett, as well as McKenna Auditorium and Bauer Center. An academic building will replace the space across from the Athenaeum. And in Bauer’s place, a more fitting and extraordinary building will become our student center.
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Michael Wilner
Michael is editor-in-chief of the Forum. A native New Yorker and a PPE major, he will graduate in 2011 having lived all four years in Claremont under the long shadow of Abhi Nemani.
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2010-03-10
23:45:13
This school's campus is gonna be BA in a few years. Too bad my time here had to be filled listening to construction and weaving my bike in between cones, workers, and menacing caterpillar machines...
2010-03-10
23:56:06
get real big guy
2010-03-11
00:06:41
As long as they don't change those delectable chicken parmesans.
"Hub Life" forever.
2010-03-11
00:48:17
this can be another example of how ben kraus would have made a better president.
see comments on this article http://cmcforum.com/news/ascmc-news/03052010-should-we-fund-5c-parties for more info.
2010-03-11
03:47:15
Truth, Kraus (or Johnson) would have been a sick president. But we get the leaders we deserve.
2010-03-11
10:06:43
I doubt Tammy's voters would have turned into obnoxious, douchey spammers like this had she lost. But come to think of it, that's probably one more reason why she won -- to outsiders, you are the company you keep.
Please stop with the anonymous bitterness and hijacking comment threads. You're clearly in the minority and even though I didn't vote, I now wish I had voted for Tammy now that I see how Kraus and his friends are behaving after the loss. Be humbled and move on.
2010-03-11
00:48:43
"One of the three rooms will become a lounge and meeting room for the Robert Day School, which has requested a space for its scholars."
Are we seriously going to have a private/secret lounge that only RDS scholars can enter? What's next?
Did Robert Day's donation include a provision that RDS can just claim real estate on campus? Can the Math or Government Departments claim a lounge on campus that nobody else can use?
2010-03-11
02:39:28
Actually, the Math department does have a lounge...
2010-03-11
03:13:44
That anyone from any major can go to. And Math majors don't have special access to it.
Regardless, a lounge for economics majors might be okay. A lounge for "chosen students" is another question.
2010-03-11
15:22:03
I also think you are confused about who this room is for (aka the grad students, not RDS undergrads)
2010-03-11
16:21:20
The article says RDS requested space for its "scholars;" nothing about grad students. If the article is vague in that respect, I'd appreciate someone clarifying it. But not someone who starts their comments with "Actually..."
And even if it's just for grad students, I don't like the idea of grad students taking space from undergrad students on campus. Let RDS build them something in the pit in Upland with that $200mil and not use the buildings that weren't paid for by RDS.
2010-03-11
18:13:17
I don't know who the author used as a source, but I have talked directly with Dean Huang about this space, and it will be used for Grad students. I also suggested to him that RDS put some computers in there so that the grad students don't hog all the computers in Poppa, which he seemed open to.
Otherwise I completely agree with you about not taking up our space, but if they don't get space here, then they will get it somewhere else on campus which might be even worse/more annoying...
2010-03-11
16:07:52
I think that a good part of the problem with the Hub, is the quality of the Hub Grill. If you want CMC students to go somewhere, make sure there is good food. The food at the Hub is unhealthy, slow, and the quality is quite poor. If you want something you can't find in a stadium concession stand, i.e. real food, you're out of luck. Just making it look nicer won't solve the problem.