Wouldn't it be nice if there were one building on central Grounds where you could pay your tuition, have lunch with a professor, work in a community service office, take a dance class and enjoy dinner and a movie with your friends?
Plans for a new student center that would provide such services are shaping up nicely, said fourth-year architecture student Andrew Burdick and second-year College student Steven Reinemund.
To continue the current momentum, Burdick and Reinemund will embark on an "exploratory fundraising road trip" this summer. They plan to visit alumni associations and work with approved donors across the nation to garner funds and gauge alumni and donor interest in financing the student center. Estimated costs now total $15 million.
Depending on the success of fundraising, "optimistically [the University] will break ground by spring 2003," Reinemund said.
Burdick and Reinemund are part of a special advisory committee to the Student Council president that is heading the project to create the new student center. Twenty students comprise the committee.
Council first proposed the idea of building a new student center in April 1999. Since then, the committee has worked with University officials to hire an architect who will assist in designing the project.
In designing the new student center, Burdick said the students are not just trying to fulfill a logistical need - they want it to be a place where "students paths will always cross on a daily basis."
The planned location for the new student center is between Brown College and Newcomb Hall.
To cater the student center to students' needs, the committee is using results from 441 responses gathered from a Jan. 29-Feb. 18 Internet survey expressing students' needs.
Responses indicated the desire for a food court, "on-the-run" food, casual dining, theatre, caf
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