Spring Break
Student Life Center getting a facelift
Josh Rivera
Issue date: 4/13/09 Section: News
Come May 19 anyone visiting the Student Life lounge on the main campus will find it extremely … empty.
Not only will it be void of students but it also will be missing furniture and maybe even a few walls.
May 19 is the day renovations begin on the lounge, which adjoins the cafeteria on the second floor of College Center. Director of Student Life Frank Pologruto said that renovations will be completed by the start of fall semester.
The renovations will expand both the Student Life lounge and the cafeteria by overlapping the two areas.
"The Student Life lounge is being renovated because of the increase in student attendance at NCC," Pologruto said. "This is the first semester that spring enrollment is higher than fall."
Much of the student lounge will change including the amount of space it occupies, Pologruto said. The entire south wall of the current lounge and portions of the east wall that separates the cafeteria and the lounge will be removed.
Renovation will increase the number of students the lounge can hold and also expand cafeteria space.
The row of offices along the south wall and all the secretary stations will be moved to a spot near the lounge's stairway entrance to the Spartan Center.
"I'm excited because now the secretaries will have an enclosed space of their own," said Student Life secretary Maudell McCurry.
All of the furniture in the lounge will be removed and replaced. The college will build a stage along the west wall for club activities. Open spaces will be filled with tables, chairs, and booths.
The lounge will gain new technology, including a sound system along with multiple projectors and projector screens. Rows of new, dual booting computers (Mac and Windows) will line the entrance to the lounge from the Spartan Center for students to use as they travel from class to class.
First-year Culinary Arts major Chrissy Ellis said she believes the current lounge set-up is good, but could use more tables. The lounge can fill up too easily, she said.
"I'll have to wait and see what the new lounge looks like before I make any judgments but it sounds like I'll probably like the new lounge better," Ellis said.
Mike Hertzog, a first-year General Studies major, fears that the new lounge may be too noisy for some students.
"I chill here everyday in-between classes," Hertzog said. "I'm pretty sure students who come here to do their work will have to find somewhere else to go when the new lounge arrives."
Until renovations on the Student Life lounge and cafeteria are complete, students taking summer courses will have to use College Center 220 for their food and a place to hang.
Not only will it be void of students but it also will be missing furniture and maybe even a few walls.
May 19 is the day renovations begin on the lounge, which adjoins the cafeteria on the second floor of College Center. Director of Student Life Frank Pologruto said that renovations will be completed by the start of fall semester.
The renovations will expand both the Student Life lounge and the cafeteria by overlapping the two areas.
"The Student Life lounge is being renovated because of the increase in student attendance at NCC," Pologruto said. "This is the first semester that spring enrollment is higher than fall."
Much of the student lounge will change including the amount of space it occupies, Pologruto said. The entire south wall of the current lounge and portions of the east wall that separates the cafeteria and the lounge will be removed.
Renovation will increase the number of students the lounge can hold and also expand cafeteria space.
The row of offices along the south wall and all the secretary stations will be moved to a spot near the lounge's stairway entrance to the Spartan Center.
"I'm excited because now the secretaries will have an enclosed space of their own," said Student Life secretary Maudell McCurry.
All of the furniture in the lounge will be removed and replaced. The college will build a stage along the west wall for club activities. Open spaces will be filled with tables, chairs, and booths.
The lounge will gain new technology, including a sound system along with multiple projectors and projector screens. Rows of new, dual booting computers (Mac and Windows) will line the entrance to the lounge from the Spartan Center for students to use as they travel from class to class.
First-year Culinary Arts major Chrissy Ellis said she believes the current lounge set-up is good, but could use more tables. The lounge can fill up too easily, she said.
"I'll have to wait and see what the new lounge looks like before I make any judgments but it sounds like I'll probably like the new lounge better," Ellis said.
Mike Hertzog, a first-year General Studies major, fears that the new lounge may be too noisy for some students.
"I chill here everyday in-between classes," Hertzog said. "I'm pretty sure students who come here to do their work will have to find somewhere else to go when the new lounge arrives."
Until renovations on the Student Life lounge and cafeteria are complete, students taking summer courses will have to use College Center 220 for their food and a place to hang.
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posted 12/01/09 @ 7:13 PM EST
I think that renovations are necessary for the Student Life lounge.
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