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October 23, 2007, 08:07 AM ET
Scenes From a Student Center
Eastern Connecticut State University’s renovated student union is favorably compared to a shopping mall in a story in The Hartford Courant. The $17-million building has what many student centers have these days: a Barnes & Noble, a coffee shop, a fitness center, and a food court.
“Eastern didn’t set out to make its new center look like a mall, but agrees that it ended up resembling one,” writes the reporter, Grace E. Merritt. “And this reflects a trend in the evolution of student unions nationally as colleges seek to design them to resemble the gathering spots that students grew up with, such as malls, coffee shops, and gyms.”
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