<p>I am under the impression that state schools tend to have better student centers. Like you said, they are designed to serve a much larger student body.</p>
<p>actually @ sam lee, i find that stanford's student center is decent. It has lots of good food, plus it's in a more "central" location. not to mention, it's just comfortable because its outdoors and stanford is in sunny california <em>oh how i miss it</em></p>
<p>though it really depends on what you're looking for in a student center. definitely a different style than NU.</p>
<p>UCLA has a pretty decent student center, UCSD has a nice quad as well</p>
<p>Wisconsin</a> Union: Experiences for a Lifetime</p>
<p>Yes, Wisconsin's Union is amazing. They even have an a bowling ally :(</p>
<p>To add on though, it's not just state schools that have nice student centers.</p>
<p>Columbia's Alfred Lerner Hall is also beautiful and modern, with an entire glass facade too.</p>
<p><a href="http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/%7Eyongyudh/book1/Image222.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~yongyudh/book1/Image222.jpg</a>
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<p>Sun light just barely makes it into our riot-proof concrete block shaped student center Norris...</p>
<p>gd016,
I am looking at the pictures of Lerner Hall in Columbia</a> News ::: A Virtual Tour of Alfred Lerner Hall
and I am thinking this again looks like an academic building (like a modern engineering buliding) with way too many floors (8 floors). While It looks like a fairly functioning building that serves a lot of different purposes ( Columbia</a> University : Alfred J. Lerner Hall : Inside Lerner : Departments and Hours ) and the architecture looks impressive, I don't see this as a popular place for people to just chill, socialize, and hang out unless there's an event happening. Looks like it doesn't even have a game room. If you go to Columbia board, one of the most commonly cited negatives is the lack of social unity. The following is one of the examples:<br>
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There isn't much social unity. The bar scene is OK but its nothing like the laid back "house party" experience you get on other campuses. It isnt rare for the campus to be pretty silent on a Friday night.
- No cafeteria. There is Lerner but Columbia doesnt have the large cafeteria common hours that other schools have (except freshmen)
- The library is silent. Whereas other schools have big 24 hr open social spaces in the library, for some reason Columbia's library isn't the social gathering place that libraries are at other schools. Interestingly, before renovations a few years back the library was much more social.
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<p>If Lerner is happening, this poster wouldn't need the library to be more social.</p>
<p>Norris needs improvement but I doubt the Columbia version is the answer.</p>
<p>I've heard some people speculating what would happen if kellogg moved off the evanston campus. What would you guys think of moving norris/student center to the Jacobs center? Nice big atrium in the middle, more central campus, on sheridan. Of course, norris can't be completely cut out, as theres nothing really like louis room anywhere else on campus.</p>
<p>Where would Kellogg move to though? I don't see there's any space at the downtown location. It doesn't make sense for it to move to another location all by itself. Also, there's close collaboration between Kellogg and the econ department and to less extent, IEMS department. Moving off the evanston campus is gonna hurt that.</p>
<p>What would be the reasons for Kellogg to move off the Evanston campus?
I would think there would also be collaboration between Kellogg and MMSS and the new finance certificate thing-y.</p>