Living the good life
What do massage chairs, “Guitar Hero,” hot food and big screen televisions have in common? They can all now be found in the Student Activities Center accessible from the Liberty Street entrance below Magnolia Ballroom. The SAC is nearing the end of a major overhaul with the intent to attract more students to the often underused building.
The newly named Bobcat Den is the home of the major renovations in the SAC. A new room, the “Gaming Cafe,” now holds two Nintendo Wiis and two XBox 360s, complete with “Guitar Hero” among other games. New furniture has been added to the TV room, not to mention a pizza vending machine that dispenses a fully cooked pizza in a matter of minutes. Two massage chairs are also there to help stressed students relax free of charge.
The biggest new feature to the Bobcat Den is the addition of a soda fountain. For just $5, students will now be able to purchase a special plastic cup and will be able to fill it up with soda for free for the entire year with unlimited refills.
“This is called the Student Center,” SGA president Ryan Greene said when asked about the changes. “Students are paying with their fees. Most of the movement in there was just for the students. We had a little bit more money than usual in student fees right now because we had an increase from last semester and they (Campus Life) wanted to spend some money directly on the students.”
Doris Henderson, building manager, is overseeing all of the changes to the SAC. She says that the Bobcat Den is “a testing site” before Campus Life ventures out with any more changes in the future. Henderson also has a hot dog machine and a cappuccino maker ready to go, with plans on having an entire food court set up.
Another thing Henderson is looking into is possibly getting the NFL Sunday Ticket package, so that students can come into the Den and watch any football game that they please.
All of these changes will be for naught if no one knows about them, however. The SAC isn’t in the most well known location on campus either.
The school is working on several ways to make the changes known.
They’ll put it out the usual ways,” Greene said. “They’ll probably (use) sidewalk chalk, put it out on myCATS, hopefully just try to get the word out to students. SGA is going to promote it as best as possible. Getting the word out is definitely important.”
And why not with all of the new exciting changes that are going on? Now everyone can live out their dream of playing “Guitar Hero” while lounging in a massage chair and eating pizza. The SAC is open every day until 10 p.m.
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Oct 5 2007. Filed under News.
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