re: Can we all admit that Central Campus is ugly?

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Yup. I was on the dorm security team for all of Myers quad when I lived there. Worked 11p-3a or 3a-7a. Once an hour, I had to walk through all 4 dorms (Myers, Mary Lyndon, Rutherford, and Soule) and make sure the outside doors (except for the main entrances) were locked and shut. Then I unlocked them at 6:55 am before my shift ended. This was LONG before keycards and readers were in existence. People used to sit at the dorm entrances and check IDs when you went in at night.

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Myers is still weird. there’s like 12 entrances and exits but all but two set off an alarm and one locks at 10pm. Also the ID scanners didn’t work last year

They’ve only built like 30 buildings while increasing students a few %. Living large on the lotto.

Agree the 60-80s buildings are very institutional or just ugly.

Hoping one day we will fix the stair columns on stadium to help.

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This was LONG before keycards and readers were in existence. People used to sit at the dorm entrances and check IDs when you went in at night.

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from 2010-2014, we had id cards that were scannable but there were also people at the dorm entrances that you had to show your id to.

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There is also an underground shooting range near the stadium and Tate center not a lot of folks know about.

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Do you have to show your gridiron ID card to get in?

As an older class of ‘83 grad, you’re right. It’s not the nicest part of the campus, but it used to be worse. When I was there, Tate wasn’t there, and neither was East Campus. There was a building called Stegman Hall that had the student athletic center and pool. It was an old, musty gym. I lifted weights everyday and practically lived there. The parking lot was where all the RVs and campers parked with special permits before the game, right at the foot of the stadium. There was no MLC. It was the parking lot for the book store. Memorial Hall was the “student center”. It sucked. Baxter Street went across Lumpkin past the book store and dead-ended at the stadium. In 1983 they blocked it off and began to build Tate. Bolton used to be next to Creswell and was old and ugly. Things are better but can be improved even more.