Center

Property of Katie Broyles

Contained in Center Hall, there is Best, Hayden, Irish, as well as McClintock.  Center Hall has a great relationship between its Residence Hall Association staff and Community Assistants along with the Peer Mentors, which is not very common amongst other halls.  This relationship is beneficial for the students living within these halls as well, seeing as how the students leaders may be the ones who direct students to join Residence Hall Association.  The student leaders also bring "seminars on alcohol use, sexual health and diversity to just-for-fun events like basketball tourneys and pizza parties"  (Keller) in order to help new students adjust.  Yet this is not the biggest reason why Center is a great hall to be a part of.

Best, Hayden, and Irish are all located together, and they house the Herberger Institute for Design and Arts as well as College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Students.  The three of these dorms help create the community  known as Arcadia.  Located in the general area of Gammage Theatre, Arcadia is relatively close to buildings that would contain classes related to specific majors within the residential colleges housed there.  Communications is a good example of this, being just a three minute walk away is a pretty handy if one so desires to spend a little more time working on a last minute paper.  However, it is not as strategically placed as McClintock is.

McClintock, also known as CLAS Academy, is situated right next to Hayden Library, and is by far the most conveniently located.  Housing all sorts of majors within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, students from pre-med majors to political sciences.  All of the classes in which these students would be going to are all within a short five minute walk.  The trade off for McClintock’s great placement is the small room sizes, but that is pretty fair.