In its 130-year history, Chancellor Green has served as everything from a library to a pub. As it reopens, now as part of the new Andlinger Center for the Humanities, Chancellor Green will combine its original role as an academic building with its later mission of bringing people together.
Anthony Grafton, chair of the Council of the Humanities, said the $40 million Andlinger Center, which also includes East Pyne, Joseph Henry House and a new, unnamed building nearby, will provide an expanded home for the humanities. The newly renovated Chancellor Green houses a reading room and two seminar rooms. Grafton said the facility, which includes a cafe in the basement, also has a social component.
"This part of campus used to be quite dead. It's time to regain some life," Grafton said.
Although the academic area of Chancellor Green will not open for several weeks, the cafe has been running since Jan. 19 and is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The facility's cafe is designed to complement the building's academic purpose. "It's important for academics to meet socially," Grafton said, "It's strange in a school that emphasizes student-faculty relations that there are fairly few places for students and professors to meet on campus."
Grafton hopes Chancellor Green will correct what he describes as a deficiency in "pleasant public spaces" at the University.
Even so, the reopened facility is not designed as competition for Frist Campus Center. Paul Breitman, director of University Services, emphasized the two buildings' differences.
"Frist is a managed facility, and there's a program component," he said.
Although Grafton said that Chancellor Green may host special events, the focus would be on the humanities rather than entertainment.
Breitman said he and Frist Director Tom Myers are "excited" about Chancellor Green. He is confident that Dining Services, which operates the dining options at both Frist and Chancellor Green, will "be creative" in keeping the two facilities unique.
Stu Orefice, director of Dining Services, agreed. Although the prices are generally equivalent, he said Chancellor Green offers Small World coffee and other desserts students cannot get in Frist.
Edgardo Dieleke GS, who first visited the cafe this Monday, said he would return. "It's convenient," he said, because of his class in nearby East Pyne.
Kathy Mikos, an employee at Chancellor Green, said business has been growing every day. Mikos, who used to work at Frist, said students love the "calmer atmosphere" of the new cafe.
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