Nassau Hall yesterday announced its plan to transform the former home of Campus Club, which closed its doors last fall, into a new social spot open to all University students.
Campus will be a "place where student organization dinners could be held, parties and precepts scheduled as well as a place to just hang out," Amy Campbell, special assistant to Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson, said in an email.
The University, which took ownership of the club on Aug. 1, has almost complete freedom in deciding how to use the property. Last November, the club's graduate board passed a resolution to donate the former Campus building to the University. Beyond the stipulation that it be used to promote an alternative social option to students, "it was up to the University to decide what to do with the club," Anne Trevisan '86, chair of the club's graduate board, said in an interview.
According to Campbell, plans for Campus' transformation began last spring when representatives from the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, University Services and a group of undergraduate and graduate students met to discuss potential options for the club.
USG president Alex Lenahan '07, who was involved in planning the new Campus Club, said he hopes the venue will provide another option for students both during the day and on nights when the Street is open.
"The key is providing somewhere where everyone will be able to interact," he said.
Lenahan added that eating clubs and Campus are not meant to be "mutually exclusive." Instead, he hopes Campus will be a place for both members and nonmembers of eating clubs.
Campbell said students and administrators wanted to find a way for Campus to "complement social spaces currently available to students."
In addition to being a place where students can schedule various events, Campbell said students in the meetings "expressed interest in having a cozy living room-like atmosphere where they could come between classes or in the evening to read a book, play a video game, watch TV and relax with friends."
Renovations to the club will begin this year and are expected to be completed in spring 2008. Improvements will focus on making the building handicap accessible and remodeling the kitchen. Though the University intends to modernize the building's facilities, Campbell said administrators "will be careful to retain the original character of the Club ... [T]o some rooms, [they will] make no changes at all."
Campbell said the renovated facility will be run by an advisory board "representing a range of student constituencies" which will determine the programming structure of Campus.
Though the former Campus Club is now entirely under University control, club alumni will continue to play a part in the facility's future. Trevisan said the graduate board is excited to occupy an informal role in the renovated Campus and its new role in the University social scene.
In the donation agreement between the University and the Campus graduate board, the alumni of Campus retained the right to come back to the club at meaningful moments throughout the year.
Trevisan said alumni will use the building to gather after football games or during reunions, as well as for other club functions.
"We hope that this will give new life to the building and play a meaningful and active role for students," she said.
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