Let someone put a Starbucks in it. Students will flock to it.
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Let someone put a Starbucks in it. Students will flock to it.
You're not wrong.Originally Posted by dawg80
Shame too. Starbucks is not good coffee and they have no idea. It's just convenient...like the electric razor and disposable pen. But hey...if everyone else is doing it...let's all be sheep.
This is what I've heard as well. Also, that he hopes to have plans completed some time near the beginning of the 2016-17 academic year.
This is Louisiana - put a PJ's Coffee in it and they will soon learn the best (of the chains, anyway)...... ;-)
I have never set foot in a Starbuck's and I intend to never go in one. I'll take my Community Coffee with a little sweetener, thank you.
Or a CCs. Forget $tarbuck$ though, it's crap coffee.
As a former Tech student turned UL Lafayette transfer, I'm glad to see this update from Tech. I always thought Wyly was such an eyesore hovering over what should be the most historic and best looking part of campus. Good riddance when the time comes. As for the library, personally I was impressed with the library when I got to Lafayette, seeing as Prescott was the only college library I had known.
As many in this thread have mentioned, libraries in the old sense are no longer a vital necessity but do still serve a purpose. There are ways for Tech to breathe new life into such a facility and get more student use out of it than they currently do (or did a couple years back when I was there). The Dupre Library in Lafayette was most recently renovated in 2000. The first floor of course has the help desk, printers/scanners, an easily accessible computer lab, laptop or cellphone charging lockers for rent and a coffee shop/cafe at the back of the first floor (just a food services run/branded place). The second floor has large tables placed in the corridors for group study, 3rd floor is for quiet individual study.
I would anticipate Tech implementing similar amenities to create a library/facility that more appropriately serves the needs of current college students. Plus it'll look sooo much better if they design it to match the older buildings surrounding the quad. Congratulations on the progress. I spent a couple of years at Tech so I like to keep up with whats going on around campus. A lot of the growth was really just getting started (i.e. Tech Pointe & new business building) when I left.
Coffee shop and phone charging locker (stupid idea, but I guess if they're dumb enough to pay, whatever) are the only things we lack from that list.
I wonder if they could incorporate Old Main characteristics into the new library. Maybe the original columns in the front for example.
[QUOTE=dawg80;1568983]Let someone put a Starbucks in it. Students will flock to it.[/QUOTE
OMG! I swear I did not know this before. Today NSU prez, Dr. Jim Henderson, announced NSU's Watson Library is getting a Starbucks.
Okay. That's fine. I don't have a problem with that. I am not a fan of Starbucks' over-priced, burnt coffees, but, hey, I can see it. At least they are trying something!
[QUOTE=dawg80;1569394]Whatever pays the highest rent.
[QUOTE=dawg80;1569394]It appears our plan is much larger.
Agreed.
I was thinking the same thing.
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