Loyola U(new)versity

Loyola U(new)versity

If you have had the opportunity to walk around Loyola recently, you may notice a few things that stand out from the traditional college campus.  That is because Loyola is not your common college campus.

Aside from being just miles north of one of the biggest cities in the United States, Loyola proudly boasts a split campus format that allows for the best of both worlds; a downtown campus for business, communication, and social work students to get valuable experience working in an urban environment and a northern campus to provide science, language, math and various other students the resources they need to complete their major.

Also occupying the northern campus are cranes, cement trucks and men in hardhats.

That is because Loyola is in the midst of a drastic multi-million dollar make-over.  Beginning with Norville Athletic Center, a state-of-the-art training facility for Loyola athletes, Loyola will continue to create and construct multiple venues for students.  Next on the illustrious to-do list is the Cuneo, a learning hall for students.  With its completion due by the end of second semester 2011, Halas will begin its face-lift.  Halas, the current student exercise facility and gym will be replaced by Halas 2.0, complete with new exercise equipment, pool and rock wall for the more daring of Ramblers.

In addition to the construction of Halas, a new student union will be build right next door.  This student union will replace and out-do the current CFSU (located on the ground level of the historic Mertz dorm).  In addition to Halas, residence halls Rockhurst and Holy Cross (my home) will be torn down at the end of summer to be made into new residence halls.

Understandably, Loyola looks like a Caterpillar parking lot a times, but only because our gracious benefactors wanted to give back to the school that served them.  For those feeling like the Water Tower Campus is getting the short end of the deal, no worries because soon construction will begin on a new business school.
Loyola will be a neat place to be over the course of the next few years.  For current students like me, we will only have the honor of using a few of the many new buildings going up, but even now I feel spoiled.  If you haven’t seen Loyola recently, then you haven’t seen Loyola U(new)versity, and if you can’t wait to check it out in person, here is an overhead diagram of the changes you will see.

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