The 46,000-square-foot new student center will transform community life at Carthage.A Media Tower will welcome visitors, providing six screens of information.The heart of the new student center will be the Campus Living Room with a "winter garden." The main floor will have a new campus bookstore and coffee shop.The second floor of the center features a new 200-seat theatre. An interactive gaming area will feature large format video games."Main Street" will feature three new food vendors. A large new dining area will face Campus Drive and Lake Michigan.The center includes indoor gallery space for student art and a sculpture garden.A terrace overlooking Art Keller Field will provide access to the new home bleachers and press boxes.

Coming Together
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A New Student Union

A place to come together — it's a fundamental need on a residential college campus. At Carthage, we must assure that students have a gathering place that reinforces and nurtures community. A new student union will provide this assurance.

Situated on the current site of the former Seidemann Natatorium, adjacent to Art Keller Field, the new Carthage student union will be at the crossroads of classroom, recreation, and residential activity zones on campus.

It will provide:

  • gathering space for small and large student groups
  • expanded dining options
  • a theatre for films and presentations
  • a new campus book and convenience store close to where students live

The new student union also will offer a welcome place of respite for commuter students, helping them forge closer relationships with their residential peers.

An unanticipated benefit of a student union on this site is the opportunity to offer greater opportunities for student and alumni connections through the celebration of Carthage athletic contests on the adjacent playing field. With the construction of the student union will come new bleachers, and the relocation of Carthage fan seating to the east side of the field. Integrated into the center will also be a new pressbox, as well as seating on the adjacent patio, which will accommodate handicapped fans.

"My most memorable moments at Carthage have been the times I have spent with my close friends laughing, crying and growing through all of life's many experiences."

— Alexandra Matzinger, '11, Lake Zurich, Ill. Majoring in geography, minoring in biology and religion


The New Student Union:
By the Numbers

4

new food outlets coming to Carthage

20

years of sustained growth in student enrollment

200

seats in the second-floor theatre

3,300

students who will be served by the new student union

46,000

square feet in the project

24/7

hours and days per week that the student union will be open