Forget Mattin. Garland Hall should be our student center.
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers renewed calls for a student center and the author’s proposal to use Garland Hall instead of replacing the Mattin Center.
- The article says the SGA’s Referendum, CUE2 and a student mental-health task force called for building a student center.
- The paper reported that the current plan involves a $120 million donation to demolish Mattin Center and build a new facility.
- The reporter writes that Mattin houses most campus arts activities, including a theater, dance studios, music practice rooms and the Digital Media Center.
- The article adds that Garland contains administrative offices and student services, and says moving resources there could centralize them.
- According to the article, using Garland could be cheaper than demolishing Mattin, while requiring some administrators and offices to move elsewhere.