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The recently re-instituted Collis Governing Board, an advisory and governing body concerned with the use of space in the Collis Student Center, has ideas to change the center.
Collis Center Director Mark Hoffman said he wants to use the Governing Board "to get a sense of direction of what students want in Collis ... and make it more of a fixture on campus."
Immediate goals
Collis Governing Board co-Chair Nana Ashong '99 said the Board is focusing on improving two areas this summer -- the game room downstairs and the lounge.
"The overall goal is to make Collis more of a social space -- right now people mostly just float through Collis," Ashong said.
"But if it really is supposed to be the student center, it should be more of a place to relax and spend time," she said.
Ashong said the game room is "pretty sterile," and ideas to spice it up have included painting murals on the wall, changing some of the furnishings and replacing the jukebox, which was there last year.
Possible ways to make the lounge a more desirable place for students to hang out include adding bookshelves with donated books and getting magazine subscriptions for the lounge, Ashong said.
The Governing Board will definitely make changes to Collis this term, according to Ashong, before looking ahead to Fall term and other goals for the building.
Hoffman said he hopes to get some of the changes made over the interim period between Summer and Fall terms, such as ordering magazine subscriptions.
The Governing Board
According to Hoffman, the Governing Board has been in existence since the 1980s, but it was originally a programming body.
