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The Campus

A quick review of what's where at Bloomsburg

Resident freshmen will move into one of seven residence halls named mostly for counties surrounding Bloomsburg. The exception is Elwell Hall, named for a family prominent in BU history. Residence halls clustered at the southwest end of Bloomsburg's 282-acre campus, convenient to important amenities.

Halls are Columbia, Schuylkill, Montour, Lycoming, Luzerne, Northumberland and Elwell. All have front-desk security, ID-card-swipe entry, sprinkler systems, cable TV hookups and computer network connections in all rooms, kitchens, laundries and places to socialize.

Within the residence hall area are:

• Scranton Commons, which serves up 3,000 meals at a time, scattercourt style and all-you-can-eat in a variety of meal options.
• Kehr Union, a social hub of campus with its many meeting rooms, ballroom, multicultural center, game room, computer lab, Husky Lounge snackbar, and information center. It is the headquarters of the Community Government Association (CGA) (student government), Student Activities, and hosts the Student Health Center - the place to go for coughs, sniffles, minor injuries.
• University Store, which sells textbooks, class supplies, personal care items, snacks, BU apparel and gifts. The University Police headquarters is located in the same building.
• Residence Life, in charge of all matters relating to housing, is on the ground level of Elwell Hall.
• Warren Student Services Center, which houses the Registrar, Financial Aid, Career Development, ROTC, Academic Advisement and a host of support departments, as well as Roongo's, a snackbar named after the university mascot (Roongo is a Siberian husky and has been the mascot since 1933).

At the northeast end of lower campus is the enormously popular Student Recreation Center, which include a complete fitness center with full-circuit cardio and weight training facilities, five basketball/volleyball courts, racquetball courts, aerobics classrooms, and locker rooms. It is the headquarters of intramural sports programs. Full membership is included in your fees.

The 450,000 volume Andruss Library features more than 200 computer workstations, many meeting rooms for group study and university archives.

In between are academic and administrative buildings:

• Waller Administration - home to the business office, where you can pay your bills, get financial aid refund checks and can change meal plans.
• Centennial Hall - mostly Exercise Science, Anthropology, Speech Pathology and Audiology (their clinic is on the third floor), School of Graduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts.
• McCormick Center for Human Services - mostly education and nursing, instructional technology, but with many faculty offices from Liberal Arts plus Mathematics and Computer Science. Presently getting an addition on the northeast end.
• Sutliff Hall - College of Business and its six departments.
• Hartline Science Center - College of Science and Technology and its departments.
• Bakeless Center for the Humanities - Mostly departments in Liberal Arts, including the Writing Center.
• Haas Center for the Arts - Includes the 1,800-seat Mitrani Hall, Department of Music.
• Navy Hall - Recently renovated and primarily used for Special Education, Reading Center.
• Benjamin Franklin Hall - Known as "Ben Franklin," it houses all the university's network facilities and mainframe computers, presently under renovation.
• Simon Hall - Used by the Department of Art and Art History for ceramics classes and headquarters of Quest, the outdoor adventure program.
• Old Science Hall - Second oldest building on campus, housing art, music, history programs.
• Carver Hall - the original building on campus, housing the office of the President and Vice President for Academic Affairs, as well as Gross Auditorium

Upper campus includes both housing for upperclassmen and athletic facilities:

• Montgomery Place Apartments
• Mount Olympus Apartments
• Monty's (food service and conference center)
• Nelson Field House (athletic programs)
• Redman Stadium (football)
• Litwhiler Field (baseball)
• Hutchinson Field (softball)
• A new multi-use stadium for field hockey, lacrosse, soccer
• Intramural fields, practice fields
• Tennis Center