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Oglethorpe Opens With New Student Center
The $16 million Turner Lynch Campus Center opened Aug. 9.
Oglethorpe University opened this year with a new $16 million student center that replaces a 50-year-old center that struggled to attract students' attention.
The Turner Lynch Campus Center is 50,000 square feet and opened Aug. 9, according to Reporter Newspapers.
From the story:
“It’s both a result of and symbolic of the growth and change at the university,” Schall said.
The stone exterior blends with the Brookhaven university’s signature Gothic architecture, but the inside of the facility is a sleek, modern space for dining, meeting and studying. It includes a campus book store, dining hall, coffee shop, and a new program called the Atlanta Laboratory for Learning – or A Lab for short.
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