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Post by Aggie One on Apr 29, 2018 12:18:13 GMT -5
N.C. A&T announces plans for new five-story residence hall By John Newsom john.newsom@greensboro.com
GREENSBORO — The next new building at N.C. A&T will be a dorm. As A&T comes closer to finishing its new $90 million student center, the university on Friday presented plans for a new 440-bed residence hall near the oldest part of its campus. Andrew Perkins, A&T’s associate vice chancellor for facilities, said the five-story dorm will have an interior courtyard, common areas for students to gather and ground-floor retail spaces. It will be built on Bluford Street, across from Harrison Auditorium that dates back to 1939. Perkins called the building’s schedule “aggressive.” Construction is scheduled to start in December, and the building could open by the end of 2019. The new dorm will cost about $32 million. It will be built by A&T’s foundation, and dorm rental fees paid by students will repay construction loans. The new residence hall will relieve some of the rising demand for on-campus housing. A&T has a little more than 3,900 residence hall beds, and nearly all of them are claimed. For the rest of the story:www.greensboro.com/news/schools/n-c-a-t-announces-plans-for-new-five-story/article_96ebcb17-80be-5ef3-b381-005f8e4e0382.html
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Post by marchingband1969 on May 1, 2018 14:19:16 GMT -5
When I see "Mega" dorm, I think of Scott Hall. At the time of its construction it was one of the largest dorms around. Unfortunately Scott Hall looked more like the projects than a college dorm. I think this new dorm will be spectacular when finished.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on May 1, 2018 15:41:06 GMT -5
actually, i believe scott hall had been the "largest" men's dorm in the whole state of north carolina when i was a student. shoot, i lived in that mugg (scott "b") before i went on co-op with the faa which paid me a really nice salary as a student intern that made it possible for me to afford a new used car and a nice apartment off campus.
i was glad to move off campus, but i also enjoyed my 2 years in scott hall, especially my freshman year. there used to be a diagonal side walk in front of scott hall coming from the crossway from brown hall going towards cooper hall and i had a "perfect" view of it from my scott hall dorm. me and my roommate used sit by our window and just watch the "fine azz" honey's walk pass scott hall. man, those were the good ole days...
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Post by aggierattler on May 1, 2018 18:04:32 GMT -5
Reading up on it some years ago, Scott Hall was one of the nicest dorms on a black college campus in America when it opened. It was truly a marvel.
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Post by marchingband1969 on May 1, 2018 18:37:59 GMT -5
Hey for us small town country boys, Scott Hall was our world! Sam Sutson running a barber shop out of his dorm room, some guy smoking up the hall frying chicken on a hot plate and a guy on the third floor charging guys to watch porn movies off his dorm room wall...and that was just an average day.
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Post by marchingband1969 on May 1, 2018 18:42:24 GMT -5
Reading up on it some years ago, Scott Hall was one of the nicest dorms on a black college campus in America when it opened. It was truly a marvel. I swear I read somewhere that when it was built, Scott Hall was the largest male dorm under one roof.
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Post by Maxell on May 1, 2018 21:16:08 GMT -5
Hey for us small town country boys, Scott Hall was our world! Sam Sutson running a barber shop out of his dorm room, some guy smoking up the hall frying chicken on a hot plate and a guy on the third floor charging guys to watch porn movies off his dorm room wall...and that was just an average day. In my day, Big Jim would come through Scott yelling, "Hot dogs, three for a dollar!" at about 10 o'clock. Man, those were on time.
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Post by aggierattler on May 1, 2018 23:24:50 GMT -5
Reading up on it some years ago, Scott Hall was one of the nicest dorms on a black college campus in America when it opened. It was truly a marvel. I swear I read somewhere that when it was built, Scott Hall was the largest male dorm under one roof. That is true...it was.
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Post by DOOMS on May 2, 2018 10:17:28 GMT -5
When I got to Scott in '90 I thought it was a piece of isht. My father stayed in it in '56 and he agreed it was a piece of isht. He said it had barely been updated from the time he'd been there and it wasn't hitting on much back then. For perspective when he arrived at Scott he was coming from a two-room sharecroppers house with no indoor plumbing and Greensboro was by far the biggest city he'd ever seen in his life when he arrived there.
Pop told me Scott was primarily built as barracks-style housing because a lot of male students were rotc. He said the barracks he stayed in in the military and his dorms at Fayetteville State were much better.
When my mother saw it she offered to disenroll me on the spot and get me into SC Steat before the week was over. She practically begged actually.
I remember asking when they were going to put up the shower curtains at a hall meeting and these niccas laughed. "This is barracks-style" they said. I told them I didn't join the f-in military and I'm not paying my tuition money for somebody to try to come out the closet on me.
A year later the shower curtains and dividers went up. Might be because somebody did try to come out the closet on somebody else up in that piece. That was like a maybe $5000 fix. Ridiculous it took that long.
No phones in the rooms, yelling down the hall all day for people to get their phone calls. Waiting in lines to use the phone like you in jail. No AC, radiators with one setting (hell), no microwaves in the room, no cable...
I remember at the hall meeting asking where was the fire extinguisher. There was just an arrow pointed sign that said fire extinguisher. I said "what we sposedta do, just point the sign at the fire and the fire sposedta know it's sposedta go out?" I was a reaaaal smartass back in the day. But I had a point. My folk were paying out of state tuition for this substandard mess.
Niccas would get drunk and break windows and throw bottles and pull the fire alarm. Every time it happened EVERYBODY on the hall would be fined $5. WTF?
The doors didn't lock. Somebody down the hall from me found a bum sleeping on his floor one night when he didn't lock his room door. Another time bank robbers ran right through the door and go away from the cops while we were in there. There were several locals that stayed in the dorm that did not even go to T when I was there. They just stayed with their homeboys. What a nightmare. They should've knocked that place down when Nixon was president.
Scott was a shithole man. And my young, stupid, wild, ignorant, immature azz loved almost every minute of it. I have a brick from Scott in my basement right now. Must be Stockholm syndrome because that place was like a jail.
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Post by A&T AGGIE 96 on May 2, 2018 10:46:50 GMT -5
I transferred to A&T from UNC-C and lasted all of one semester in Scott.
I started looking for an off campus apartment the first week I was at A&T.
I’m glad to see the administration is putting students first..new health center...new student union...new dorms.
We are doing things right in Aggie Land !!
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Post by oleschoolaggie on May 2, 2018 11:40:12 GMT -5
dang!! you mofo's must not have grown up "po" like i did! i didn't have a problem whatsoever with the conditions in scott hall. hail, we didn't have an "air conditioner" at my house where i grew up in new bern. so it didn't bother me that i didn't have one in scott hall, i was used to it. hail, i was just happy as hail to get away from home and be on my own! party when i want to, come in when i want to, go where i want to go. lol, the conditions of scott hall were the least of my worries! i was too busy having fun! the only thing i worried about was when would mom's and pop's send me some money in the mail so that i could buy me a "bologna and cheese whopper" at the union snack bar when i got the munchies at night. aside from that, it was all good as far as i was concerned. shoot, living in scott hall didn't bother me one bit...
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Post by AggieGroove on May 2, 2018 12:04:34 GMT -5
OSA....these dudes are soft as sundaes....Scott Hall was a lot of fun back in the day!
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Post by JayBee on May 2, 2018 12:22:06 GMT -5
OSA....these dudes are soft as sundaes....Scott Hall was a lot of fun back in the day! Tru dat!
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Post by DOOMS on May 2, 2018 12:23:21 GMT -5
When I got to Scott in '90 I thought it was a piece of isht. My father stayed in it in '56 and he agreed it was a piece of isht. He said it had barely been updated from the time he'd been there and it wasn't hitting on much back then. For perspective when he arrived at Scott he was coming from a two-room sharecroppers house with no indoor plumbing and Greensboro was by far the biggest city he'd ever seen in his life when he arrived there. Pop told me Scott was primarily built as barracks-style housing because a lot of male students were rotc. He said the barracks he stayed in in the military and his dorms at Fayetteville State were much better.... Scott was a shithole man. And my young, stupid, wild, ignorant, immature azz loved almost every minute of it. I have a brick from Scott in my basement right now. Must be Stockholm syndrome because that place was like a jail. Y'all niccas must've liked the showers. And y'all can't read. I ain't gone lie, I grew up privileged as hell and I ain't finna apologize for it. I spent dusty summers in the summer with my grandparents with zero a/c on a dirt road and farm animals and that didn't bother me. But something about paying money for very substandard housing when I knew the "other" folk right up Market Street paid the same for vastly improved lodgings got my goat. I enjoyed my time in Scott, but that doesn't take away the fact that it was a shithole. Those are two totally different issues. Now who's gonna be the first to come up on here talkin' bout it was a well-built monument to black excellence so I can insult the hell out of the cabrini green you grew up in and your low standards.
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Post by KidHeartless on May 2, 2018 12:29:24 GMT -5
Amen for progress and a plan lol
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