Tuesday, July 25, 2000
XU unveils 'family room'
Planned center to feature labs, theater, clubs
By Ben L. Kaufman
The Cincinnati Enquirer
King Wrecking Company worker Ed Combs hoses down flying debris to keep down dust as an excavator demolishes the Xavier University Center on Monday.
(Glenn Hartong photo)
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Wreckers initiated a $15 million project Monday to bring Xavier University more in line with students' changing needs.
XU's 1965 University Center is being hammered, clawed and hauled away, to be replaced by the Charles P. Gallagher Center.
Alumnus Gallagher, of Denver, is matching alumni donations up to $7.5 million to create a 75,000-square- foot “family room” for the increasingly resident campus.
XU had about 2,300 undergraduates — most of them commuters — when the old center was built.
Now, about 40 percent of XU's 4,000 undergrads live on campus, as will 87 percent of the arriving freshmen, university spokeswoman Kelly Leon said.
The Gallagher Center will be open 24 hours and include a computer lab, seminar and conference rooms, space for more than 80 student clubs and groups, a performing arts center/theater, and places to buy food.
The four-story building also will have a four-story glass atrium and a bell-and-clock tower.
Student dining has been moved from the University Center to the new Cintas Center across Victory Parkway in North Avondale.
Construction is expected to take 18 months.
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