The Villagio Village Apartments, Eastern’s newest living space, opened in 2001 on a site that had formerly been a treed greensward, adding 276


beds to the University’s housing inventory. Available only to upperclassmen, each of the six three-story units has four apartments per fl oor, and each apartment houses four students, with two bathrooms, a kitchenette, and study space. The layout was designed both to help students adapt to independent living and promote group interaction.


From Spoons to Controllers Students in the 1940s gathered in the Munson Hall snack bar to enjoy ice cream sundaes and other treats. Today’s gathering spots


are a bit more techie, like the Student Center’s E-Zone, where students can participate in multi-player games with their peers on Wii, Xbox and PlayStation.


Parking Perplexities Pick a decade, any decade. Pick a university, any university, especially one like Eastern where a large percentage of students are


commuters. You don’t have to dig deep or listen long to encounter a complaint about parking, often garnished with colorful descriptors. While EMU does have ample parking, students see things from a diff erent perspective. A pessimist might see these two photos, taken 30 years apart, as illustrations of hopelessness: there will never, ever be enough parking. An optimist would be reassured that even in a time when the pace of change seems to accelerate daily, some things can be counted on: there will never, ever be enough parking.


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