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Facilities

Quick Stats

Service & Maintenance Staff 50
Campus Size 53 acres
Student Centers Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
Campus Library? Yes
Main Libraries DeWitt Wallace Library
Popular Places to Chill
  • Bateman Plaza: quad, tables outside of the campus center
  • Café Mac Grille
  • The campus center (namely the student lounge)
  • Dorm quad
  • Janet Wallace courtyard
  • Library
  • Shaw Field
  • Swing set outside of the Leonard Center
Bar on Campus None
Coffeehouse on Campus None
Movie Theater on Campus The John B. Davis Lecture Hall located in the basement of the campus center regularly serves as the campus movie theater. There is also a TV room upstairs in the campus center. Additional film viewing rooms are available in the Humanities Building.

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The Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center serves as the main meeting place on campus. This $18.5 million building has a series of conference rooms, study areas, computers, lecture halls, the Highlander Store, the student lounge (equipped with pingpong tables, a movie viewing area, a popcorn machine, and a pool table), Café Mac, and the student post office. Students can go to the information desk for more details about everything from public transportation and making reservations for on-campus events to discounted student tickets for Twin Cities theaters and signing up for outings sponsored by Program Board.

Macalester also boasts a state-of-the-art athletics and wellness complex called the Leonard Center, though more playfully called "the Nard" and "the LenCen." This $45 million building spans 175,000 square feet and has everything a student athlete could dream of. The Leonard Center has weight-lifting facilities, a natatorium, a 200-meter track, dance practice rooms, and basketball/volleyball courts. There are even saunas to sweat out all of the toxins built up from the weekend. The Leonard Center is also home of Scotty’s (a juice and snack bar), several gathering areas, and the Health and Wellness Center. In terms of other facility perks, the Humanities Building has the Humanities Resource Center (HRC), with plenty of computers and listening rooms, and Media Services, which rents out films and other media equipment like cameras, microphones, and recorders. Olin-Rice, the science building at Macalester, has state-of-the-art scientific equipment and a huge collection of biology and geology specimens for students to study and use for experimentation. There is also a giant wind turbine behind Olin-Rice that supplies some of the energy used to power the building.

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Facilities at Macalester College

vmparker2

'11

International Studies

3.1
B-

Construction on a Budget

There's a "fair" balance of modernity to the school's facilities. Some facilities are lagging, whereas others are borderline impressive.

Apr 20, 2011

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Facilities at Macalester College

clauer

'11

Political Science and Government

4.6
A

Bateman Plaza

When it's warm outside, students crowd into the quad in front of Campus Center to study, play Frisbee, or take naps in the sunlight. The members of DJ club will occasionally set up turntables and play music on the quad as well. It's a great place to do homework, to socialize, or to just sit down for a minute.

Apr 07, 2011

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Facilities at Macalester College

ewestras

'13

Hispanic American Studies

4.6
A

Beautiful, Minus the Lack of 24-Hr Services

With the exception of nothing being open 24 hours, everything is clean, comfortable, and the physical space of campus is beautiful.

Apr 07, 2011

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"Green" Initiatives

The campus is pretty active when it comes to green issues. The College even has the Sustainable Scots Newsletter, a biweekly email that keeps students up-to-date with sustainable happenings on campus.

Favorite Things To Do

Students enjoy: catching lectures in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall, seeing theater and dance performances on the Janet Wallace Main Stage, listening to student concerts in the music department, hearing slam poetry and student performance groups in 10K, and sitting out on the lawn.

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