[TH Spangler]

Like the top floor with all the glass. Will be a nice place to hang .... with a view!

http://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?P ... &MID=68555

[jmdickens]

While I am on the conservative side of spending money, this is awesome. I lived on the circle and loved it even after the addition of East Campus. The 35 years the school got out of the dorms was a blessing. Hopefully, financially this wont come back to get us. I know, LU has some smart people in place. Can't wait to see these!!!

[Purple Haize]

If they really wanted to save money, the should just stack the old dorms on top of each other! Bam, instant high rise! Putting money in dorms is a great investment for any school.

[alabama24]

If they really wanted to save money, the should just stack the old dorms on top of each other! Bam, instant high rise! Putting money in dorms is a great investment for any school.

I worked in a church that had done something similar… the "walkout" basement was stick built with gutted mobiles on top. The Great Olympia Earthquake of 2001 was quite a ride, let me tell you.

[logic]

While I am on the conservative side of spending money, this is awesome.

Don't give them any ideas!! We'll put another billion in the bank from LUO over the next four years. Build baby build!!

[jbock13]

While I am on the conservative side of spending money, this is awesome.

Don't give them any ideas!! We'll put another billion in the bank from LUO over the next four years. Build baby build!!

You sound Bernanke high on QE.

[Purple Haize]

While I am on the conservative side of spending money, this is awesome.

Don't give them any ideas!! We'll put another billion in the bank from LUO over the next four years. Build baby build!!

You sound Bernanke high on QE.

So build or save

[BJWilliams]

Pardon my asking...but what on earth is QE?

[Purple Haize]

Pardon my asking...but what on earth is QE?

Quantitative Easing. We have had 3 under our current President. In short, they just print more money.

[rogers3]

While I am on the conservative side of spending money, this is awesome.

Don't give them any ideas!! We'll put another billion in the bank from LUO over the next four years. Build baby build!!

You never know. With changes in our government, we could see big changes in the future of education.

[TH Spangler]

Pardon my asking...but what on earth is QE?

Quantitative easing? Isn't that when Obama prints more money to drive gas prices up another dollar per gallon.

[logic]

While I am on the conservative side of spending money, this is awesome.

Don't give them any ideas!! We'll put another billion in the bank from LUO over the next four years. Build baby build!!

You never know. With changes in our government, we could see big changes in the future of education.

I'm not worried. If you're not lying to yourself you'll see that Republicans really aren't that different than Democrats, and I don't see Romney cutting student loans from the federal budget anytime soon. Only a true Libertarian would have the gumption to do that.

[jbock13]

I knew it!

[ALUmnus]

Those renderings make those buildings look enormous, but on the overhead they're no wider than the current circle dorms. Tall and skinny?

[adam42381]

Those renderings make those buildings look enormous, but on the overhead they're no wider than the current circle dorms. Tall and skinny?

48 feet wide according to the renderings.

[Purple Haize]

I knew it! :I am laughing out loud. I typed "LOL" but that is for teenage girls who text. So please know that I am laughing. Out loud.:

Haha. He must think Libertarian means 'someone from Liberty'! Or else we'd all be subject to evening of Lawrence Welk on the TV and intimate conversations after 9 PM !

[BJWilliams]

I was coming back from the football game and thought that with the new dorm construction, a change in the nomenclature for the dorms would have to be considered (at least as far as dorm numbering is concerned) once all the buildings are finished

[ALUmnus]

You're just dying to get in on that, aren't you?

[LUconn]

I like the numbers. It seemed like the president of SGA ran on a platform of naming dorms every year while I was at LU and nobody was ever able to do it. I remember we traveled up to JMU for a football game and the JMU fans thought we were all so weird for associating ourselves with our dorm number. I'm sure they had other reasons too. Numbered dorms makes it easier to navigate around instead of having to remember a bunch of random last names


Especially since I'm pretty sure the school is footing the bill and not any particular last name.

[BJWilliams]

Eh...not really ALUmnus. The only reason I thought that might be in order is that the 16 dorms of the circle will be consolidated into four or six buildings when its all done with. the numbering wouldnt make as much sense as it is now once the new buildings are all done. Im not saying do away with numbers, just rework the numbers to reflect the changes.

[Cider Jim]

Especially since I'm pretty sure the school is footing the bill and not any particular last name.

I was hoping for at least one Trump Tower (or a Romney Rotunda).

[rogers3]

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Don't give them any ideas!! We'll put another billion in the bank from LUO over the next four years. Build baby build!!

You never know. With changes in our government, we could see big changes in the future of education.

I'm not worried. If you're not lying to yourself you'll see that Republicans really aren't that different than Democrats, and I don't see Romney cutting student loans from the federal budget anytime soon. Only a true Libertarian would have the gumption to do that.

Well I have a unique take that several here share, but from the view of another Liberal Arts school, and "word on the street" says that the days of the online education bonanza will be changing as states look at alternative ways to provide education for residents. Do you really think that people will be interested in paying the current online ed fees when states start offering first and second year classes at the same rate or less than the local community college is charging? If I'm not mistaken, JLFJR mentioned that the current program wouldn't always be the cash cow that it currently is, or something to that effect. It isn't about the availability of loans as much as it is the ability of schools to keep up with ever-rising costs, and the ability of graduates to get work that pays for the blossoming debt that they accrue.

... and no, I don't things change that much between the parties. Too difficult to wean the country off of debt and to get the leaches to learn how to be producers.

[Purple Haize]

Especially since I'm pretty sure the school is footing the bill and not any particular last name.

I was hoping for at least one Trump Tower (or a Romney Rotunda).

Godwin's Gondola?