We really appreciate the deans and administration for valuing our role in that and staying focused on the idea that this building is being built for student life. We ve needed this building for a long time. Now we can unify campus life around one major building, one place that has a space for all the different student groups. What I like best is the open wall idea, where there are a lot of open meeting spaces and conference rooms. I think it encourages students to get togther and discuss things, he says.
Fund raising for the new center continues.
The Johns Hopkins University s student arts center is designed as three wings, which form a triangle open southward. The center itself is as yet unnamed, but the wing that will border Charles Street has been named for the university s recently retired vice president and secretary, Ross Jones. Jones has been around Hopkins in one role or another for most of the last half-century. A 1953 Hopkins graduate, he returned to the university in 1961 as assistant to President Milton S. Eisenhower, has been a close aide to six of the university's 13 presidents. As secretary of the board of trustees, he worked with five board chairmen.