Extensive use of the large and small meeting spaces in the Thompson Street facility currently used by the NYU Catholic Center for its programs. Space in this facility can provide a venue for the wide range of meetings now held in the South Lobby and Top of the Park, as well as some of the events now held in Eisner and Lubin. We are also working with many community groups, churches, and schools in the neighborhood to make arrangements for access to space in their facilities for University events. We have had a very gratifying response to our approaches and we expect to be able to make regular and substantial use of a number of mid-size auditoriums and large meeting spaces within an easy walk of the center of the campus. In addition, there are other entities in the community with auditoriums, meeting rooms, and multi-purpose halls that have available time in otherwise busy schedules which they are willing to let us use as they are available.
Organizations can then continue to request space for events as they arise.
To maintain our current policy of not charging student groups for Loeb space, we are developing a central budget for space use and rental costs so that these are not the responsibility of student groups needing space. We are seeking to avoid disrupting regular school events now held in school facilities or in central facilities like Cantor, Coles and Bobst by limiting their use for events now held in Loeb to those that are of high visibility and which need a direct connection to the University. The prime examples are admissions open houses and other recruiting events. We are, however, asking for maximum cooperation from the schools in meeting these kinds of requests, and are also asking the schools to be as hospitable as possible to requests for other student uses. Finally, a very selected group of events will be held in more visible or costly outside spaces.