Issue date: 10/23/08 Section: News

Media Credit: Ben Kleppinger Doyle Baldwin and Donnie Pingleton, Facilities Services employees from Berea, install carpet in one of the new music practice rooms in Case Hall. Case plans to feature two music practice rooms, two art spaces, one dance studio and one theatre room by the end of the semester. Case is home to Eastern's new Creative and Fine Arts Living Learning Community.

A new residence hall community at Eastern is getting rave reviews from some students and raising objections from others.

The new Creative and Fine Arts Living Learning Community is one of two new living learning communities on campus this semester.

Case Hall is home to the Community, which is aimed at students with an interest in art, music or acting. Case previously housed the "Connextions" Living Learning Community for freshman.

Living learning communities typically consist of a residence hall or residence hall floor that is reserved for people who share similar interests. The Creative and Fine Arts Community is unique because the university is also renovating six rooms in Case to provide students with communal artistic practice space, said Nickole Hale, Eastern's Associate Director of Housing.

Hale said when renovations are complete, Case will feature two sound-proofed music practice rooms, two ventilated art rooms for painting, a dance studio with bars and mirrors and a theatre room where students can practice their acting. The basement of Case will become a lounge area designed to mimic a coffee house, with a small stage and a kitchen area with coffee house equipment, said Tagan Citty, Case Hall's residence hall coordinator.

Renovations are expected to be complete by the end of the semester, but for now Community residents are living in Case without access to most communal rooms.

Flooring for the dance room has not arrived as scheduled, and renovation on the basement lounge area has not begun, Citty said.

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