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August 25, 2003
Students design
‘Jazzland Café’
Joel
Morse
Contributing Writer
This fall students have a new attraction to look forward to on
campus.
MCC is constructing a cyber café designed by students located next
to the library.
The café, which is to be called Jazzland, will serve coffee shop
style food and beverages. Computer terminals will be also be accessible
through the café so students can surf the web while sipping lattes.
Jazzland will provide music for patrons to create an atmosphere aimed
at enticing students.
Another cyber café is set to open on Red Mountain’s campus
as well.
MCC students were partly responsible for designing the café.
The students of the Design Family and Consumer Science Class, under the
instruction of MCC professor Janice Jennings, consulted with the architects
and helped modify the design.
Students LeaAnn Walker, Bonnie Danielson, and Monica Curiel shouldered
much of the student work in the project.
Many of the essential components of the Jazzland Cyber Café are
the results of the students’ contribution, such as the millwork
or countertops where the computers will be placed, the artwork on the
walls, and even the choice of paint colors.
The students presented the architectural schematics at an MCC leadership
meeting.
The students worked with Michael Fisk of DWL Architects.
He was responsible for overseeing and coordinating the project, and the
students interned for him.
The project has been in the works for over three years and has encountered
a number of delays.
Fisk predicts the café will open early this fall.
The café plans on sporting a piano themed, high-tech environment
that designers predict will be popular among students.
The café is to serve as a meeting place on campus where students
and faculty alike can come together and share ideas.
The union of caffeinated beverages and cyberspace may offer a relaxing
change of pace from the rigors of the day without having to run off-campus
between classes.
An exact opening date for the café is currently unavailable. Those
working on the project are wary of setting a date due to the number of
incidents that previously delayed its opening.
The sewer system of the library was found to be insufficient, which led
to one delay.
Food services are set to begin Aug. 24 for the cyber café on the
Red Mountain campus.
At the moment, Grounds for Thought in the Kirk Center is the only source
of coffee drinks on the main campus.
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