Carolina Coliseum outdated, depressing
If you believed that, this clearly is your first time reading The Daily Gamecock.
To say the Coliseum is outdated, dark, depressing and miserable is a huge understatement.
The classrooms, if you can call them that, don't get cellphone reception. There are no windows.
Pre-flat screen televisions at least a decade old sit unused.
The classrooms for smaller classes resemble closets.
And these are just a few of the shortcomings of coliseum. It simply isn't a building for learning. Yet the third largest college at USC, the College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management, is currently the journalism school's neighbors in these dungeons.
A program this popular that brings in so many students to the university shouldn't be in such a dank building. For that matter, nothing should be taught in that building. Except perhaps a psychology class that focuses on depression — in order to give students a firsthand experience.
The center of campus is slowly gravitating toward the south end closer to the Carolina Coliseum. Once the state-of-the-art business building is built, other schools will need to update to better facilities as well. Being the kids stuck under the basketball isn't fun now, let alone when there's a brand new net-zero building just right down the street.
The School of Journalism and Mass Communications will soon have new digs. The College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management deserve only the same.