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Performing Arts Center
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Currently, students are crowded in both the library and computer labs.
The need for quiet individual study versus class meetings often clash. The
new center will have more computers for students’ use during non-class times and will provide enhanced teaching areas for instructors. As shown in the drawings, the two parts of this center will complement each other while offering students and faculty expanded informational resources for their study and work.
The library will offer increased book shelf space, a garden reading room, and ample space for both individual study and research and group work. Long overdue, the renovations and relocation will create a beautiful and central resource center for all.
Performing Arts Center—With An All-School Auditorium and New Classrooms
The new auditorium, classrooms, and performing arts center is planned in a “village” style, with a central plaza. This first leg of the Trinity Project will provide a multi-purpose auditorium for all the school to share— an immediate concern since all-school events no longer fit in the Assembly Hall and so must be held in the gymnasium or even off-campus. This first phase is also integral in moving forward on the next two phases: the Library and Media Center and the new Student Center.
New Student Center
The first of its kind on campus, the new student center will provide students with the space and resources to pursue extracurricular activities and to simply ‘hang out’ with friends in the lounge. The components of this center will include a comfortable central lounge, a student information and resource area with computers, the school store, the Panther Café, outdoor patio seating, and student offices for student publications, ASB, and similar groups. The Dean of Students office may be located here along with the Campus Ministry.
Today, students sprawl on the benches outside (when it’s not raining) or crowd into the front room of the library to talk, hang out, or use computers. The new Student Center will give students a welcoming environment—to relax, or to
engage in the vital learning processes that occur outside the classroom. This third component of the Trinity Project will truly signal the completion of the most pressing needs the Priory faces to fulfill its vision as “a learning community for the new century.”
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