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On-Campus Living At Its Best First-Year Students Enjoy Rare Collegiate Living Experience Last September, a national television audience enjoyed an up-close look at The Commons when ESPN used the venue to broadcast their first College GameDay show from the campus. Besides discovering that The Commons makes an ideal set location for ESPN, the nation also learned that the modern, six-acre complex is one of the truly unique on-campus collegiate living environments. Built in the southeast quadrant of the Vanderbilt campus, The Commons includes 10 residence halls, or "houses," spacious study and social areas, and the showpiece Commons Center, a modern dining and activity hub, all located on the Peabody campus. It opened to first-year students in 2008. Vanderbilt officials believe The Commons provides new students with a truly special living/learning experience. Bringing scholars, leaders, teachers and students together to create a vibrant intellectual community is at the heart of The Commons' mission. The Commons Center also features the Eatery, the place to dine with friends and study with classmates. At the Commons Cafe, students, faculty and staff can develop friendships while listening to Vanderbilt and Nashville musicians.
Notable Alumni Vanderbilt alumni are having a positive impact on the nation. Many of Vanderbilt's 115,000 alumni are leaders in their chosen fields, including business, engineering, science and medicine, public service, education, arts and entertainment, and sports. From the halls of Congress, Lamar Alexander continues to be one of the nation's most effective leaders as Tennessee's senior senator. Suspense enthusiasts gobble up James Patterson's newest thriller. Economist and Novel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is taking his community-based Grameen Bank concept across the globe from Bangladesh. And in business and technology, Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., Cal Turner Jr., John Rich, Bill Samuels Jr., and John Ingram are just a few of many alums regarded as leaders of industry and commerce. In sports, our alums are more abundant than ever: former Vanderbilt student newspaper ace Buster Olney is a leading baseball analyst for ESPN; Arthur Hancock is a leading breeder of Kentucky Derbycaliber thoroughbreds; former No. 1 pick David Price is one of many promising Major League Baseball talents with Commodore ties; and quarterback Jay Cutler is the most prominent of 14 former Commodores playing in the National Football League.
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