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stage Buckner Theatre, music and art studios, and the Melvin Art Gallery; the Robert A. Davis Performing Arts Center; the William F. Chatlos Communication Building, which is equipped with broadcasting facilities; the Carlisle Rogers Business and Economics Building; and the Jack M. Berry Citrus Building. Completed in 1968, the Roux Library was designed by Nils Schweizer to replace Frank Lloyd Wright’s E.T. Roux Library (now the Thad Buckner Administration Building) with a larger library facility. Mr. Schweizer, Mr. Wright’s on-site supervisor for several Florida Southern College buildings and a student of Mr. Wright’s, integrated many Frank Lloyd Wright themes with his own unique style. The adjacent Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr., Archives Center, opened in 2009, houses records from the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church; Frank Lloyd Wright drawings and documents; the Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History; and the Florida Citrus Archives. Tûtû's Cyber Café in the Roux Library opened in 2007 and contributes to the educational and social fabric of the campus. During the 2009-10 academic year, the College opened the new Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Technology Center, which is staffed seven days a week, and the state-of-the-art Joe K. and Alberta Blanton Nursing Building, home to the College’s growing School of Nursing. Last year the College opened the Dr. Marcene H. and Robert E. Christoverson Humanities Building, which features contemporary classrooms, a modern language lab, film studies center, and art gallery. Student housing facilities include the architecturally revolutionary Wesley Hall and Nicholas Hall, designed by Robert A.M. Stern, a world-renowned Frank Lloyd Wright scholar and dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Other contemporary residence halls include Miller Hall, Hollis Hall, Charles Jenkins Residence Hall, Dell Residence Hall, and the Publix Charities Commons. Housing options include single, double, and suite-style occupancy. In addition, students enjoy the recently renovated dining hall – Wynee's Bistro; the Charles T. Thrift Alumni Center; the Nina B. Hollis Wellness Center; the Jackson Religion Building; and the George Jenkins Field House. Athletic fields, intramural fields, and orange trees span the campus, as do numerous outdoor gathering spaces, including the Badcock Garden, an outdoor “living room;” the more formal Glover Garden; Lynn’s Garden, an environmentally sustainable garden overlooking Lake Hollingsworth; the newly restored Willis Garden of Meditation; and the Rodda Family Plaza for outdoor classes.
The Dr. Marcene H. and Robert E. Christoverson Humanities Building