Campus Club (C-Club)

Description:	Located just south of Jordan Hall, the original Campus Club (C-Club) on Butler Universitys Fairview campus was a 50x100 foot building that could accommodate between 300 and 400 students. The C-Club sold meals and snacks and offered students a place to gather and hold events until an electrical fire destroyed the building on November 16, 1947. University officials reacted quickly and soon approved the construction of a new student union and began formulating plans for the building. The result of this work was Atherton Union, which opened on January 3, 1950, and included a new C-Club as well as a cafeteria, a bookstore, a room with billiard and ping pong tables, a lounge, a barber shop, offices for student activities and clubs such as The Butler Collegian and The Drift, as well as the Alumni Office, a faculty lounge, and other amenities. The 1955 Drift, the Universitys yearbook, includes impressions of the C-Club. No sooner had we completed registration it seemed, than mid-terms were upon us. And we had scarcely recovered from them, when it was time for that necessary evil Finals! We campaigned vigorously for a reading day, but our attempts were unsuccessful. As the day of reckoning approached, the library attendance increased, and the number of bridge players in the C-Club dwindled. We groaned about the amount of reading that we must review . . . frantically searched for missing notes . . . wistfully wished that we had gone to class a couple of more times instead of playing that extra hand of bridge . . . and finally began to study with a feverish haste. Somehow, we lived through that week, and managed to pass our finals or most of them. When they were all over and we could once again call our time our own, we dashed through our favorite door the one that leads to the C-Club. (p. 165).
Source:	http://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BldgsGrnds/id/1931
Collection:	Butler University Buildings and Grounds Collection
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Copyright:	In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Geography:	Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 39.837488, -86.172112 39.837488 -86.172112
Subjects:	Chairs Tables Cafeterias Student unions Butler University--Buildings College buildings Butler University--History Indianapolis (Ind.)--History Campus Club C-Club Booths Atherton Union John Whistler Atherton Center Fairview campus

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