San Diego State University
1. Campus
When you go out on campus, the first thing you notice may be a huge pit in the ground. In fact, what is now a huge pit will one day be a trolley stop—thus a new term was coined: BT, before trolley. As in, “yeah, I’m still a senior. But I plan to graduate BT.” But seriously, other than the construction, the campus is beautiful…and immaculate. The University keeps very strict control over what gets posted, where, how, and when. This can be a real detriment to advertising schemes. However, there are enough places to post that you can learn your way around it. There are bulletin boards in almost every building, so if you get a few students together you can get most of the campus canvassed in an hour or so. The trick to know is that they clear the boards on Friday mornings. So to maximize your post time, hang fliers Friday afternoon, Sunday evening, or Monday morning.
Some places to know on campus:
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East and West Commons and
Aztec Center have food courts and coffee shops. Good places to meet students.
The SDSU Bookstore is right next to East Commons.
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Aztec Center is where
organizations can table. Unofficially
you can table other places too, such as Storm Hall, but you need to bring your
own table.
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Aztec Center also has major
rooms such as: Casa Real, Montezuma Hall, the Back Door, the AS Council
Chambers, and various student union offices.
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Housing and Residential Life
Office: one of the least helpful offices on campus, but you will need
them. They house both the administration
for the residence halls and the Greek system.
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Malcolm A. Love Library—look
for the huge glass dome. I didn’t spend
a lot of time there, but I am willing to bet that if you did, you would
casually run into a lot of students.
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Hepner Hall, the one that
looks like a Spanish hacienda, is where many of the Hebrew classes are. The area in front of that building is also a
crossroads, so I found I often ran into students there.
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Scripps Cottage is on the way
to West Commons, right next to the little faux stream. Not a real hotspot among the students on a
daily basis, but it is a fun place to have a program, if you can think of the
right one. Scripps Cottage is also home
to the Center for Community Based Service Learning, a group that works with community
service-minded students; they are a potential partner agency.
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