The hottest new hang out on campus is the Cyber Lounge in 7th Street Underground.

Attendees mingled among sleek flat screen televisions, large black bean bag chairs and red couches accented the streetlamp lit area.

This is an example of what can be accomplished with the administration, faculty and students work together, said President Lou Hencken.

“It (the renovation) was not just a project, it was a learning experience,” said Dan Nadler vice president for student affairs.

Students and faculty in design classes gave their input for the renovations. Facilities planning and management built a stainless steel table, on which four or five new computers sit. And Student Government provided the original idea.

Nadler referred to the final product as, the place Ryan Berger calls the coolest place on campus to be. Renovating 7th Street Underground was the former Student Body President’s idea.

“The hope that we have (for this place) is that students will use it to the extent that we’re down here next year expanding it,” Hencken said.

Nadler hopes the lounge will provide a forum for debate on national topics. He described how he could envision television cameras focused on a speaker in the main room of 7th street. Then after the speaker, professors could hold class in the lounge and incorporate the two facing flat screen televisions into their lesson plans.

The professor could have opposing view points on both televisions, Nadler said, gesturing to the sets on which CNN and ESPN played.

For students who plan to hang out in the lounge in-between classes, Nadler said University Board plans to buy an X-Box or some type of gaming system for the TVs. UB would then plan to hold gaming tournaments in the lounge.