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FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT J. B. DOUTHIT JR DOUTHIT HILLS PROJECT EXPERIENCE: ALUMNI 1 SPRING 2016 YOU CAN HELP clemson.edu/studentaffairs From the VICE PRESIDENT TABLE of CONTENTS for STUDENT AFFAIRS

From VICE PRESIDENT Dear Friends of Clemson, DR. ALMEDA R. JACKS 3 It is an exciting time in Clemson University’s history — a time of growth as well as immense Overview of the DIVISION change. While some of these developments are of STUDENT AFFAIRS 4 internal and may go unnoticed by those outside of the campus community, there are some

ABOUT this major projects on our campus that would be ISSUE 5 hard to miss. The University is expanding and making room for future generations of Tigers, HISTORY of who are sure to carry on our traditions and CLEMSON HOUSE 6 Clemson students for years to come. You will maybe even start new ones. also read about fellow Clemson alumni and their experiences on campus. PROJECT In the next few years, the landscape of Clemson DOUTHIT HILLS 8 University will change, but Student Affairs’ The Division of Student Affairs is truly efforts remain the same. We will continue to JR. thankful for the support we have received. We J. B. DOUTHIT 12 put students first, especially when it comes look forward to seeing our efforts in University to the improvements and new initiatives in Housing & Dining facilities come to fruition residential living. The division is committed Why and hope you are just as eager to see what GIVE? 16 to providing services and facilities that enrich is to come at Clemson University. each student’s life and improve their experience at Clemson. EXPERIENCE: ALUMNI 18

We are excited about the coming changes and Almeda R. Jacks, Ph.D. HISTORY OF the ability to extend opportunities for growth DOUTHIT HILLS Vice President for Student Affairs 6CLEMSON HOUSE 8 PROJECT and development to even more students. Living on campus teaches students respect, expands their support network and allows them to form relationships that often last well beyond the years students spend here. We look forward to seeing our achievements continue to make Clemson even stronger.

In this issue of experience, you will learn the history of the Douthit Hills space, including the University’s historic Clemson House, the current plans for the Douthit Hills development project and how it will impact

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Clemson University’s Division of Student Known for student engagement outside of the Clemson University’s history is visible the Affairs is a large division within the University. classroom, the Division of Student Affairs also minute any student steps on campus. The We currently employ more than 400 staff provides a variety of avenues to seamlessly blend experience magazine aims to highlight Student members across 19 departments, supporting the academic component of University life Affairs projects — programs or services that fuse student life around the clock. Led by Vice together with cocurricular learning. Whether campus history with modern programming, President Dr. Almeda R. Jacks, Student Affairs living alongside academic majors and professors construction and services. In this issue of at Clemson is a network of individuals who are in one of 23 living-learning communities, experience, we address our need for new on- committed to the safety, health, well-being and interning on campus with an area that matches campus housing, which will attract graduate success of our students on a daily basis. students’ personal and professional interests, or students and other upperclassmen as well as joining a Creative Inquiry, Clemson students Bridge to Clemson students. Providing students opportunities for are empowered to shape their own personal involvement, Student Affairs offers more Student Affairs experiences. The changes that will take place in order to than 400 student clubs and organizations from resolve this need will improve involvement which students can join. From religious groups and learning, while also enriching social to Student Government to special interests opportunities. There are many benefits of living such as backgammon and disc golf, student on campus, such as convenient access to dining organizations are more than just a chance to halls, sporting events, the library and student relax. These activities are the way students programs. We invite you to read the coming discover leadership skills, make new friends pages to discover our goals, which showcase and enhance their college experience. the effort we are putting forth to make the University a more welcoming and inclusive place for all students.

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The history of the Clemson House dates back featured a large open lounge, a restaurant, to the time before Clemson University became The Saber Room, and Tavern, which a coeducational institution in 1955, when it sold non-alcoholic beverages. Upon its initial was an all-male military school called Clemson opening, the Clemson House served as a place College. Before 1950, the Clemson Club Hotel for students to relax and hang out. It was not stood in the place of our current Clemson unusual to see students playing cards in the House. The hotel was a large boarding house open lounge or going to Tiger Tavern after that provided rooms and apartments for faculty classes were over. The house-hotel also featured and their families. During this time, the college a “Radio House” until the 1980s when WSBF hosted formal dances where the student cadets Clemson 88.1 FM evolved from a progressive invited female “chaperones” from surrounding to an alternative genre of music. A number of colleges and towns to join them. In addition governors and United States to housing faculty, the Clemson Club Hotel senators, former U.S. Secretary of State Dean was used as a place for the young women who Rusk and violinist Yehudi Menuhins, among attended the dances to stay overnight. others, have all stayed at the Clemson House.

Although the Clemson Club Hotel served Currently, the Clemson House is comprised of its purposes very well, by 1948 it was time seven floors of rooms and apartments, housing for a renovation. Former University President first-year students and visiting faculty, as well Franklin Poole received a report that called as a three-bedroom penthouse. It has a variety for an apartment-style hotel to be built in of rooms that may function as meeting and place of the older hotel. The house-hotel would conference rooms. There is also a barbershop provide meeting rooms, a large lounge and a located on the first floor, a free laundry room more modernized and upscale look. On Nov. 1, and a workout room on the lower level. 1950, the Clemson House opened for business and has been serving students, the University For more than 60 years, the Clemson House and the community ever since. The purpose of has provided a home to Clemson students. this new facility was to house faculty, staff and The Douthit Hills project will continue to retired faculty. The new project hoped to attract give students an atmosphere of comfort new, young faculty by enticing them with the and a place to create lasting memories. option to live in convenient on-campus housing.

The Clemson House was once known as “Carolina’s smartest hotel” and employed students as luggage carriers and servers after the University became coeducational. It

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The land at the entrance to campus, running Programs said, “We are extremely excited The project’s cutting edge and modern features UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE alongside S.C. Highway 93 and behind the about the potential impact Douthit Hills will will reinforce the University’s efforts to further Bookstore lines during the first week Clemson House was used in the past for family have on Bridge students. The one statement innovation and development on campus. of classes are a familiar sight on college housing and most recently for employee and we consistently hear from Bridge crossers is, ‘I campuses everywhere. Although this can student residential parking. However, this site is wish I had gotten more involved with activities Douthit Hills will be anchored by a central sometimes seem like a tedious task, the transforming into something the University has on Clemson’s campus during my Bridge year.’ hub, which will include a 450-seat dining hall, Clemson Bookstore has always tried to needed for quite some time now, especially with Living at Douthit Hills, Bridge students will Barnes & Noble® Bookstore, Starbucks®, a make the process as quick and easy the growing numbers of incoming students — a have much easier access to get involved. We convenience store, a satellite student fitness as possible. mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented area that will believe this access will help them feel they are center and a full-service, sit-down restaurant, target upperclassmen and Bridge to Clemson truly part of the Clemson Family. In addition, which are sure to showcase the activity of During the initial years of Clemson College, the institution attempted to handle the students from Tri-County Technical College. since the students will be closer to Clemson student life in a new park-like, on-campus sale of textbooks on its own. However, by resources they will hopefully make greater use setting. Seven residential buildings in the 1900, a contract with the New York firm The Bridge to Clemson program is a of those, so we anticipate even higher success housing portion of the project will add almost of Hines and Noble was established in partnership with neighboring Tri-County rates than we currently experience.” 1,700 beds to on-campus housing, a much- order to get the books. Since the company Technical College (TCTC). First-year students needed addition to accommodate demand. was in need of a local bookseller in the in this program start their coursework at TCTC With sight-lines to Tillman Hall, the Douthit Clemson community, Pickens McCollum in the fall semester. Students in the Bridge Hills development will transform close to 80 The project site is broken into three zones: (former owner and pharmacist of a local program are currently accommodated by TCTC acres of land at the opening of Clemson’s west zone, central zone and east zone. Five- drugstore) decided to step forward and in off-campus living arrangements. The Douthit campus into a vibrant, welcoming environment. and six-story residence halls will be constructed assume the responsibility. This relationship Hills project will provide future Bridge students When completed, Douthit Hills will include in the west zone and will contain 870 beds lasted well into the 1950s. a chance for an even smoother transition into new student housing, a residential dining for upperclassmen. These buildings will be Clemson’s campus. Robin McFall, director of center, a new bookstore, a new campus comprised of two- and four-bedroom apartment- By this time, the college figured that it Bridge to Clemson and Transfer Academic recreation center and retail spaces. style housing units, situated the closest to the could now handle textbook sales, so the University’s main campus. The central zone University Bookstore was then housed in the Edgar A. Brown Student Union below will be thought of as the main hub of Douthit Harcombe Dining Hall, where it stayed Hills, serving as a nucleus for engagement and until the Hendrix Student Center opened entertainment. The east zone will boast another on March 27, 2000. This became the set of four-story buildings, housing 780 beds in home of the present University Bookstore, traditional-style double occupancy for a select which developed a partnership with group of first-year students in the Bridge to Barnes & Noble®. The bookstore currently Clemson program. neighbors the East Side Food Court and McKissick Theatre. The completion of Douthit Hills will provide a more fluid transition for Bridge students, while actively incorporating them into the campus climate earlier than they would have been in the past. As of the fall 2014 semester, less than half of one percent of graduate students, 4.8

8 SPRING 2016 clemson.edu/studentaffairs SPRING 2016 clemson.edu/studentaffairs 9 percent of seniors and 15.4 percent of juniors Building Council’s website, “LEED® stands lived on campus. This can be partly attributed for green building leadership.” Clemson has to the fact that there are simply not enough a goal to achieve at least a LEED® Silver level beds to accommodate them. The Douthit Hills certification for all newly constructed buildings project aims to attract students who would and large renovations. normally settle for off-campus housing by offering a close proximity to the main campus As one of Clemson’s biggest and most exciting and other facilities. Recent studies have shown current capital projects, Douthit Hills will be a that students who live on campus have higher location for premier campus living. Executive GPAs and graduation rates than students who Director of University Housing & Dining, live off campus. Thus, the impact from having Kathy Bush Hobgood, commented, “The Bridge students and upperclassmen living on synergy of offering a diverse set of experiences, campus within the same community will be a all in one location, will create a unique positive one, not only in terms of academics, environment that will draw students to it. We but for social reasons as well. will now be better able to craft unique housing options for students during each phase of their

With an approved project cost of $212.7 Clemson careers, when they previously had very million, Douthit Hills is our University’s largest- few on-campus options during their junior and ever project in scope and in cost. It is estimated senior years.” By combining recreation, retail to be completed and occupied by August and housing, this project will become one of 2018. In accordance with other buildings on several new thriving communities for the entire Clemson’s campus, the buildings erected for the campus. In turn, it will create a more welcoming Douthit Hills project will achieve LEED® Silver and inclusive place for our Tigers to learn Level Certification, which is the recognized and roam. standard for measuring building sustainability. The LEED® green building certification Follow all of the division capital projects program is the nationally accepted benchmark at clemson.edu/studentaffairs/capital-projects.html. for the design, construction and operation of green buildings. According to the U.S. Green

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As most Clemson University faculty, staff Even now, placing tile in a ditch still serves Using the agricultural skills he learned at and students already know, a new footprint its specific purpose. J. B. Douthit Jr. soon Clemson, Douthit Jr. introduced irrigation to of residence halls are being constructed for became Anderson County’s primary soil this district. He believed the rainwater would students called Douthit Hills. The legacy of conservation supporter and was the oldest soil keep his basin filled with water for irrigation Douthit Hills begins with Joseph Benjamin conservationist district supervisor in service lines, so he built a dam in a gullied spot near Douthit Jr. A man who had a huge interest of the United States. his crop field. This resulted in a reduction in agriculture and developed life-changing in water runoff in the basin. strategies in making farming practices Also in 1914, Douthit Jr. graduated from more simplified and effective. Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science Douthit continued to be active in regional and in agriculture. He had a Clemson-learned national conservation movements, which gave J. B. Douthit Jr., born in 1893 in South passion for soil conservation and a drive for more emphasis to research, education and the Carolina, helped enrich Clemson’s agricultural innovation. In his twenties, he had to discover history of the conservation movement. history. As the child of a farmer, Douthit Jr. new strategies for making money. Douthit Jr. was bound to find a passion in agriculture. He described this as a turning point in his career as Joseph Benjamin Douthit Jr. died in 1972. He owned a large Anderson County farm between a farmer. Rather than give his purebred swine is still remembered by his living relatives, and the Simpson property and Lebanon Road, more to the market at a loss, he started a sausage the Clemson community will never forget how commonly known as Sandy Springs. This farm company and sold the meat door-to-door important his legacy is to Clemson’s agricultural eventually became a major part of the Simpson on his bicycle. history. This is especially portrayed through the Experiment Farm, a farm that is now naming of Douthit Hills. a Clemson Experiment Station. On March 1, 1917, he married Mary Broyles. In time, they had a daughter named Rebecca Many have described Douthit Jr. to be a Douthit. She later married and became known rambunctious young man growing up, as Rebecca Slone. In the subsequent years constantly experimenting with his dad’s farm. he transformed his farm from cotton into Articles found in Clemson’s Special Collections cattle and differentiated his crops, growing a state, “What good was a Clemson College reputation for the worthy quality of his diploma if [sic] (Douthit Jr.) tried such stunts corn seed. as tiling an open ditch?” The article goes on to explain one of J. B. Douthit Jr.’s first Douthit Jr.’s contributions to Clemson didn’t successful agricultural planning experiments, stop with his own time as a student. On March the tiled ditch. 27, 1936, the general assembly elected him to Clemson’s Board of Trustees, which he served on Growing tired of pulling weeds everyday that until Jan. 25, 1956. In 1937, Douthit Jr. was also grew overnight on the drainage ditch, Douthit named as the supervisor of the Upper Savannah Jr. “meticulously laid the tile on the floor of Soil Conservation District. This included the drainage ditch.” This was around 1914. Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties.

12 SPRING 2016 clemson.edu/studentaffairs SPRING 2016 clemson.edu/studentaffairs 13 JOE YOUNG Clemson House has accommodated lots of residents since its construction in 1950, but none quite as memorable as Professor Joe Young. As one of the first full-time residents of Clemson House, Professor Young shared his exceptional talents and passion for architecture with his students, fellow academics and his many friends. He was a renowned professor of architecture, having been one of former Clemson president James F. Barker’s instructors, and he was well known for his beautiful sketches of buildings on Clemson’s campus.

Professor Young was also the longest permanent resident of Clemson House and the last to move out, remaining in his seventh floor apartment (room 705) for 50 years. The eighth floor penthouse suite is named for him (officially, the Joseph Laurie Young Penthouse) as well as the bar, “Joe’s Place,” located in the Madren Conference Center.

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Living on campus is the best way to receive investing in the Division of Student Affairs. • Creation of an RA Scholarship Fund HOW TO GIVE the full college experience. From taking on Our donors contribute in multiple ways to • RA staff team development retreats To find an opportunity that is right for you, leadership positions as a resident assistant (RA) the student experience of campus life, creating please contact Brandy Page, senior development to always being in close proximity to events opportunities to foster student friendships All of these programs are essential to each officer, at [email protected]. taking place on campus, bonding with the rest and relationships with faculty, which they student’s Clemson Experience, and with your of the community is much easier and more will never forget. help, students will benefit from your decision convenient. Since our campus is a home away to give for years to come. Your donation also from home for our students, the Division of Clemson’s Circle of Gratitude is united, thankful gives you an opportunity to be a part of this Student Affairs encourages students to reside, and loyal to all who go out of their way to give lasting legacy. dine and study within the community in order to the University. There are always more ways to to strengthen the familial atmosphere. RAs get involved and further develop the success of are trained with these ideals in mind, utilizing students and meet their on-campus needs. There the goals of the Residential Experience Model. are promenade spaces, lounges and dining hall THANK YOU These goals include facilities within the Douthit Hills project that are Giving to Clemson University — and specifically, Our unique programs that take place within 1. self-exploration: a student’s process of gaining currently unnamed. These gathering places will the Division of Student Affairs — allows parents, the walls of our new facilities are what benefit personal awareness and understanding of serve as important leisure spaces for students students, alumni and friends of Clemson to our students most. Gifts to our residence hall who they are as individuals, in between and after classes. become part of a unique group of people who programs, such as living-learning communities understand the power that accompanies giving and resident assistant programs, ensure a 2. living in community: a student’s ability to the University. While tuition, room and board long-lasting legacy is left on campus. to meaningfully interact and form positive Unrestricted gifts allow Residential Life cover the majority of costs to keep students as relationships with others, programs to maintain the University’s 23 living- safe as possible and enjoy campus benefits, Giving to promenade spaces and lounges ensures students will enjoy innovative and 3. intellectual engagement: a student’s ability learning communities (LLCs), providing students the gifts given to the division allow students to extend learning from beyond the classroom and modern spaces for recreation, impromptu to connect to resources and find value in with access to peers who are like-minded and/ explore possibilities that were once not possible discussions and study time for years to come. becoming a lifelong learner and or have the same major. Residential Life also without our donors’ generosity. The Division of Student Affairs thanks you for 4. global citizenship: a student’s awareness houses faculty-in-residence in many areas, which your gifts, your kindness and your unwavering commitment and dedication to our students. of issues impacting the community and creates external learning opportunities outside The Division of Student Affairs encompasses the world as well as the capacity and desire of the classroom. Gifts to these programs would virtually every department outside of the classroom, from housing and dining to safety to take action to make positive, sustainable provide the following: and health services. Gifts to the division have THE change. • Provisions for LLC study breaks allowed for the purchase of evening shuttle By keeping these goals in mind, RAs • Marketing materials for high school counselors transit vehicles, recreation/fitness equipment, paid internships, alternative break trips, successfully achieve the division’s mission • Dinners with faculty and advisers POWER leadership conferences, alcohol and other drug in creating and maintaining supportive and • Guest speakers for lectures within the LLCs educational programs, late-night, on-campus OF challenging environments that enrich and • Programming funds events and facilities (such as new recreation nourish lives. • LLC community retreats complexes), student leisure spaces and housing accommodations. • In-community tutoring and academic support GIVING Because of our goals and mission, we need • Excursions connected to the student’s major donors who are willing and committed to or service area

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JULIE BARNES JAMES ROBILOTTA In 1980, Julie Barnes, a business major, was while attending Clemson. They even decided Transitioning from an undergraduate Clemson, which enhanced his love for campus fresh on the scene at Clemson University. to live on campus for the duration of their career at the University of North Carolina life and the tight-knit family and community Coming from Pittsburgh, Pa., acclimating to four years as students. Barnes now has two Wilmington, James Robilotta arrived at that living on campus offers. a new place definitely brought on the freshman daughters who are Clemson alumnae and one Clemson University in 2005 to enter one blues, but because of her experience living in daughter who is a current Clemson student. of the University’s masters programs — When asked how he feels about the Douthit prefabricated housing (prefabs), she and her Her eldest daughter graduated with the class Masters of Counselor Education: Student Hills project, Robilotta said, “Any time you roommates learned to take care of one another. of 2013, her middle with the class of 2015 and Affairs Practice in Higher Education. He can add beds to campus, it’s a good look.” They became a small family that year, living in her youngest is a sophomore. They all lived on lived on campus during both years of graduate This is true, especially considering the fact the largest of the prefabs, which was located campus at one time or another, and her last two school and said he loved it because of the that our student enrollment is consistently behind Cooper Library at the time. daughters have definitely had experiences with easy access to everything campus has to offer, rising. He is particularly excited about the the freshman blues. This is where Barnes believes including friends. opportunity it provides for Bridge to Clemson Because of her and her roommates’ newfound prefab housing was great for her because being students to become integrated into the freedom and the fact that upperclassmen were with her roommates gave her the opportunity to While at Clemson, Robilotta participated campus community. Robilotta spoke very known for wanting to live where they had never feel alone. They filled a void that she does in many on-campus groups and organizations. highly of the Bridge program, highlighting the been placed, Barnes said of her time spent in not believe would have been filled had she been They include the Clemson University Gospel fact that Clemson’s willingness to make these the prefab, “We were spoiled.” Although she placed in a traditional freshman residence hall. Choir (CUGC), CU Singers and Mock Turtle students a priority “is really exciting, and would have loved living in one of the traditional Although none of her daughters will get the soup as well as Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., that’s a model other colleges should be freshman residence halls, she felt completely chance to live in the new Douthit Hills project, during spring 2007. His love for improvisation trying to follow as well.” connected to campus because of her close she is thrilled that Clemson is building in the actually stemmed from his involvement proximity to the very heart of the University. area and particularly feels it’s “very important and experiences with Mock Turtle Soup, Since his graduation from Clemson, Robilotta Admittedly, this is the reason she and her for Bridge students to live on campus.” the University’s only comedy improvisation has become an authentic leadership speaker, roommates took part in so many activities troupe. He was also a residential director personal coach and author. for the duration of his graduate career at

18 SPRING 2016 clemson.edu/studentaffairs SPRING 2016 clemson.edu/studentaffairs 19 KYLE AND MICHELLE WOOSLEY PETE STONE Michelle Woosley arrived onto Clemson’s were driven to do their best and be successful Pete Stone arrived at Clemson University imminent extinction in the wild. He is now campus in 1988, pursuing an elementary academically. in 1999 from the small town of Chester, S.C. in charge of extending the mission beyond education degree. She was drawn to the resident His father, Dr. Samuel Stone, MD, graduated students to fully rally alumni and football fans assistant (RA) program and requested a change Because of their joint experiences as RAs, they from the University in 1976, and the legacy behind the effort to “Save Our Mascot.” from her initial residence hall (Byrnes) to “built a really strong friendship…through [all continued through one of his sons, the other Although he liked living off campus, Stone the Clemson House because she wanted the of their] RA activities,” and they also admit to having gone to his mother’s alma mater, said he missed the energy of being on campus diversity of a coed residence hall. While serving having made good friends and having many Winthrop University. that he’d grown accustomed to the first two as an RA at the Clemson House, she met her positive experiences. Michelle also said she and a half years of his college career. In husband Kyle, who had come to Clemson enjoyed living on campus for the summer and Stone double majored in philosophy and response to the Douthit Hills project, Stone in 1989 in pursuit of a degree in electrical meeting so many great groups of people: from English, and he was also very involved said it seems promising. He is also pleased it engineering. When they met, he was also Elderhostel participants to barbershop quartet in organizations around campus and the is intended to be used in part for the Bridge an RA in the Clemson House. groups to young sports camp participants. Both surrounding community during and after to Clemson program. of their on-campus experiences were positive his time as a student at Clemson. He was The Woosleys have a unique tie to Clemson’s ones, and Kyle even lived in the Clemson president of the Clemson Philosophical In his 12 years post-graduation, Stone has campus, since they happened to meet while House all four years. Society, a member of the Ethics Debate Team, covered a lot of ground. He first attended a top they were both RAs in the Clemson House. a production manager at Clemson Cable film school and started a production company, This experience — along with Michelle’s time Michelle is now a second-grade teacher in Network, a mic-man for the football team, but he then decided to go to medical school as a conference assistant — proved to be helpful Holly Springs, N.C. Kyle is a sales engineer youth director at the local Presbyterian Church so he could become a doctor in a third-world training in providing positive service for others for semiconductor companies. They have two and was featured by The Tiger newspaper as one country. However, after two years of medical and has helped her immensely in her job as children, who they said have been “groomed to of Clemson’s five “Most Interesting Seniors.” school, he realized that his true way of giving a teacher. Kyle said his RA experience helped be Tiger fans,” Carson, 17, and Jordan, 14. back lay in his production work, writing and keep him focused on his studies and helped In addition to all of these positions, Stone also teaching. Stone said, “So what I am doing now him stay connected to other students, who came up with a concept to “Save Our Mascot” is ‘following my Bliss’ and encouraging others that eventually led to his involvement with to change the world through doing what makes Tigers for Tigers (T4T), which is a national them most ‘True, Beautiful and Free,’ as local coalition of colleges whose mascot is the Chester poet Dr. Vivian Ayers puts it.” tiger. They focus on trying to save tigers from

20 SPRING 2016 clemson.edu/studentaffairs SPRING 2016 clemson.edu/studentaffairs 21 CHRIS PETERS A class of 1991 financial management major Being involved with Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, from Walkersville, Md., Chris Peters spent his Central Spirit, the Student Alumni Council, freshman and sophomore years in the heart University Tour guides, Blue Key and Tiger of Clemson’s campus, living in . Brotherhood is proof living on campus helped He later moved to the Fraternity Quad. to solidify his connection into the life of Clemson. It also allowed him to form lasting Peters said one of the best things about living friendships with his fellow residents that in these locations was just that — the location. he maintains to this day. With extra dining Johnstone Hall and the Quad were close to facilities, retail space, new residence halls and everything: Sirrine Hall and other classrooms, more, Peters said the Douthit Hills project is a Harcombe Dining Hall, Clemson Memorial “tremendous thing for Clemson,” and also said Stadium and , which it will be a great use of this valuable land on made life on campus very convenient. Peters campus. Peters continues sharing his love said, “Living on campus definitely helped for Clemson, working with the Clemson me get involved in many great student life University Foundation. activities,” and shared that his best Clemson experience was being the Tiger Mascot for three years.

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