The Next Campus
EDMONTON’S POST-SECONDARIES ALL WANT A PIECE OF DOWNTOWN. BUT HOW WILL THAT SHAPE THE AREA—AND THE STUDENTS?
BY MACK LAMOUREUX
FROM THE FALL 2015 ISSUE
It was the best decision of my life.
After three uncomfortable years in the trades I enrolled in school with visions of the post-secondary life that was to follow: crossing manicured lawns with books tucked under my arms during that perpetual autumn that exists on campus grounds, according to every movie ever made about college. Then I arrived at MacEwan University, first at its bright orange Centre for Arts and Communication building on the west side, then its central campus after my program was moved there the following year. Needless to say, neither had the sprawling quads and the centuries-old trees that shaded Matt Damon and Robin Williams.
Having spent my entire life on an acreage north of Edmonton, I hated going downtown as a kid and I especially hated commuting there as a student—too many people, too many cars. But a strange thing happened not long after clutching my first pair of apartment keys: I started growing attached to the city centre—and the city itself.
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