Rhodes College

Herein, you'll find the visual beauty of Rhodes College at your fingertips. It will be like visiting, except you won't get to see my smiling face.

Two lynx (the college mascot) guard the entrance to campus.

This tower is officially named Halliburton tower, but that sounds commercial, conservative, and ugly, so I just call it the bell tower. It chimes the hour, but it doesn't do that annoying every-fifteen-minutes thing. It's very striking, visually. I wasn't able to get far enough away to take this picture.

Through that Gothic archway is my home, Glassell the Castle.

Here it is in all its glory. The air conditioning is on overdrive, such that as I write this, I'm shivering. There is no escape from how cold it is.

This is a funny building with a funny name. Frazier-Jelke Science Center is comepletely underground. It connects with the other science and math buildings. Students walk on top of it all day. The steps down to it were also designed to form an amphitheater. The original Class of 2009 welcome message is still emblazoned on the window to the Frazier-Jelke lobby, although Katrina had something to say about that, too.

This is a nifty geodesic sphere-thing made by, according to the plate in front of it, physics students. Behind it, you can see Kennedy Hall, where I have my Calculus 3 class.

Lynximus Maximus, the official mascot of Rhodes College, fiercely guards entrance to Rhodes Tower, the dumbest-looking building on campus.

While we're looking at statues, we might as well jump down and take a peek at Charles Edward Diehl, whose idea it was to tie the campus together with a set of common architectural features. He was President of the college for a long time in the 1920s and probably 1930s.

Buckman Hall is where I take Search and Economics. It's a nifty little building, although the rubber stair treads are mismatched.

Clough Hall contains a hodgepodge of academic departments, including art, psychology, and (I think) archaeology. I don't have any classes there, but a few of my professors have their offices there.

This building contains the bookstore, the mailroom, and a nifty lounge with a frozen yogurt stand. The lounge is probably the best place on campus. Offices for things are located upstairs. The building has a name, but I don't know what it is.

Hassell Hall is the music building, but I don't have any classes there. Rhodes Singers rehearses in the large Hardie Auditorium located in Palmer Hall (the building with the bell tower) and so I don't spend much time in Hassell. I will if I ever need a practice room, though.

This building is clearly marked in the photograph as the McCoy Theatre. The legend is it used to be a sorority house, but I don't believe the people who tell that legend. Even though there are a lot of them.

This, although the photograph doesn't show it very well, is a gigantic building. It is, in fact, the largest on campus, save for the brand-new Barret Library, which is really, really big. The Bryan Campus Life Center (or BCLC) is home to two large gymnasiums, a nice big ballroom that is used as an auditorium, and a lounge with pool and pingpong tables called the Lynx Lair, which also has food. It's a happenin' place, let me tell you.

Some people don't like to wait hours for pages full of photos to load. At Three Pistol Nun, we respect that, and so we arbitrarily divided the pictures into two groups: library and non-library. You've just seen the non-library pictures. Prepare to be amazed, now, by the extraordinarily impressive library pictures.

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