[Henry Blackburn '20]
So right now we're at the Sunken Garden,
which is the heart of old campus.
We have seven buildings surrounding old campus.
We have James Blair Hall which is home to Philosophy and History.
We have Tyler Hall which is home to Government, Econ, International Relations and Public Policy.
We have Tucker Hall which houses English and Creative Writing.
The Wren building houses our Religious Studies department.
Ewell Hall holds our Music department and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Washington Hall is our home of Modern Languages
and McGlothlin-Street Hall is
home to Geology and Computer Science.
The Sunken Garden is a lot like our university quad or lawn.
On more beautiful days, you can often see a lot of students out here studying, throwing frisbees,
and just hanging out with their friends.
A bit of history about the Sunken Garden:
it was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935 and 1936 as part of the New Deal
and it was designed after the gardens in the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London.
The Sunken Garden is also our chief social venue for a lot of clubs and organizations here on campus.
The Chinese Student Organization, for example,
will host a huge Lunar New Year Festival
where everybody will make paper lanterns
that'll light up and dot the night sky.
One of our Greek organizations will host campus golf,
which is a huge fundraiser that benefits the Williamsburg community.
And lastly, AMP which it stands for Alma Mater Productions, one of our largest
programming boards here on campus, will
host two main events.
One of them is "Screen on the Green" where students will come out with their halls and watch
movies on a giant blow-up screen with
free popcorn, and they also host a lot of
events on our last day of classes just
to celebrate the ending of this semester.
As our largest programming board, they're
integral and bringing our community together.
