GEORGE GERSHWIN HALL

Built in 1953, houses the 488-seat George Gershwin Theater and the 170-seat Sam Levenson, '34, Recital Hall, named after the famous comedian and storyteller. Gershwin also houses the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, which includes the Center for Computer Music. Each year students at the Conservatory present 150 concerts, including performances by a chorus, jazz ensemble, brass ensemble, and two fully-staged operas. Gershwin Hall is also the administrative home of the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, an arts organization that brings in national and international performers, like the Bolshoi Ballet, the New York Philharmonic, as well as children's productions, popular singers, and comedians.

George Gershwin

Composer and Musician

George Gershwin was born in East New York, Brooklyn, New York, on September 26, 1898. His parents purchased a piano when he was thirteen, and Gershwin took to the instrument instantly, leaving school at fifteen to work as a pianist and song-plugger for musical publishers. Along with his older brother, Ira, he became one of the dominant Broadway songwriters to emerge during the 20s, creating a dozens of classic songs, noted for their infectious rhythms, including "S Wonderful," "Our Love Is Here To Stay," "Someone To Watch Over Me," and "Fascinating Rhythm." Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue in 1924 as the first serious jazz concert piece, and followed it up with An American in Paris (1928) and his full-length opera Porgy and Bess in 1935. Gershwin died in Los Angeles in 1937, at the height of his creative powers.

WALT WHITMAN AUDITORIUM

Located on the eastern end of the campus, this building houses one of the largest performing spaces in Brooklyn, the 2,500-seat Walt Whitman Theater, and the much-smaller 120-seat New Workshop Theater, where a lively half-dozen Theater Department productions are mounted each year. Opened in 1955, Whitman Theater is also the home of the Brooklyn Center Cinema, a showcase for motion pictures. Equipped with a state-of-the-art projector, including six channel total surround MegaSound, films shown by the Brooklyn Center Cinema are projected upon a magnificent, custom-made forty-foot wide CinemaScope screen—one of the last remaining monster screens in New York City, most large-screen theaters having been "multiplexed" into smaller theaters.

Walt Whitman

Poet, journalist, and essayist

Whitman is best known for Leaves of Grass, a self-published book that changed American poetry, which included the classic poems 'I Sing the Body Electric' and 'Song of Myself.' Born in Long Island, New York in 1819, the son of a Quaker carpenter, Whitman moved to Brooklyn when still a boy and left school early to become a printer's apprentice. He also worked as a teacher and journeyman printer, and started a newspaper, the Long-Island Freeman in 1838. After that he held a great variety of jobs while writing and editing for several periodicals, including The Brooklyn Eagle from 1846 to 1848 and The Brooklyn Times from 1857 to 1858. A series of strokes in 1873 forced Whitman to give up his work. At the age of sixty-four, he settled in Camden, New Jersey, where spent the rest of his life. Whitman died on March 26, 1892. Two original portraits of the poet, painted from life, adorn the entrances of Whitman Theater.

LA GUARDIA HALL/BROOKLYN COLLEGE LIBRARY

La Guardia Hall was one of the four original 1937 Randolph Evans buildings on campus, and their arrangement around a central quadrangle was inspired by the Thomas Jefferson-designed University of Virginia at Charlottesville. La Guardia Hall is topped by a gilded cupola and is designed as the central focus for the entire campus. In 1959 a large modern addition was built on the back of La Guardia Hall, and in 1985 it was formally named after former Brooklyn College President Harry Gideonse. In 2002, after an extensive, three-year renovation and expansion project overseen by architects from Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (SBRA) and Buttrick White and Burtis (BWB), the Brooklyn College Library reopened with a new addition that effortlessly pairs the neo-Georgian architecture of La Guardia Hall with a sleek modern addition, and futuristic technology with classically appointed rooms. Tucked among the 21.5 miles of shelving are two multimedia classrooms; five computerized classrooms; a New Media Center; and a 145-seat auditorium fully equipped with state-of-the-art video and computer technology. Positioned prominently on the first floor, the Archives and Special Collections Room affords researchers comfortable, well-lit accommodations. An old feature of the original library, the La Guardia Hall Reading Room—with its beautiful WPA mural, Great Libraries of the World—is now an art and architecture reading room. The library is also a designated archive for government publications, which are housed in the lower level, along with the periodicals collection. On the first floor, the Reserve Room allows students access to materials placed on reserve, and also coordinates interlibrary loans throughout the entire CUNY system. On the second floor. the Walter W. Gerboth Music Library holds an extraordinary collection of sheet music and recordings. The library is also home to the offices of Academic Information Technologies and Information Technology Services.

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia

Mayor of New York City, 1933-1945

The "Little Flower" was born on December 11, 1882 in New York City. He was elected in 1916 to the U.S. House of Representatives where he would serve until 1932, except for his service during World War I as a pilot and a term as President of the city Board of Aldermen. LaGuardia won the mayoralty of New York City in 1933 on a broad-based Republican-Fusion ticket, and worked with the Roosevelt administration and received millions of dollars in direct federal aid from New Deal programs that transformed the physical landscape of New York City. Brooklyn College, founded in 1930 in a series of offices in downtown Brooklyn, was a particular point of pride for the mayor, who attended the groundbreaking of the Midwood campus in 1936 and its dedication in 1937. He died on September 20, 1947.

"Every time the Mayor of New York comes to Washington I tremble because it means he wants something, and he almost always gets it" —Franklin D. Roosevelt, referring to Mayor LaGuardia at the dedication of Brooklyn College, October 28, 1936.

LILY POND

The Lily Pond is a unique and historic place on the campus, and generations of students share fond memories of sitting by its placid waters, far from the bustle of the rest of the college campus. An original feature of the Randolph Evans design for the campus, in recent years the Lily Pond has benefited from careful landscaping and gardening from George Forstner, the college's chief gardener, making it an exquisite place for quiet contemplation. Swimming in the Lily Pond are some fifty goldfish, cared for by the staff at the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center in the nearby New Ingersoll Extension.

Sun Dial

Historic CUNY artifact

In the garden of the Lily Pond is a memento of the fierce rivalry between Brooklyn College and City College of New York. In 1938, two sororities on campus dedicated a modest sundial in this corner of the campus. The night Brooklyn College defeated the CCNY team in football in 1939, boisterous BC fans snuck into Lewisohn Stadium and sawed down the goalposts, bringing them back to Midwood. The next week, in retaliation, commandos from CCNY entered the Brooklyn College campus at night and sawed the sundial off its pedestal, writing "CCNY avenged" in red paint on the pavement. For over fifty years the column stood bare in the Lily Pond garden, a memorial to college football craziness, and has only recently been re-fitted with a new dial.

INGERSOLL HALL

One of the four original Randolph Evans-designed building on campus, Ingersoll Hall was built as the mirror image of Boylan Hall across the Quadrangle, and has been home for the sciences ever since the Midwood campus opened in 1937. Before the building was named in honor of Brooklyn Borough President Raymond V. Ingersoll after his death in 1940, the building was called, simply, the "Science Building." Equipped with an extensive venting systems and glass-lined plumbing throughout the building to provides safe disposal for chemical wastes, it also contains large lecture halls, an astronomical observatory, and a large number of laboratories. It houses the Computer and Information Sciences, Geology, Health and Nutrition Sciences, Math, and Physics departments, as well as the Brooklyn College Alumni Association and the Brooklyn College Foundation, which raises money for scholarships.

Raymond V. Ingersoll

Brooklyn Borough President, 1933-1940

Raymond V. Ingersoll was elected in 1933 as Brooklyn Borough President on the same Republican/Fusion ticket that brought Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to City Hall. On Ingersoll's first day in office, his first official visitor at Borough Hall was Brooklyn College President William A. Boylan, who lobbied the new borough president for a campus for the fledgling college. Ingersoll was won over, and is credited with securing the site for the college and for rallying public support for its construction. At the dedication ceremonies in 1937, Mayor La Guardia took note, saying, "Raymond was so anxious to get the city's cooperation for purchasing this property and gaining a suitable campus that he fairly picketed City Hall." Besides the two buildings on the Brooklyn College campus, a housing project in Fort Greene Brooklyn and the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library are named in honor of Borough President Ingersoll.

"The price of leadership is the ability and the courage to do a little more than the average amount of individual thinking, to exercise something more than the average degree of independent judgment and to take the risks always involved in a self-directed course of action." —Raymond V. Ingersoll, Commencement Address

NEW INGERSOLL EXTENSION

New Ingersoll houses the science departments and was completed in 1971 as an extension of Ingersoll Hall. One of the most notable features in the building is the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center (AREAC), a major aquatic research facility. New Ingersoll is home to the Biology and the Chemistry departments, as well as the Women's Studies Program and the Environmental Studies Program.

Raymond V. Ingersoll

Brooklyn Borough President, 1933-1940

Raymond V. Ingersoll was elected in 1933 as Brooklyn Borough President on the same Republican/Fusion ticket that brought Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to City Hall. On Ingersoll's first day in office, his first official visitor at Borough Hall was Brooklyn College President William A. Boylan, who lobbied the new borough president for a campus for the fledgling college. Ingersoll was won over, and is credited with securing the site for the college and for rallying public support for its construction. At the dedication ceremonies in 1937, Mayor La Guardia took note, saying, "Raymond was so anxious to get the city's cooperation for purchasing this property and gaining a suitable campus that he fairly picketed City Hall." Besides the two buildings on the Brooklyn College campus, a housing project in Fort Greene Brooklyn and the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library are named in honor of Borough President Ingersoll.

"The price of leadership is the ability and the courage to do a little more than the average amount of individual thinking, to exercise something more than the average degree of independent judgment and to take the risks always involved in a self-directed course of action." —Raymond V. Ingersoll, Commencement Address

ROOSEVELT HALL

Originally called the Gymnasium, it is one of the original Randolph Evans buildings on campus, and houses the Department of Physical Education and Exercise Science, which trains coaches and conducts research on athletic performance, and the Division of Athletic Recreation, Intramurals and Intercollegiate Athletics, which oversees the many recreation facilities and more than a dozen Brooklyn College men's and women's teams. The Brooklyn College Athletic Hall of Fame occupies the first floor, featuring a history of some of the great Brooklyn College teams that have worn the school's colors (maroon and gold) over the years. Roosevelt Hall is also home to the Brooklyn College Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts, which provides instruction for children, ages 4 to 18, in theater, dance and music. The Brooklyn College Health Clinic, located at 114 Roosevelt, provides free health care to students.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President and Friend of Brooklyn College

A staunch supporter of Brooklyn College, both as governor of New York State and as the thirty-third president of the United States. The creation of the campus was part of the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), which found work for hundreds of unemployed construction workers in the depths of the depression. President Roosevelt attended the groundbreaking ceremonies of the college in 1936, and his wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, addressed the students from the balcony of Boylan Hall during the Second World War. His son, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., presided at ceremonies that renamed the building for his father in 1947, and returned in 1987 to celebrate the campus's fiftieth anniversary.

"I have seen Brooklyn College in pictures and now I have seen the real article with my own eyes. This project is killing two birds with one stone. It is not only putting to work thousands of people who need work, but it is also improving educational facilities now and for generations to come. There has been much suffering in this depression, but much good also has come out of it. It has given an opportunity to better conditions for the young people. I am interested in all projects for the improvement of education, and my wish for Brooklyn College is the fine future it deserves. May it live to build a better American citizenship." — Franklin D. Roosevelt at the groundbreaking ceremonies at Brooklyn College, October 28, 1936

ROOSEVELT HALL EXTENSION

A large-scale addition to the Roosevelt Hall building, completed in 1971, Roosevelt Hall Extension contains three large gymnasiums, a dance studio, and a fitness center, locker rooms, and several small practice studios for dance, as well as many classrooms, faculty offices and research laboratories. Here the Brooklyn College basketball team and volleyball teams defend their home turf.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President and Friend of Brooklyn College

A staunch supporter of Brooklyn College, both as governor of New York State and as the thirty-third president of the United States. The creation of the campus was part of the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), which found work for hundreds of unemployed construction workers in the depths of the depression. President Roosevelt attended the groundbreaking ceremonies of the college in 1936, and his wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, addressed the students from the balcony of Boylan Hall during the Second World War. His son, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., presided at ceremonies that renamed the building for his father in 1947, and returned in 1987 to celebrate the campus's fiftieth anniversary.

"I have seen Brooklyn College in pictures and now I have seen the real article with my own eyes. This project is killing two birds with one stone. It is not only putting to work thousands of people who need work, but it is also improving educational facilities now and for generations to come. There has been much suffering in this depression, but much good also has come out of it. It has given an opportunity to better conditions for the young people. I am interested in all projects for the improvement of education, and my wish for Brooklyn College is the fine future it deserves. May it live to build a better American citizenship." — Franklin D. Roosevelt at the groundbreaking ceremonies at Brooklyn College, October 28, 1936

JAMES HALL

William James Hall is the largest building on campus. Built in 1971, it houses the School of Education and the departments of Africana Studies, Anthropology, Psychology, Political Science, and Sociology, as well as a number of laboratories, classrooms and lecture halls. There are a number of student services offices in James Hall as well, including Magner Center for Career Development and Internships the Personal Counseling Program, the Office of Testing, and the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Studies. The Center for Educational Change (CEC), the Children's Study Center, and the Infant Study Center are all located in James Hall, as is the day-care facility for children of students, The Carleton Washburn Early Childhood Center. It also is home to the Office of Financial Aid, the Office of Admissions, and the Office of Scholarships.

William James

Pioneering Psychologist and Educator

William James (1842-1910) was a Victorian-era philosopher and psychologist who became a prophet of modernity. He received a doctorate in medicine from the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard in 1869, and embarked on a teaching career that lasted 35 years, during which time he shaped the course of the social sciences and touched the humanities and the arts. James is well regarded for his Principles of Psychology (1890), a two-volume textbook that secured his reputation as "Father of American psychology." His influential book Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), helped establish modern pastoral counseling and figured prominently in the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. A prominent educator and pioneering psychologist, both the Psychology Department and the School of Education can be found in William James Hall.

"Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities and disgust for cheapjacks. The best claim we can make for the higher education, the best single phase in which we can tell what it ought to do for us, is, then, exactly what I said, "it should enable us to know a good man when we see him." —William James

BOYLAN HALL

One of five original buildings on campus, which opened in 1937. It houses five stories of academic and administrative offices, a number of classrooms and lecture halls, and the Brooklyn College Bookstore. The lower level also hold the college dining facilities; a cafeteria, a kosher dairy bar, a gourmet coffee stand, and a buffet service dining room (the Georgian Room). An additional floor, housing art studios and galleries, was added on to the building in the 1990s. Boylan Hall is home to the Art, Classics, English, Modern Languages and Literatures (including the Language Laboratories), and Philosophy departments. Boylan Hall is also home to the college administration, including the President, Provost, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Dean of Student Life, and the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. One of the most important offices for Brooklyn College students, the Office of the Registrar, is located on the first floor of Boylan Hall, as is the Learning Center. Office of Continuing Education, Office of Adult Degree Programs, and the Office of Human Resource Services. Boylan Hall is also home to the Speech and Hearing Center, the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, the Institute for Retirees in Pursuit of Education, the Center for Assistive Technology, and the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) Program.

William A. Boylan

Brooklyn College President 1930-1937

Brooklyn College's first president, serving for seven years before poor health forced his retirement. He had spent almost his entire career in the New York City public school system, and had risen to the level of associate superintendent when a former pupil of his, New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker, tapped him to head Brooklyn College. While associate superintendent he oversaw the construction of numerous public schools and his expertise led to the creation of one of the most beautiful public colleges in the United States.

"We strive to develop a college with a keen sense of the needs of the present and the aims of the future . . . Yesterday's traditions shall not blind us to today's questioning and to the world's anxious hope for a better tomorrow. Above all, we shall strive to inculcate the lesson that in order to attain that richer more inspiring tomorrow, the community must enlist its best intelligence, its highest ideals, its most practical and realistic talents."—from President Boylan's Inaugural Address, 21 June 1932

WHITEHEAD HALL

On the northwestern edge of the campus, Whitehead Hall was completed in 1963 and houses the Departments of Economics, History, and Theater departments, as well as Brooklyn College's outstanding Department of Television and Radio. The Institute for Studies in American Music and the Program of Studies in Religion. Whitehead Hall is also home to the Nathan Schmukler Investment Library.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematician and Philosopher

Lord Whitehead (1861 -1947) was a British mathematician, logician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic. His most important work, the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910, 1912, 1913) was written in collaboration with his student Bertrand Russell. He lectured in mathematics at Cambridge University and the University of London, and taught philosophy at Harvard University from 1924 to 1937. One of the most original thinkers and influential teachers of his time, his works include Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919), The Concept of Nature (1920), Religion in the Making (1926), The Aims of Education and Other Essays (1929), Process and Reality (1929), Adventures of Ideas (1933), and Essays in Science and Philosophy (1947).

"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute: The race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed." —Alfred North Whitehead

THE MORTON AND ANGELA TOPFER LIBRARY CAFÉ

The Morton and Angela Topfer Library Café is a multimedia computer and study center for students equipped with over fifty PCs, eight Mac stations, wireless computer hook-ups and computer equipment for the disabled. A pleasant place to relax and have coffee and a snack, directly outside the Café, on the western side of Whitehead Hall, is a paved garden with outdoor seating and a fountain.

Angela and Morton Topfer

Friends of Brooklyn College

Morton Topfer, who graduated from Brooklyn College in 1959 with a bachelors degree in physics and did graduate work at Brooklyn Polytechnic, became vice-chairman of Dell Computer Corporation in 1994 after a twenty-three-year career with Motorola. Before that, he spent eleven years at RCA laboratories in various research-and-development and management positions, during which time he wrote a textbook entitled Thick-Film Microelectronics: Fabrication, Design, and Applications. He is now counselor to the chief executive officer of Dell Computers, and is managing director of Castletop Capital, an investment firm that focuses on private equity and real estate investments that he founded with sons Alan and Richard Topfer. The late Angela Topfer was born in Camborne, England, and raised in London and Cambridge. Shortly after the dedication of the Morton and Angela Topfer Library Café in June of 2000, the couple incorporated the Morton and Angela Topfer Family Foundation (MATFF).

BROOKLYN COLLEGE STUDENT CENTER

The Student Center is located on Campus Road and East 27th Street and is familiarly known as SUBO, for "Student Union Building Organization". The Student Center was established at the request of the student body, financed and supported by student fees, and opened in the fall of 1962. Two floors were added in 1968 and the Penthouse was completed in 1973. he Student Center provides a wide variety of public, semi-public, and reserved rooms for every type of program and service, including a computer lab, game rooms, art displays, study rooms, music room and a penthouse with a domed skylight. Students, staff, faculty and the community at large use the building, which is home to the Office of the Assistant Dean for Student Development and the student government offices for the College of Liberal Art and Sciences (CLAS), School of General Studies (SGS) and the Graduate Student Organization (GSO).

The Ditmas Homestead

Gone but not forgotten

In 1959, when the land on which the Ditmas Homestead stood was selected as the site of the new Student Union, many in the college community protested the destruction of the 1827 farmhouse. Before the college was built, it served as the clubhouse of the Old Flatbush Golf Club, and duffers chased a little white ball over the twenty-seven acres that would one day become Brooklyn College. During the 1930s it was a farm used by unemployed families to raise vegetables, and in the Second World War it became home to the Veterans Advisement Unit. Plans to move the old house fell through, and it was demolished on April 20, 1961. Robert Barrett, a professor in the Art Department, memorialized the Ditmas house in an oil painting, which is on display in the State Lounge. A magnificent copper beech tree from the original farm was saved, and stood on the corner of Amersfort Place for many years. It died in 1997, and has been replaced by another copper beech, which will grow to be the equal of its predecessor in approximately one hundred years.

ATHLETIC FIELD

The Brooklyn College Athletic Field, once home to the Brooklyn College football team, the Kingsmen, is located on the west end of the campus. While football was discontinued in 1992 in response to budget cuts, the Athletic Field plays host to a number of the Division of Recreation, Intramurals, and Intercollegiate Athletics activities, including the Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field, Men's Soccer, and Women's Softball. The athletic field is also home to Brooklyn College famous colony of Monk Parakeets.

Allie Sherman

New York Giants Football Coach

Allie Sherman, coach of the NFL's New York Giants from 1961-1968, is perhaps the greatest gridiron star Brooklyn College has ever produced. Born February 10, 1923, he was considered too small to play football for Boy's High School in Brooklyn, he instead lead the school handball team to the city championship in 1938. Sherman quarterbacked the Brooklyn College from 1939 to 1942, defeating the rival City College team in an epochal 1939 game that brought respect to the college (but no championship—the team finished 2-7 that year). After graduating he joined the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, where he spent five seasons, leading them to the NFL East title in 1947 with a record of 8-4-0. Sherman turned to coaching and became the New York Giants backfield coach in 1949, and in 1961 was named head coach. The 1961 and 1962 Giants were terrific teams, but were defeated by the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Championships each year. Despite this, Sherman was named Coach of the Year for both of those seasons. The team made it to the championship game again in 1963, this time losing to the Chicago Bears. Sherman stayed with the Giants until 1968, eventually compiling a 57-51-4 record.

TENNIS COURTS

The tennis facilities at Brooklyn College consist of six courts, and are home to the Women's Tennis Team and the Men's Tennis Team. They are open to all students, and staff and faculty who have purchased recreation passes from the Division of Athletic Recreation, Intramurals and Intercollegiate Athletics. The courts are equipped with lights for playing at night.

Pavan Khurana

CUNY Tennis Champion

Pavan Khurana, '02, won the CUNY singles championship in May of 2002, a title he had previously won in 1998 and 2000.
Khurana, a student in the accelerated B.A.-M.D. program, grew up playing tennis in Hewlett, Long Island. His blistering serve helped him to advance to the NCAA Division III tournament in 2000, but his dream of playing on the pro circuit effectively ended when he tore the meniscus in his left knee while playing basketball with friends. "The injury forced me to concentrate more on my studies," he admits, as did the presence of two other B.A.-M.D. students on the tennis squad, Jeff Chen and Mrugank Shukla. Khurana doesn't expect to play much tennis in medical school. This veteran of numerous knee operations will be studying hard and hopes eventually to specialize in a field of medicine he is intimately familiar with: orthopedic surgery.

West End Building

This large barn-like structure built as a temporary home (1999-2002) while the BC Library was being expanded and rennovated. It was called the field library, which caused many to ask chief librarian Barbra Higginbotham about who "Field" was. After years of struggling with a sub par name, the building was renamed the West End Building, or WEB. Inside, you will find the ITS Public Computing Labs, the Office of Student Testing, Student Clubs, and the Department of Film.

Jack M. Wolfe

Computer Education Pioneer

Jack M. Wolfe, in whose honor the old Wolfe Computer Lab in Plaza Building was named, was a popular math professor at Brooklyn College for many years. During the Second World War he taught cryptography and code-breaking. His interest in the new science computer programming, itself an outgrowth of the code-breaking work done in England during the war, led to Brooklyn College's first computer programming classes, offered in 1958, and the creation of the Department of Computer and Information Science in the 1970s. Professor Wolfe made many advances in computer programming and data processing, and in the late 1960s devised an Aptitude Assessment Battery: Programming (AABP) test to evaluate computer programming potential. The five hour test is comprised of five very challenging logical problems and continues to be used as an evaluation tool for predicting the talent and proficiency of candidates for computer programming training. Professor Wolfe died in 1991. The Wolfe lab was moved to the WEB in 2004, and merged with the atrium into the ITS Public Computing Labs.