<p>With the addition of the new South Campus dorm, closing of Shoreland, and the moving of 1100 undergraduates to this area, where was it before and where is the new undergraduate center of gravity, dorm wise?</p>
<p>I think the old residential center of gravity was Bartlett Quad/Max P. With the new dorm, there might be a dual north campus/south campus rivalry going on. Pierce seems really, really far when you’re in BJ, and vice versa.</p>
<p>I’m sure there is at least one math whiz with the time in his hands lurking out there someplace. I’d like to know, if you assign a numeric value to each dorm by number of students, on which spot would the campus map balance (this year and come Oct.1). Pure curiosity.</p>
<p>A brass marker should be installed by a licensed surveyor, once the precise location is determined.</p>
<p>It’ll have to be on wheels.</p>
<p>This should be on the Scav Hunt list next year – survey the new center of gravity!</p>
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<p>I estimate that for this year, it would be about 56th and Kenwood (no specific dorm). Next year, probably the area around Max P. There are many dorms to the north with small amounts of people that they probably cancel out South Campus’s effect.</p>
<p>Don’t forget that almost half of the students live in non-university housing, and while some of it is south of the Midway, my impression is that the bulk of it is north of 55th, and generally east of the main university area, with a fair number of students living in a posh highrise along the lake in the high 40s. So while the South Campus dorm will certainly move the undergraduate center of gravity south and west of where it was, it will probably remain east of Max and the library.</p>
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<p>Make it a software program, called “Tryst”, that takes the lat-longs and population of each dorm as input, and produces the lat-longs of the c-o-g as the output (the most convenient “tryst” location).</p>