The Starbucks in the Don Taft University Center is the only Starbucks in the area open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
However, Robert Genser, Chartwells’ resident district manager, said Starbucks follows NSU’s undergraduate calendar, which means that it is closed during holidays and winter break.
Steven Bell, freshman psychology major, was very happy when the new schedule was enacted on Nov. 7.
“It is very convenient, especially for people [who live] on campus because the library’s not open,” he said.
Anthony Campenni, senior economics major and former president of the undergraduate Student Government Association, said PANSGA, which is made up of the presidents and vice presidents of all the SGAs on campus, is responsible for the initiative.
“PAN-SGA said that there needed to be a place for students to be able to study all night on campus, especially for graduate students who are up late at night,” said Campenni.
However, Campenni said the change will be permanent only if students continue to take advantage of it. Campenni also said that the change had to make sense economically. Starbucks employees and Public Safety will have to be paid to keep the building open and this would cost the university a lot of money, he said.
Michele Zielinski, first-year marine biology graduate student, prefers studying there rather than in the library.
“Here you could talk and have food and drink options, which you can’t have in the library,” said Zielinski.
Brad Williams, Ed.D., dean of the Division of Student Affairs, said students have a different time frame and that, sometimes, they are very active late at night.
“There’s Eastern Standard Time and there’s daylight saving time and then there’s student time,” Williams said. “It’s 2 a.m., and they might want to grab a cup of Starbucks, and they might want to have a study group. So, they work on a very different time zone than a traditional structured campus.”
Starbucks is the only place on campus open 24/7.
