The GSC is a student owned building designed to enhance the graduate student community. It features many resources, such as a restaurant in the lower level, and study rooms, computers, a large study lounge with fireplace, and a balcony overlooking Quarry Plaza on the upper level.
The GSC is located in Quarry Plaza, in the center of campus between Classroom Unit and Cowell College. The GSC is next to the old Bay Tree Bookstore and across from the new location of the Bay Tree Bookstore.
Since 1965, graduate students have paid a facilities fee of $16/quarter that is equivalent to the fee undergrads pay to support their colleges. The reserves accumulated from this on-going fee, as well as a new $16/quarter fee which started Fall 2001, pay for the construction of the building. The new fee, voted on by grads in 1996, will last 27 years, the lifetime of the construction loan. A portion of these fees, as well as income earned from its vendors , make up the GSC's operating budget. So both graduate students, and to a lesser degree, the campus community, pay for the GSC.
Anyone can eat at the resturant. The upstairs portion of the GSC is reserved for graduate student use. Anyone wishing to use the facilties there must either be a registered graduate student or be sponsored by a graduate student (for example, a graduate student TA can hold office hours in the upper level for his/her students).
The bookstore parking lot, next to the shuttle stop, has a small number of metered and short-term parking spots. The nearby Hahn Student Services parking lot has metered and A parking spots. The East Field House and Cowell college parking lots have a combination of A, B, and C spots. In addition, UCSC's Implementation Program for the Campus Long Range Development Plan (LRDPIP) has plans for a second parking garage in the Hahn lot to service the Campus core.
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