Campus Life
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New Mexico State University students live on campus in dorms, apartments, fraternities or sororities, or they find housing in Las Cruces and the surrounding Mesilla Valley. But wherever they live, they all arrive sooner or later at the center of student life on campus, the Corbett Center Student Union.
Built in 1968, with a subsequent $8.3 million renovation completed in 1996, the Corbett Center is the place to dine, study, relax with friends, do your banking or book shopping, check your snail mail – and your e-mail via the wireless network – watch movies or play games. And much more.
Stop by the art gallery for a view of a variety of exhibits featuring artwork in all mediums by undergraduate and graduate students. For those needing to keyboard, there is a computer lab open 24/7 (except holidays), or if you’re up to tinkling different kinds of keys, take a seat at the grand piano that lives on the second floor and somehow remains in tune, semester after semester.
Like any vital center of life, there is always something happening – you might see lectures and presentations, Mariachi musicians, movies, music and dance programs – either upstairs in the Senate Chambers, in the ballrooms, in the theater or in one of the many other meeting rooms. Drop in on the student radio station, KRUX, and talk to the manager about hosting your own radio show and then go next door to check what’s happening at the student newspaper, The Round Up.
Home to many essential student services, not the least of which is the information desk on the second floor, Corbett also is home to the university bookstore where you can find just about everything you might need for your NMSU coursework, from iPods to textbooks, computers to graph paper, along with an astounding variety of Aggie merchandise.
A quick note: If you leave the building and walk toward Breland Hall, look up at the outside of the building on the southwest end where you’ll see murals done by Native American art students from Santa Fe, Acoma, and San Felipe pueblos and from the Navajo nation.