What is this blog?

The RutgersZone is a revolutionary new space located in the Livingston Student Center on the Livingston Campus of Rutgers University. The space includes games like Skee-Ball and Pool, an array of HD Satellite televisions and a full-service ice cream/soda shop.

In addition to creating a unique experience on campus for Rutgers students, the RutgersZone also aims to develop life and leadership skills of the staff members working in the space.

This blog, the RutgersZone Experiment, is a chronicle of this ground-breaking experience being shared by seven undergraduate student managers and one professional staff general manager. These students are being tasked with working as a team to create an unmatched on-campus experience for our guests, learning to become effective managers and constantly "pushing the envelope" for what is expected on a college campus. As a part of their employment experience, each student manager is asked to blog at least once per week about the processes associated with opening this space or developing as a manger.

Welcome to the RutgersZone Experiment!





Thursday, August 19, 2010

Training Day Two: 8/19 (Radio City)




Arrive at LSC, Livingston Student Center, at 7:30am (for those who don’t already know Rutgers has an obscene amount of acceptable acronyms) and shuffle 7 strangers, a lot like MTV’s Road Rules slash Real World motto, into a large van and transport them to the Big Apple.




Our innovative leader, Matthew Ferguson, decided it would be appropriate to learn Radio City Music Hall’s philosophy on creating an experience. Mission = instilling the concept of grandiose into our new space and creative thinking into our new managerial staff.

It is not just the art deco architecture, the notoriously talented rockettes, and the nationally televised annual cable programs (grammys, tonys, Oscars, etc) that make Radio City Music Hall epic, but the passionate employees who breathe it’s tradition. I honestly felt humbled by its history within my first steps around the theater.
The realization that we are creating a tradition at Rutgers has finally sunk in. One as recognizable as New York City, one as grand as Radio City Music Hall, and one as timeless as Rutgers University itself.




This is our experiment. My (hopeful) prediction is to build a successful tradition for Rutgers New Brunswick Students. My marketing efforts (as the Marketing Manager) are a large independent variable; this space is our dependent variable (see also, factor). And May 2011 will show the experiments final conclusion.




follow me along this journey,
Becky =)

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