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!





Sunday, October 17, 2010

The First 2AM

This past week was my first time closing on a Thursday at 2AM. I must say that although i was slightly dreading the long night it wasn't as terrible as I thought. That particular night differed a little from the usual Thursday though because there was another event taking place. In the student center outside of the zone, there were two tables set up for alcohol awareness and safe sex information. The safe sex table was giving out free condoms and had these plastic bulls that had a fact on them. I had to send my crew out to clean up the space a couple of times to collect all the condoms that people left laying around - that sounds strange - they weren't open; well not all of them were open. This is getting weird so anyway...

I think the crew is finally starting to feel comfortable with everything. At our manager meeting last week we realized that we were slacking a little in the training so this week I really tried to step it up and get all of the training out of the way!

This weekend is also our volunteer event for NJWAN and we have a lot of people coming out so I'm really happy the crew is just as excited as I am about it.

Keep checking in!

-Ashley

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