The Iowa State Campus

To start off to talk a little bit about where go to school, Thomas Gaines, in The Campus as a Work of Art (1991), proclaimed the Iowa State campus to be one of the twenty-five most beautiful campuses in the country. Gaines noted the park-like expanse of central campus, and the use of trees and shrubbery to draw together Iowa State's varied building architecture. Meanwhile spending days and nights on the campus, It has been a long few weeks to the start of my freshman year here at Iowa State. Never did I think that the move and the change of atmospheres and hoe meeting people would be so easy but also so hard. Going from the outgoing bubbly person I am to shy and bashful wouldn’t really come to mind when you think of my name. Good thing in

As anxiety and frustration filled my body when I got handed the ISU map. “where even am I” “where do I even start are typically questions that I know came from my mouth and I know many others had felt this way to. Getting lost and not knowing where you are going is probably the best way to become familiar with the campus on your own. After getting lost in many different areas and places I can finally distinguish where the front of the school is. With the water fountain out front of the memorial union or what us on campus call it the “MU” and where the great welcome of the “Iowa State University” sign is. Getting to know the surroundings Is one thing but getting to know more about them is another. On the other hand, the place I found myself referring to, noticing far away, and meeting some of the best people called my friend was at the tall pointed building behind the sign of Iowa state called the

When she died, July 25, 1895, she had been closely identified with the university for almost 25 years. Stanton wanted to establish a monument so all students and friends of Iowa State would remember her. He finally decided to purchase and have installed a chime of 10 bells in a detached tower on central campus. President William M. Beardshear helped him choose the site, and the state legislature appropriated $7,500 for the construction of the tower and its clock the tower is located on ISU’s Central Campus Just North of the memorial union. Stanton died September 12, 1920, and his will provided that after certain bequests were taken out, the residue of his estate should be turned over to the university for furnishing a memorial to him. His second wife, Julia Wentch Stanton, and the children, decided to request that the university install 26 additional bells, thus forming a musical instrument which became known as the Edgar W. and Margaret MacDonald Stanton Memorial