Duncan Student Center
Intro
Duncan Student Center is the building located on the west side of Notre Dame Stadium. DSC holds a lot of different venues on its many floors that are catered to different groups of people. Some of the venues that are held are: restaurants, recreational and sport exercise, student lounges and study rooms, storage and office spaces, and hospitality suites. Down below is DSC divided up into the different floors and a brief rundown of what each floor consists of. The seventh, eighth, and ninth floors are for premium seats during football games. Spectators can enter through door 14, on the south end, or through door 17, on the north end, to get to their seats.
Duncan Floor 1
Overview
Duncan’s first floor holds the role of a student hang out and restaurant area. Starting from the south side of DSC, there is a student hangout area with a welcome desk where students can work at. Past the welcome desk there is a set of four elevators. In the set of elevators there are two express ones that will only go to the first, seventh, eighth, and ninth floors. The other two elevators go to all the floors except the sixth one. Past the elevators is the first restaurant, Star Ginger. Between the restaurant and the welcome desk is a hallway where the service elevator and crossover doors are located to get into the stadium. Right next to Star Ginger, there is the entrance to 1842.
Heading north, to your left you will see a wide open space with a smaller version of the big screen and a set of bleachers. This area is a gathering spot for students to study, hangout, and eat. The big screen can show broadcasting, HDMI streamed, or mimic what the big screen out in the stadium to show.
Continuing down the hall to your right, there is another restaurant called “Modern Market”, with the service hallway right next to it. On the other side of the wall is another restaurant that is called “Hagerty Cafe” as well as a big seating area and a stage for presenting.
Duncan Floor 2
Overview
Duncan’s second floor holds the role of being a lounge area for undergraduate and graduate level students. The graduate level lounge is located on the south end of the building and holds a smaller part compared to the undergraduate lounge area that is located on the rest of the floor. One neat feature of the second floor is that it is on the same level as the floor of the rock wall. On the south end of the floor there is the office for student housing.
Duncan Floor 3&4
Overview
Duncan’s third and fourth floors hold the role of the student recreational facility. The third floor is where most of the activity happens, while the fourth floor is dedicated as a running track. The third floor has basketball courts, weight lifting, rock climbing, body weight exercises, stair climber, and many more different exercises that people can do.
The fourth floor also holds the purpose of having the two cross over doors on the north and south end of the building to get to the upper concourse of the stadium. The fourth floor also doubles as a viewing area for the different activities on the third floor. Also there are sections of the fourth floor where someone can step off the track and do some activities like yoga, core exercises, or stretching.
Duncan Floor 5
Overview
Duncan’s fifth floor holds the role of being a lounge and interview rooms for students. The interview rooms can be used in a variety of different ways. They first have to be reserved, then that individual can conduct interview practices, or do actual interviews via video web call or in person. It has the same concept as the second floor in that it is divided between graduate level areas and under graduate level areas. The south side is for the graduate level while the rest of the hall is for undergraduates.
Duncan Floor 7- Dahnke Ballroom
Overview
Dahnke Ballroom is a multi purpose area. The ballroom can be used as a classroom, to a wedding reception area, to a luxury space on football game days. Premium seating is located outside as well as on the terrace at either side of the hallway. In the middle of the hallway there is the broadcast room (W709). During game day, there are bar carts layed out in different locations. These locations might include outlets and other special assistance that each bar cart might need.
Duncan Floor 8 – Rasmus Club
Overview
Rasmus Club is a premium seat area for football games. It is located above Dahnke Ballroom and has a balcony overlooking the main area as well. There is premium seating both outside and inside. In the middle of the floor there are rows of premium seating that are staged in front of windows that can be raised or lowered during games. These seats give the spectators the feel of watching a football game while being indoors.
Duncan Level 9 – Southwest Nine/Operations Hall/President’s Suites
Overview
Duncan 9 has many to offer with the multiple spaces that it accommodates. First there is Southwest Nine, which is premium seating for certain people. Next to them is where different operations, such as coaches, campus safety, big screen operators, and media outlets operate in their own rooms. Next to them is the President’s box and guests of the president. On the other side of the President’s Box is Nine North, which houses the suites for the Athletic Director. On either side of the ninth floor there are terraces.
Father John’s Box (President’s Box)
The president’s box is at the very far north end of the ninth floor of DSC. The president’s box consists of a large suite style area that is divided into two sections by a wall, partially forward, which separates the room into two sections, the president’s suite and the guests of the president.
The president’s box is separated from the other areas by two doors on either end that represents the different areas. On the north end of the box, there are the athletic director’s boxes. The AD has two boxes, one for the AD and one for the guests of the AD.