Abbot Pennings answers a question about echo chambers on campus, archived from the SNC website

Beck, Amanda

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St. Norbert College Digital Commons @ St. Norbert College Ask the Abbot Alumni Relations 9-2018 I’m hearing rumors that there is an echo chamber on campus. Are they true? Where is it located? Amanda Beck Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/asktheabbot Alumni Ask the Abbot September 2018September 2018Question:Dear Abbot Pennings,I’m hearing rumors that there is an echo chamber on campus.Are they true? Where is it located?Amanda Beck (College Advancement)Answer:Dearest Amanda,This question makes me chuckle. In fact, the rumors that havereached your ears are not only true, but doubly so! It must surprise you considerably to learn that our belovedcollege has not one but two outdoor “echo chambers.” Overthe years, our young tour guides have delighted indemonstrating their effects to prospective students visiting uswith their college plans in mind.Both “chambers” are in what must certainly be very familiarspots to you and, indeed, to most who have visited ourbeautiful campus. This echo effect is a most interestingphenomenon of our two circular paved areas: the one, whereour new Conversion sculpture stands, on the overlook at thenorth-west corner of campus; the other, in front of Main Hallwhere the two malls find their intersection.The presence of our dear St. Norbert himself, albeit cast inbronze as he is, deters me these days from testing the echo atthe overlook – and I hope that it similarly deters you andothers! But I urge you to discover the Main Hall effect forAs the founder of St.Norbert College, andhaving a prime seat in thecenter of campusthroughout the years, I,Abbot Bernard Pennings,hold the answers to manyof your burning questionsabout the college.Submit Your QuestionAsk the AbbotAlumniEvents & ReunionsBehind the ArchBenefits and ServicesGet InvolvedGive to SNCAlumni AwardsKnight LightsAlumni-OwnedBusinesses NetworkAlumni BoardStudent AlumniAmbassadorsStaffALUMNI  PARENTS  LOCAL COMMUNITY  STUDENTS  FACULTY & STAFF  A-Z INDEXAcademics  Admission  Campus Life  Living Norbertine  Athletics  About  yourself, through personal experimentation. Do be sure thatyou take up your place right in the center of the circle, facingMain Hall. Then, simply say a few words. (Perhaps the collegemotto would suffice or, ahem, my own abbatial motto, “Let uslove one another,” would not be inappropriate in such acircumstance.) I do assure you that you will experience theecho effect for yourself.All these little-known facts about SNC ...! Dear me, whatpleasure it gives me to share them with each new generation ofinquirers. Responses to “Ask the Abbot” questions are penned by St.Norbert College staff in the name of Abbot Bernard Pennings,who founded St. Norbert College in 1898. St. Norbert College100 Grant Street De Pere, WI 54115 920-337-3181 Map & Directions Contact UsCareersLibraryNewsEventsBox OfficeUndergraduateGraduateSchneider School ofBusiness & Economics© 2021 St. Norbert College  |   Nondiscrimination Policy  |   Land Acknowledgement  |   Privacy Statement  |  Site Accessibility  |  Title IX

I’m hearing rumors that there is an echo chamber on campus. Are they true? Where is it located?

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I’m hearing rumors that there is an echo chamber on campus. Are they true? Where is it located?

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