Lyon Tower
Lyon Tower is named after Harriet Lyon, the first female graduate of West Virginia University. Known affectionately as “Towers,” the ERC is a group of four connected residence halls: Bennett, Braxton, Brooke, and Lyon. Located on the Evansdale campus, the ERC is a short PRT ride from the downtown campus or Health Sciences Center, and is close to the Engineering buildings. The Student Recreation Center is right outside your door! Almost 1,800 male and female students live in this complex, which shares a central lobby and dining hall. The halls feature single, double, and triple rooms with community bathrooms.
All rooms are air-conditioned and carpeted, with laundry rooms, community bathrooms, and lounges on each floor. The complex includes tennis, volleyball, and basketball courts, a post office, craft center, campus bookstore, academic resource center with free tutoring, computer center, and classrooms, along with a sandwich and coffee shop. You are within walking distance of many classroom buildings, the Coliseum, Milan Puskar Stadium (home of Mountaineer Field), grocery stores and restaurants, and the Creative Arts Center.
Lyon Tower focuses closely on academic and community service through a connection with WVU’s Student Government Association (SGA)(http://sga.studentorgs.wvu.edu/sga_across_campus). This connection has been forged to further help students connect as they transition from high school to college life. The partnership with SGA allows students greater opportunity to plug into the WVU campus, its needs, and their individual voices and leadership potential. This is achieved based on the vision of Resident Faculty Leaders, Hillar and Britt Klandorf and the Lyon tower staff. Residents will have the opportunity to work more closely with faculty to improve academics and will be provided educationally-rich, interactive programming that will enhance their learning experience within the Davis College and within their majors. The Resident Director, Rachel Kennedy, oversees the daily operations of the building and helps to carry out the hall programming with the assistance of the resident assistants (RAs) and the wellness coordinator. Programs will included trips to New York City, Niagara Falls, Greenbank Observatory, New River Gorge, the Palace of Gold, the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium, Washington D.C., the Pittsburgh Aviary, Cleveland and such activities as whitewater rafting, baseball, soccer, and basketball games, bird walks, backpacking and camping trips, musical performances, video game tournaments, and many more. Lyon Tower highly values the service component of community membership as staff and residents work with many volunteer organizations to connect into the greater Morgantown community through fundraisers, blood drives, community development and support.”
Contact information:
Lyon Main Desk:
Penny Demasi, Secretary
(304) 293-2813
Penny.Demasi@mail.wvu.edu
Resident Faculty Leaders:
Dr. Hillar and Britt Klandorf
(304) 293-4372×12050
Hillar.Klandorf@mail.wvu.edu
Britt.Klandorf@mail.wvu.edu
Residence Hall Director:
Rachel Kennedy
(304) 293-4372×12040
Rachel.Kennedy@mail.wvu.edu
