Baton Rouge campus opens new dormitory

Carey Ash, left, SGA president and SU System President Ralph Slaughter, assist Southern University, Baton Rouge Interim Chancellor Margaret Ambrose as she cuts the ribbon during a ceremony to open new dorm.

SUBR recently unveiled a new all-male residence hall; the first of its kind in about 40 years. The $13 million structure features four new apartment-style dorms.

The newly opened Ulysses Sully Jones Hall — named after the longtime Southern dean and athletics director who died in 1994 — offers 376 new on-campus beds in modern, suite-style housing and willl be occupied with a mix of freshmen and upperclassmen when fall classes begin.

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Ulysses S. Jones Hall.