Langston University’s coffee shop, also known as the Lions Brew, recently opened right before the end of the semester, leaving students wondering why.
There has been a lot of speculation on what caused the delay in opening, considering the Lions Brew is a part of many students’ daily routine on campus.
“I remember last year, that’s like one of the first things I would do before I would go to class, I would go to the Lions Brew,” said Jeremyah Edwards, a junior health, physical education, and recreation major.
Rayna Donaghey, supervisor of the Lions Brew, stated that the library’s conditions were too severe to allow it to open at the start of the semester.
“I was here the day school started, but it was so hot that there was just no way,” Donaghey says. “It was almost 100 degrees just in the coffee shop.”
Donaghey also states that as long as the library stays cool, she plans to stay open for the remainder of the semester.
Some students feel that the Lions Brew is an essential part of the Langston experience and believe that freshmen are not getting the full experience without it.
“The experience they [freshman] are getting now is a complete setback. They have no idea about the stuff we had like the coffee shop, we didn’t go to class on Fridays, and we had parties,” said Alyssa Mays, a sophomore psychology and natural resource management major. “I imagine how isolating it must feel because there is really no community to build.”
However, despite this setback, Mays says she is grateful that the Lions Brew was open for the last few weeks of school, and she believes this experience will be something the freshmen bond over in the future.
“Thank you so much to the Lions’ Brew supervisor, we all missed you so much. It means a lot that you spend your time here, even though it’s for such a short time,” Mays said. “And thank you to the freshmen. The good thing about this is you can all bond over this stuff, and that’s the only way we’ll get through it.”
Cambrie Cannon
Cambrie Cannon is a sophomore broadcast journalism and corrections major
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