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    2025 and then: High Rise renovations still paying off after a decade

    After 10 years, the massive High Rise renovation is still serving students to this day. The largest men’s dorm on campus, High Rise Hall opened in 1968. The dorm now houses 375 students and looks a lot different than it did before. High Rise in the mid 1960s In the summer of 2015, High Rise underwent a large-scale makeover. Former men’s basketball coach Casey Alexander told former President Randy Lowry that High Rise needed an upgrade. He wanted to be able to show off a nicer dorm to recruits coming in. Ninety-two days and $7.5 million later, High Rise became what it is now. “The doors were taken off, the…