Domed campus coming to NU

With winter fast becoming a never-ending season of ice and frigid winds, Nipissing University is moving to erect a dome over the North Bay campus, creating an endless summer season. The new dome should aid in student recruitment, as many students from Southern Ontario consider North Bay to be a Hoth-like wasteland.  The dome will be constructed out of 16-inch thick thermal glass.

While any students brave enough to venture outside the dome can still take advantage of all that a North Bay winter has to offer: skiing, shovelling, snowshoeing, slipping on ice, complaining about the cold, ice-fishing, shovelling, snowmobiling, shovelling, tobogganing, and shovelling; those staying inside the dome will be able to enjoy sunny days swimming in the pond and sunbathing on campus. As of press time, Canadore College was not participating in the domed campus; as a result the dome will intersect some hallways. This means that half the pond will also remain outside the dome, and thus, frozen solid. “The need for the dome really became apparent during our recent March Open House, when we were welcoming hundreds of potential students to campus and a blizzard hit North Bay at the end of March,” said Dave Drenth, Director of Facilities.  For summer months, the dome will be covered with a brilliant First Nations inspired tapestry to avoid the campus burning like an ant under a magnifying glass.