Last week, in the midst of controversy about their private police force proposal, Johns Hopkins University officials released a plan that seemed guaranteed to please:

The University will build a student center where the Mattin Center is currently located, on Charles Street just above Art Museum Drive.

President Ronald J. Daniels made the announcement before students assembled on the grassy “Beach” area facing Charles Street amid food trucks and giant seesaws.

It is the latest step in a years-long planning process, as The Brew explainedin 2015. The Homewood campus does not have a traditional student union, as many campuses do, to house campus organizations and serve as a meeting place, stoking complaints that date back at least to 2001.

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