Courtyard

Yes, that's right! Smack dab in the middle of CSUSB... well middle and toward the front. In my opinion this might be one of the most public, and yet private places in the whole school. The courtyard is an open canvas for the public to use, and they do indeed use it. From the yard you can see banners on almost every building, the clock tower is within easy view, bards sit under shady trees slipping fingers over strings, ladies gather in the places hidden from the sun to gab and jabber, and even some of the trees speak saying: "John was here," or encapsulate two pairs of initials inside a heart. The publicity of the yard does not cease there either. Many a time the yard has been host to clubs/frats/sororities hoping to drag in new victims, or to host some rally or event. Despite all this public access, that even a casual wanderer might stumble onto, there is a certain privacy to it. Seldom does one raise their voice to stretch it across the courtyard, or makes unwarranted spectacle of themselves, and the conversations held typically lie in the hushed registers of our human volumes. The courtyard is a screeching public, but also a private murmur.