Beaver Falls- Geneva College has officially released the preliminary campus building plans to be
accomplished over summer break including a beach house to be placed adjacent to the rugby
field on the Beaver River. While multiple renovations are to take place campus wide, the
“Riverside Resort” has come with the most surprise and undoubtedly the most anticipation.
Senior, Melody Michaelson told the Cabinet, “There is nothing more thrilling than taking a dip in
water that thick, but there has never been a good place to do it. I call it ‘mystery water,’ what
more could you ask for?” The plans for the beach area are simply to keep the existing broken
dock in place and fill in the surrounding area with soil taken from the bottom of the river to
prohibit plant growth in the beach area and to provide a “natural look” to the existing bank. As
part of Geneva’s Go Green initiative, the beach house will be made with aluminum cans and
signs, waterlogged boards, tin roofing, various shards of glass, and rusty nails all taken directly
from the river. For the casual swimmer, Nurse Connie will be on duty to provide any needed
Band-aids, Tetanus shots and boosters, tourniquets, and diarrheal medicine. However, there are
alternative activities for those less physically inclined; with the couches and various furniture
found in the river not used directly in the interior decorating of the resort, students will be able to
participate in “couch floating.” Upon presentation of a valid current Geneva Student I.D.,
students will be able to rent their favorite ottoman or love seat to float from Geneva’s campus
directly to a landing at the merge in the Ohio River in Rochester. Other activities include games
such as “Is that a Fish?” and “River Trash Bingo.” Plans are already in motion to start the project
by late May and should be completed by the time students return for Fall semester 2012.
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