Campus Storm Shelters

With storm season upon us here is a list of designated storm shelters on the SWOSU campus:

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• Administration: east and west basement hallways
• Art Building: lowest level away from windows
• Assessment Center: basement
• Athletic Director: interior hallway
• Bookstore/Market: first floor then to storm shelter
• Bulldog Apartments (Mary Savage): neff hall residence life office area
• Burton House: basement  
• Campbell: 1st floor interior hallway and offices on west side hallway
• CEBD: exit to Campbell building 1st floor, central hallway, away from windows and doors
• Chem/Pharm/Physics: south basement hallway/1st floor physics hallway, classrooms, offices
• Conference Center: interior hallway
• Education Building: central basement hallway and first floor hallway
• Engineering Technology: basement labs and classrooms rock building
• Fine Arts: lobby stairwells/lobby instrument storage/entrance ramps to auditorium
• Fitness Center: Neff Hall basement
• Green House: Rogers and Jefferson storm shelter
• Hilltop Theater: dressing room and dressing room hallways
• Library: basement auditorium, hallway and classrooms
• Music Building: main hallway
• Neff Hall: Neff Hall residence life hallway/boiler room hallway
• Nursing: basement
• Oklahoma Hall (music annex): music hallway/lobby t.v. area
• Parker Hall:  basement
• Pharmacy II: basement hallway and classrooms
• Physical Plant: file storage area northwest room
• Pioneer Cellular Event Center: basement hallways (west and north sides)
• Print Shop: interior hallway
• Rankin Williams Field House: north classroom and hallway
• Rogers and Jefferson Hall: first floor then to storm shelter
• Science Building: first floor hallway
• Stafford: follow signs to basement shelter
• Stewart Hall: main hallway central basement
• Student Development: basement area
• Student Center: central basement hallway and storage area/commuter lounge hallway
• Theatre Scene Shop: lowest level away from windows
• Upward Bound: central hallway
• Wellness Center: men’s or women’s locker room, interior hallway of student health services office area, or the first floor enclosed stairwells

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