Rankin Center

The Rankin Center was a major university operations building that was on the campus of Ferris State while the Dozerfleet founder was attending Ferris. It was later torn down and replaced with the much-nicer University Center.

Description
This oddly-designed building contained both Westview Cafe and the bookstore. Various campus attractions were to be found here.

Dozerfleet significance

 * It was here that the Dozerfleet founder first became aware of TVTropes.
 * It was inside the Rankin Center that the Dozerfleet founder first met Liz Pegouskie - the inspiration behind Candi's friend Laurie Pegol in Ciem, Ciem: Vigilante Centipede, and Sodality: Adaptation.
 * It was in this building that several segments of Ferris in Focus were shot, particularly for "What Do You Think?" segments.
 * The bookstore was once located in this building. Books purchased there include (but aren't limited to) Copywriting for the Digital Media by Milan D. Meeske, Plato's Five Dialogues, and The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video by Tom Schroeppel & Chuck DeLaney.
 * Copywriting and Bare Bones would be featured on a reskin of a backpack decorative object included in The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff. The Rankin Center itself, however, was not adapted - due to the complexity of its architecture (and lack of accessibility to its old floor plan.)
 * The Ferris Project Archive on this database includes mention of a St. Patrick's Day Event review for PHIL 216 class. This event was held at the Rankin Center.  The reason that the paper wasn't re-released to the Ferris Project Library, is because of privacy concerns regarding students of the time named in the paper.

Misc. trivia

 * Due to bad weather, Quad Movie Night was moved indoors to here in 2011. As a result, those who showed up got to see Thor indoors.
 * Quiznos was located inside the Rankin building.