Forgetting a charger at home is one less thing to worry about.
The L.A. Pittenger Student Center installed a new goCharge station near the Tally entrance Tuesday.
The station offers 10 individual lockers that allow users to charge devices for free. Eight of the lockers are for Androids and iPhones and two lockers are for tablets. For iPhones, the iPhone 4 chargers are on the left side and the iPhone 5 chargers are on the right side.
Each locker is protected with a user-made, four-digit code, allowing users to plug in their device and leave it without fear of it being stolen.
Travis Peters, Student Center assistant director for operations, said the new station is already being used.
“I went down during orientation and eight of the 10 stations were being used,” he said. “Day one with little publication, it was being utilized quite a bit and I hope that is how it is [in the future].”
He said the department decided to purchase the $4,850 machine after seeing them in use at a conference at the University of Cincinnati.
However, the idea to put phone charging machines on campus was first popularized when Cardinal United ran for SGA executive slate in 2013. Adding charging stations to Bracken Library and other locations was one of the slate’s platform points, but the slate lost the election.
The Student Center chose the goCharge station because it offered a security aspect as opposed to other open stations.
“They are a really nice thing to have in a day and age where everyone is connected to their phones,” Peters said. “[It’s] a safe place to charge their phone.”
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