(12,800 m2) complex features first-class facilities for the music, theatre, and visual arts departments, including numerous studios/workshops/labs, three theater venues, a concert hall and a recital hall. The building is adorned with interior and exterior copper facades and multiple-story color-glass interior walls; there are several interior bridges to connect the various wings within the four-story concourse, which itself serves as a multi-use space for the university and the region.
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=== Alma mater ===
The EIU Alma Mater was composed by Friederich Koch during his tenure at Eastern. The lyrics were originally a poem titled "For Us Arose Thy Walls and Towers" by Isabel McKinney, a professor of English at Eastern from 1911 to 1945. Before Koch's melody was employed, the McKinney lyrics were set to the German folk tune Die Wacht am Rhein (The Watch on the Rhine) but were changed around the time of World War I due to anti-German sentiments.
== Academics ==
Eastern Illinois University is …
