First-year student Nathan Templon knew the Rhatigan Student Center was open for business.

He didn’t know it was open up to the third floor. He found out Thursday during the RSC-U-Now open house.

“I’d heard the wRECk Center was (open), but I didn’t know when,” Templon said.

Students were encouraged to take a self-guided tour through the building. The RSC is under construction for the next two and half years.

Templon did not take the tour to find out where Commerce Bank, the Shocker Card Center and other businesses were.

“We went everywhere to get the free stuff,” he said.

RSC Director of Marketing Shelly Martins handed out RSC T-shirts in the wRECk Center.

“Our goal was 500 and right now we’re at 1,200 and we still have half an hour,” she said.

Tia Hill, program adviser for Student Involvement, was handing out ice cream on the third floor.

“Most students haven’t been up here before,” she said.

Templon’s friend Richard Moore, a sophomore, said he had not been in the RSC much this year.

“With all the construction, it’s a pain to walk around,” he said.

He said he does not expect to spend much time in the RSC until the food court reopens.

Martins said that is supposed to happen around mid-September.

Moore said, “I’ll probably just hang out in the building I have class in.”

Moore and Templon are studying aerospace engineering.

Molley Taylor, Commerce Bank branch manager, said the open house and other efforts are to help people find the bank.

“Especially with the footprints, a lot of students said it’s helped them find where we moved to,” she said.

The bank, along with the Shocker Card Center, moved from the first floor to the second floor.

Tanya Lord, assistant textbook buyer in the bookstore, said some students still ask where the bank and other stores are.

“A few questions about where the bank is and when the food court is going to open up,” she said.

RSC IT Director David Kidd said, “It’s more like ‘where do we get shirts.’”