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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 2000)
PULSE EDITOR: MONICA HANDE Bathrooms continued from page 1B accessible latrines in buildings used frequently by students. These | buildings include, but are not lim ited to, Chapman Hall, Gilbert Hall, the EMU and Johnson Hall. The bathrooms in the EMU gallery are clean, well-stocked and ample-sized. The mirrors are way above par, providing support for vain patrons. For the women, there is a comfy chair to make potential waits more pleasant. The men’s room has ample urinals, but they do lack a certain privacy. But you should have plenty of privacy in Gilbert Hall because we assume that the number of people who actually find the bathrooms is very small. If you do get there, they are cramped, and the yellow tile doesn’t hide the grime. The “push”-model sinks only allow you a few seconds of flow per push. If there were more than two people in the room, you wouldn’t be able to find a mirror. Some oth er things you might not be able to find are extra supplies. And you may want to bring sup plies into the bathrooms down stairs in Johnson Hall — food sup plies, so you can prolong your stay. .. . However, they aennitely pre date political correctness, as is apparent by the disparity between the men’s and women’s rooms. The men’s is large with marble floors and walls. The uri nals are large, old models with plenty of privacy. The stalls have wood doors with brass “va cant/occupied” signs, The only thing lacking was substantial mir rors. But the lack of a female presi dent has apparently drained the urge to create such a shrine in the ladies’ counterpart. One stall lacked a seat, and the narrow en tryway would not accommodate a “flush rush.” Narrow is a word that pretty much sums up Deady Hall, the oldest building on campus. Like Gilbert, the bathrooms are very dif ficult to find. We actually walked by one without knowing it. Also, the men’s room and women’s room aren’t in close proximity to one an other. We’re not even sure there was a bathroom exclusively for women. All we could find for women was a unisex room, a large room the size of most double resi dence hall rooms on campus. The men’s room, hid in the basement, is a cramped, yellow room. It was probably, at one time, some sort of service room judging by the huge wash basin that we encountered upon entrance. The bathrooms we’ve described represent some of the best and worst the University has to offer. But we don’t want to shower you with false impressions. In truth, none of the University lavatories are unacceptably foul; some are just better than others. But the next time that morning coffee is starting to move toward the lower regions, you might take a minute before the red lights go off and find some good accommodations.
