PULSE EDITOR: MONICA HANDE
Bathrooms
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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.