#munger hall

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Here's a video explaining more about Munger Hall. We should all be appalled by this monstrosity and protest against letting this project be built.

[tculvahouse]

The Evolution of Housing in America, 1878-2021

[mysticdragon3md3]

Watch "My own design for Munger Hall, its not better, but to show theres always a better way stay inspired!" on YouTube

My own design for Munger Hall, its not better, but to show theres always a better way stay inspired!

[bhrarchinerd]

The Dark Side of Density: The Tragic Emergence of Windowless Bedrooms in the U.S.

Juan Miró, co-founder of Miró Rivera Architects reflects in an opinion piece on the student housing situation in the United States.

[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

I have seen so many posts about the monstrosity that is Munger Hall, and I just want to give my 2 cents:

This shouldn't surprise anybody. Colleges cut corners on housing any way they can for the sake of cramming more students into the limited space they have, at the risk of their health and safety.

My freshman year of college we had multiple broken windows in our building in the middle of January (did I mention it's a Vermont college? Like an hour from the Canadian border), and it took them several weeks to fix it.

Sophomore year my friend lived in the basement of his hall, and the window broke, not only letting in cold air, but water from melting snow, and the risk of possible break in.

My current building is apartment style, has a garage underneath it, that I am forbidden from using. Instead I have to park my car at an open lot roughly half an hour walk from my building. sure, there's a shuttle to get you there, but that stops running at 10pm on weeknights, 8pm on weekends, and I get off work at 9:45, if I'm lucky, on Fridays.

But Via, if you can't use that garage, who does? So glad you asked. Tourists. It is a public garage for locals and tourists to use at their convenience, it charges $1.50 an hour, and since my school has my car on record, they will tow it if they catch me parking there.

So I get back from work a little after 10, and I get to play the game, risk getting ticketed, or worse towed, or walk back from the student lot in the middle of the night, along an unlit road that doesn't even have a consistent sidewalk the whole way. Sounds like the ideal place to mug, abduct, or just straight up murder somebody, but administration doesn't care. I called campus security for a ride once and was told "this is not a taxi service", because this school does not care about my safety.

They didn't care when I had to wear my winter coat to bed, or when mold started growing in my friend's carpet, or when I got followed back to my building last year by a homeless guy with a knife, and they won't care if students take too long to evacuate a building during a fire and suffer permanent lung damage, or third degree burns. To pretend otherwise at this point is just naive.

[alwaysscreechingbasement]

Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm - The Santa Barbara Independent

He criticizes Munger Hall as "a social and psychological experiment" with unknown consequences.

[overheardatwellesley]

K.

Wendy 1: "And then I 'K.'-ed that bitch!"

Wendy 2: "K with a period?"

Wendy 1 "Obvi." 

Wendy 2: "Ouch."

Overheard: Outside Munger