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Re: USD makes list of worst dorms by Princeton Review
Ahhhh Scobey Hall.......................... Scabby Hall....... Home of the annual sewer backup, and that strange funky smell that will, for me, be forever linked to the philosophy and linguistics courses I took there..... They could bottle that smell and market it as "Tenure -- the scent of academia"
Also, there was once (and perhaps still is) a small cottonwood growing on the roof.
The BoR has, as I've mentioned earlier, not been particularly generous to the liberal arts at SDSU, and in spite of that (or perhaps because of it?) they've thrived.
Worst repurposed classrooms and offices during my time at SDSU ('94-97)
1) Geography labs in the Wecota basement -- You could hear and smell residents doing laundry during classes.
2) Scobey Hall -- The sewers did backup every spring into the men's room in the basement. During my time at SDSU a small cottonwood was growing on the roof and you could see it from the bench on the S. side of the building.
3) Harding Hall -- Marginally, but just marginally, better than Scobey Hall. Had that same funky smell to it. As with Scobey, some department offices were in rooms that resemble hotel front desks (math in Harding, sociology in Scobey). This arrangement lent a real formality to any interaction with the department secretary--on the order of a bank transaction or checking into a motel room.
4) Grove Hall -- the Art Department gets College of Engineering hand-me-downs again. The kitchen is now the painting and printmaking studio.
5) West Hall -- Student Death moves out of the old hospital, liberal arts moves in. Kind of like a hermit crab.... Or an opportunistic infection.
6) Alvilda Myre Sorensen building -- Now home to the UPD. Previously home to dozens of varieties of toxic mold. It's also the only building on campus with a hole in it.
7) Old Shepard Hall --- Yeeks. Okay that building wasn't 'repurposed' but it had the worst classrooms on campus except for.....
8) The Barn. Woe betide anyone who had to take a class in the Barn, in that weird green room at the one end of it. It smelled, it was hot, it was stuffy, and it was green.
9) Pugsley Center. Go up to the second floor. Note the flight of stairs to the third floor that dead-ends about six steps up (if it's still there). That dead-end flight of stairs sums up Pugsley perfectly.
10) It hasn't been repurposed, but let's have a round of applause for the non-trad students living in Wecota Annex. If there's a stranger assortment of people under one roof on campus--without tenure--I'd like to know where you'd find it.
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And a brief statement in support of my two favorite places on campus: Peterson Recital Hall and the reading room on the second floor of the Briggs Library (on a sunny day). Both were done by Harold Spitznagel.
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Also, there was once (and perhaps still is) a small cottonwood growing on the roof.
The BoR has, as I've mentioned earlier, not been particularly generous to the liberal arts at SDSU, and in spite of that (or perhaps because of it?) they've thrived.
Worst repurposed classrooms and offices during my time at SDSU ('94-97)
1) Geography labs in the Wecota basement -- You could hear and smell residents doing laundry during classes.
2) Scobey Hall -- The sewers did backup every spring into the men's room in the basement. During my time at SDSU a small cottonwood was growing on the roof and you could see it from the bench on the S. side of the building.
3) Harding Hall -- Marginally, but just marginally, better than Scobey Hall. Had that same funky smell to it. As with Scobey, some department offices were in rooms that resemble hotel front desks (math in Harding, sociology in Scobey). This arrangement lent a real formality to any interaction with the department secretary--on the order of a bank transaction or checking into a motel room.
4) Grove Hall -- the Art Department gets College of Engineering hand-me-downs again. The kitchen is now the painting and printmaking studio.
5) West Hall -- Student Death moves out of the old hospital, liberal arts moves in. Kind of like a hermit crab.... Or an opportunistic infection.
6) Alvilda Myre Sorensen building -- Now home to the UPD. Previously home to dozens of varieties of toxic mold. It's also the only building on campus with a hole in it.
7) Old Shepard Hall --- Yeeks. Okay that building wasn't 'repurposed' but it had the worst classrooms on campus except for.....
8) The Barn. Woe betide anyone who had to take a class in the Barn, in that weird green room at the one end of it. It smelled, it was hot, it was stuffy, and it was green.
9) Pugsley Center. Go up to the second floor. Note the flight of stairs to the third floor that dead-ends about six steps up (if it's still there). That dead-end flight of stairs sums up Pugsley perfectly.
10) It hasn't been repurposed, but let's have a round of applause for the non-trad students living in Wecota Annex. If there's a stranger assortment of people under one roof on campus--without tenure--I'd like to know where you'd find it.
---
And a brief statement in support of my two favorite places on campus: Peterson Recital Hall and the reading room on the second floor of the Briggs Library (on a sunny day). Both were done by Harold Spitznagel.
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