Kevin Tarr wrote:
There were little towers, each five stories high, linked by walkways to a central dining hall complex. Each tower had it's own kitchen and common room, and each floor had four private bedrooms - everyone got a corner room! It was very quiet compared to the more traditional rooms along halls arrangement of some of the other colleges on campus. What made ours interesting was that it was run by Rotary International, and was designed for overseas students to more easily integrate into the uni population, so every floor had 2 Australian students and 2 overseas students. It was very enlightening, and I believe it was successful in its goals.At 08:49 AM 1/28/2003 +1000, you wrote:When I was at uni, also in the 70's, we had the exact arrangement discussed in the article - little towers like mini-apartment blocks, with 4 rooms per floor and a common bathroom shared between the 4 residents of that floor. The kitchen and common room was one per tower, or 17 students (the kitchen floor also housed a third year student who acted as a leader/mentor to the young 'uns. There was also a big dining hall and big common rooms for the whole residential college (which was one of ten colleges on the university grounds).
The idea of a room-mate as per American TV/movies always seemed so awful I didn't really think it was real.
You say four rooms on each floor, but is that four bedrooms, no common room or kitchen room?
(also cool was the fire escape passageways built onto the roof of each walkway between the towers, which made unobserved transit between male blocks and female blocks much easier to accomplish)
Cheers
Russell C.
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