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Oh was that the guy who designed the windowless dorms?

• scrlk 3y ago
  Yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munger_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munger_Hall
  • artursapek 3y ago
    I guess he's on his way to a windowless dorm now aha
  • paxys 3y ago
    > Munger donated $200 million to the project on the condition that the university follow his design exactly. Multibillionaire hubris is truly something else.
    • graphe 3y ago
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      • bagful 3y ago
        A man who fell to his own hubris?
        • graphe 3y ago
          Would you say that about Stanley Kubrick who died even younger and wanted exacting specs? https://old.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/11dqr7m/_/jaafb83 https://old.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/11dqr7m/_/j... If it's from rich people it's hubris. If someone less famous who got what they wanted it's cool.
          • davidivadavid 3y ago
            If the spec is cool, it's cool. If it's trash, it's trash.
          • phone8675309 3y ago
            Yes
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  • divbzero 3y ago
    … at least the halls were wide and the ceilings high.
• yonran 3y ago
  Every plan should be on the table to provide more safe, affordable, community-oriented housing than is available today. Artificial light and ventilation in bedrooms are routine (e.g., every skyscraper in the winter) and should not have been a dealbreaker, especially if this is one choice out of many for the students.
  • Waterluvian 3y ago
    I’d support excluding windows in dorms if we’ve already checked the cushions for other possible cuts around campus and couldn’t come up with any.
    • artursapek 3y ago
      Imagine taking on $50k in student loans to live in a windowless room
      • rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y ago
        "Imagine taking out much smaller student loans, to live in a space with vastly improved common areas, and having your own isolated space to sleep instead of having to share it with 1-2 others." To be clear, I think the building is awful and fails at most of its stated goals, but I think the goals themselves were solid.
        • Waterluvian 3y ago
          Sure. But it’s kind of a bizarre form of treating the symptoms of a deeply broken financial model rather than the causes. My eyes popped the first time I learned what my American colleagues paid for their education.
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• _zoltan_ 3y ago
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• al_borland 3y ago
  I’d take a windowless dorm if the price was right. My shades are always closed anyway.