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Every plan should be on the table to provide more safe, affordable, community-oriented housing than is available today. Artificial light and ventilation in bedr
by 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 agoI’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 agoImagine 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 agoSure. 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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- divbzero 3y agoMunger himself mentioned this as the rationale: having fewer windows flows logically from maximizing interior space.