Two brave Eagle staffers recently conducted a completely unscientific survey to obtain information essential to the entire AU community: which bathrooms on campus are the best. Although Aramark does a superb job keeping all campus facilities clean, some restrooms are just better designed than others.
Worst ratings go to facilities in the oldest buildings on campus, Hurst and the SIS building. Their inconvenient locations and cramped space are enough to make the bravest of heart rethink their mid-class bottle of water.
The best bathrooms are scattered around campus, everywhere from the hidden gem that is the ladies' room in Asbury (it even has a chair!) to the individual bathrooms in Butler near the Office of Campus Life and the Career Center. Bathrooms in the lobbies of residence halls, often used infrequently, also deserve praise.
Just as the gems are hidden at various locations around campus, truly terrifying bathrooms are also often unexpected. Although the women's room in TDR earned top honors from The Eagle's investigation, the men's room often houses a "mysterious puddle," according to those who frequent those facilities.
If the different schools of AU were judged by their facilities, the College of Arts and Sciences would win hands down. In addition to the hidden treasure in Asbury, the Katzen bathrooms are curvaceous and artful, and have cool foam soap.
CAS also deserves praise for the grungy bathrooms in Watkins pre-renovation. The grungy layout, which allowed students to color all over the walls, gave the facilities a Bohemian air. Rest in peace, old Watkins bathrooms.
The School of Communication, with only two tiny stalls in the cramped bathrooms on the third floor of Mary Graydon, would probably lose. Hopefully the future facilities in SOC in McKinley will make us proud.
