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Progress on new dorms.

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The school gets a $250+ million reno with beautiful architecture and the snowflake student they interviewed in the article is *****ing because he thinks freshman won’t be able to acclimate to college life because it’s too comfortable to be in the new dorm. FFS. We are ****ed as a society
 
CashMoneyCane said:
This is a great step but we're a LONG way from the dorms being where they need to be. Mahoney/Pearson, Eaton and the Towers are all ancient and awful but today's standards. Believe the towers are next for renovation.
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Towers will be torn down. Replaced by completely different residential buildings.

Eaton will never be torn down.
 
They screwed the rising junior class by giving priority to the rising sophomores in the new dorms.
 
canesdogo said:
Mahoney did not have a basement, but at the end of the building from the first floor there were steps or stairs going down into a concreted area.
A lot of sh^^ went on down there.

One night I left the keys to my car, wallet, and glasses on a side table and went to bed.Living on the first floor of Mahoney.
Seems that some rambling hippie guy, jimmied the door, took my sh^^ and left.
I got up and thought what the Fu**, was I too drunk to misplace my stuff. Obviously a panic mode to find my stuff.
Turns out that night I get a call that night, from the Campus cops saying they arrested a vagrant with my wallet, i.d, etc.
Got my stuff, but a couple of hundred dollars was gone, and they said they found this winner, passed out under the steps of Mahoney with 3 or 4 wallets, etc. Stoned out of his mind, with no given address.
This after shutting down credit cards, etc. Needless to say it was not a good day.
Got a handy baseball bat after that......LOL
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I was at MRC as a freshman and did a whole lot of shady things that year, but ****, I never knew about this basement! WTF Very disappointed in myself.

Now we did gain access to the roof a lot by wedging ourselves through that chained door at the top of the stairwell. That was fun! Had to go back down through the stairs in the middle; couldn't physically get back in the same gate. Went up there once mid day to smoke a bob and there were a whole bunch of admins standing on the roof. No way back, just had to walk over to them and take my poison. Wasn't a good day. lol
 
GojiraCane said:
I never knew that they had a basement. Any idea why, given the difficulties of making one in South Florida? Was it a fallout shelter?
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Mahoney-Pearson absolutely has a "basement". Keep in mind, there are two separate 7-story buildings with a 1-story "common area" connecting the two buildings.

If you ever drive along Ponce de Leon Boulevard, and you were to make a right turn into the space between Mahoney-Pearson, you would go down an incline until you got to the "basement".

In reality, the "basement" was built for (a) deliveries, (b) trash collection, (c) storage. The basement does not run under the majority of the Mahoney-Pearson dorm hallways, but is only under the CENTER area of Mahoney-Pearson, as well as the trash chutes. Thus, when you dump trash in the trash chutes, it ends up in a big dumpster IN THE BASEMENT. So when people jammed up the trash chute, the custodial staff would have to clear the chutes from the basement. Think about this, the Towers and Eaton did not have dorm rooms on the first floor, so the trash chutes emptied into dumpsters on the first floor, but Mahoney-Pearson had first floor dorms, so the trash chutes collected the trash in the basement.

They also stored furniture down there, and extra mattresses (I don't think they do this anymore, but when Presidents 100 used to host visiting students on overnight stays, the Housing Office would drop off a mattress at your dorm room). Before they tore down all of the apartments, those places had refrigerators, stoves, couches, coffee tables, etc., and when any of those things had to be replaced, there was a huge inventory down in the Mahoney-Pearson basement.
 
For_The_U said:
I was at MRC as a freshman and did a whole lot of shady things that year, but ****, I never knew about this basement! WTF Very disappointed in myself.

Now we did gain access to the roof a lot by wedging ourselves through that chained door at the top of the stairwell. That was fun! Had to go back down through the stairs in the middle; couldn't physically get back in the same gate. Went up there once mid day to smoke a bob and there were a whole bunch of admins standing on the roof. No way back, just had to walk over to them and take my poison. Wasn't a good day. lol
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Great spot after going to the pool, setting up a date, sun tanning on the roof with her intimately, , and heading back to the dorm room, then off to the grove.some beer, then back to the room ..memories, very cool.
 
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db305 said:
juniors usually opt for the housing stipend and move off-campus. students generally don't want to live with the university's retarded on-campus rules 3 years in.
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Might be true but he quite a few ROTC kids who wanted to stay on campus and most certainly wanted to live in the new dorms. They just completely overlooked the junior seniority. The sophomores get first dibs of the new dorms after the athletes. The juniors have to stay in Mahoney. My son lives in Gables Ponce.
 
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