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September 19, 2007, 09:03 AM ET
Shop Talk: Wider Beds, Free Water, and a Very Large Housing Complex
Twilight of the twin: American University is offering some students double beds as a way to help university residence halls compete with off-campus housing, according to The Washington Post. It seems that more and more students have double beds or even queen-size beds at home — along with private bathrooms and other amenities of the McMansion era — and these students find dorms’ twin beds “childish.” At the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, which also offers doubles, students noted that “sometimes they are not in the bed alone.”
Nor any drop to drink: The University of Central Florida’s new stadium will get water fountains after all, after running out of $3 bottled water during last weekend’s opening game. According to WFTV, an Orlando television station, the university cut water fountains out of the $54-million Bright House Networks Stadium to save money during construction. The university’s president, John C. Hitt, said selling water was “a more effective way to handle the need, which is hydration.” But complaints poured in after Saturday’s game, and one student set up a Facebook page dedicated to the issue. On Tuesday university officials said they would begin installing 50 water fountains, and while that’s being done they will give out bottles of water free as fans enter the stadium.
Uncommon: Georgia State University and a private developer, Ambling University Development Group, have opened a huge, 2,000-bed University Commons complex (left) on 4.2 acres in Atlanta. The $168-million complex, designed by Niles Bolton Associates, consists of four buildings that range in height from eight to 15 stories. Inside are two- and four-bedroom apartments, all with single bedrooms. Also on hand are study lounges, multipurpose rooms, laundry rooms, and a 786-car parking facility. The developers say the project is the largest privately financed university housing development in the United States.
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