Wien’s undergone some changes other than landscaping. The single bathrooms on each floor have historically been used by both genders, but this year, complaints prompted the Housing gods to make them all either for women or men. When picking into housing, those with bad enough numbers to be stuck in Wien did know which floors had which gender bathrooms, but some had numbers so bad that they didn’t have a choice–meaning a walk up a flight of stairs to go to take a pee.
Last night on at least one floor, the issue came up during RA meetings, with proposals to make the bathrooms again open to all. Residents were informed that no floor would be allowed to switch, in order to avert problems of uneven overcrowding. Accusations of unfairness flew, while girls defended their right to toilet seats without pee on them.
The battle continues.
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@WEINBOT I AM A ROBOT WHO LIVES IN WEIN AND I SPELL IT THIS WAY
@For Jebus Sake Are women constantly naked in women’s only bathrooms? Are men constantly naked in men’s only bathrooms?
If you live in Wien, just share the bathroom on your floor, get over it, be generous to your floormates with something different between their legs.
@ahaha I can’t believe wien managed to actually get worse. welcome to prezbo’s projects!
@also wien doesn’t have a food court anymore…
@Well I also lived on Wien 8 last year, and I didn’t hear anything about that, either. Also, the food court sucked anyway. Just go to HamDel; that’s where I spent all my money last year.
@i lived in WEIN for a year and am more than happy to annoy the spelling nazis with my affront to their delicate sensibilities.
For fuck’s sake get a life.
/wein
//wein, wein, wein
///slashies
@A proud Austrian In vienna, i mean wien, most bathrooms are single sex, maybe this was a change imported from the motherland?
@... we didn’t have perv issues. just sex in the shower issues.
and for fuck’s sake people spell it right- WIEN.
@amen! and it’s not just misspelling. in german wien = vienna and wein = wine. as someone who studied german for 5 years this mistake drives me NUTS.
@well in the case of my friend, she told security about it. They then took like 3 months to follow up after she’d told them again to actually check the guy (who’d already deleted or moved whatever stuff he had). She’d already switched dorms by then because she understandably didn’t want to live there.
I dont think that this was necessarily a pervasive problem in wein–but probably a couple bad apples that forced Columbia to change its policy to protect itself
@wow2 How did they do this… they actually put cameras in the showers? What floor was this? She must have warned her floormates…
@... i lived on wien 8 last year and we didn’t have any problems that i know of. this is actually the first i hear of any spying or peeping going on in the dorm. i wonder why these cases weren’t publicized.
@alexw I lived on Wien 10, and we used our coed bathroom without issue.
@Boys suck So some stupid pervs were the reason I have to walk up stairs to pee? Lame.
I would say that people should be mature enough to simply share a bathroom with someone of the opposite sex, but I perhaps that’s a whole lot of ass, u, and me.
@actually the real reason for the single sex bathroom change from last year were multiple cases of creepy guys spying, taking pictures or recording girls taking showers in wein last year. Happened to one of my friends and security were so incompetent that by the time they questioned the guy he’d removed everything from his computer.
@Whoa What floor was this?
@heya i didnt live in wien but i spent lots of time there adjusting my cameras (constantly wiping lenses..damn hot showers!). i can vouch for this…there really are some serious pervs living in wien.
@yikes there was a gender-specific bathroom rider in the housing contract?
@what really matters The university has a contractual obligation to uphold the agreement they entered into with residents, in particular the girls that agreed to gender-specific bathrooms.
@thank god i got a summer transfer