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Douglas College:
The Campus that
Comfort Forgot

By Steph Pawlenty

 

 

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D ouglas College is a hard school. union building as well. They have a

Not in terms of classes, teachers, or lounge, or something, I assume with at
exams; I mean physically. The New least one or two comfortable chairs. But
West campus is basically little more honestly, have you ever known a single
than an enormous, cold, concrete person who’s gone there? I think the
block. It’s perhaps one of the most politicians are just being polite when
depressingly uncomfortable post- they say it’s open to the public. If I
secondary educational facilities ever actually tried to hang out there I’d feel
conceived by man. like I was infiltrating someone’s secret
Case in point: between classes, when clubhouse.
you want to hang out, where can you It doesn’t have to be this way.
sit? Oh, that’s Douglas could
right, the stairs. be a much more
Big, thick,cold “Ut doesn’t have to. comforable
concrete slabs j school than
thathavebeen pe this way. Dou gla § itis. At SFU
trampled on by their cafeteria

peoples’ dirty cou ld b eamuc h has restaurant-

feet all day. Or style booth
if you have a seating and their

problem with the more compe Or tab le computer labs

steps you can e, * yy have cushioned
try those lovely SC hool than it US. swivel chairs.
concrete benches Hell, at the

at the top of the Coquitlam
staircase, which offer pretty much the Douglas they have all sorts of sofa-type
exact same aesthetic appeal and comfort _ things for students to sit on. I realize

of steps, and are only slightly less filthy. | the New West campus is 30 years old,

The cafeteria isn’t much better, but come on, are we forever doomed to
neither is the library. Cheap, plastic spend our student lives with the creature
chairs as far as the eye can see. Plus, comforts of the 1970s? It’s like being
both areas are vast, crowded, drearily trapped in some horrible time warp
decorated, and impersonal. They’re where we are forever stuck in an era that
places to go in, get what you need, predates cushions.
and go out, not places any sane person Simply put, Douglas is a pain in the
would desire to spend much of their free ass. And I mean that in the most literal
time in. But they’re all we have. way.

Well, I guess we have the student