I suppose I started to gather this story last year when I was a sophomore living on campus in Hopkins, part of the Roger Williams Complex. The living conditions were very tired to say the least, and I moved off campus into a house in Narragansett. I miss the convenience of waking up 10 minutes from my classes, but I just couldn't live in such a run down dorm again, when the opportunity to live in a nice house for the same cost arose. Not only do I have my own room for the first time in two years, but I don't have to live in such a run down building where I didn't always have hot water. The bathrooms, two for each suite, were not connected to our rooms and they did not have locks. Anyone living in the building had access to them, and despite all my cleaning, they were never clean. These inconveniences didn't seem fair, and so I moved off campus.
I was of course very intrigued when I saw the new dorms being built, and not to my surprise, they're being built for freshmen too. I spoke with the assistant director of housing, Charles Hall, and he said there would be rooms for sophomores too. He also said these dorms would not be replacing any current dorms. However, the school website said that the new dorms being built were replacing the Gateway Apartments that are no longer in use. These retired buildings housed upperclassmen before they were closed. I'm not sure whey they're building another freshmen(/sophomore) dorm, when they are aware that the Roger Williams Complex dorms are "tired". So, here I begin to investigate...
