Gibbs needs a makeover

#53
#53
in my day Gibbs was an all athletic dorm I lived there for two years. That was the best of times and it didn't matter the color of one's skin or some stupid rule that there could not be an exclusive athletic dorm and we had very few problems that we didn't take care of in the dorm by ourselves. As always rules and administraters run amuck, just sickening.
 
#54
#54
i absolutley love that i live 900 miles away, and still there are people elsewhere that hate Aramark as much as i do. they are an absolutley poor excuse for a dinning service.


as for the renovation, i agree 100%.
 
#55
#55
Fijivol72 said:
in my day Gibbs was an all athletic dorm I lived there for two years. That was the best of times and it didn't matter the color of one's skin or some stupid rule that there could not be an exclusive athletic dorm and we had very few problems that we didn't take care of in the dorm by ourselves. As always rules and administraters run amuck, just sickening.
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Well, it wasn't UT that was a cause for the NCAA prohibition on Athlethic Dorms. Places like Kentucky constructed palatial estates for athletes that more closely resembled a five-star resort than campus housing.

I'm not opposed to the idea of an all-athlete housing facility, but some schools would abuse it, which ruins it for everybody.
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#56
#56
No, it was not named after a man named Black. If you look at the building, it has pictures in the design of Africa and things of that nature.
 
#58
#58
Dumb post. The board of trustees and housing would never improve athletic dorms before they replaced underclassmen dorms which are much older. Also the police do walk through every fraternity house on Saturday nights, but the fraternities all communicate and have a "neighborhood watch" to alert eachother about cops.
 
#60
#60
DeerPark12 said:
Correct. A history: Minority Student Affairs | History
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And doesn't it follow that there should be a Majority Student Affairs Building providing employment for 50 or 60 majority bureaucrats? Then we could add a Asian Student Affairs Building, a South American Student Affairs Building, an Indonesian Student Affairs Building, an Aboriginal Student Affairs Building, an American Indian Student Affairs Building and so on. Before you know it, we could have 1/2 the student body employed at jobs that provide nothing of appreciable value but everyone would feel good.:eek:lol:
 
#62
#62
LA Times: USC plans $900-million shopping and residential upgrade - WeAreSC Forums

I personally am very pleased with the plan for Cumberland Avenue. I hate the abomination that they put up by the humanities building that looks like a freaking weird onion you pull out of the ground in Mario Brothers, but overall the campus keeps improving.

When they tear down Stokely they have a great opportunity to do something very special in Gibbs. Maybe they could get elevators and hot water.

I really want Gibbs redone so it is the nicest college dorm around.

For those complaining that there are older dorms, they are not going to be in the middle of a massive construction zone the same way that Gibbs will be.

When they closed the audiology department, they could have used that space for housing again (which I think would have been awesome) but the truth is that there are lots of great new off campus housing options that are walkable to campus, so Hess and Presidential will just be for freshman and some poor people. Whether or not we have nice freshman dorms in other parts of campus is not going to impact our national reputation or school ranking in US News like having crappy dorms could have a negative impact on recruiting.

Maybe we could make Gibbs amazing, and then put kids with perfect SATs in there with the football players as tutors. That way UT could improve its overall ranking in football and overall...
 
#65
#65
MikeHamiltonFan said:
Remodel Gibbs, make it a place where upperclassmen can drink and enjoy life with easy access to classes and no worries about agents approaching them and the whole athletic program will do better. I would also rather have athletes meeting young ladies, listening to music and having parties at a private club or residence than on the strip where they get arrested or fight a bouncer and lose their necklace.
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Foreshadowing from MHF?
 
#66
#66
Unfortunately it has been happening for at least 30 years in terms of fights on the strip.

The football players in our celeb obsessed culture are in an awkward spot, and unlike lots of UT underclassmen who go to frat houses to drink or who went to West or Bearden or Farragut and who go to private off campus parties, they have little options for that kind of partying. Who wants to go to a party without your comfort zone of having your friends with you, and then who wants to drive home drunk except Britton Colquitt.

I do think that UT should allow upperclassmen to drink on campus and quit pretending the campus is dry. I also think that 18 year olds should be allowed to drink, and that is unlikely. Widespread lawbreaking is not good for society, but neither are unjust laws.
 
#67
#67
MikeHamiltonFan said:
I do think that UT should allow upperclassmen to drink on campus and quit pretending the campus is dry. I also think that 18 year olds should be allowed to drink, and that is unlikely. Widespread lawbreaking is not good for society, but neither are unjust laws.
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Because adding "legal" drinking to this situation would have helped things? Seriously?
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