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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 8. 1966.

Blunders and boobs bug building

Blunders and boobs bug building

• Students attempt to leave a crowded lecture hall. In one such lecture, up to 20 students must sit on the floor—there is no space for them.

Students attempt to leave a crowded lecture hall. In one such lecture, up to 20 students must sit on the floor—there is no space for them.

• At The Back, students sit on desktops so that they can see the blackboard.

At The Back, students sit on desktops so that they can see the blackboard.

Economies plague 'new' bldg

Mr. Holyoake had better bring his own chair when he opens Rankine Brown building next week.

For the library is 250 chairs short of its boasted 1000 seats— and these are reserved for students.

And he'd better be prepared to tolerate the humidity in the lower floors of the building.

It's fortunate, too. that he doesn't have to go to lectures to get his degree. For he might then be one of the students who have to sit on the floor because the rooms are too small—or on the desktop so he can see the blackboard.

Indeed, the decision to "open" Rankine Brown will surprise many students, The building has been "open" now for nearly 15 months.

The building is now said to be complete At least we students are not now walking through, under and over the tools of builders, plasterers and electricians. The faculties favoured with offices in the building have moved in.

To some it would appear the right time for a little pomp.

Ever Ready?

But after half an academic year completed in a supposedly complete building, it may be asked whether it will ever be ready for lecture and study purposes.

Perspiration poisoning is the main attraction of the room called B104. The system euphemistically called air-conditioning clanks and grinds —while the room gets hotter and hotter.

There are no windows to open and the one door is right down the front ot the lecture theatre.

Those students who survive the lecture must then force their way out of the room. This can often take over 10 minutes—and they still have to get through the waiting class outside.

Conditions in other rooms on Floor 1 are much the same.

Dr Culliford. of the university administration, told Salient last week that conditions in Rankine Brown will ease with the completion of a new lecture theatre building m 1968.

The new building, which will be situated next to Easterfield, will house two lecture theatres—for 300 and 150 students respectively.

Years Away

He says that the air conditioning and heating system has not yet been handed over to the university, In this sense at least the building is still not complete.

Dr Culliford also says that in future most of the building will be used for library purposes and the areas which at present cause inconvenience will not be used to such an extent.

But this time is years away.

Asked to comment on the building's grossly overcrowd d toilet faculties, he said that when the building was designed the number of toilets in the whole of the university was considered.

Evidently the university authorities expect students to walk to the other university buildings to use the toilet facilities there. When the library expands, toilet facilities will actually decrease.