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Old 03-23-2009, 11:46 PM   #1
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New Columbia Dorm!

Harmony hall on 110th between Bway and Amsterdam opens in Fall 2009!

The Bwog: Harmony Hall Solves All Your Problems

i wonder if the effects of this will trickle down to sophomores and juniors by opening up singles in wein and schapiro
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Old 03-24-2009, 02:49 AM   #2
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This won't affect first-years though, right?
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Old 03-24-2009, 02:57 AM   #3
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Sounds great. My friends over at SEAS were complaining about windows that wouldn't close when it was below freezing outside. This one had better have multiple wi-fi hotspots too.
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Old 03-24-2009, 02:57 AM   #4
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^it won't affect first years, it'll ease things up marginally as a soph, junior and senior. Slightly higher likelihood of getting a single as a junior. And marginally better housing for juniors and sophomores overall in the coming years. Within three years they'll probably just have enrolled more kids so it won't help sophomores.
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Old 03-24-2009, 02:06 PM   #5
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People on Bwog say that Harmony, on the Watt to Wein spectrum, is closer to Wein...even with new furniture I can't imagine it's that great.

It has so many drawbacks: besides Careton Arms it's the farthest dorm from campus, 1 shower per floor (***?), the singles range in size from 170 sq.ft. to 78 sq.ft (for reference, the smallest freshman singles are ~105 sq. ft.), 1 fridge/stove/etc for 8-12 people, etc etc...
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Old 03-24-2009, 02:08 PM   #6
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oh wow, w+f gets censored....interesting
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Old 03-24-2009, 02:16 PM   #7
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It'll help out a few seniors who want big singles but missed out on the big singles in River.

It'll help out sophomores who really (and I mean *really:* ~75 sq. feet comes a few feet short of violating city building codes) want a single.

Major boon: West Side is 45 seconds away.
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Old 03-24-2009, 03:26 PM   #8
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Little-known-fact: Harmony Hall in fact USED to be an undergrad dorm, more than a decade ago, and was part of the swap with the graduate schools that turned Woodbridge and Watt into undergrad residences.

This is a very marginal move, since Harmony doesn't have that many beds. If they really want to make a difference, they'd buy Plimpton from Barnard and have BC build a new high-rise dorm closer to campus. P-town is great living, and extremely convenient to Mudd and IAB while being a lot less convenient to Barnard's campus.
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Old 03-24-2009, 06:10 PM   #9
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Barnard grad here. Columbia has tons more money than Barnard. Columbia should build the new dorm and stop its imperialistic designs on Barnard.
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Old 03-24-2009, 07:12 PM   #10
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barnard should just submit to our dominion, it's worthless without us, barnyard.
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