<p>??? Maybe my standards are horribly low, but I have never had a sense that building maintenance was a significant issue. (With the exception of the Shoreland, which the University had already sold, which was slated for a complete gutting, and which was effectively on a year-to-year lease for its last five years. No one did more maintenance on that building than was necessary to prevent immediate serious bodily harm to students, and it was pretty darn squalid.) </p>
<p>When I was intimately familiar with building maintenance at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford in the mid-late-70s, it wasn’t noticeably better than Chicago today.</p>