Cook/Douglass campus?

knight2015
Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:08:35 +0000

Henderson has the only apartments on Douglass. The Newells and the Starkeys are the apartments on Cook. Henderson is apparently bigger than the Newells and Starkey and has a closer bus stop. It’s about a two mile walk from Cook/Douglass to College Ave and it gets kind of sketchy at night so the buses are really your only option for getting between campuses. Plus it’s really convenient having a bus stop right outside your dorm/apartment.

So here’s the deal with Cook/Douglass. They used to be two separate colleges, Cook College (the agriculture school) and New Jersey College for Women (later renamed Douglass College). But through a whole series of mergers and what-not in the 70s and 2007, they now are both part of Rutgers. Douglass is now just a residential college and Cook became the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS). Physically, it’s pretty much impossible to tell the two campuses apart. Some people can draw a squiggly line through the campus and call one half Cook and the other half Douglass, but they function as one campus. It’s also the prettiest campus :)

Also, I have no idea what the person was talking about when they said no heat/AC. The dorms don’t have AC but they definitely have heat and the housing website says that all the apartments on C/D have AC. I don’t really know what the wifi situation is in the apartments but in my dorm room we had to use an ethernet cable. It really wasn’t as annoying as I thought it would be because there wasn’t much room to move around anyways and the lounge had wifi if I needed to go in there. It could be annoying in the apartments, though. You might have to bring a router to boost the signal just in case.