<p>Well first off the school doesn’t provide toasters and other similar heating appliances in the kitchen probably because these things require more maintenance, especially if they’re used by a large group of people. Toasters and waffle makers are found in Market Central but you also have staff there all the time. If people were allowed to bring in their own appliances to use in the kitchen, it would still end up being a lot of people using the same appliance but with the school having no control over the maitenance of these appliances. Most of the dormitories in the Schenley Quad and Forbes were not originally built to function as dorms. I know that the buildings in the Schenley Quad used to be apartments and Forbes Hall used to be an assisted living facility… Pitt probably just kept the kitchens when they acquired the buildings. </p>
<p>The school has much stricter rules than a typical landlord because if something happens in on-campus housing, even if all the precautions taken on the university’s part were non-negligent, it can still reflect badly on the school.</p>