Buzzard Hall’s bathrooms offer the male user enough space to spread his legs and use a decent plethora of automatic flushing urinals while providing large dividers for prime privacy. The stall toilets are not automatic, but they are equally abundant to ensure the user a spot to do his business. The sinks are not automatic which seems to be the biggest draw back. That, and the fact that many of the mirrors are covered with signs warning the occupants to wash their hands, as if we didn’t know, make these bathrooms good but not above par by any means.

Klehm Hall’s bathrooms are nearly the worst bathrooms to use on campus. They are cramped, the sinks don’t match, they offer no water fountains within outer viewing distance and the urinals are near the floor, in which gravity takes hold and causes splashing or a misting effect. The best part of its bathrooms is that they offer coat hangers and shelves for occupants to place belongings.

Lumpkin Hall’s bathrooms offer the visitor a classy escape as you are greeted with dark oak-stained doors, marble styled walls and floors as well as shelves to place his belongings. Another benefit is the extra toilet paper and paper towels placed on these shelves. The biggest flaw comes when seeing the up-keep that features used paper towel and discarded toilet paper littered about the floor.

Coleman Hall, in conjunction with the female assessment, has the worst bathrooms on campus. They are hot and they all have a musty smell, which is unpleasant in the most non-fresh of fashions. There is no cool duly needed refreshing water fountains upon exiting within view and not to mention the caked dirt flooring which could use a hard scrubbing with a jackhammer. These bathrooms are quite possibly the grossest locations on campus.

Fresh is the first thing that comes to mind when entering the Booth Library bathrooms. The occupant’s nose is often filled with a pleasant aroma and a variety of outlets to let out waste. The downturn of these bathrooms are their locations. Located at the corners of the building, but reasonably so, they could turn a desperate situation into an awkward situation no one could live down.

The Life Sciences Building is about as average of bathrooms you can get. Nothing in them is automatic, the occupant even needs to switch on the light. The men’s and women’s bathrooms are separated by floors which could cause confusion. The biggest problem with the bathrooms is the limited options to do your duty in a “public” bathroom. These bathrooms look as though they belong in a private home, not a building in a university classroom building.

Doudna offers the user with a bathroom fit for royalty. They feel more like a waiting room rather than a bathroom, as the first thing the occupant notices is the large bench seat in the entrance. But wait you will not as Doudna presents an overkill of urinals and toilets to choose from to unleash the user,s fury. The large mirror and elegant decorative hanging lights puts this bathroom at the top of locations to bring family, friends or even a stop in by a campus tour.

Brad York can be reached at 581-7942 or bayork@eiu.edu.