Showing posts with label Horace W. Sturgis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horace W. Sturgis. Show all posts

Monday, April 7, 2014

Visual and Commercial Arts Building

★★☆☆☆
The Visual and Commercial Arts Building is now 13 years old. At the time the state-of-the-art building, opened in 2001 and along with the Library, has helped to usher in the new era of KSU as we know it.

The Arts building is not necessarily the newest, and has only 2 bathrooms available in the entire 3 floor building. Because of the limited number of bathrooms, the Art building scores poorly on with a 2 out of 5 (5 being the least traffic), and with the advancing years of the building the Atmosphere has begun to suffer (2 of 5). The Privacy rating is another area that the Art building scores only 2 of 5, because of the absence of dividers between urinals. The only place the building scored well was in Cleanliness with a 4 of 5.
Plunkett and I were throughly disappointed by the Art building, not only because of the of the low scores but especially because of the graffiti the building had to offer, it wasn't clever and it wasn't vulgar either, in fact the art building had none to offer at all, which was surprising and boring, as we were looking forward to the entertainment.

Pro tips: there isn't a lot to give here, the building is bad, maybe find another place.
it is worth mentioning that the second floor stores all of the toilette paper in the open, as well as a floor Zamboni (but really just a floor waxer).

-Nels 

The Convocation Center

★★★★☆
The Convocation Center is the home of our KSU Owls Basketball team and the HPS classes at KSU.

The Convocation Center may have only 3 bathrooms, but no other building can boast the number of toilettes quiet like the Convocation Center. The Convocation Center boasts an impressive 9 stalls and 8 urinals on the main (2nd) floor, thats enough for you and 16 other really weird friends to all do your business at the same time. Aside from games the building offers little to no traffic, but when it rains it pours, so we had to give the building a 3 of 5 in traffic because there is often someone using the facilities. Fear not though as the building ranks well in all other areas. We gave the building a 5 of 5 as on cleanliness with someone always cleaning. The Atmosphere is incredible as well, the bathrooms have great tiles in the buildings showing of our school colors of black and gold, and a brand new Atmosphere overall (5 of 5). The Convocation Center privacy is also incredible, scoring 5 of 5.

Pro tips:
Check the top floor for a bathroom stall that has a full door reaching from floor to ceiling for an amazing amount of privacy.
The bottom floor has a bathroom that is rarely used as well and opens directly to the basketball court so that you can feel like a real athlete prepping for the big game.

-nels

Monday, March 3, 2014

Horace W. Sturgis Library

★☆☆☆☆




The Sturgis Library is one of the most iconic buildings in Kennesaw, as the first large major building, it is where KSU has begun its expansion into a incredible campus. A building that boasts a truly great rare book collection it is truly an icon for all of Cobb county.

But the years have not been kind to KSU's library, and strictly speaking its bathrooms.
the Library scored embarrassingly low except for two areas and maybe it will make sense once I have presented the ratings.

Although the library itself is a high traffic area the bathrooms rate 4 of 5 which is little to no traffic and an impressive number, the privacy rating is similar at 3 of 5, but the privacy rating is only this high for one reason. Floor two of the Library has a stall that was built for a King, it's not just big it is massive, I'm fairly certain you could fit two toilettes in this stall without a divider and the sheer distance would be privacy enough. This is where we find the Library's asterisk, the bathrooms in the Library are neither clean and the atmosphere is very poor, the bathrooms are so old they even seem dirty (1 of 5 and 1 of 5). so while it ranks well in privacy and traffic that is because these bathrooms should be avoided and everyone already knows it. Did I mention that the bathrooms even smell, not that "someone was just in there" smell, but the "oh these pipes are wrong and all the bathrooms smell, like every floor."

The Horace W. Sturgis Library ranks 1 of 5 stars.

Pro tip: stay away, beware, no trespassing... you get it. find somewhere else to do your business.

-Nels